I disagree. It’s a problem if you CANDIDATE pled guilty to cocaine 23 years ago.
But it’s not a problem if a person who has been clean for over 20 years is a CONTRIBUTER to your campaign. We WANT people to reform, to go back to the straight and narrow, and having done so, to participate in democracy.
He shouldn’t be an advisor, but if he’s clean and the money he has earned and is raising is legit, who cares what he did 24 years ago?
Not me, that's for sure.
However, I bet the rats and Fred's primary opponents "care", because they will beat him over the head with it. Or, do you figure they'll ignore it because nobody cares?