{"id":516,"date":"2005-12-06T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/big_money.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:50:32","slug":"big_money_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/big_money_1.html","title":{"rendered":"*Big Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

The numbers are in and it turns out Hizzoner spent $103 per vote on his winning mayoral campaign for a total of $77.9 million — so far<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s official: There’s a new record for the most money ever spent on a political campaign in the city.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday reported doling out $77.9 million of his own money on his re-election effort –smashing the previous high mark of $74 million he spent four years ago.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s megaspending works out to more than $103 per vote. The figures released yesterday were not a final tally, and the number is expected to grow by several million.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Mayor spent most of his money on television advertising, effectively subsidizing Sam Champion’s salary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the race’s last five weeks alone, Bloomberg spent nearly $6 million on a blizzard of commercials and hefty payments to consultants.<\/p>\n

Overall, TV stations and consultants added a staggering $45 million to their coffers courtesy of Hizzoner, nearly five times the amount Bloomberg’s opponent, Fernando Ferrer, spent on his entire race.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of which amounts to a sum the Mayor himself once said would be obscene:<\/p>\n

While Bloomberg denied that the gigantic dollar amounts subverted the democratic process, he once said that spending anything close to the $74 million he paid out in 2001 would be “obscene.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question now is whether, instead of being one of the most successful Republican mayors ever, Bloomberg’s victory will come with an asterisk . . . which isn’t to excuse Fernando Ferrer, of course. He’s still a big whiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The numbers are in and it turns out Hizzoner spent $103 per vote on his winning mayoral campaign for a total of $77.9 million — so far: It’s official: There’s a new record for the most money ever spent on a political campaign in the city. Mayor Bloomberg yesterday reported doling out $77.9 million of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}