From a press release by Charlie Crist spokesman Kevin Cate

Reporters –

By our accounting and published reports, by the end of session, Rick Scott will have hemorrhaged about $20 million to artificially boost his horrible poll numbers. And that may be low balling it because this doesn't include spending by opaque 501c4 groups, such as Americans for Prosperity and Progressive Choice, groups that share the goal of re-electing Rick Scott.

And that spending is only since Charlie Crist, the People’s Governor, announced in November.

Let’s put that in perspective.

At this time last cycle, Rick Scott had spent less than $4 million against Bill McCollum and Alex Sink. As we all know now, that was on his way to spending $95 million in 2010, a far friendlier climate for a tea party candidate than 2014.

To match his extravagant spending from 2010, Rick Scott needs to raise way, way more than the $100 million his campaign has boasted about. In fact, to match what Scott spent from May through Election Day in 2010, he’d have to spend another $91 million on top of the $20 million he’s already thrown away. And that money won't go nearly as far, since he has a much bigger campaign bureaucracy to fund.

Remember, this is a man who has been alone on TV promoting lies and deceptions.

He has also spent carelessly online. The only frugal aspect of his campaign is the illegal part where he uses taxpayer resources to prep him for campaign speeches and stage campaign commercial shoots.

By comparison, Charlie Crist has yet to spend anything on TV commercials, and has a much leaner campaign operation. In fact, some top advisers are simply volunteers, a testament to the fact that the Crist campaign is in this to take back Florida for the people, not themselves.

When we begin to communicate on paid media, we will continue to communicate for the remainder of the cycle, and Rick Scott’s mountain of money will have been wasted.

Remember, this was the $25 million he intended to bully his competition out of the race. He said as much.

Now that’s basically gone. And it didn’t work.