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Dirty and expensive battle over 12th District.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. _ The last time Democrat Rusty Areias ran for state Senate, his unsuccessful battle against Santa Cruz Republican Bruce McPherson became the most expensive _ some would say nastiest _ legislative race in California history.
But this fall's battle in the 12th District against Salinas businessman Jeff Denham is even more venomous _ and it's already broken the $4.1 million record for campaign spending, with total spending expected to easily exceed $6 million.
The Republican Denham's job was made easier by research done by the McPherson campaign, which in 1996 had accused Areias of calling one of his campaign aides a "weak, emotional female" and "double-crossing" Northern Californians for trying to sell water from his family's Los Banos dairy farm to Southern ...
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