Rogers on Cost of Politics
Some candidates are rejoicing over the results of yesterday’s election. Some are licking their wounds. Some don’t know yet whether they’ve won or lost. One thing that becomes more clear with each election is that it takes a lot of money to run for political office. Will Rogers knew that quite some time ago, although even Rogers would be astounded at what’s spent today and would probably modify his following quote to be even better:
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
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