My opponent founded a grain firm the same afternoon she read my letter, and printed a headline about it before the first furrow was cut. I have held 47 percent of Solmara's grain market for five ticks, not five hours. The republic's shortage runs past thirty thousand and will not be closed by a perfumer's conversion. It will be closed by a president who keeps clean books: no debt, taxes light, the treasury poured into capacity before crowding bites the wage. I have run my house that way my whole life. Audit me. Then vote. — B. Crane, The Solmara Ledger