From the Sunday Boston Globe takedown of Massachusetts Treasury Secretary Tim Cahill:

Cahill awarded the lucrative advertising contract for the Massachusetts Lottery, which he controls, to the Boston ad firm Hill Holliday in 2003, despite a staff recommendation that another firm, Mullen Advertising, was better suited, according to three officials who had first-hand knowledge of the decision. Since then, Hill Holliday executives and their spouses have donated more than $90,000 to Cahill. The firm has earned $9 million in fees because of Cahill’s decision.

That would be a 100-fold ROI (return on investment), as they like to say in the ad biz.

Then again, the 90 large was donated after the decision, not before.

Discuss among yourselves.