80-20 is a political action committee registered with the Federal Election Commission. It uses e-mail and web site to recruit supporters. In the 17 months since its inception, it has expanded its support base from 300 to 150,000 persons, while communicating with them weekly through e-mail. Before this month is out, we will have expanded to 200,000. That 80-20 has gathered some political clout is without question.
Political clout is based on the ability to deliver two precious political assets votes and money.
80-20's ability to deliver money is no longer questioned after today. We made history. 80-20's ability to deliver votes is no longer questioned by either political party. On the Democratic side, it was demonstrated by Gore's commitment to our Declaration just before the deadline. On the Republican side, it was demonstrated by the fierce, organized attack on 80-20 recently.