> Vote for me | give us more money

Copaganda at its finest. Since, very obviously, making public statements does nothing to actually solve this problem, the only reason to do it is to make voting populations scared enough to suck down whatever nonsense comes after, e.g. vote for me or the barbarians will rape and pillage your property or give us unlimited budget (and be nice to us) for tactical apache stealth helicopters or CVS will lock up all the deodorant