After Simon nodded slightly, the A girl continued: "There is another report on campaign funds. It is expected that each senator's campaign funds will reach $4 million this year, and the average campaign funds of the House of Representatives are about $500,000 to $600,000, which is a double upward trend compared to 1992, which is very beneficial to us."

Simon has also carefully sorted out the information in his mind about the 1994 midterm election these days.

In the memory of the 1994 midterm elections, the Democratic Party’s unsuccessful defeat in decades is one of them. The most important point is that it highlights the role of money in political campaigns.

Among them, two California Senate candidates, veteran Democratic politician Diana Vaninstein and energy tycoon Michael Huffington, invested a total of $41 million in campaign funds in order to compete for a senator seat, equivalent to ten times the average campaign funds of about $4 million per senator candidate this year. And just this $4 million is also more than twice the average campaign funds of less than $2 million in 1992 Senate elections.

In 1994, the average amount of campaign funds per member of the House of Representatives was $600,000, which also doubled.

It was from 1994 that the US political elections re-entered the era of money as king. In order to obtain more campaign funds, lawmakers from both parties began to continuously promote the easing of fundraising restrictions on political campaigns.

This phenomenon is the most beneficial to Simon, and what he lacks the least now is money.

Seeing that Simon did not respond, A continued: "There is another thing. Three of the seven Democratic candidates on our sniper list are targeted by the National Rifle Association, 16 Republican candidates and 1 among the Rifle Association targeted the Rifle Association. There are also three of their Democratic opponents. Simply put, we have four common targets with the Rifle Association and three targeted each other. The Rifle Association does this mainly because those people voted to support the Brady Act last year."

The Brady Act is a gun control bill with a core provision that sets a waiting period to force criminal background checks on gun buyers.

There have been attempts from both parties in the United States to push similar bills for decades, and they were not finally passed last year.

The passage of the Brady Act and another offensive ban on assault weapons introduced in the second half of this year in Simon's memory completely angered the National Rifle Association. The Democratic Party's crushing defeat in the 1994 midterm elections is also inseparable from the operation of the Rifle Association.

After 1994, the political influence of the National Rifle Association reached its peak, and neither the White House nor the Congress avoided it, resulting in no politicians who dared to accuse the gun laws for many years later. Not only that, the ban on assault weapons expired ten years later. Even though public opinion demanded the ban to be extended indefinitely, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, resulting in a re-flow of a variety of powerful assault weapons into the market, and the frequency of shootings in the United States increased significantly.

Simon's 'sniper plan' is actually to imitate the operation of the National Rifle Association.

Although the National Rifle Association has accumulated a deep foundation for hundreds of years, its economic strength is far inferior to the current Westeros system.

Therefore, through this 'sniper plan', Simon hopes to achieve a similar deterrence effect as the National Rifle Association after the 1994 midterm elections.

Thinking about this, Simon immediately remembered another thing.

The Westeros system has already supported the parliamentarian forces, and there may be some people targeting the targets of the National Rifle Association this year. In any case, the "basic" of this part of the Westeros system is even more important than the current "sniper plan", so it must be ensured.

Simon raised his head and was about to say something to Girl A, but he thought about it and said, "Help me pick Joseph."

Larry Ellison just left and it was already the West Coast off work time, and it was eight o'clock on the evening on the East Coast, but Simon couldn't take care of too much.

Girl A felt Simon's tone, nodded and turned around and walked out.

A few minutes later, Joseph Schrapp's call was received on Simon's office landline and said hello and learned that the other party was at a cocktail party at a senator's house in Washington, who was a member of the Senate Judicial Committee and one of the core members of the "basic" political 'Westlow system.

After a few simple conversations, Simon and Schrapp talked about what they had just thought of.

Joseph Schrapp actually realized this problem and originally wanted to communicate with Simon in the past few days. Since Simon mentioned it at this time, the two of them discussed the countermeasures on the phone.

If the Congress bill is passed, it requires more than half of the members of parliament to vote.

However, the National Rifle Association cannot target all members who voted for the Brady Act and other gun control laws. Instead, they select typical examples from them like the Westeros system, which has a lot of room for operation.

Therefore, Schrapp said that it is not difficult to remove most of the "basic plates" of the Westeros system from the National Rifle Association's target list. Of course, this process will definitely not avoid some games and exchanges. Even if it cannot be picked out in the end, both sides will show their magical powers in the election.

Since Schlap still had social events, Simon did not talk to the other party. He agreed that Schlap would fly to the West Coast to discuss various recent matters on Sunday. Simon greeted a senator a few words, and both parties hung up the phone.

Simon continued to browse the stack of documents in front of him, and wrote down some processing matters and forwarded them to Alison, who was outside the room by email. He didn't get off work until six o'clock.

When he returned to Dumei Point Manor, he just entered the door of the Shell Villa. Janet came up with a little bit and claimed that another child in the family would call him mother.

Veronica, who had just returned from the East Coast today, followed by Melbourne and Jennifer, who was holding Nick Little, with surprise and surprise in her expression.

Simon was still a little confused. Janet had already raised a little girl with special eyes to Simon and encouraged her: "Seal, call her mother."

Seattle sat in Janet's arms and faced Simon, blinking her beautiful blue eyes, and seemed to hesitate for a moment, but opened her mouth and called out a word to Simon in a very light voice: "Mom."

Simon: "…"

Janet obviously felt nothing wrong, and was more excited than a little guy's mother, saying, "Look, I knew it a long time ago. Syl is a genius, even better than the small vases Simon raised."

Veronica next to her saw Simon's depressed appearance, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

The female assistant handed Nick to the D girl next to her, smiled and walked up to take the child from Janet, and said to Simon: "Sil crys very little on weekdays, and is always quiet. I have always been worried that she will talk very late. I tried it casually in the afternoon, and the baby shouted out," and said, looking at the daughter in her arms, pointing at Simon: "Sil, this is a father, call him dad."

For children who have just learned to speak, the word "Daddy" is actually more difficult than "Mom".

However, the female assistant only taught her once. The little girl looked at Simon for a moment and then shouted softly. The pronunciation was obviously not standard enough. The adults present could clearly tell that this was ‘Daddy’.

Janet also took his second son from Girl D at this time and did it as usual: "Baby, call mom...well, call dad, call it quickly, don't eat at night... You really don't allow you to eat."

Unfortunately, a little guy just looked at Janet with a blank look on his face. Perhaps feeling Janet's fierce threat, he soon cried out.

Seeing this, Melbourne, which was always obediently standing beside Veronica, saw this, her little body couldn't help but hide from the side, obviously worried that her mother wouldn't let her eat.

Simon took off his coat and handed it to Aliya, took Nick from Janet's arms with disappointed look on his face, and led the family to the glass curtain wall of the Shell Villa, while teaching Janet a lesson: "Nick is still young, don't bother him."

Janet said dissatisfied: "Seal is also very young."

The two little guys were born only three days apart, one on November 3rd and the other on November 6th, and they are not five months old until now.

Seattle is special.

Everyone discovered this shortly after the little girl was born. The little child should have been innocent and ignorant, but he always likes to look at everything around him with curiosity. He is also very quiet most of the time. He was once suspected by the female assistant if the child had a hearing problem, so he had a special examination for this.

The little guy is very healthy.

The pediatrician expert who was responsible for examining his child decided at the time that Seattle would be very smart in the future.

But I didn’t expect that my child would call him mom and dad in more than four months.

As a father of three children, he has many life experiences. Simon is very clear that most children, even smarter ones, will take about eight months to make simple pronunciations, and usually start to formally learn dialect after one year of age.

Judging from the reaction of her daughter just now, the little girl can not only call her parents, but even knows the meaning, otherwise she would not hesitate before being encouraged by Janet to call Simon "Mom", which is even more rare. After all, most children learn some simple language before the age of one, but they are more of a conditioned reflex after their parents are guided for a long time, and tend to be instinct rather than autonomous consciousness.

Everyone came to the sofa beside the curtain wall and sat down, and the family enjoyed parent-child time against the backdrop of the burning clouds covered with the sky and the sea.

After repeatedly teaching Nick to learn the dialect, Janet discussed with the female assistant again about changing the child, and suspected that Seattle was her own daughter. After all, she was so smart and Simon was so smart, and the child should be very smart, so why did the female assistant give birth to a smart daughter?

Simon actually thinks so.

Both sons are healthy, so according to some theories, they should be very smart. In fact, Melbourne is also very smart. The little guy is less than two and a half years old now. He has known many words under the patient guidance of his female assistant and speaks very fluently. His little look at his expression and expression in front of his "moody" mother on weekdays is even more amazing.

Unfortunately, compared with his sister, it suddenly became overshadowed.

Regarding Janet's argument, the female assistant smiled and refuted that she was very smart, and her genes were more in line with the child's father, so she gave birth to a little genius.

Alas, this is simply provocative.

The big girl in Tongfang rebelled and dared to be so rebellious.

So the two women who were already mothers beat each other with a smile and were not separated until Simon personally "dissuaded the fight". As a mediator, she was threatened by her female assistant to sign an unequal treaty, saying that she would no longer go to San Francisco on business trips this weekend and would stay at home with her children together.

The lights are on.

Girl D came over to remind the dinner was ready, and the family got up and went to the restaurant.

After dinner, the female assistant no longer went to the villa next to her like she used to. Since something happened last week, everyone has lived in the Shell Villa, and Veronica has not gone to her apartment east.

The three children were accompanied by Veronica, and Simon and the other two snuggled together on the sofa in a living room to watch TV, occasionally chatting about some topics.

At ten o'clock, I saw the children and the three of them went to the master bedroom on the third floor to rest.

Janet doesn't care much about the three of them together, and always likes to take advantage of the female assistant. On the contrary, Jennifer didn't adapt to it at first, but soon got used to it. Recently, he has developed a habit similar to Janet, who likes to hug the man beside him tightly in his sleep.

It seems Simon will disappear suddenly.

The assassination that did not pose any threat to the Westeros family a few days ago was nothing but a traceless thing.

This weekend, I originally planned to go to San Francisco. Since I agreed to the female assistant yesterday, I did not go on a trip. I just discussed various matters with the executives in Silicon Valley through video conferences.

The main one is the cooperation negotiations between Egret and the Salisberg family behind the New York Times Group.

Last month, Simon conveyed his intention to reconcile through Joseph Schrapp. Simon had a meeting with Arthur Salisberg Jr., the current director of the Salisberg family. Both sides were quite happy, but Simon did not promise anything immediately. He just asked the executives of the New York Times Group to negotiate cooperation with the Igrett company team to show their own opinions.

The progress was actually quite smooth. Since the London Girl Incident broke out at the beginning of the month and another storm caused by Simon's personal net worth exceeding $200 billion, it is probably because he feels that his own importance has increased, and the New York Times Group negotiating team has once again grasped it.

Simon never wants to give Bezos a reply to this, and he is even more harsh.

Since the merger of the Boston Globe last year, the New York Times Group currently owns 32 newspapers, 39 magazines, 5 local TV stations, two radio stations and other types of affiliates across North America. Even the Hollywood Reporter, one of the two most important media outlets in Hollywood, has a 33% stake.

If we were still in the pre-Internet era, such a super media empire that was as good as the Hurst Group, would definitely not provoke him, and Simon would definitely try to get along with him.

It's different now.

Although Igrit Company has never claimed to be a media company to the public, anyone with a discerning eye understands that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional old media.

Even if all the users of all 32 newspapers in the New York Times Group are combined, the scale cannot be compared with the Igrit portal, which almost monopolizes the traffic of 85 million netizens in North America. That's right, in the first quarter that is about to pass, the total number of Internet users in the United States has increased by 10 million again compared to the 75 million at the end of 1993, and it is expected to exceed 10 million in 1994.
Chapter completed!