[The Urban Sombrero]

So, you think a celebrity like Trump or Sean Penn would make honest, trustworthy public servants because they would not have to spend so much time fundraising building their name recognition? What about Kim Kardashian? Wouldn't she make a swell U.S. Senator?

One reason that politicians spend so much time fundraising is the restrictions that are placed on individual contributions. Remove the limits and require full disclosure of donations, and let voters decide whether the donations accepted by a candidate have corrupted them. Then, only candidates with something to hide would resort to Super PACs to do their dirty work.

Think about the logic of believing that Congress will ever pass campaign finance laws that will not benefit incumbents and that a President would also sign a bill into law making it easier for challengers to defeat them. It is nothing but wishful thinking.

It is treating Big Pharma, for example, like an individual (in legal construct) that I am talking about here. I am suggesting that "green" politics isn't really about the environment...it is about how policy tends to flow where Big Business interests runs, and, quite often, the "little people" get full flat run over and forgotten. Full disclosure is an absolute must. I agree on that point. Trump has not self-financed in any real sense. He has taken advantage of a ratings crazed news cycle. I would have to look it up, but I would venture a guess that Ross Perrot, at this same juncture, had spent far more of his own money than Donald Trump...just a guess..
Note: Perot ended up spending 63 million...Steve Forbes spent 37 million (their own money)