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You have told me most of that before.

Politics is full of people who enter the field simply to enjoy those perks

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My morals, and importantly my ethics, are not in line with being a politician.

For definition purposes:

Morals never change. Ethics are situational.

Like, I'd never rape a person. That's morals. I'd kill the shit out of anyone trying to harm my family. That's ethics.

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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.