1. Political consultant Jeri Rasmussen described EMILY’S List as “the ultimate Tupperware party, with the grand prize being the U.S. Senate seat” (Burrell 1994: 124).

2. Bundling. The Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets. org/pubs/law_bagtricks/loop5.asp.

3. The organization did not employ professional lobbyists, but rather Malcolm and others gave testimony in congressional hearings on campaign finance legislation and ELIST and its activity is cited in many congressional debates over such legislation.

4. The first known citation for this phrase is Carol Hanisch's essay, “The Personal Is Political,” Feminist Revolution (1969, 204–205).

5. EMILY's List. 2009. Where we come from. http://emilyslist.org/about/where_we_come_from/ (accessed October 17, 2009).

6. Of the 79 women currently serving in the House, only Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) and Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) have not received any money from EMILY's List at any point, according to data from the FEC (Center for American Women and Politics 2009b).