Meg Whitman, running for governor of California on the GOP ticket, has now spent more of her own money on a political campaign ($119 million) than anyone else in history. On the other end of the campaign finance spectrum, Tea Party-backed GOP candidates in Colorado and Delaware reportedly are tapping their own campaign chests for living expenses. Thus...
The GOP Candidate Financing Poem
When the corporate world seems boring
(Though your stay there left you flush),
Run for congress or the state house,
Win or lose the run's a rush.
When your earnings have gone fallow
And you need some ready cash,
Take it from your campaign kitty
While the Dems you roundly trash.
It's a great election season
For a 'throw the bums out' drummer.
Though a problem here for voters
Is the new bums might be bummer.
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