As the summer wears on and the polls still show him far behind Gov. Jerry Brown, Neel Kashkari is running the most energetic and high-profile campaign for governor that money can’t buy.
In 2010, billionaire Republican nominee Meg Whitman had sunk almost $91.1 million of her own fortune into her campaign by this point in the year, with another $53.1 million yet to come. Kashkari — a former U.S. Treasury Department official and asset manager from Laguna Beach — has taken about $2.1 million out of his own pocket so far. And with other cash just dribbling in, he’s striving to get his message out on a shoestring.
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