“If somebody’s trying to buy your vote, it’s going to take more than $200. If this was large sums of money, then one could possibly look askance. But it’s not,” he said. "It’s pretty modest stuff. Anybody that contributes to a political campaign — are they buying influence? I think to allege that anybody who contributes to any campaign, that something’s wrong with them, that’s wrong. That’s a freedom-of-speech issue.”