Campaign says Harris won't turn to inheritance

It now turns out that Katherine Harris is not going to use her $10 million inheritance from her dead father to pursue her campaign in Florida.

Campaign spokeswoman Morgan Dobbs said Thursday that Harris will sell her existing assets rather than rely on money from her father, a bank executive who died in January.

I did think it was one of the most insane things I've ever heard an aspiring politician say. Why spend that amount of money to become a senator? The pay checks not that good is it?

However, now that her flirtation with ego-enforced-bankruptcy has passed, I feel the car crash TV element of this tale has disappeared.

My life is a little emptier for that.

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