Hollywood movies would make you believe you needed briefcases of money or exotic, Swiss bank accounts to corrupt the political machine. With James Bond levels o

Hollywood movies would make you believe you needed briefcases of money or exotic, Swiss bank accounts to corrupt the political machine. With James Bond levels of manipulation. And it is so much cheaper and more mundane than that. I honestly assumed you had to donate $10k dinner plate to a politician for them to do more than email you a boilerplate response.