Meg Whitman donates $20 million more to her Calif. governor campaign

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Source: San Jose Mercury News

Surprise! Billionaire Meg Whitman's campaign won't go broke after all.

Whitman, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor, will announce today (Tuesday) that she contributed $20 million more to her war chest late Monday, the Mercury News has learned.

That means the former eBay chief executive has donated $59 million to her campaign so far, with two months to go before the primary and seven months left before the general election.

,,, Whitman has vowed to shell out as much as $150 million in her quest to become California's next governor. The current record for political self-funding is held by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who ponied up $108 million of his own money for his 2009 re-election bid.

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