According to the Star-Ledger: Democratic legislative candidates are outspending Republicans by nearly a 3-to-1 margin with the election just a week off, the latest campaign finance reports showed yesterday. With Democrats trying to preserve majorities in both houses, they already have raised $28 million and spent $20 million on the general election. Republicans, who remain hopeful they will win back control of the Senate, have collected $11.4 million and sunk $6.8 million into their campaigns.
Would someone please explain to us, clearly and briefly, why one must raise money to run for office? We just don't get it. Asking for money means favors. Favors mean beholden. Beholden means corruption. Corruption means New Jersey.
Seriously.
Why not drop the whole thing? Wait. What do you say? They need the money so they can mail the fun glossy fliers with lots of smiles and promises and hope to the OLD MAN SNAP FAMILY? Um. Our family consists of a plant, two guitars and much hilarity. We see the fun glossy mailers and we discard the fun glossy mailers.
Politicians are so not the new pink. There's a *whole* generation out there that has no use for any of this and we cannot wait until they figure out how to bring the chaos and havoc. We may even try to lead them.
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