Green party needed more greenbacks
[From Pantagraph.com]
Green party needed more greenbacks
By Mike Riopell
Illinois Green Party member Rich Whitney, a candidate in the most recent gubernatorial race, speaks at a Sept. 2006 news conference at the Illinois State Capitol. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman
CARBONDALE - Green Party candidate Rich Whitney didn’t have a lot of money to spend on his bid to be Illinois governor.
With about four months to go before the November election, he had about $860 in the bank. Compare that to the $1.5 million Republican Judy Baar Topinka had or even the $12.3 million in Democrat Rod Blagojevich’s war chest.
In the months that followed, Whitney picked up several thousand more dollars, but his two opponents brought in several million.
It was an obvious disadvantage.
Looking back, the Carbondale lawyer said while money wasn’t the most important part of his campaign, he wishes he would have put more effort into fund raising. Still, he finished the election with about 10 percent of the vote, assuring the Green Party a spot on the ballot in 2010.
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