Money from special interests like himself and his colleagues at Bain Capital, who spent money over the years on special interest lobbyists to influence lawmakers in Washington — like the previous holder of the senate seat.

This part of the senate campaign had to have been the most two-faced imaginable. “I spent a bunch of money over the years on lobbyists so that I could make even more money — but now I am going to run for office, using some of that money I earned manipulating the system with my lobbyists, on the pledge to refuse money from special interests like me and my colleagues.” (Quotation invented, I think.)