| It's all this "gentlemanly" stuff that goes on. Nobody wants to really go after an opponent because they may need a favor from them later. Plus that, the network is like an octopus with tentacles that reach where you never dreamed.
St. Mary's has had several sketchy political candidates over the years - people with very embarrassing (if not illegal) things in their past. These things are always "open secrets" - everyone knows about it but nobody talks about it. Their political opponent doesn't bring it up in debates or go public with the allegations. I guess because they're afraid of repurcussions.
I remember several elections where I was waiting for a candidate to bring up something in his opponent's past that we all knew about. But they never did. |