A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg did not dispute the billion dollar estimate, but said hard numbers were not available.
"We've raised almost a million dollars in hard money for Toomey, and we'll probably put another million into voter-education campaigns in Pennsylvania," he said.
"He said, 'If I come in an hour early, can you get people to come and do something for Hillary, because we need hard money?' So I sold it by saying, 'Come help Hillary, but this will probably be the last chance in Philadelphia to see the president in a small group.' " The take? "Fifty-five thousand dollars in hard money," Mr. Rendell said.
"When you get up in that billion dollar range, it becomes a little harder.
According to the latest figures, Bush, who hasn't been a governor in eight years, has raised eight hundred and twenty-two thousandollarsrs in hard-dollar donations from securities and investment professionals alone, his largest industry source.
When a company gets a billion dollars in funding it's always hard to use it wisely and in the most efficient ways.In general for us we've had a relentless focus.
The truth is, as long as elected officials are in a race to raise money in million dollar increments, it's hard to see how any of them will be able to close the many tax loopholes that benefit the wealthy few at the expense of the middle class.
So don't steal items that you might be able to sell because if you get caught you most likely would get arrested and get sentenced for some jail time, which means you will get a record, thus making your million dollar plan that much harder to accomplish.
"I can see those guys saying, 'I'll bet you a hundred dollars for a hard hit' and this and that.
The first frozen Tofurky meal, priced at thirty dollars, was a hard sell with retailers and a mad success with the customers who managed to find it.
And when Google tried recently to acquire the two-year-old daily-deal site Groupon, for the seemingly outlandish sum of six billion dollars, it was hard not to wonder if the lessons of history had been learned too well.
