the age of the gilded candidates- can politics sink any lower? you decide.
N.J. Governor's Race Gets Personal: "This has been the season for plutocratic politics in the New York metroplex.
Corzine is worth hundreds of millions of dollars from his days at the investment house Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Forrester is worth dozens of millions of dollars from his days as a king of prescription drug plans.
Across the Hudson River, billionaire Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (R) has run the most expensive non-presidential race in U.S. history, having so far spent $80 million of his media fortune in his re-election bid. It has been money well spent: He leads nontycoon Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic candidate, by about 30 points in recent polls."