California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) wrote her campaign another check for $20 million Monday.<\/p>\n
The billionaire former CEO of EBay has now put $59 million of her own money into the campaign, with election day still seven months away.<\/p>\n
Whitman has already spent tens of millions of dollars in advertising and a new USC-Los Angeles Times poll suggests her investment is paying off.<\/p>\n
Whitman led Democrat Jerry Brown 44 percent to 41 percent among the 1,515 registered voters, just outside the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n
Two-thirds of those surveyed said they had heard or seen an ad about the race.<\/p>\n
The telephone poll, conducted March 23-30, shows Whitman leading state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner by 40 points in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s facing down the powerful public employee unions who are propping up Jerry Brown or our well-financed primary opponent, Meg\u2019s campaign will have the resources necessary to fight back.\u201d said Whitman Campaign Manager Jillian Hasner.<\/p>\n
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg holds the record for most personal wealth put into a campaign at $108 million during his 2009 mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n
Whitman Campaign aides confirm that she is willing to spend up to $150 million of her own money on her campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) wrote her campaign another check for $20 million Monday. The billionaire former CEO of EBay has now put $59 million of her own money into the campaign, with election day still seven months away. Whitman has already spent tens of millions of dollars in advertising and a new USC-Los […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}