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Bloomberg spends big in push for third term
Published: July 11, 2009, 12:30 am
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NEW YORK (AP)—Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent more than $36.6 million on his bid for a third term.
The campaign released the billionaire’s latest spending report Friday.
Bloomberg, who said last week that “you can’t buy an election” because the public is “much too smart for that,” spent $18 million from May 12 to today. More than $10 million in two months has gone toward advertising and literature, including television, direct mail and print ads.
The Republican-turned-independent mayor also paid his army of consultants more than $2 million in this filing period, for a total of more than $4 million on consulting this year.
In his last campaign four years ago, Bloomberg set a record spending $85 million to win re-election.
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