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Hawkins Was Most Efficient Campaigner
FREDERIC PIERCE
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Syracuse Post-Standard |
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate who ran for U.S. Senate on a platform of liberal views, spent his campaign money more efficiently than either Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Republican John Spencer, according to campaign documents filed last week.
Hawkins received 55,469 votes on Election Day, more than the three other minor-party Senate candidates on the ballot combined, according to official totals certified by the state Board of Elections on Wednesday.
The cost of that respectable showing was $44,934, according to Hawkins' campaign expense report, which was filed last week with the Federal Election Commission. That works out to about 81 cents per vote.
Spencer, the fiscally frugal candidate who ran with Conservative Party
backing, spent nearly $4.8 million to win 1.39 million votes, federal and state filings show. That's about $3.40 per vote.
Clinton received 3 million votes - about 66 percent of all ballots cast. The victory cost her $30.8 million, or about $10.20 for each vote. |
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 *Website by David Doonan, Labor Donated to Hawkins for Senate Campaign* |
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