Michael Golden is a former TV news guy, turned campaign manager who says he is fed up with the system — and he knows the system very well. He has worked on the inside with some high profile people.

“I have seen politicians through a few different prisms, I’ve worked with them, for them and covered them. I’m not one of those people who thinks they are all buffoons,” Golden told us from his office in Chicago.

Trouble is, the system is so clogged up it is difficult for them to do even things that are common sense.

Golden gets to the point in this book with 4 or 5 “defects” that he believes need to be fixed.