Quotes: "Outsiders" Vs. Vested Interests

When people with no vested, personal interest in the outcome try to help elect reform-minded candidates, they are branded as "outsiders" ... Yet, when "insiders" who do have a vested, personal interest in the outcome contribute significant funding, this is somehow seen as more acceptable. -- Former LAUSD board members Yolie Flores and Marlene Canter

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[CarolineSF]

So if you have a personal interest, it's corrupt to donate to a campaign? Wouldn't that rule out members of the community? And in that case, should members of the community be voting on any matters in which they have a personal interest? One would think the so-called "reform" sector had jumped the shark with this level of zaniness, but we shall see. Wouldn't the logical outcome be that I vote on issues and candidates in someone else's community that can't possibly affect me, and they vote on issues and candidates in mine?