David Kennedy sat on the sofa in the living room of this South Side vacation home, took a mouthful of brandy, and then looked at Tommy, this young man was holding a mobile phone in his hand at this time, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and enjoying the night sea view of Miami, while smiling and talking to his family, two calls, one to his home and the other to his fiancée's house, on the phone, he cared about his father's health, reminded him to follow the doctor's arrangement, regularly go to the hospital for physical examinations, he cared about his sister's studies, and understood the other party's grades, I can even chat with my future mother-in-law about each other's recent trips for more than ten minutes, discussing why Finland, a country where everyone is cold and introverted, gave birth to the image of Santa Claus, which does not conform to the character of Finland.

He even cares if the two adopted dogs are depressed, an impeccable American good young man who loves his family.

Not to mention his future mother-in-law on the other side of the phone, David Kennedy felt that if Tommy's phone call was recorded and broadcast on TV, many American mothers with daughters might use this handsome, self-disciplined, family-caring, sunny, kind, and humorous young man as the criterion for choosing a son-in-law.

He is his mother-in-law, maybe he will willingly give him his holiday villa for him to live temporarily, yes, this villa is the property in the name of Tommy's fiancée mother-in-law, from the daughter's mouth I learned that Tommy came to Miami for a vacation, the other party specially called, let Tommy live in, and also gave the previous maid a long vacation, so that Tommy can hire a temporary maid to serve him, to avoid his old maid to see some pictures that should not be seen.

After Tommy hung up the phone after chatting with his mother-in-law, and returned the phone to Peppa, he sat back across from David Kennedy with his shirt cuffs, poured himself a glass of wine, and explained: "The weekly phone chat with my family is a habit I have maintained for a long time, and it definitely does not mean disrespecting anyone." ”

"I understand that respecting family members is the only way to respect everyone." David Kennedy moved his sour-stomached waist and adjusted his sitting posture: "This is a good habit, if you can't even appease the emotions of your family, let alone the American people who are easily angry, I have always felt that a good politician must first be a master of solving various family problems." ”

Tommy raised his glass and touched it with the other party: "When it comes to solving family problems, you must be the top one, Bill told me that if he had half the ability to solve family problems, he wouldn't have quarreled with Diane too often." ”

David smiled smugly, not denying that his two ex-wives and current wives lived in peace and were all able to do what he wanted, and when the scandal broke out, his three wives appeared in front of the media along with their families to show the public their support and trust in him, which was of course a display of ability and charisma.

If it weren't for that damn scandal, according to normal development, he would have ended his job as ambassador and entered the Senate, and his name should have been on the list of Democratic candidates in last year's presidential election, but unfortunately there was no if, he lost his political life, lost the opportunity to lead the most powerful country in the world, and now there is only this city left, and he can't lead it in his own name.

Noticing a slight change in David's expression, Tommy took a sip of wine: "Politics is really dangerous, a little careless, years of hard work come to naught. ”

"Maybe I can take this as your dissatisfaction with Rhona?" David smiled at Tommy, and the sighs disappeared, he was here today because the campaign was in the second half, and Tommy was a little unhappy with his delay.

Tommy looked at the drink in the glass for a long time before he looked at David Kennedy: "I understand very well that Rhona has such a reaction, after all, you suffered misfortune back then, and your political life was ruined by reporters and police, so in this case, hesitation and caution are taken for granted, but there is one problem, if I handle it from beginning to end, David, I can give Jeff's seat to Rhona or to someone else, what do you think?" ”

David Kennedy's gray-blue eyes sunken in his sockets stared at Tommy, and he didn't open his mouth to respond, and Tommy certainly could speak in a relaxed tone, because even if Jeff lost, it wouldn't have any effect on the young man, and it was a game for him on vacation.

But if he or Rhona is caught, the only remaining city will probably be lost, and then he will really have nothing.

"You know what? Tommy, I've always wondered why Stephen and Bill ...... Valuing you. After a long time, David spoke, but asked another question abruptly: "I tried to understand your information, but I found that you seem to have founded two TV networks, and you have produced and sold a software before, and you are an investor in some technology companies, there seems to be no very conspicuous information, I don't mean that you are worthy of attention now, but ...... I understand politics, I understand the importance of politicians, you just donate, you never get involved in a lot of political discussions, and it seems that there is no other influence other than TV media opinion, at most it is another Turner, but do Democrats respect Turner? No, but you're different, why? ”

David Kenneth hesitated for a long time, and finally asked the question, the campaign has now officially entered the stage of bipartisan fighting, the Democratic Party has not waited for the Republican Party to confront, and has been brought to pieces with the help of Jeff Rush, all the media are optimistic about the united Republican Party, because the primary election is over, Ileana Letty was elected as the only Republican candidate with 87% of the party's support, representing the Republican Party for seats in the 18th district, while she won a large number of Cuban Americans in her district, Other black Republican candidates are trying their best to win the support of black people in their districts, and many die-hard supporters of the Democratic black candidate Gerald Richman have switched to the Republican camp to support Illyana Letty because of the news broadcast on BT TV, because the other party said in the primary debate that there will be no distinction between Cubans and blacks, everyone is a person of color, and they need to fight for rights.

President George W. Bush flew in to help Iliana Letty stand on the platform, and newspapers across the country were optimistic that he would be elected and win another seat in Congress for the Republicans, and the Democrats were already weak.

All this was planned by him David Kennedy and Tommy, everything went according to plan, it looks like the Democratic Party has not yet planned internally how to divide the political legacy left by the former Representative Claude Pepper, and it is torn apart, the party cannot unify its thinking, and even the election slogans are opposed, everything is a rush to fight, and there is no way to make a farce, resulting in Cuban candidates on both sides, but Lorna of the Democratic Party is weak because of her performance, Many Cubans have switched to supporting the Republican Party's Illyana Letty.

But the farce ends here, according to his agreement with Tommy, Tommy is responsible for getting Jeff to push Cubans to the Republican Party, and then David Kennedy or his ex-wife Lorna is responsible for breaking the other party's Cuban American dreams.

Of course, David Kennedy has already laid out the plan, but the problem is that if things break out, he and his three wives' families may not be able to stay in Miami anymore, although the probability of breaking out is very low, but the chance of being caught back then is also low, so he has some concerns, and once he really arranges it, it means that he or his ex-wife Rona's balls are grabbed by Tommy, if Lorna has balls.

The only way to alleviate his concerns is to figure out why Tommy is respected by many members of the Democratic Party, he understands the financier, and of course a money-rich and little-to-do financier like Tommy is loved, but the Bill Clinton couple no longer shows much more than affection for Tommy.

Love should be everyone's kind of Stephen Bene, every important holiday, will send each other greeting cards, any party will invite each other, talk about everything, whether good or bad.

But when it comes to Tommy, they are respectful, Bill wrote a handwritten invitation, which was directly rejected by Diane, and then flew to Miami in person, asked Tommy's fiancée to invite Tommy, and then apologized in person, the most important thing is that after the two couples flew to Miami, the first thing was to ask themselves and Rhona if it was possible for Rhona to support Tommy's favored Jeff Rush instead.

Before asking this question, they didn't even know that Jeff Rush was a fool who believed in the flat, and just because Tommy Hawke was bullish on him, he was going to persuade Rona, the former deputy mayor of Miami, to give up running and go all out in favor of an authentic white Florida fool.

If Tommy Hawk had just been rich, he would never have gotten this treatment.

Tommy scratched his forehead lightly with his fingers, and then smiled indifferently: "It's nothing, it's not a story to hide, it's just that other parts of my life are not as high-profile as the TV network looks, many people say that because of Stephen's friendship with me, he influenced me and introduced many of his friends in the Democratic Party to me, and I naturally became their supporter, which is wrong, for example, Stephen slept with a senior girl, and he thought this woman was good, so he introduced it to me, Of course, I can't just give Stephen four hundred just because he slept with her, the most basic thing is that I'm going to put on a Trojan and try it myself before making a decision, whether to give him a tip or let Stephen get out of my sight with that. ”

"From your words, it can be seen that whether it is an old or a young or strong owner, the evaluation of politicians is consistent and profound, so can't you respect the senior girl opposite you?" David said with a smile when he heard Tommy compare politicians to senior girls.

Tommy put down his glass, picked up a cigarette and lit it: "My first political donation was in 1984, when I was still a student at Stanford, and the donation was made to the Democratic Senate candidate Al Gore, who is a member of the SSD fraternity at Vanderbilt University, I have to say, that guy really attracted me at that time, young, handsome, tough, at the age of twenty-seven he inherited his father's career as a member of the House of Representatives, and at the age of thirty-three he became a senator, the absolute future candidate for the president of the United States, Coupled with his slogans at that time, such as opposing homosexuality, opposing federal money to help black people have abortions, opposing banning cross-state gun sales, advocating federal support for the development of the computer communications industry, etc., this was even more attractive to me than a real senior girl, who could only take 400 yuan from me once when she went to bed with me, but I didn't even see him in person, so I asked the secretary to send him 100,000 yuan, and then more and more...... This is how my donation journey began. ”

"Al Gore? Conservative moderates in the party. David muttered the name in his mouth, that guy is definitely a rising star of the Democratic Party, as young and dazzling as Bill, and has been criticized many times as a typical hypocritical white racist, because Gore can respond excitedly to Congress's listing of Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday in the United States, and in the face of an interview with reporters, he sanctimoniously said that this is a great victory, and this legal holiday will continue to remind all people in the future of America that racial equality is very important, What Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to this country.

But he can also vote against the proposal of "abortion neutrality" with an indifferent face to actually help black women at the bottom, when the reporter asked why he opposes abortion, he sly said that he is not against abortion, but he still needs the government to pay for this private matter of abortion, he can't understand that women have children, the government wants to subsidize maternity benefits, and now even women have abortions and refuse to have children to subsidize the cost of surgery, this kind of proposal is an insult to American women, American women are independent, They must not want to be ridiculed for relying on men to have children, and relying on the government for not having children.

Privately, it is also rumored that Gore said that of course black women should not be allowed to have abortions, because in the event of a future war, those young people raised with state subsidies are the best soldiers.

In short, on the surface, blacks can get all the respect and equal treatment from him, but in reality blacks don't want to take any real benefits from him.

And his resume is more convincing than many other senators, for example, a reporter has investigated, hundreds of so-called political family heirs who served during the Vietnam War, famous school students, only a dozen people really went to serve in the Vietnam battlefield, Gore is one of the dozen people, although he went to Vietnam to help his father Gore Sr. win sympathy points in the re-election campaign, and also deliberately took a campaign ad with his father in a military uniform, but at least he really stayed in Vietnam for four months and saw the smoke of gunpowder, Blood and death, and not, like most of the Harvard classmates, either write all sorts of certificates to avoid conscription, or find a way to stay in the native reserve gilded.

Last year, the thirty-nine-year-old Gore was nominated to run for president of the United States, and finally won seven states in the party primary, winning the third place in the party primary, of course, he didn't really want to run, just to test the water, to see how his influence is, so far the response is very good, all the southern states are buying Gore's account, and even many low-level Democrats can't help but fantasize about the next election, young Bill and Gore partner, two young people beat the wonderful picture of the old Republican guys.

But in the eyes of David, who is familiar with the insider, it can only be a fantasy, the political ideas of Bill and Gore are not at all in harmony, except for specific public occasions, there will not even be any communication in private, David even knows that once the Bill couple was in a party meeting, trying to understand the participants' views on promoting universal health care reform, Gore was the first to mock Bill as a Soviet, trying to communize American health care, violating American values, and making the people lose their freedom of choice, And categorically said that the United States does not need a mandatory health insurance system like universal health insurance, and if the Democrats still want the votes of the major unions, because the leaders of the major unions must be worried that the government will use this kind of health care reform to weaken their influence on members, and whoever proposes this system will not want to get their votes again.

Of course, Gore doesn't really care about the life or death of the union, that's just his excuse, the real reason is that since his grandfather Alan Gore entered politics, he has been shouting for the Rockefeller family and acting as a political mouthpiece, the Rockefeller family owns a number of large pharmaceutical groups, once the reform of universal health care is promoted, those Rockefeller pharmaceutical groups must be worried that the federal government will become a monopoly buyer, and will increase the demand for high-quality and cheap drugs, which will directly affect their earnings.

"Most of my annual dividends or other income are invested in the research and development of some software or hardware, and research and development is very costly, and it is very uncomfortable to lose millions of dollars every day when I open my eyes, but this is not the most expensive money, and the money is consumed after I met Gore." Tommy learned that David was curious about why he could make Bill and others pay attention, so he didn't hide it, and said generously:

"My alma mater, Stanford University, and I have set up several scientific research institutes, hired professors from many well-known universities, including my professors when I was a student, and gave them enough financial support, and then drafted relevant reports based on the theoretical structures and research models derived from their various researches, and submitted them to Congress. At present, only two or three have been passed in Congress, it may be the "High-Speed Computing and Communications Act", the "Remote Computing Storage Communications Act", the "Remote Computer Network Neutrality Bill" or the "Electronic Storage Privacy Act", I don't remember clearly, because there are more than a dozen other bills waiting for me to slowly throw money, of course, it is normal that you don't understand, and many members of Congress don't understand either, because there is no precedent bill to refer to. ”

David nodded with some understanding: "These bills are the reason why they appreciate you?" Or is it because of the lobbying fees you pay them, or both? I think it's mainly about the cost. ”

Tommy smiled and shook his head:

"In fact, the cost of lobbying depends on what kind of bill is passed, for example, the "Electronic Storage Privacy Act" is more intuitive, the cost is 30% lower than the budget, because the traditional industry funders behind the legislators quickly figured out what benefits this bill can bring to them, the most straightforward benefit is that the R&D company I hold has designed a complete set of hardware systems for major automobile transportation and logistics companies, taxi companies, and bus companies, and they call it the on-board information recorder, also known as the car black box, This thing is much more advanced than the electromechanical simulation driving recorder sold by the Germans for $1500, its function is to record the data during the driving of the vehicle, such as speed, torque, distance, etc., all the driver's operation and car operation will be recorded, and as long as the driver drives the car back to the company after work, the company sends another person to open the thing, connected to the computer, you can find out whether the driver is working seriously today, for example, according to the regulations, he should rest for ten minutes at the service station, But he turned off the engine for thirty minutes, for example, his fuel consumption data was average before, and suddenly increased a lot today, or through the change in the torque of the car, the change in speed, etc., to judge whether the driver is a good driver worthy of a high salary, etc., these data can be seen clearly through the shoebox-like hardware, if the union makes trouble again, the company can publish the data, and tell them confidently, you fucking drive the company's truck to the side of the road and * woman to have a shot, steal the gasoline in the truck as * Zi, do you dare to raise your salary with Lao Tzu now? ”

"If the lawyer hired by the union accuses the company of allegedly exposing other people's privacy, or asking for other data, then this bill can be thrown in the other party's face, and the bill will tell him that the storage device belongs to the company, and the data stored in it also belongs to the company, and the company has the right to choose whether to publish it, and the driver can only wait for the company to tell them, either continue to work with peace of mind, or the company will tell your family about the prostitute on the road you drove a truck, and then fire you openly and hold you accountable, in short, It can make it more reasonable and legal for large companies to squeeze those employees. ”

"What about the benefits of not being straightforward?" David nodded suddenly, no wonder it is 30% less than the budget, those companies will definitely let the politicians they support cooperate with this bill to pass, after all, it can save a lot of tongues and a lot of money in the future.

Tommy lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth: "Military transportation vehicles are also customized with a number of similar hardware systems, equipment and data belong to the military, even if a soldier is ready to report his unit, the federal government takes a search warrant and asks the military to provide data to assist in the investigation, and can also refuse the other party according to the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution and this bill, a little more far-reaching benefits, if this thing is sold to the military of other countries in the future, the data can still be in the hands of the US military." ”

"You're trying to make all kinds of rules of the game in advance with a forward-looking vision and a huge amount of money, and when most people react, it's already on your plate? If it's a game, it's a very big and very difficult game, Tommy, no one can play such a crazy game. David thought of a possibility, and then burst out laughing, thinking it was too fanciful.

"The fun of this kind of game is that it's very difficult and not too fast and boring." Tommy spat out a puff of smoke and said:

"Keeping people in captivity like beef cattle or turkeys on my American farm, picking one to slaughter when there's a shortage of food at Christmas, Rockefeller can, Morgan can, why can't Hawke play this game."

"America is free for them." David said with a smile.

Tommy pointed his finger at David with a cigarette in his hand, and said as a matter of course: "America is free for all citizens, and the people here have the right to decide whether they want to be a beef cow or a fucking Christmas turkey, and they have always had the freedom to choose, and so do you, David, so you'd better hurry up and choose whether or not to provide Jeff with follow-up campaign aid." ”

"Of course, I'm going to get some of the arrangements done." David's bloated body got up from the couch and walked towards the door: "Good luck to those Cubans." ”

(End of chapter)