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Damned right.

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My ethics and morals do not align well with being even a state-level politician.

I still got a ton of write-in votes, so I understand. They don't actually list who got the write-in votes, so I only know from the few people I know that volunteer to count ballots.

I probably could have won. I'd have ample money to find my own campaign. I wouldn't have needed to borrow a dime. There was no need for me to beg for campaign money.

At the time, and here in Maine, the average costs to run a campaign was something like 720k. You needed about that much money to even run an effective campaign.

They do have something to stop the rich from just running and taking all the offices. It's a weird-ish Maine thing.

If you qualify to run and your donations aren't paying enough to run effectively, the state's fair elections acts will give the candidate enough to catch up with the wealthier folks who are running for office.

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The wealthy run all the offices anyways, sadly

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It's not too bad at the local level. They're still not poor people, but they probably don't have millions socked away.

And, well, folks would probably call me wealthy. I'm certainly financially independent. Yet, I refused to continue my campaign. I didn't want to keep checking my ethics and debating my morals. I know what right and wrong are. If everyone in the group is doing the wrong thing, it means it is even harder to do the right thing.