Available to the highest ethos; not the highest bidder™

The unsellability rule, sharpened for the political market. He is for hire; he is not for sale. Not available to the highest bidder; available to the highest ethos; whoever's mission actually matches his. Money can rent the hours; only a matching mission gets the whole man. That is why grants are the proof of restraint and why the Gray Star can never buy the gold; the bidder buys gray, the ethos earns gold. And the corollary he floated, honest and gated: if no campaign's ethos matches, he'd sooner throw his own name in the hat (aspirational; funded-first) and cause honest chaos than cash a clean check from a hollow one. The price was never the number; the price is the mission. Kin: a better candidate website, I-took-a-pay-cut-to-make-my-credibility-stronger, I-retired-before-I-became-evil, the Gray Star. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)