article_snippet.sent: The point of the flight is to spotlight corruption in DC and more importantly, to present the solution(s) to the institutional graft," the 61-year-old Florida postal carrier wrote in an online post titled "Your Pilot.
article_snippet.sent: The purpose of it was to call attention to the United States concerning the United States campaign finance laws, or the lack thereof," Shanahan told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
article_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes main purpose "was not so much to alert Congress to something Congress already know, but to make a statement, so that the United States would take notice," Shanahan said.
article_snippet.sent: And it was: If you want to make a point, you've got to do something big, as sad as that seems," Montgomery told CNN's Jake Tapper.
highlights_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes, 61, said the point was to present solutions to corruption .
  