Mayor Bloomberg shelled out $102 million of his personal fortune in his quest to capture a third City Hall term, shattering his own campaign spending record – along with everyone else’s in the country, campaign finance records reveal.
The mayor’s aides released his campaign filing late today, the day after a holiday, showing his eyepopping spending for the Nov. 3 election against City Comptroller William Thompson, who was in the campaign finance system.
The figure is far above the $76 million he spent for his initial
2001 run, and the $85 million he spent in 2005.
And the $102 million figure doesn’t include hefty the bonuses that Bloomberg has typically used to reward campaign staffers post-election. Those numbers will become clear in January.
It also means the mayor has spent more than any other self-funder in U.S. history on his own political behalf.

