Caesar, a Consul of Rome and the Triple Pact

As I was in the candidacy for Consul to Rome, the Optimates did not like the idea of Lucius and I joining forces for consulship. I think that the Optimates fear me, and that if I were to join forces with Lucius, nothing would stop me from gaining what I wanted. However, they couldn't be more wrong. I, like the false accusations of the Catilinarian, would not to harm the Republic of Rome, and I want to be a part of greatness that is Rome. I want to live up to my roots and the House of the Julii.
There was a bribing game for the bid of the consulship in Rome between us, Caesar and Lucceius, and them, the Optimates and Bibulus. I heard later that Cato himself had put money into the bribing funds of the Optimates and Bibulus. One person overheard Cato saying that this bribery would be exceptional due to their beliefs that I was endangering Rome by being elected to Consul. Regardless of the bribe race, Bibulus and I were both elected Consuls. The Optimates prejudice towards me did not stop after the election of consuls. They swore that after my term of consulship was over they would put measures in Rome to where I would not receive a significant providence of Rome to govern. Some people rumored that after my consulship was up that I would be put in charge of Rome's forests and public pasturelands in Italia.
There was one person I could turn to who had just as much frustration with the Senate, Gnaeus Pompey. Pompey had been at odds with the Senate waiting for their approval of the steps he had taken to defeat the Mithridates. I believed the best way to put more distance between the Senate, who wanted me out of Rome, would be to resolve the problems of Pompey and Marcus Crassus. They had problems with each other because they could not agree on certain policies that put them at odds when they were both consuls. I brought them together, and with out triple pact, we swore to oppose policies that any of them would oppose in the Senate.

Sources Used:

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Penguin Classics Revised Edition, December 18, 2007. Print