2014 Elections spent the most money in history. Four billion dollars in total were spent on all the midterm elections. Four billion dollars is a lot of money. 10 times more than the money spent to fight Ebola. America could buy 25 F-18 fighter jets; or put 12,000 students education kindergarten through twelfth grade.
The current salary for a senate member is $174,000 per year. So, $696,000 per term. Senate Leadership gets paid $193,400 per year. Speaker of the House makes $223,500 per year. The average salary of a teacher in New York is $43,839. The people teaching the next generation gets paid a third of an average senate member. Not to even mention the speaker and minority representatives.
Senate runners pay for apart of their races they also get donations from their parties and other sponsors. Tomas Steyer gave 20.8 million dollars to super PACs.
Republicans spent a lot of money and it seemed to pay off. They won majority in the senate and retain it in the house. North Carolina's race was won by Tillis who spent the most, is a republican. Money really can influence the outcome of a race.
Is there a certian group or place you would like to see money go to more?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that they should be using the money to help others instead of on their own elections. I agree that they should spend money on their election campaign but not to that extent. I also think it is outrageous that teacher salaries are way below a politicians pay. One of the most important jobs is being a teacher.
ReplyDeletenice! do you think if it wasn't all about numbers politicians would be a different kind of person?
ReplyDeleteThis campaign was a fierce one. The one I covered was not as exciting though. The 2016 elections are suss posed to cost guap
ReplyDeleteWow what an interesting campaign.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that if the salary for the senate members was lower people would still run for for the seats?
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