31.   Frost supports campaign finance reform, but only up to a point, according to the spokesman for the campaign committee, Daniel Sallick.

32.   Former Assemblyman Richard Katz is expected to lead the pro-secession campaign committee.

33.   Fund-raisers for individual candidates on both sides of the aisle echo the message put out by the campaign committees.

34.   Gramm had campaigned against Kerrey in Nebraska when Gramm was chairman of the Republican campaign committee for the Senate.

35.   Gov. Pete Wilson, who has formed an exploratory presidential campaign committee, already has come out in favor of the proposed initiative.

36.   He frantically called staff members at the campaign committee in Washington, but his own party functionaries would not take his calls.

37.   He said he plans to establish a formal campaign committee and make an official announcement early next year.

38.   He unveiled charts on the Senate floor, predicting the ban on so-called soft money would have a devastating effect on the two parties and their campaign committees.

39.   His top aide at the Republican campaign committee, Maria Cino, has known him since high school.

40.   His campaign committee installed and paid for the phone.