In America, success requires support from the Donor Class. Similarly in Rome, to succeed as a candidate running for office required heavy backing by the wealthy. (Crassus played this role, financing Caesar’s campaign, among others.) Leading politicians tended to be heavily in debt to their backers.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have pushed for laws limiting political contributions of money or in-kind to natural persons who reside within the district of the office for which the candidate is running. Eliminate outside money and corporate money and the politicians become beholden once again to the people who elected them.
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