Senate race lures political novices with meaty wallets - 2004-03-09
An 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, most of them with little or no political experience but an readiness to spend lots 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 company he sold for $531 million, has pledged to spend as much as $40 million of his own cash in his first run for public office.
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