SALTER: $22 million spent on #MSSen

Salter: $22.1M later, Senate race nears merciful end

STARKVILLE — At the close of business on Friday, Oct. 31, Mississippi’s 2014 U.S. Senate race had run up a tab of $22,129,447 and growing, according to the Sunlight Foundation’s “Influence Explorer” website.

See for yourself at http://realtime.influenceexplorer.com/race/2014/S/MS/2/.

Soak that up, folks. Between incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, GOP primary challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel, and Democratic nominee former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, pursuit of a Mississippi seat in the U.S. Senate has cost $22.1 million.

Clarion Ledger
11/1/14