million ort about $1 fishd $1 million through fries and hotdog suppers and individual contributions. , we both knew roughly what we had to raise, and then comes buckley and other decisions. the doors started to open up. ,ndependent expenditures outside groups, things that could add into the contribution level, and you eventually saw numbers spending more and more of their time dialing for they're raising money, not attending the committee assignments, they are not talking to a republican across the aisle to try to figure out how to balance the budget or deal with climate change, they are on their phone at the democratic headquarters or the republican headquarters, raising money. day.hours a who willonly impacts eventually want to run in the democracy, it impacts when you get to washington, how you do with,ob and who you do it and how you govern and sit in your committees and do the work impactsess, and that it the kind of people that we will see running for president and where they spend their time and who they talk to. i think this is just a critically important issue right i'm deli