“There was money to be had for our campaign, but unfortunately always money that we could not take. As soon as it became evident that we had a real movement, we began to have visits from well-dressed, smooth-spoken persons familiar with politics, who offered us the solution to all our problems. The first was a representative of a group of men who conducted a gambling game, and at that time were taking sixty-five thousand dollars a day from the people of Los Angeles. All these people wanted to know was that if I was elected Governor I would let them alone. On that basis I could have ‘anything within reason.’ I never found out how much that was, because I told the gentleman that we were not making political promises, except those in our program.”
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked (1934).
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