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Holding Politicians Accountable
I think there is absolutely a chance that the Kentucky race ends up costing more than $100 million.
- Billy Piper, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) former chief of staff (Washington Post).
Last weekend, NPR put together a list of things $100 million could buy in the Bluegrass State–including a bottle bourbon for all four million Kentucky residents.
The 2014 Kentucky Senate race could cost $100 million. Public Campaign Action Fund’s David Donnelly in Louisville:
With that amount of political advertising, it won’t be surprising if a lot of Kentuckians are tempted to throw their television sets out the window. The deluge of ads on TV screens, on the radio, in mailboxes, and on websites will turn Kentucky into “Mitchnado” (a bad version of this summer’s strangest made-for-TV movie, “Sharknado”) with Mitch McConnell’s face or voice appearing everywhere you turn. By some point next spring, I can assure you, Kentuckians won’t “approve of this message.” They’ll turn it off.
As bad as that sounds, it gets worse.
Most of that money will come from wealthy interests seeking influence. In January, National Journal reported that McConnell’s race was already forcing him to spend “hours dialing for dollars once the Senate wraps up nightly.” His challengers, Republican businessman Matt Bevin and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, are likely doing the same thing now.