Campaign war chest has value beyond cash
Photo credit: iStock | A stock image of a pile of money.
Flash-the-Cash Week, as it should be called, arrived as it does every mid-July in New York, with candidates for state and local office revealing as required how much their campaigns raised, spent, borrowed and banked since mid-January.
Those who collected the big bucks suggest it indicates wider popular support, even before the biggest ad buys and polling begin.
Those who fared less...
