How Do You Make a Small Fortune in Politics?

That’s right! You start off with a large one! At least that’s the case if you’re former County Clerk candidate and current County Board Member Mark Davoust.

In what will likely forever define me as an irredeemable political geek, one of my favorite pastimes is reviewing the D2 Reports immediately after an election. Because this is when you get to see just how much some folks spent to go down in a massive ball of fire.

It’s always an interesting proposition in the sense that, while pundits love to shriek about money making the candidate, the voters are getting hip to that trick. Just ask the Koch brothers who, having fared very poorly in their national efforts, set their sights a on a lowly Iowa Mayor’s race only to get their butts handed to them.

And the irony (I love that word) of the Citizens United decision is that all of that ferociously free flowing money tends to cancel itself out. To wit, of the twenty 2012 candidates who spent at least $35 per vote, half of ‘em lost. And 50/50 can only be considered a good proposition if you’re a point guard or you enjoy flipping coins.

But I digress!

So let’s get back to Kane County where we now know the aforementioned Mr. Davoust spent at least