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Candidate's spending lifts rivals' donation caps

Howard Treatman has spent so much of his own money trying to win a Council seat in the Eighth District that the six other candidates now are allowed to raise twice the limit in contributions.

Howard Treatman has spent so much of his own money trying to win a Council seat in the Eighth District that the six other candidates now are allowed to raise twice the limit in contributions.

City campaign-finance law states that when a candidate spends more than $250,000 of his or her own money, the contribution limits for the other candidates in that race are doubled.

Treatman, a lawyer and businessman, eclipsed the quarter-million-dollar mark Thursday, when he donated $35,000 to his campaign. At that time, the other candidates were permitted to solicit $5,200 from individuals and $21,200 from political action committees.- Troy Graham