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Article: Republican Party logs 1 million new donors
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- Daily Breeze
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- October 2, 2003
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MILESTONE:
California provides the most first-time contributors with 161,463.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON _ The donations aren't all that big _ most under $30 _
but the number of people contributing to the Republican Party is a
milestone: more than 1 million new donors since President Bush took
office.
That beats the Republican National Committee's previous record of
853,595 first-time donors during President Reagan's two terms in the
1980s. The new contributors in Bush's tenure yielded $55 million for
the RNC, spokeswoman Christine Iverson said Wednesday.
"These are not wealthy people," said Iverson, who said the typical
donation was under $30. The RNC doesn't know whether the donors ...