From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:45:45 +1100
Subject: Re: [OT]Campaign Contributions
From: "Roger Books" <books@jumpspace.net> > I would bet my last dollar that you don't get elected in OZ without Depends what you mean by "significant financial backing". People have won elections here in the last decade for the Federal House of Reps with less than $5,000 spent on the campaign. That's Aus, not US, call it $3000 US at the time. Of course they mostly spend more, but $100,000 US would be way above average.