Stroup Full Statement on Enactment of Millionaire’s Amendment

From the beginning, I have hoped that this campaign would not be about money. It’s too important to be about money.

Apparently, though, this is not to be my decision.

When one candidate spends $720,000 and at least one or two others show signs of being able to match that, I do start to wonder how someone like me – the common man – can ever hope to serve in Congress. And in these times, I believe we need men and women in Congress who work every day, trying to pay their bills on time, trying to raise their families and fill their gas tanks, trying just to make ends meet.

That’s the perspective we need and I’m afraid that gets lost when numbers as large as that start getting thrown around.

I can only hope that the quality of ideas in this race outweighs in the minds of the voters the quantity of dollars.

 Authorized by Friends of John Stroup