Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.

If there's one thing we've heard again and again from Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner, it's that Harrisburg is broken, and that, he, Scott Wagner, by gum, is just the man to fix it.

"Harrisburg is broken," Wagner, a York County state senator, wrote in a June 26 email blast to his supporters. "We can do better than leftist Tom Wolf in the Governor's Mansion, ripping off taxpayers daily."

Three days later, on June 29, Wagner sent out another email blast in advance of a monthly fund-raising deadline, telling supporters that, when he "began [his] run for governor, [he] wanted my campaign to be different."

"I wanted to build a network of small, grassroots donors," he wrote.

"Out-of-state, coastal elite mega-donors like George Soros may have the big cash, but it's important to me that this campaign relies on hard-working Pennsylvanians who generously chip in a few dollars here and there to make their voices heard in one of the only ways they can before Election Day," he continued.

But if an invite to a July 27 fund-raiser is any indication, Wagner has a very different definition of "small, grassroots donors" than the rest of us.

That event at Outdoor Country Club in scenic York, Pa., features Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan as its headlining guest. As you can see from the files below, donations start at a mere $100 a head, then swiftly graduate to $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 donation levels.

Giving at the max, $25k, gets you five tickets to a VIP policy discussion (again, very grassroots); eight tickets to a VIP reception with a "photo opportunity"; sponsorship recognition and 10 tickets to the general reception.

The opening page:

Scott Wagner Fundraiser Invite 1 by jmicek on Scribd

The interior pages:

Scott Wagner 2 by jmicek on Scribd

Now, look, it takes big money to run for governor, which is why politics tends to be a rich man's game.

Wagner

is a self-made millionaire, and he recently promised to personally double any contribution made to his campaign.

Wagner also loaned himself $4 million to kick-start his campaign back in January.

And before the "What-Aboutists" among you raise yourselves into a state of high dudgeon, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, also a millionaire, held similar high-dollar fund-raisers in 2014. He also donated $10 million of his own money to the campaign, part of financed through a loan leveraged by personal assets. That loan has since been paid back (*updated), his campaign said this morning.

And that's where the tension in our politics lies.

In 2014, Wolf similarly styled himself as an outsider candidate and man of the people, even as he took advantage of existing campaign finance laws to raise gobs of his money for his gubernatorial bid.

Wagner, too, is taking advantage of those rules to hold his high-dollar event with Maryland's Hogan later this month.

But even more than Wolf, Wagner has explicitly built his brand as a regular guy, a man of the people and populist, sympathetic to the plight of the working stiff.

An event such as the one at Outdoor Country Club is assuredly out of the financial reach of the majority of "grassroots" donors that Wagner hopes to appear to in his bid for the state's top elected office.

Jason High, Wagner's campaign manager, said the York Republican can both build that network of grassroots donors and hold high-dollar events that "[provide] people with opportunities to give larger amounts."

"Campaigns are expensive and Tom Wolf's campaign will be well-funded by the government unions," High said. "We need to raise a lot of money to be competitive."

He's not wrong: Wagner is going to have to raise and spend shedloads of money if he wants to beat out fellow rich guy Paul Mango for the GOP nomination next spring. He'll need to raise and spend even more if he hopes to beat out Wolf in the fall campaign.

But, again, there's the tension: Wagner has explicitly set himself up as a man of the people, the populist fighting for the working stiff. He'll have to walk a fine line between raising the cash he needs to remain competitive without erasing that carefully crafted pose.

The rich, as they say, are very different from you and me.