Political Election Quotes
Leese was imprisoned several times for various crimes including helping members of the Nazi Waffen SS escape at the end of WWII. He had been a veterinarian in the British Army Camel Corps and an expert on camel health. As a lover of animals he was one of the early animal rights extremists and became a virulent anti-Semite because of his antipathy to the Kosher ritual slaughter of food animals.
The influence of monied corporations had reached a degree that there was a national backlash and this law was passed. A century later, the problem was even worse. Instead of corporations giving money to candidates campaigns, corporations give money to Political Action Committees (PACs). Corporate money still is a major factor in politics.
He was a Congressman at the time. The problem of legislating in an election year seems to have always been difficult.
