How Meg Whitman spent $100M - Jeanne Cummings
Politics • September 2010 • Views: 576
About 20 million registered voters in California. $5 per possible vote. Or paying $100 million plus for a job that pays less than one million dollars in four years and then ends.
From its founding in 2005 through last year, The Smart Media Group of Alexandra, Va., bought about $28 million in radio and television time for a variety of federal candidates, Federal Election Commission records show.
In the past year, the five-year-old firm processed more than $60 million in media buys for just one candidate — Meg Whitman.