"What's that about?"

          Ebbie - I was just trying to make the point that there are a lot of advantages to being independently wealthy if you want to hold public office in America.
          If you're poor, your political enemies can bog you down in an effort to render you impotent by continually slapping you with frivolous law suits. They couldn't do that to a wealthy candidate because he/she wouldn't have to borrow money to defend themselves. They could, in fact, counter sue and run the heritics to ground. A less well capitalized candidate is less able to do that.