Costly Campaigns
ICPR’s Policy Director Colin Williams was quoted in this article.
Via – WTAX
“To win a statewide election, you’d better have a lot of money – or be within walking distance of it!
It’s the kind of thing, wealthy though they may be, Gov Rauner and JB Pritzker probably don’t want to think about. Dividing the cost of the campaign by the number of votes they received.
“Funds raised per vote, more accurately,” says Illinois Campaign for Political Reform policy director Colin Williams, “JB spent about $124 for every vote that he got, and Bruce Rauner raised about $215 for every vote he got.”’
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