Brown Reports Spending $36M To Win Governor's Race

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - New campaign finance reports show Jerry Brown spent about $36.5 million in his successful bid to become governor of California by defeating the highest-spending candidate for statewide office in the country's history.

In reports filed Monday with the secretary of state's office, Brown's campaign reported spending $29 million on TV and radio ads placed by a Georgia-based Democratic advertising firm, LUC Media.

Brown's chief campaign consultant, Steve Glazer, was paid $235,000.

Brown also was aided by at least $26 million in spending by outside groups, mostly labor unions, in last year's campaign.

His Republican opponent, former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, spent $144 million from her personal fortune and at least another $30 million that she raised from donors. Whitman's campaign has not yet filed its final report.