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Amount of cash raised by candidates for state offices in 1998: $11.5 million
Amount of cash contributed to candidates by retirees: $713,000
Amount of cash to candidates from out-of-state contributors: $850,000
Amount of cash from California contributed to Arizona candidates: $240,000
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Amount of cash collected by Senate President Brenda Burns: nearly $90,000
Amount she passed on to fellow GOP candidates in 1998: $0
Amount she rolled over into her 2000 campaign on November 23: $91,000 (includes interest earned)
Amount of cash collected by the Arizona Democratic party: $449,000
Amount of cash passed on to state Democratic candidates in direct or in-kind contributions: $12,300
Amount of cash raised by Arizona Republican party: $485,049
Amount passed on to state Republican candidates in direct and in-kind contributions: $171,372
Amount of cash Dan Quayle’s national Campaign America PAC gave to Arizona candidates: $5,500
Amount of cash Dan Quayle, Paradise Valley resident, gave to Arizona candidates: $0
Number of state senators: 30
Number of Senate majority (Republican) staffers: 10
Number of Senate minority (Democratic) staffers: 6
Number of Senate Building security guards: 9
Amount of cash Sheriff Joe Arpaio contributed to candidates: $1,410
Amount of cash taxpayers have spent on legal fees and settlements because of Arpaio’s shoddy jails: $1 million
Amount of cash longtime mine inspector Douglas Martin raised for his 1998 reelection: $11,060
Amount of cash Martin got from mining companies or their employees: $1,120
Amount of cash Del Webb Corporation contributed to state candidates through its PAC, its executives and its employees: $86,000
Amount of cash the National Rifle Association spent in Arizona on 1998 races: $4,550
Amount of cash Arizona Diamondbacks managing partner Jerry Colangelo gave to state candidates: $6,405
Amount of cash Colangelo recently committed to six free-agent baseball players: $118.9 million
Amount of loan to attorney general candidate John Kaites from Chicago Bulls chairman (and Colangelo pal) Jerry Reinsdorf: $28,000
Amount Chicago Bulls paid Michael Jordan last year: $33.14 million
Amount, per inch in height, Bulls paid Jordan: $424,872
Amount, per inch in height, Reinsdorf lent to Kaites: $424
Amount of cash New Times employees gave to state candidates: $850
