"But the main culprit, the cancer on the body politic, is money: Money,
money, money. When I ran 6 years ago, in 1998, I raised $8.5 million.
That $8.5 million is $30,000 a week, every week, for 6 years. If you
miss Christmas week, you miss New Years week, you are $100,000 in the
hole and don't you think we don't kno…
The cancer has spread all around, republicans are eaten up with it, Dems are in treatment, but the cure is about as unpalatable as the disease. Sad to say
Fritz Hollings, 2004:
"But the main culprit, the cancer on the body politic, is money: Money,
money, money. When I ran 6 years ago, in 1998, I raised $8.5 million.
That $8.5 million is $30,000 a week, every week, for 6 years. If you
miss Christmas week, you miss New Years week, you are $100,000 in the
hole and don't you think we don't know it and we start to work harder at
raising money.
As a result, the Senate doesn't work on Mondays and Fridays. We have
longer holidays. The policy committee is adjourned and we go over to the
campaign building because you can't call for money in the office. So we
go over to the building and call for money and obviously we only can
give attention to that. We don't have time for each other. We don't have
time for constituents, except for the givers. Somebody ought to tell the
truth about that. Unless and until we excise this cancer, the Congress
and Government is going to languish alone because it has to be done."
The cancer has spread all around, republicans are eaten up with it, Dems are in treatment, but the cure is about as unpalatable as the disease. Sad to say
OH. In 2004. So for 2024?
Spot on