Street money

[4] Ward bosses in the city's poorer neighborhoods often use the money to offset the costs of gasoline and food for their volunteers.

[1][4] Although most well known in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, street money is also common in Chicago, Baltimore, Newark and Los Angeles.

[6] Others have included Jon Corzine (whose campaign paid out $75 apiece to New Jersey party officials during his successful 2000 Senate bid), John Kerry (in Pennsylvania during the 2004 presidential election) and Robert A. Brady (during the 2002 U.S. House race).

[1] After the 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial campaign, Republican Christine Todd Whitman's campaign manager Ed Rollins was accused of boasting that he had given $500,000 in street money to black churches in New Jersey in exchange for their keeping their congregation from voting for incumbent James Florio.

[7][8] During the 2008 Pennsylvania Democratic primary, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refused to hand out street money,[9] Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell commented that the unusual amount of interest in the race would bring people out in support of both candidates, street money or not.