About a decade ago, I came up with an idea for a book.  It was going to be about a guy who runs for office in Texas and uses Texas’ lack of campaign spending enforcement to support himself.  He buys himself cars, meals, vacations, you name it out of campaign funds. While that’s illegal, no one has ever been prosecuted for it.

Things got in the way and I never wrote the book but now I’m behind the curve.  It’s a thing now.

Scampaign- a political campaign whose primary purpose is not to garner votes and elect its candidate but to fleece contributors and enrich the consultants or even the candidate him or herself.

Donald Trump is spending money to make money.  Yeah, he’s spending his own money but he’s spending it at his own companies.

And Ben Carson’s friends all got rich off his campaign.

They stole my idea.

Thanks to Scott for the heads up.