Chris Herstam: Campaign Spending Proves Arizona Is A Purple State

By Steve Goldstein
Published: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 12:13pm

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Any election year brings spending by the tens of millions of dollars, and a presidential cycle increases that exponentially. That can be a benefit to television and for-profit radio stations, as ads saturate the airwaves and our senses.

And the estimated numbers for the spending we can expect in Arizona this year are remarkable and stunning.

That’s one of the topics longtime Arizona elected official and railbird Chris Herstam tackles in his latest Monday Musings column for The Arizona Mirror. He joined The Show on a Tuesday to put the projected number in context.

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