USA: Bush's Payback Time
- Expected price tag for Bush-Cheney inauguration: $30 million.1
- Portion coming from private contributions: 100%.
- Cost of a table at any of three candlelight dinners on January 18 that President-elect George W. Bush and Vice President-elect Dick Cheney are expected to visit: $25,000.2
- Maximum contribution that the Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee is accepting from private donors: $100,000.3
- Number of donors who gave a total of $100,000 or more to parties and candidates in the 2000 elections awarded positions on George W. Bush's Transition Advisory Teams: 14.4
- Amount that Bush's Energy Department Secretary nominee, Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI), received from energy industry donors in his failed 2000 Senate race: $366,298.5
- Rank of Abraham among all current senators in contributions accepted from energy industry donors in the 2000 elections: 1.6
- The number of industries that Bush Justice Department nominee, Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO), ranks in the top ten for contributions in the 2000 elections: 42, many of which have anti-trust and other matters pending before the agency.7
- Rank of health industry professionals among donors to Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Republican Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in his last race: 1.8
- Rank of transportation industry among donors to Democrat Norm Mineta, Bush's pick for Transportation Department Secretary, in his last House race: 1.9
- Jonathan D. Salant, ''Committee to Raise up to $30 Million,'' Associated Press, December 21, 2000.
- Karlyn Barker and Roxanne Roberts, ''Bush Planners Promise 'Inclusive' Celebration,'' The Washington Post, January 3, 20001.
- Alan Sipress, ''Groups Criticize Inaugural Funding Plan,'' The Washington Post, December 29, 2000, p. B01.
- ''Returning the Favor: President-elect Bush's Advisory Teams Include Big Campaign Donors,'' Center for Responsive Politics, January 2, 2001. www.crp.org.
- Center for Responsive Politics. Abraham collected $366,298 from the energy and natural resources industry.
- Center for Responsive Politics.
- Center for Responsive Politics.
- National Institute on Money in State Politics.
- Center for Responsive Politics. Campaign money profile for 1993-94 election cycle. Mineta resigned his House seat mid-session, in 1995, for position with defense contractor Lockheed-Martin.
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