expenditure. as such.king at common sense would wise, then that s before wbeeid get back into the technicalities of law. so you re a persontrelectionby c you write your check for, if the twenty or fifty or five hundred dollars, whatever you can affornddidate to candidate. do you think you re writing n that check to paeed todebate ape to someone? and the answer is no. wru re you think you re writing thatit check to paye your che whateve and that sort of thing.toan and that s whad t the lathwu rew riprovides. e law provides, the supreme court has long said you can t have a subjective standard in campaign finance . it needs to be objective. have and so we look a st it and weeet say, would a person who is not w running for office do that?ok au i mean, he might not buy a twoo heousand dollar suit, but he is going to buy clothes. so it s not a campaign expenditure. he s we might say he might not otherwise pay for tooth whitening, but other people would say it s not a campaigng u expenditure.