Dave Brat
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I found that out after the case.
I was a liberal arts professor.
I was not well acquainted with the main ingredient in politics is money.
The bigger majority you get, the more the Republicans are in control.
In Virginia, the motto was keep it small and keep it all.
Keep all the power concentrated in a few people.
Four billionaire guys ran the state, wrote the checks.
That was widely known.
When I won that unexpected big election, I ruined a lot of business deals.
And the folks at the top don't want instability.
That's what it's all about.
They don't want to.
That's going to upset some Democrats.
It's going to upset the stability of their business deals they have over the five to 10 year window.
You might lose some Democrat support where they need it for business deals, not for the will of Indianans or Hoosiers or Virginians.
And it's always the case, right?
I got sued for $1.2 million, right?
I wasn't acquainted with getting sued for $1.2 million coming out of liberal arts economics professor land.
So I learned the hard way.
And now we got Spamburger and all sorts of issues in Virginia.