He Who

has the money doesn't always get the votes. If anything, having a lot of money to try and "buy" a political office might be considered a liability, at least in California.

I agree totally with Roger Salazar, a political consultant to Gov. Davis, who says "it is the height of arrogance for a rich man to say he's cleaner than a poor man because he doesn't need to raise money."

It's kind of like the biblical saying about a rich man getting to heaven was about as likely as a camel going through the eye of a needle or something like that.