It may be a while before we learn exactly how much New York’s billionaire mayor spent on his campaign for a second term. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign had spent just under $67 million as of two weeks ago — a level of spending usually reserved for a presidential candidate.
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The mayor’s spokesman, Stuart Loeser, declined to say how much the campaign had spent over the past two weeks. And he wouldn’t say whether the final cost of Bloomberg’s bid is likely to top the $74 million he spent in 2001, which equaled about $100 per vote.
No American mayor has ever spent so much running for re-election, and only a few politicians have approached that level for any office.