Ill. Senate Race Lures Wealthy Novices - 2004-03-11
A vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois has lured a millionaires club of candidates.
Seven of the 15 Republicans and Democrats on the ballot are millionaires, much of them with little or no political background but a willingness to spend plenty of their own cash to join the elite club of 100.
This time, the financial stakes are greater: Blair Hull, a Democrat who parlayed $25,000 in blackjack winnings into a commodities trading business he sold for $531 million, has pledged to spend $40 million of his own funds in his first run for public office.
Read the full story at Guardian, UK 
