Why I'm Not Running For Congress - The Altucher Confidential - Quora: There were other issues. My initial contact even said, “there are other factors involved.” I found out the other factor. They wanted to know if I would then support a certain candidate for President.
I suddenly felt like I was no longer choosing myself. I was getting anxious about other people choosing/endorsing me and I had to jump through weird hoops I didn’t agree with to make it happen.
I don’t like that in any part of my life. That’s what my entire book is about.
So I was in politics for basically three seconds and suddenly I was being thrown into a bullshit machine.