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Steve Poizner: Didn't even get to the finish line
Steve Poizner: Didn't even get to the finish line
Some pay huge sums and still don't make it to election day.

Republican Steve Poizner spent $24.4 million of his own money in the California governor's race, according to the National Institute on Money In State Politics.

He lost in the primary.

Indeed, seven of the 15 top self-financers in governors races didn't even make it to the general election.



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