You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

POLITICS IS A DIRTY — AND FUNNY — BUSINESS
 
�            John Stone­house was a British Labour and Co-oper­a­tive Par­ty
politi­cian and cab­i­net min­is­ter under Prime Min­is­ter  Harold Wil­son
who embez­zled a bunch of mon­ey and faked his death in Mia­mi,
Flori­da in 1974. He was found to be very alive in Aus­tralia two weeks
lat­er, sent back to the UK, but only served three years in prison for
fraud due to poor health.
 
�            On Jan­u­ary 18, 1990, Wash­ing­ton D.C. may­or, Mar­i­on Bar­ry, was
arrest­ed after smok­ing crack with a female infor­mant in a motel room.
Bar­ry served six months in fed­er­al prison. He died lat­er of a drug
over­dose.
 
�       The Russ­ian word for black­mail is kom­pro­mat. Dur­ing the Cold War,
the KGB black­mailed so many West­ern politi­cians that kom­pro­mat
made its way into the Eng­lish lan­guage. 
 
�            In 1824, a writer threat­ened to pub­lish the mem­oirs of the Duke of
Wellington’s mis­tress­es. The British duke’s response was, “Pub­lish
and be damned.”
 
�            Jack Ryan was the Repub­li­can can­di­date against Barack Oba­ma for
the open sen­ate seat in Illi­nois in 2004 until it was revealed Ryan
brought his wife to kinky sex clubs.
 
�            For­mer pro­fes­sion­al wrestler and full-time vam­pire, Jonathon (The
Impaler) Sharkey, start­ed the Vam­pires, Witch­es, and Pagans Par­ty in
2005. They advo­cate for vam­pire polit­i­cal recog­ni­tion.
 
�            War­ren G. Hard­ing is often regard­ed as the most cor­rupt US
pres­i­dent in his­to­ry. It’s amaz­ing because the 29th pres­i­dent only
served two years before dying in office.
 
�            In 2014, Malaysian politi­cian Bung Mok­tar Radin tweet­ed “Long
Live Hitler” after Ger­many defeat­ed Brazil 7–1 in a World Cup match.
Ger­man offi­cials didn’t appre­ci­ate the sup­port.
 
�            Since the Water­gate Scan­dal (1972–1974), many polit­i­cal scan­dals
have been giv­en the suf­fix “gate.” For exam­ple — Troop­er­gate,
Rus­si­a­gate, and Bil­ly­gate.
 
�            The Pol­ish Beer Lovers’ Par­ty was estab­lished in 1990 in War­saw,
just as the Iron Cur­tain was com­ing down. It actu­al­ly won 16 seats in
Poland’s Low­er House before being dis­solved in 1993.
 
�            Nine Amer­i­can towns have elect­ed dogs as may­ors. Cat lovers can
rest easy, though, the town of Tal­keet­na, Alas­ka elect­ed an hon­orary
feline may­or who served for 20 years from 1997 to 2017.
 
�       When South Car­oli­na Con­gress­men Mark San­ford went miss­ing for a
week in 2009, peo­ple were alarmed. When he final­ly sur­faced, he said
he was hik­ing the Appalachi­an Trail, but it was lat­er revealed he was
in Argenti­na with his mis­tress.
 
�       Adolf Lu Hitler Rangsa Marak is a politi­cian from India. When asked
about the name, Marak said that his par­ents liked the name “and
hence chris­tened me Hitler.”
 
�            For­mer pro­fes­sion­al wrestler Jesse Ven­tu­ra was elect­ed as
Minnesota’s 38th gov­er­nor in Novem­ber 1998. He was the first
Amer­i­can pro­fes­sion­al wrestler to hold such a high office.
 
�            Tired of polit­i­cal cor­rup­tion, 100,000 res­i­dents of Sao Paulo, Brazil
vot­ed for a female black rhi­noc­er­os named Cacare­co for city coun­cil
in 1958. Although she won more votes than the oth­er can­di­dates,
elec­tion offi­cials ruled Cacare­co inel­i­gi­ble.
 
�            US Con­gress­man Hank John­son said in a 2010 hear­ing on the
ter­ri­to­ry of Guam: “My fear is that the whole island will become so
over­ly pop­u­lat­ed that it will tip over and cap­size.” His office said it
was a joke.
 
�            Amer­i­can author Robert Anton Wil­son formed the Guns and Dope
Par­ty. It was a bit of a joke Wil­son had fun with dur­ing California’s
2003 guber­na­to­r­i­al recall elec­tion.
 
�            In addi­tion to being involved in fraud, it was lat­er made pub­lic that
John Stone­house had been spy­ing for Czecho­slo­va­kia dur­ing the
1960s.
 
�            Col­orado US Sen­a­tor Gary Hart looked set to win the 1988
Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion when news of an extra-mar­i­tal
affair derailed his cam­paign. If only he ran after Clin­ton!
 
�       Get­ting caught smok­ing crack on video isn’t just an Amer­i­can thing.
In 2013, Chris Far­ley looka­like and Toron­to may­or, Rob Ford, got
bust­ed for smok­ing crack on tape, end­ing his reelec­tion bid.
 
�            Porn­gate is the name of one of the strangest scan­dals in Indi­an
pol­i­tics. The scan­dal involved two mem­bers of the Kar­nata­ka  state
cab­i­net watch­ing porn on a smart­phone when the leg­is­la­ture was in
ses­sion in Feb­ru­ary 2012.
 
�            Amer­i­can con­spir­a­cy the­o­rist Lyn­don La Rouche ran in every US
pres­i­den­tial elec­tion from 1976 through 2004. Although a reg­is­tered
Demo­c­rat, he always ran as a third-par­ty can­di­date.
 
�            Demo­c­ra­t­ic US Con­gress­man Phile­mon Thomas Her­bert shot and
killed a wait­er at a hotel in 1856. Her­bert was acquit­ted of
manslaugh­ter, but the charges ruined his career.
 
�            Empress Dowa­ger Cixi of Chi­na (1861–1908) knew how to use
black­mail as well as any man. Cixi tor­tured the con­cu­bines and
ser­vants of the Guangxu Emper­or, her nephew, to use as kom­pro­mat
against him.