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I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.