9. Bredesen For Senate
Amount Spent On CrowdStrike: $15,188
Purpose Of Allocation: Software
The principal campaign committee for Democrat Phil Bredesen's U.S. senate run spent the entire sum with CrowdStrike on June 7, 2018.
Bredesen served as Nashville's mayor from 1991 to 1999, and was the governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011. He came up short in the 2018 U.S. Senate race, losing the general election to Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn 55 percent to 44 percent.
All told, Bredesen for Senate received $10.9 million in contributions and a $7.5 million loan from the candidate himself, and spent $19.3 million on operating expenditures, according to FEC filings.
