- Sole presidential candidate who brags: “Of the major candidates, [I am] the only one who does not have a DC zip code”: George W. Bush.
- Presidential candidate who received the most campaign contributions from the Washington, DC metropolitan area: George W. Bush.
- Amount President Bill Clinton plans to raise in soft money for the Democratic National Committee over the next three months: $20 million.
- Amount raised by the DNC during the preceding 12 months: $19.4 million.
- Chance that presidential race front-runner is a millionaire: 100 percent.
- Chance that a member of the general population is a millionaire: 1 percent.
- Median amount commercial banking industry gave senators sitting on the Senate Banking Committee: $96,500.
- Number of senators on the Senate Banking Committee who voted February 2 to make it tougher for people declaring bankruptcy from wiping out credit card debt: 15 out of 20.
- Median amount of credit card balance for a family holding debt with an income of less than $10,000 in 1998: $1,100.
- Amount a minimum wage earner working full-time would make under the minimum wage hike approved in the same legislation: $12,790.
- www.georgebush.com , on a pop-up screen that asks for campaign contributions. The full quote is: “I am a reformer with results. Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a DC zip code. I come from outside the system with a record of reform and a record of results.”
- George W. Bush raised $3.14 million from the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Al Gore was not far behind: he raised $3.13 million from the same geographic area. See Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) Web page, www.crp.org . Reflects contributions of $200 or more from individuals to presidential campaigns during 1999, downloaded from the Federal Election Commission on February 1, 2000. Election law does not require candidates to itemize contributions under $200, and therefore they cannot be tracked by geographic source.
- John B. Broder and Don Van Natta, Jr., “The 2000 Campaign: Soft Money; Clinton is Raising Millions to Push Early ‘Issue Ads’,” The New York Times, February 10, 2000, p. A1.
- “National Parties Raise Record $107.2 Million In Soft Money During 1999,” News Release, Common Cause, February 9, 2000.
- Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity, The Buying of the President 2000, Avon Books, p. 11.
- Michael Barone, “The American Century,” U.S. News & World Report, December 27, 1999, vol. 127, no. 25, p. 38. There are 3.5 million millionaires in the United States out of a population of 273.5 million.
- Reflects contributions from PACs and individuals ($200+), 1993 - 1998 (last complete Senate election cycle), from www.crp.org.
- Senate Vote No. 5, 106th Congress, 2nd session, February 2, 2000.
- “Results from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, January 2000.
- The Bankruptcy Reform Act, as passed by the Senate on February 2, 2000, raises the minimum wage to $6.15 per hour as of March 1, 2002.
