What $120 Million Buys

摘要

Meg whitman says she'srnrunning for governor of California to bring a sense of fiscal responsibility to Sacramento. But Whit-man's own campaign isn'trnexactly what you'd call frugal. The former eBay CEO turned Republican politico has already pumped about $120 million of her estimated $1.3 billion personal for-tune into the race. Stop to think about that number: $120 million is enough to buy a half-dozen F-16 fighter jets and about 25 Ferraris-and still grab Christie Brinkley's recently listed $16 million five-bedroom home in the Hamptons. Even in the context of ever ballooning political spending, it's huge money.