It doesn’t seem right that someone would spend over $1 billion for a job that pays $400,000 yearly for no more than eight years. In a newscast last week, I read that Kamala Harris not only spent over $1 billion on her campaign, but she is still seeking donors to help her pay the balance of her campaign costs (north of $20 million).
Then I realized she was seeking a government job, and the government has never seemed to have trouble over-spending for anything – but it doesn’t change my perception – ridiculous practices when it comes to spending money.
As I prepared to write this week’s column, I did some research to see if there were advertising spending limits for presidential candidates, and none of the information I found came even remotely close to the $1 billion spent by the Harris Campaign. I’m sure President-elect Trump also spent over $1 billion on his campaign.
I remember when I ran for school board, candidates were limited to spending in the sense that if they spent more than a certain amount, there was more paperwork required to be filed and more detail to be provided. At that time, I felt compelled to avoid the extra work, so watching what was spent became important to me.
Maybe it’s only my opinion, but I think all public offices ought to have spending limits – but I’m sure there are a lot of media outlets that would argue that point with me.
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Since I moved south I’ve watched the weather back home. I remember while I was growing up I didn’t mind the cold and snow in Minnesota, but as I aged I disliked it more and more every winter.
As I write this column, you folks in the ROCORI area are enduring something around the teens, with a high expected to be about 22 – my math tells me where I live, it will be three times as warm with a zero percent chance there will be any snow falling from the sky.
I’m hoping my memory will serve me well enough that I won’t need to come back to Minnesota to remember what snow looks like.
Have A Good Week!
