Nick sat in the passenger seat of a car rented by the film crew, holding a sandwich in his hand, and looked a little sleepily at a printing shop down the street.

Tommy Hawke, who was in charge of the photograph with his team, had been walking into the print shop for about an hour, and before entering, he had Martin buy a dozen copies of Florida newspapers, and then after reading the newspapers himself, he began to work in the print shop.

The photographer who got permission from the store to follow Tommy whispered over the intercom to the team leader Nick, "He's making plates by hand, and it looks like he's designing a newspaper layout or something." ”

"It's a serious business, although I suspect that the money he made from pigeon pooping was not enough to support him in publishing a newspaper." Nick took a bite of the sandwich and responded perfunctorily: "Whatever he designs, at least this picture can be broadcast, it's not that kind of, pee and fart thing, I want to spit out the food I'm eating when I think of yesterday's picture now." ”

"I think you're a little too optimistic, he asked the owner of the printing shop to help design and make a couple of badges with our names on them, and he also asked Martin to find a cheap photo studio nearby, ready to help us take headshots and put them in those badges, I'm a little worried now, the work card says that we are the staff of the Florida correspondent station of a Dutch magazine in Europe, who can tell me when I became Dutch?" The photographer whispered to Nick:

"I've never even been to Europe."

While the photographer was guessing what Tommy was doing, Tommy had already designed a small half of the layout himself, and then moved his hands and feet, stopped from work, smoked, and chatted with the Cuban immigrant boss who enthusiastically gave him a free cup of coffee.

Just as the two were discussing whether the Florida sun has radiation and is easy to burn bad people's brains, so there are all kinds of strange human beings in Florida, the door of the store was pushed open.

A strong white man in a plumber's overalls, a sunhat, and an unshaven beard on his chin walked in, and the owner of the printing shop greeted him: "I remember that I hadn't called to repair the water pipes before, do I need help?" ”

"Hello sir, I'm Jeff LaVine, I'm a Democrat, and I'm a candidate for this special by-election for Florida's 18th district." The big man was quite strong, but his expression was a little nervous and shy, and he introduced himself to the boss in a low voice.

When the boss heard the other party's self-introduction, his reaction was very, very crisp, and he pointed out the door with a straight face: "If you don't have problems with your eyes and ears, you should deduce that I am Cuban from my skin color and spoken language, so don't expect me to vote for the Democratic Party that discriminates against Cubans!" Get out of my turf! ”

Tommy was sipping his coffee next to him and laughed at the boss's blunt words, indeed, the Democrats are now much more radical in their rhetoric and style than the Republicans in Florida today, or in many ways.

For example, in Florida, the Democratic Party has been accusing the ruling Republican Party of ruining this great country by continuously sheltering hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants for the sake of international reputation, and these hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants will not only steal the jobs of American citizens and occupy the social welfare of American citizens, but even at least tens of thousands of brainwashed Cuban communist fighters will be planted among them, and they will lurk in Florida like ghosts, waiting for Castro's order, and these people will quickly occupy Florida. Become the vanguard of Cuba's attack on the United States.

This statement is very brainless, and the Democratic politicians who said these words themselves should know very well that these words are nonsense, but those people at the bottom of Florida are willing to believe these words, and can even spread these rumors and change their faces, such as accusing some Cuban immigrants of opening a gun shop that is actually an arsenal built by Cuban spies, and in the unknown depths of the Florida Everglades, these damn Cubans still hide hundreds of tanks and planes.

Therefore, the large number of Cuban immigrants who have moved to Florida over the years are almost about to hate these Democratic politicians who slander Cubans.

"I misunderstood sir, I'm not...... I'm not here to canvass for votes, sir, but I'm asking you to help me print some campaign leaflets. The big man named Jeff explained with some embarrassment: "I don't discriminate against Cubans, I ...... I just want to ......"

After the boss learned that he had misunderstood the other party's true intentions, he also softened his tone, but still had a straight face: "You don't have to think about it, I won't help the Democrats print advertising flyers in principle, unless you are willing to add money." ”

"If you add money, will it be faster?" Jeff handed the boss a plastic bag containing his own information, and did not refuse the boss's unreasonable request for additional money.

The boss took the information, and his tone was full of sarcasm: "It's definitely not as fast as Democratic politician Ross Wright getting into bed with a woman." ”

Rose Wright, the owner of the printing shop, was the mayoral candidate of South Miami last year, a Democrat, who had just had a spring supper in bed with a senior Cuban girl the night before, and at the next day's campaign rally, he righteously criticized the Republican Party's Cuban immigration policy for stealing local jobs.

The Cuban girl saw the bastard's speech on TV that hurt racial rights, and in a fit of rage, in the name of the person concerned, published the details of Ross Wright's prostitution scandal, so that Republican opponents just got the opportunity to ridicule him, and ridiculed him in the newspaper: "Ross Wright, a great politician who keeps saying that he wants to help Americans keep their jobs and boycott Cuban immigrants, but would rather provide jobs to Cuban female immigrants at night than touch his wife who is an American citizen." ”

Then, Ross Wright, who was forced to withdraw from the race, became the mascot of the Democratic Party in the mouths of Cuban immigrants, and was whipped by Cubans at every turn.

In fact, in Tommy's opinion, this kind of thing is not a serious scandal, all the men in Florida know that the most cost-effective girl is the Cuban girl, Ross Wright was wrong just that he didn't expect the prostitute he found when he relaxed to have a strong compatriot feeling, but Ross Wright is not really against Cubans, just like Republicans in this state don't really care about the life or death of Cuban immigrants, it's all business.

The Republican Party has controlled Florida for many years, although the governor is a Democrat, but the 19 Florida seats in Congress, in the past ten years, the Republican Party has firmly occupied 12, because the backers behind these Republican congressmen are Florida's major citrus plantation farmers or sugar companies, and these funders are demanding cheaper workers' salaries, and a large influx of legal or illegal Latins can keep the pay of Florida's bottom workers stable at a low level. That's the root cause of Republican inclusion of immigrants in this state.

If tomorrow technology is developed, the assembly line work of these large enterprises can be replaced by machines, and the Republicans who today affectionately call Cubans the pillars of Florida will be able to join the Democrats in accusing Cubans of being brainwashed fighters, and even slandering Cuban immigrants for hiding in the Everglades and rubbing atomic bombs.

The boss went to help Jeff print flyers, and when Jeff looked around, he noticed the camera next to Tommy, he was stunned for a moment, and walked carefully to Tommy's side: "Sir, may I ask, are you doing a social news recording on the TV station?" ”

"Of course, do you need to put up a campaign ad, you pay me a thousand dollars, and I'll let this state-of-the-art camera in the United States shoot your face all morning." Tommy didn't blink a glance as he spoke to the big man.

He will not discriminate against the other party because he wears a plumber's uniform, sometimes the candidates wear cheap clothes or overalls are carefully designed, not that they can't afford to wear a suit, sometimes they may just disguise themselves as a pro-people look, and they are generally very wealthy, even if they have no money, they will have the support of the funders or voters for campaign funds.

"No, I can't afford it, I called the TV station and asked about the advertising price, it's too expensive, if I want to have money to advertise, I don't need to print these flyers and wait to distribute them door-to-door, so that everyone can know me." The other party grinned at Tommy innocently, glanced at the camera enviously and said.

"It doesn't seem like it's the date for the election." Tommy took a cigarette in his mouth, moved his neck, and asked casually, "Has any of the hapless congressmen resigned after a scandal?" ”

The election of members of the Normal National Assembly has long since preceded the presidential election, and such special elections usually result in the vacancy of seats in one district and the re-preparation of the election in that district.

"Mr. Claude Pepper, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, has been hospitalized for advanced stomach cancer, his condition is not optimistic, and he is in a coma most of the time, and when he is awake, he said that even if he is discharged from the hospital, he will resign and stay with his family in the last days of his life, so he needs to re-run for the House seat in Florida's 18th district." The big guy named Jeff doesn't seem to be very good at small talk, Tommy asks, he answers, and falls silent after speaking, but he can't help but move slowly in the direction of the camera's lens, as if he wants to enter the range of the camera and find a free opportunity to be on camera.

From the Q&A, Tommy learned that this guy who can play the backbone of the Florida gangster, talk like the kind of harmless white nerd guy who is Chinese New Year's Eve, is a pipe repairman with a stable income, and also works part-time as a volunteer school worker at a church elementary school in his spare time, has served in the military before, a typical well-off white family in Florida, a wife, two dogs, three cars, and four children.

"For the sake of me being a supporter of the Democratic Party, 500 yuan, you pay 500 yuan, this camera can revolve around you all morning, you can shoot whatever you want, and I can guarantee that you will appear on TV." Tommy saw this guy's eagerness for the camera, and offered a friendly price.

Then the guy shook his head again and carefully stepped back: "I can't afford it." ”

"Can't even afford TV commercials, and your campaign action committee doesn't run a pre-fundraising campaign?" Tommy said with a look of disgust: "You don't have the small cash that the voter sent you, and you don't have the big check sent to you by the company or business in the district?" ”

Dahan shook his head blankly: "I launched a rally to 'say no to atheists' before, at the rally, everyone said that I should run for election, so that more people could hear this slogan I proposed, so I registered to run, and I am currently preparing for the party primary, and no one has sent me money yet." ”

"You started a rally?" Tommy looked at the other party suspiciously: "You give me the feeling that talking to strangers is a bit restrained, I doubt that you have this kind of incitement, how many participants in your rally are." ”

"If you count them all, more than seventy?"

Tommy was stunned for a moment when he heard this number, this number is already quite a lot, you know, when many small constituencies are running for rallys, there can be 50 supporters who would rather support participating in the rally than take leave from work, which is already very good, at least it shows that these 50 supporters are absolutely hardcore, not to mention, these 50 people still have families.

The shyly man in front of him was able to incite more than 70 people to launch a rally, no wonder he had the confidence to stand up and campaign.

Tommy circled around the big man twice, and finally said to the other party: "Jeff, you see, we have a camera, we work in a TV station, I can help you, no one knows more about propaganda than me, as long as you are willing to pay, I can even show you on the spot how to sell tanning cream to a black man to make him darker." ”

"I can't afford to pay for TV commercials, Mr. Hawke." The big man smiled bitterly and said, "I only have one hundred and seventy yuan." ”

"Deal, I'm mainly to support the Democratic Party that makes America greater, the compensation is not really important, we can talk about it later, as long as you allow me to set up a campaign action committee in your name, and allow me and my manpower to take some of the funds in the name of the reasonable remuneration of the employees of the campaign team, see these photographic equipment and these people? They will all be useful to you. Tommy held out his hand to the other party: "One hundred and seventy dollars, I will show you how the candidate makes the voters willing to pay you." ”

"But I also have to pay for the printing of the flyers." Jeff took out his wallet and looked at Tommy with some hesitation.

"Whatever that thing is, the poor won't wipe their butts with it." Tommy took the other party's wallet, took out all the money in it and put it in his pocket, turned to the busy boss and said, "Hey, boss, Jeff is going to add a new slogan to the flyer: Say no to Cubans!" ”

"What the are you talking about?" The boss walked over with a glaring eye and glared at Jeff.

Jeff wanted to wave his hand to explain, but Tommy put his arms around him and said to the boss: "He said that his campaign slogan is, say no to Cubans, and the font should be larger." ”

"Get out of my shop! Yankee! The boss roared angrily.

Tommy walked out of the printing shop with his arms around him: "The cameras are all recorded, and the printing of the flyer was terminated because of the other party's breach of contract, so that you don't have to pay, and when you get the donation and can afford a lawyer, we will come back and sue him for breach of contract and force him to pay us several times the amount of damages." ”

"But, I still have to hand out flyers to promote myself, and no one in the constituency even knows me." If it weren't for the fact that this guy named Tommy was constantly following him with a camera, Jeff LaVine would have thought he had met a liar.

Tommy looked at the weather: "Or, you can take me to meet your seventy or so rallying supporters, and I'll show you what magic is, and I'll take care of the money raised." ”

Martin also ran back from a distance at this time: "Boss, I found a photo studio, now I can let them go and take a headshot." ”

"Introduction, this is Jeff, Jeff, this is Martin, the best campaign manager for you, and he's still black, which is good for you to get black votes." Tommy said without blinking.

After the two men shook hands, Jeff went into the printing shop again, wanting the boss to return his materials to him, and before the other party left, Martin opened his mouth and asked Tommy:

"Campaign manager? You're not saying we're going to use Nick's name...... Does this magazine make advertising money? ”

"Nick, they want to thank Jeff, Jeff saved their lives from being chased by the whole Florida weed dealers, and we changed the way we started our business, and we set up a campaign consulting firm in Jeff's name and formed a campaign action committee."

Martin's face was full of ghostly expressions: "Boss, look at his virtue, he must not have a chance to be elected, and he will not even pass the primary, when I was in Miami before, I saw many black poor ghosts who were as hot-headed as him, and they all felt that they were the next president of the United States, internationally renowned, and in fact, they couldn't even remember their names from the neighborhood neighborhood." ”

"We don't care if he gets elected, Martin, it's none of our business if he's elected or not, we're just using his name to circle voters' money." Tommy whispered to Martin: "He has more than seventy supporters, as long as he gathers those people, I promise that with my help, he can empty the wallets of those people with one speech, counting Page, we have seven people working for him, so it is reasonable to take eighty percent of the income, that is, if the guy receives five hundred, we can take four hundred, or, you want us to change the square and continue to feed the pigeons." ”

The photographer next to him pondered for a long time, and didn't think clearly why he was almost hunted down, at this time, he was eager to learn and came over to Tommy and asked, "Mr. Hawke, what is the magazine and the chase you just said?" ”

"I was going to make a Dutch hemp business weekly, and that country is the only country in the world where hemp is legalized, and we can get a large number of hemp growers in warm areas like Florida to take money from magazines to publish legitimate merchandising advertisements and open up the international market." Tommy said to the other party.

The photographer swallowed a big mouthful of saliva: "So...... So they really take the money out to advertise for you, and we're going to be hunted down for scam them? ”

"How can this be considered a fraud? They are opening up the international market, our magazine is also opening up the international market, illegal goods in the United States, not illegal in the Netherlands, and we are selling advertising. Tommy explained it with confidence:

"The solution to avoid being hunted is very simple, let Stephen send you to the Netherlands, where you can really register a magazine and change another group of people to follow me, so that I can continue to do the animal-friendly activity of helping pigeons lose weight without being disturbed."

At this time, Big Han Jeff also walked out of the printing shop with his own materials, looked at Tommy, and said with a smile: "Okay, this is the most hasty decision in my life, just casually enter a store, and trust others, but I think if I really need to stand up and run, I really need to learn to trust others, follow me in the car, and I will take you to the school to meet my supporters." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards a family recreational vehicle on the side of the road.

Tommy asked suspiciously, "School?" Are you saying those teachers are your supporters? ”

"There are two teachers, and three school workers, and the rest of the supporters are mainly children, can you believe it? Now the science class is telling the children that God does not exist and that the earth is round, which is too much, so I started a 'Say No to atheists' rallies to tell the children about God's great miracles. Jeff pulled the car door and greeted Tommy, Martin and the photographer into the car: "And most importantly, we live on a flat earth, like pizza." ”

Martin leaned into Tommy's ear: "Boss, you just said that you can make this white man in his thirties who still believes that the earth is flat, and squeeze a few hundred dollars out of dozens of children?" ”

"I underestimated the magic of the Floridians." Tommy first laughed at himself in a weak tone, then rubbed his face vigorously, and said in a firm tone:

"Yes, I can squeeze money out of the other party, whether it's an adult Florida or a young Flori."

Six thousand words, no chapters, tomorrow will be divided ~

(End of chapter)