Al Checchi

...conversations you don't really want to have, all so people will give you money to pay for advertising," said Darry Sragow, who managed Al Checchi's unsuccessful 1998 bid for California governor. Checchi, a former corporate executive,...

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...on personnel in his entire 2006 campaign ($2.95 million). Darry Sragow, a Democratic strategist who ran Northwest Airlines magnate Al Checchi's 1998 campaign for governor, said a billionaire running for governor is like "catnip" to...

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...their voting behavior, stick to it and move on. In 1998, Sragow managed the gubernatorial campaign of former airline tycoon Al Checchi, who also had a spotty voting record. But while the issue was raised at times by opponents to sow...

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...came in a distant third when she made the gubernatorial run in 1998 -- in that battle royale against millionaire busnesman Al Checchi. Gray Davis, then Lt. Governor, emerged from the smoke and went on to win two terms in the governor's...

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'' Shrum said. Shrum had a hand in one of the great self-funded candidate debacles, investor Al Checchi's 1998 campaign for governor of California. Checchi spent $40 million of his own money and finished a distant third in the primary.

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...recent -- and well-known -- examples of politicians running for elected office with spotty (or nonexistent) private voting records: ¿ Al Checchi: The former Northwest Airlines chairman spent tens of millions on his race for the California...

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...has never elected a woman governor. Whitman's gubernatorial bid evokes memories of former Northwest Airlines Co-Chairman Al Checchi's bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1998; he lost even though he widely outspend...

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California has been a graveyard for those seeking to jump from the executive suites into political office. Northwest Airlines co-chairman Al Checchi famously flamed out in the Democratic primary in 1998. In 2002, Republicans nominated a...

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...to the contrary, Democrats also have leaned that way in selecting their nominees. In 1998, for example, they spurned Democrat Al Checchi's persistent calls for change and nominated Gray Davis, whose slogan was "Experience Money...

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...would stay out of the way and allow the top two to commit murder-suicide." IA remembers that's what happened in 1998 when millionaires Al Checchi and Jane Harman ravaged each other through an on-air war, allowing Gray Davis to emerge from...

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