America 1982

After finishing all the journey today, Martin, who was so tired that his feet were sore and his legs were weak, sat in the back seat of the Ford F150. Even if he wanted to rest, he first put some eye drops on Jeff's red and swollen eyes, and then picked up the belt. Cepacol oral spray, which has anesthetic and throat soothing effects, was sprayed into Jeff's wide-open mouth. After finishing all this, he leaned comfortably on the back seat and encouraged Jeff:

"Nowadays, it seems that politicians have a hard time making money. Of course, it may just be that poor politicians like you have a hard time making money. After all, those big politicians only need to attend one or two fundraising receptions a day, while you visit six nursing homes a day."

Today, Jeff is completely unable to respond to Martin's compliments. Today, he completed six high-intensity speeches almost non-stop. This made his throat, which had never spoken so many words in a single day before, burning and painful. They were all swollen, and every time he made a sound, it was like someone was polishing his poor vocal cords with a file. At this moment, he closed his mouth tightly and tried to let the spray medicine quickly relieve the pain.

Although he was tired, Jeff was very excited. The veterans hugged him, encouraged him, and supported him like a father.

Tommy in the passenger seat counted the bills, leaving Martin and Jeff to rest in the back seat with their eyes closed. It wasn't until Page drove the car outside Jeff's house that he turned to Jeff and said:

"Here we go, don't play talking games with your wife at night, don't drink alcohol, don't eat onions, peppers, go to bed early. Tomorrow Martin will take you to visit nursing homes until all 17 veterans' nursing homes in Miami are visited. , and, Jeff, if you are as good as you are today every day, I guarantee you will get a ticket to Washington."

As he spoke, Tommy stretched out his palm to Jeff. Jeff kept his mouth shut, but nodded with a smile on his face. Then he gave Tommy a high-five, and bumped fists with Martin before pulling away. The car door jumped.

Outside his home at dusk, his wife Jessica and her four children, plus two friends Zach and Allen, were waiting for his return. Jeff opened his arms and picked up his two little daughters who rushed over, followed by a group of People crowded around him as he walked into the house and disappeared from Tommy's sight.

After Jeff left, Martin moved his neck that was a little stiff when he closed his eyes and took a nap. Then he rubbed his hands excitedly and said to Tommy: "We made a lot of money today, right, boss? I can see those veterans. How exciting.”

Tommy handed Martin the backpack used to hold cash and checks on his lap, together with the account book he had just recorded the donors and donation data: "Three hundred and seventeen people, small checks and cash added together, a total of Six thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.”

"According to what you said before, we can probably take away 80% of it..." Martin didn't expect Tommy to actually hand over all the money to him. He took it hesitantly, and then started to calculate seriously, trying to figure out what they were doing. How much can you get from these donations?

"Tomorrow you have to take time to go to the Miami City Hall to formally register, set up Jeff Lavine's political action committee, inject all these donations, and then take out three thousand dollars in the name of the committee to produce a large number of Jeff's campaign propaganda Image billboards, printed with his campaign slogan 'Say No to the Cubans', and then fill it with all the Cuban gathering places in the 18th District." Tommy motioned to Page to drive, and waited for Page to start, and then said Martin, who was still thinking about splitting the money, said.

Martin was stunned for a moment. He thought he heard wrongly. Then he raised his head and looked at Tommy and found that Tommy had not changed his words:

"Boss, you keep saying that our purpose is not to... make money? Now that we have the money, we have to spend it? And, make billboards and install them in places where Cubans gather? You know that the angry Cubans will not let this happen The billboard will survive the night. Your idea is like making a billboard in Liberty City, Miami, saying that the black boxing champion Ali is a white man. If you don't kill the billboard installer on the spot, they are polite."

Produce a bunch of electoral billboards with slogans explicitly hostile to Cubans and install them on Cuban turf? Is this preparing to make false accounts? It was announced to the public that 10,000 billboards were produced, but actually a thousand were produced and sent to the Cubans' territory. After the Cubans destroyed them, it just happened that people could no longer determine the investment in billboards?

While Martin was still guessing what Tommy was thinking, Tommy had already continued:

"Hire some people who know how to film to follow and film the installation of billboards, record the footage of Cubans burning and destroying those billboards, and then broadcast those videos on TV stations in the name of Jeff's campaign ads , published in the newspaper, the slogan of the advertisement is: Some people say that there are 45% Cubans in this area, but this is not the reason for their lawlessness. Patriot Jeff reminds everyone, bravely say No to the Cubans."

Martin opened his mouth, and the billboard that said Boycott Cubans was destroyed by the Cubans, and then the Cubans' behavior was broadcast on TV? What's wrong with Cubans? If someone points your nose at your door and yells at you to get out of the United States, why can't you tear down the billboard? White people are so fucking bad.

Tommy lit a cigarette with the cigarette lighter:

"The employees who install the billboards should be as black as possible, you know? Black people with vicious mouths. I need them to irritate Cubans when they install the billboards, and it is best to have conflicts on the spot."

Tommy held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the receding scenery outside the car window: "For a country that has fallen into a major crisis at this moment, the contradiction between blacks and whites is a fucking small problem, no matter who is the master and who is the slave , it is not important now, what is important is that outsiders are invading, no matter whether they were slaves or masters before, at this moment, let us put aside our grudges, unite, and drive away the damn Cubans first, and then discuss how much black people should be beaten The problem with the whip.”

However, Tommy didn't react at all after hearing this. Instead, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's it. Also, put the photo of Jeff hugging the black veterans in the nursing home in a newspaper that black people like to read. We want to instill in black people a Reason, blacks and whites are free Floridians, but Cubans are fucking Cubans.”

That attitude made Martin couldn't help but have an illusion. Did he use the wrong tone just now? Did the boss really not hear the ridicule, but instead heard the encouragement?

But before Martin could continue to speak and try to commit suicide, Tommy had already exhaled smoke and said:

"You also need to register a political consulting firm as soon as possible. The amount of donations you can take from Jeff's political action committee as compensation will be determined by the service contract you provide to Jeff."

Martin was stunned for a moment: "You mean, I... I registered a company and I am the boss? Jeff will pay me whatever I fill in on the contract?"

Tommy nodded: "And you don't need to share it with me, or with Paige and Nick, the bad guys on the camera crew. Whatever you earn is yours. Of course, if you need to hire people other than us, the expenses will also be the same." You have to pay, you don’t need to pay me.”

His boss has never been so generous. A company belongs to him, Martin, and Tommy is willing to help him with ideas for free. He has all the money at his disposal. What happened? The Black Light Gambia finally took three days After defeating the Soviet Union, now they decide to attack the United States? Let the boss, a stingy white man, want to show off to avoid being captured and shot before black people actually rule this country?

"According to today's data, if all 17 nursing homes are visited, about 18,000 yuan can be raised. In the end, the number of people who are willing to vote for Jeff should be guaranteed to reach 3,000. As a person who can help Jeff This kind of idiot is a campaign manager who has gained the support of 3,000 people in a short period of time. Even if you lose in the end, you are already considered a powerful figure in the eyes of many people. In order to get talents like you, they will invest in or acquire your small company. , let you get a sum of money, and then join a larger political consulting company to help more politicians campaign. To put it simply, the election of 200,000 people in the 18th District, if you end up in this election, If you can allow Jeff, a political amateur, to get 10,000 votes, your company will be worth 700,000 no matter whether you win or lose. This is the true cost of votes in the election campaign. In order to get a vote, a politician needs to pay about 100 yuan, of which 70 The money is earned by the political consultants or campaign managers he hires to strategize his campaign,” Tommy said with a smile as he leaned his head on the backrest.

"While you and Jeff continue to visit and give speeches in the past few days, I will go to raise funds separately. You need to find time to register a private opinion polling company and hire a group of telephone investigators. This way, you can be fair and aboveboard in the name of the polling company. Get the home phone numbers of people in the area and call them to do a poll without being accused of harassing them with phone calls, which is actually harassing them with phone calls," Tommy said to Martin, flicking the ashes from his cigarette.

When Martin heard about the investigation company, he nodded suddenly: "I understand this, that is, the investigation company will call and ask which candidate it supports, right? And then deliberately only gives the names of two candidates, one of which is famous in the district. One is an unheard-of unknown, which makes the famous one seem to have more support. Every time it comes to the election, there are countless bullshit polling companies calling in in the name of telephone polling to promote the candidates they support. .”

"That's a question only an idiot at the level of a city councilman would ask. The question your polling company asked was to get rid of the Cuban woman named Rosario Kennedy who ranked first in the Democratic Party. You designed it for the people. The investigation question is whether to support the felon furlough program that Rosario Kennedy had previously proposed and vigorously promoted." Tommy opened the notebook next to him, flipped to a page, pulled it out, and handed it to Martin.

Martin then said at the same time: "What is the problem? What vacation plan?"

"The people on the other side of the phone will ask the same questions as you," Tommy said. "The answers are written on it."

Martin looked down at the piece of paper that Tommy tore off. It clearly stated that Florida had previously prohibited first-degree murderers from going on vacation, but this Cuban woman named Rosario Kennedy had previously served as the mayor of Miami. During his time as a member of the committee, he tried to pass a state bill for the so-called felon furlough program, which would allow first-degree murderers to perform well after serving a period of time, then they would be able to enjoy the same benefits as other low-level offenders, such as vacation to visit relatives. . "

But soon, he shut up and stopped teasing, because later Tommy wrote about the consequences of this bill during its brief trial period. A man who killed a seven-year-old black boy during a home invasion was eventually charged with first-degree murder. A criminal who was sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime was given the opportunity to go on vacation during the trial period. Then this guy kidnapped a young couple, raped the wife multiple times in front of the husband, and then brutally killed them.

Following this tragedy, the bill was stopped.

"F*ck! That criminal single-handedly ruined the vacation dreams of countless black people. He better be a white man." Martin cursed after reading it.

"Let both whites and blacks in this area believe that this woman is a communist spy sent by Cuba. She has corrupted the Kennedy family, and is going to release countless imprisoned Cuban criminals and let them legally kill Americans. , you need to hire lawyers and investigators to find the photos of the body of the child who was killed by the murderer, find the photos of the young couple, go to the family members of the deceased, and ask the family members to show up in the other party's office with the photos. Outside, outside the family, at rallies, if possible, I hope they will even show her sleeping with her ex-husband Kennedy. I want to see that woman collapse due to excessive mental stress. I want to see her being questioned and accused without being able to defend herself. I want to see those photos. Show it to her children, in short, I want everyone to know one thing."

"She came out to run with only one purpose, to kill innocent Americans for the sake of Cubans."

Tommy's voice was very calm, and the temperature inside the car was not low, but Martin couldn't help but shuddered:

"That woman is also a Democrat, the same party as Jeff."

Tommy said without blinking: "That woman's base is Cuban immigrants. Even if Jeff is willing to lick her Cuban pussy behind his wife's back, he will not be able to gain the support of the Cuban voters behind her because there is no use value. So there is no need to hesitate to destroy her."

Martin swallowed hard. A woman may have never met her boss once, and she had never even heard each other's name before, just because... the other party wanted to compete with Jeff for a seat in the House of Representatives, and Tommy couldn't face him. Changing the design and such a vicious plan to completely destroy the other party.

Terrorizing her children, showing photos of the dead body everywhere, making it impossible for the deceased to rest in peace, and falsely accusing the other party of being a Cuban spy...

Martin didn't dare to continue thinking. He shook his head and then took the initiative to change the topic:

"Boss, you just said...that you are going to raise money when Jeff and I are raising money? Are you not going to be with us next?"

"Seventeen veterans in nursing homes can raise less than 20,000 yuan, so they are not the donors, they are just Jeff's basic vote bank. Assuming that Jeff can gain 3,000 veteran supporters, if his support rate is insufficient in the end , if you need to withdraw from the election, you can sell the veterans for hundreds of thousands, but whether it is 20,000 or hundreds of thousands, it is too little. We need the kind of sponsor who can write large checks." Tommy Throw the cigarette butt out of the car window:

"He can change his appearance, rent large venues, buy advertising space, dominate TV ads, and be a big sponsor of newspaper headlines."

"Didn't you say before that the wealthy companies and institutions in this area already...have choices?"

"That's why I want to do it separately from you. I will set up another social charity organization, using the characteristics of charities that do not need to disclose donor information to absorb those... campaign black money."

“How could anyone not like to show off their donations?”

"Of course, there are some church organizations that deviate slightly from mainstream religious scriptures. I briefly learned about them. In Florida, there are quite a few such church organizations, and all of them are very wealthy."

"Wait, you...you mean those weird cults that claim to be God, but are actually weird?"

"Pay attention to the wording. That's called religious freedom, Martin. It's a right granted to the American people by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution! The people have the right to decide what kind of God they believe in or something else." Tommy corrected Martin very dissatisfied. words:

"We all believe in God, but because of different understandings of the same Bible, we are slandered as a cult by mainstream sects. This is a naked slander."

Page drove the car outside Zach's house: "Boss, we're here."

Tommy opened the car door and prepared to get out of the car. Martin couldn't help but ask:

"What good can Jeff do to these cults?"

Tommy thought for a while: "I don't know, maybe after Jeff is elected, he will seek to join the Committee on Religious Security of the House of Representatives? Will he call on Congress to open up the power to allow all denominations to open independent TV stations in the name of religious freedom across the United States? Look at the other party Whatever you need, I’ll say whatever you need.”

"What's the meaning?"

"It's not interesting. It's an excuse to defraud a cult and pay for it. Anyway, we only defrauded it once, and we don't expect Jeff to pass this position on to his descendants in the name of hereditary status." Tommy got out of the car and walked towards Zach's house. .

Martin chased after Tommy: "So, large donations, which is what you call black money, boss, are firmly in the hands of the social charity organization you established. How much you spend on Jeff depends entirely on your mood. I have The money in it is not even comparable to the change in your hand?"

Tommy said with a bright smile: "Twenty-eight points is very fair. Twenty percent of the money earned in Jeff's name is in your hands, and eighty percent is in my hands."

"If he is worth investing in, just like rewarding an obedient dog, reward him more. If he is not worth investing in, we will take the money and find the next obedient dog."

"Does American politics sound easier to understand now?"

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