2014: The Most Expensive S.F. Election in Years

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Initiative mailers that inevitably ended up in recycling cost millions. Photo by Lydia Chávez/Mission Local

By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local

When it comes to ballot measures, this has been the most expensive election cycles since at least 2011, and that year does not even come close in spending.

Proponents and opponents of 12 city ballot measures, which ranged from a tax on sodas to approval of soccer fields in Golden Gate Park, have poured a whopping total of $16,724,644 million (not including third party expenditures).

That is more than the total money spent on all ballot measures in 2013, 2012 and 2011 combined — with $3 million to spare.

Read the complete story at Mission Local. 
 

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