The following table shows the finer details. I give pre-convention spending, post-convention spending, the full-year total for 2000, and the total for all four years of the campaign. Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. I’ve dropped some of the least-paid employees from the list. In some cases, payments to people were either payroll or salary. In other cases, the payments include expense reimbursements.
Browne 2000—People and Their Firms
| Person | Before | After | Year | Total | |||||
| Convention | Convention | 1997-2001 | |||||||
| Jim Babka | $25,000 | $26,000 | $51,000 | $76,000 | |||||
| Eric Brunner | $12,000 | $14,000 | $27,000 | $32,000 | |||||
| Laura Carno | $4,000 | $22,000 | $22,000 | $25,000 | |||||
| Robert DeVoil | $24,000 | $21,000 | $45,000 | $73,000 | |||||
| Debra Greeson | $11,000 | $11,000 | $22,000 | $38,000 | |||||
| Stuart Reges | $15,000 | $8,000 | $22,000 | $57,000 |
| Jennifer Willis | $10,000 | $13,000 | $23,000 | $31,000 |
| Steve Willis | $17,000 | $23,000 | $40,000 | $55,000 |
| Perry Willis | $28,000 | $32,000 | $60,000 | $174,000 |
| Stephanie Yanik | $17,000 | $13,000 | $30,000 | $81,000 |
| New Media | $11,000 | $23,000 | $34,000 | $34,000 |
| Optopia | $15,000 | $42,000 | $57,000 | $87,000 |
| Jack Dean; Web Commanders | $8,000 | $20,000 | $28,000 | $124,000 |
Browne 2000 – Vendors
| Person | Before | After | Year | Total |
| Convention | Convention | 1997-2001 |
| Mailing | $34,000 | $17,000 | $51,000 | $169,000 |
| Houses | ||||
| Copy Right | $35,000 | $69,000 | $104,000 | $104,000 |
| Firm MultiMedia | $23,000 | $100,000 | $123,000 | $127,000 |
| Mailing Lists | $14,000 | $14,000 | $17,000 | |
| Newman Comm | $25,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| Publishing Houses | $24,000 | $16,000 | $40,000 | $69,000 |
| LNC | $9,000 | $5,000 | $13,000 | $13,000 |
| Mount Vernon | $25,000 | $18,000 | $43,000 | $102,000 |
| W.J.Olson | $25,000 | $10,000 | $35,000 | $35,000 |
| Polaris | $70,000 | $80,000 | $150,000 | $267,000 |
The list of vendors shows where Browne 2000 put its actual effort for the campaigning year. This was a video-based campaign, one of the first such in our Party’s history, with $150,000 going to Polaris Productions for TV ads, $104,000 to Copy Right for video tape copying, the tapes apparently largely being for the Libertarian multitudes, and $127,000 through The Firm Multimedia for air time and related support. $127,000 for post-nomination TV ads may not sound like much for a major campaign, but it is nearly 20 times what the Browne campaign reported spending on media ads during the 1996 campaign.
The Libertarian National Committee independently spent more than $209,000 on ad time for the Browne Campaign, in good part in the weeks before the election in which the Browne Campaign had stopped buying ad time. Something like $108,000 went for address lists, printing, and mailing, including a direct mail fundraising effort seen by most LPUS members. A publicity firm received $50,000, the ill-fated FEC lawsuit had $35,000, and various specialty publishers of Browne’s books got $40,000.
That’s all, folks. That’s where the money went.
