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Losing Campaigns Agree: Money Killed Them

  • "When it was all said and done, in this year alone my primary opponent and Gov. Schwarzenegger's team spent upwards of $120 million, most of it on media telling people a story about me.... Look, $120 million was just an avalanche of money.
       —Phil Angelides


  • Proposition 86, cigarette tax: "With a negative ad campaign totaling nearly $60 million, Big Tobacco has once again demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice public health for its own bottom line.... Prop 86 was defeated by a $60 million onslaught of ads."
       —Emily Clayton, CalPIRG health care advocate


  • Proposition 87, oil tax: "Unfortunately, the oil companies' $100 million advertising campaign to defeat Prop. 87 is a somber reminder of just how much money the oil industry will spend to protect their profits and keep us dependent on oil."
       —Authorless statement from CalPIRG


  • Proposition 89, campaign finance reform: "Across the board, the biggest winner on Tuesday in California was big money."
        —Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director California Nurses Assn.

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Robert Salladay
Robert Salladay has covered California governors and state politics for 10 years. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Capitol bureaus of the S.F. Chronicle and L.A. Times. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in history and Northwestern University in journalism. He covered the election of Gray Davis (twice), the 2000 Florida presidential recount, the 2003 recall and the Schwarzenegger administration. A native of Sacramento, he has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake, Va.