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...opponents. It takes a vast amount of money to be competitive in California, but the road to Sacramento is littered with the bodies of failed parvenus: Michael Huffington, the former Republican Congressman and ex-husband of Arianna, blew $28 million on a failed Senate bid in 1994; Al Checchi, a former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis in 2002. All of them were seen as overconfident and underprepared, liable to self-destruct when pressed on basic policy...
...There's a large amount of people here who don't go out very much," says Adam D. Checchi '99 of Winthrop. "It's like high school...`The Dating Game' made me think I should be helping fix the problem...
...Checchi also proposes more constructive solutions...
Walsh says her favorite question was, "If youwere an ice cream flavor, what would you be andhow would you lick me?" Walsh points out that thequestion's wording was unusual at best, which didnot escape her date, Checchi...
Davis is gambling that there are enough voters like Perez left in California for a poor man to win at a plutocrat's game. If he prevails, Harman and Checchi--like Michael Huffington, the state's failed millionaire Senate candidate of 1994--will have learned that California campaigns aren't so virtual after...