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Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @01:56AM   
from the representative-of-the-people dept.

takyon writes:

Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland

Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.

[...] Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.

Previously: Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal
Harvard Dean Rescinds Chelsea Manning's Visiting Fellow Invitation, Calling It a 'Mistake'

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• expense expense (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:20AM (#622394)

  To determine the cost of winning a seat, do this rough calculation:

  Start with 250 million dollars. Multiply by the number of years the seat is good for, then divide by the total number of equivalent seats.

  President+VP: 250000000*4/1 = 1000000000 which is a billion

  Senator: 250000000*6/100 = 15000000 which is 15 million

  House: 250000000*2/435 = 1149425 which is 1.15 million

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• Re:expense (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 15 2018, @03:29AM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday January 15 2018, @03:29AM (#622401) Journal

  Those numbers are pretty accurate, although they may be rising:

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/ [washingtonpost.com] ($2.4 billion divided by two)

  https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/11/the-price-of-winning-just-got-higher-especially-in-the-senate/ [opensecrets.org]

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