Jerry Brown taco truck v. Meg Whitman's $141.5 million

Jerry Brown should win the election tonight and become governor of California.  His campaign spent $24.8 million, which is relatively frugal.  As evidence of his no frills campaign, here is a shot taken outside his victory party venue, the Fox Theater in Oakland.  Rather than catered food for the press, there's a taco truck outside selling $1 tacos.

And then we have Brown's opponent, Meg Whitman.  Her campaign spent $160 million.  $141.5 million of that came out of her own bank account(s).  What did she spend all that money on?

• $961,000 for charter jets
• $845,000 for lawyers
• $11.6 million for political consultants
• $10.5 million for mail advertising
• $106.9 million for broadcast advertising

What could Whitman have bought instead for $160 million?

• 66 Bugatti Veyron Super Sports (at $2.4 million per car) or
• 1,095 Audi R8 V10s (at $146,000 per car) or
• 13,206 Chevy Aveos (at $12,115 per car) or
• 3,200 teacher salaries (at $50,000 per year per teacher) or
• 64,000,000 meals for the homeless (at $2.50 per meal) or
• 160,000,000 taco truck tacos (at $1 per taco)

Staggering.