When incumbents cannot gain an advantage over challengers by bringing home the pork, they will go for the next best thing enough campaign cash to allow them to outspend their challengers at election time.
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Mr Lazio can also count on the many Hillary-haters outside New York, who stumped up a fortune for Rudy's campaign, and even if Mr Giuliani exercises his right to keep that cash for some future campaign of his own are likely to do the same for his successor in the Senate race.
The simple answer is that politicians benefit from the current mess, using their power over tax laws to raise campaign cash, reward friends, punish enemies, and play politics.
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By then Richardson had dropped out of the primary race, but his campaign committee was raising cash to pay off debts.
Apple's stock has risen 2% since David Einhorn, manager of hedge-fund firm Greenlight Capital, launched a public campaign to pressure management to return more cash to investors.
There are serious corruption issues that need to be settled: Filegate, Travelgate, hush money, illegal foreign campaign cash, misuse of the FBI and the Secret Service, not to mention employing the IRS to harass opponents.
Both, however, care deeply about the political power that campaign cash can buy and are willing to trade favors to get it.
Barbara Buono is the only Democrat who has declared a candidacy for governor, and Mr. Christie has nearly nine times as much campaign cash as she does, according to campaign reports last week.
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Later this month, Kerry will travel to Washington state to raise cash for his Senate campaign -- a race where there's no Republican opponent -- and then to South Carolina to schmooze with local Democrats.
The objective for all candidates at this point, he says, is to have as much cash on hand as possible in order to withstand the busy fall campaign season and to recover if something goes awry (such as an attack ad campaign) in early 2008.
Senator Lyndon Farnham from the Option C campaign has written to the treasury minister asking for the cash.
The irony is that Democrats have found, in Mr. Waxman, an even more extreme antibusiness tribune, who will no doubt use his new powers to go after any concern that turns a profit but refuses to pay his party the obeisance of campaign cash and regulatory submission.
The Obama campaign became so flush with cash that one of its trickiest political problems was dealing with other Democrats who wanted Obama to campaign for them and spend money on their races.
The biggest recipients of billionaire cash tend to be presidential candidates, party campaign committees and congressional leaders.
The campaign scandals swirling around Mr Clinton have dented his ability to raise cash, and have obliged him to concentrate his efforts on paying off the debts of the Democratic National Committee.
But the campaign foundered when the Maloofs couldn't raise sufficient cash to finance their end of the deal, creating an opening for Seattle, where another coalition of businessmen was ready to step in.
Young men swept up in the raid are sprung from jail by a councilman seeking their votes, crowds form in the street to pocket cash payments from competing candidates, and campaign rallies, which are joined with religious celebrations, are hardly more than stomping grounds for pickpockets.
In exchange for campaign cash from Beijing, the Clinton White House was opened to Chinese operatives.
He said it was "nothing other than a bare-faced request to bail out a cash-starved Department of Health campaign".
Because even with all the cash he collected to fill the coffers of his campaign, Monday's speech makes it clear he will not let it line the coffin of his presidency.
The Obama team--which raised record amounts of cash through Internet donations during the presidential campaign--plans to make up the difference through individual contributions.
The Robin Hood Tax campaign just wants the banks to pay lots and the European Commission thinks the cash should really be sent to the EU Commission.
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In exchange for campaign cash from Silicon Valley, the administration approved sales of sensitive satellite technology to China.
But, really, this is right-to-work state, job-killing payback to union allies, who will return the favor with millions of dollars of campaign cash and door-knocking campaigning.
The U.S. Court of Appeals announced Tuesday Lancaster will begin investigating whether Herman took a cash bribe or solicited illegal campaign donations while she was a White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
As a result, unwitting American investors potentially have been pumping their cash into everything from Russian organized crime to a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign in Africa to peddlers of weapons of mass destruction in Communist China.
We've known for weeks that the front-runners of the presidential campaign are capable or raising records amounts of cash, but now the individual contributions are starting to be revealed.
But there are enormously important issues at stake in this campaign with basic decisions to be made about how radically a country, suddenly so flush with cash, power and hope, wants to change both itself and the world around it.
After the Second World War, candidates began to campaign principally by buying advertisements on television, and that strategy created an ever-increasing need for cash.
In the end he was soundly beaten, but his campaign discredited even his own contention: politics has become so expensive that it is impossible to raise the required cash without special-interest money.
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