Sheriff Mark Lamb

That's the first question they ask, not like what's your background, what kind of strengths do you have, how much money can you raise?

And if that doesn't tell you the state of our politics in this country, that it's all about money,

You know, I was telling you earlier, there's the saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

And I saw somebody else had a different take on it.

It's not that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It's that absolute power is a magnet for the corruptible.

And so in politics and in DC, what we have is people that have been drawn to the power, the magnetized towards the power, but they are corruptible people.

And when they get to DC, the money corrupts them.

And whether it's, you know, you took money to get your campaign going or maybe they have blackmail on you.

Maybe you were, you know, you went to the wrong party and they got video of you doing something or whatever it is, you know, they tend to get something on you to where you now are over a barrel.

And so trying to stay out of that is what I've been doing.

Here's what I said to my wife.

I said, I'm going to run an honorable race.

I'm going to win with honor.

I'm going to lose with honor.

I'm not going to be negative.

I'm going to stay focused on who I am and what experience I bring to the table and why I think I'm right for the job.

And then I am going to work hard.

And everything else is outside of my fate.

It's outside of my control.