text: Thank you for your constructive criticism. To answer your question, I do not know how anybody with a full time job does a campaign on top of it, so probably not.
  
  You are right, just because a candidate accepts donations they are not crooked. When the legislature authorizes $120K or so to an organization and $40K of that is funneled right back to give free vacations to the legislators, that (in my opinion) is the definition of corruption.
  
  I made the conscience decision to not have one dollar be seen as an influence. Perhaps foolish. But, as mentioned, if the normal ways of doing things results in having people that put us in the financial disaster we now face, I didn't see the point in doing things the "normal" way.
  
  I commend you, and anyone, that has served in office. I can only imagine ;) it is an oft-thankless duty.