How To Use Carpetbag In A Sentence
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Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.
Your Right Hand Thief
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This nation was founded on glorious greed, boundless carpetbaggery, corrupt cartels and an oligarchy of rich men whose "countrymen" were other rich men.
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But the whiff of being a "carpetbagger" - an insulting term for candidates with no local connections who are parachuted into winnable seats - persists.
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McCain responded to a voter making the charge of "carpetbagging" saying,
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Serious carpetbaggers with money to invest long-term may decide that they can play the waiting game.
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The recent fight with carpetbaggers cost policyholders several million pounds.
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I can assure you that none of my carpetbags have mothballs in them.
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Taking the hatbox and carpetbag, she went back on the trail, a receding frail figure in a burgundy dress.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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However, the "carpetbagging" issue is now a non-issue, as both Essel and Krekorian lived outside the district at the start of the campaign.
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a carpetbag stranger
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I'm afraid that many of the campaigners who have been at it for years felt badly let down by your "carpetbagging" on to the issue at their expense.
Mourning Common Sense
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He looked to some like a carpetbagger who knew nothing about the constituency - and he was not a Catholic, as many in the local party are.
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British politics allows many more "carpetbagging" candidates (members that stand in constituencies where they do not live or have a history), and party discipline is a great deal stronger in the UK's parliamentary system than in the US
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Then she repacked her carpetbag and took it out of the crate.
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One issue that no one talked about was that the rightie was a carpetbagger as well as a tea bag*er.
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But as an unknown to many of his would be constituents, he was branded a carpetbagger and a wealthy outsider.
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The bad news for carpetbaggers is that Liverpool Victoria changed its membership criteria in June.
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‘The paper did itself a lot of damage when it lined up behind the carpetbaggers who were trying to demutualise the building society,’ says one financier, anxious not to be named.
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Chickens of carpetbaggery let loose upon the South were coming home to roost at the North.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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He'll undoubtedly be called a carpetbagger, but New Yorkers don't ultimately care about that (cf. Robert Kennedy, Hillary Clinton).
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Yet, over a century ago, carpetbagging Arizona politicians bucked a US House Committee's recommendation to conjoin Arizona and New Mexico as a single state.
Jeff Biggers: Dear Gov. Jan Brewer: Wax On, Wax Off, Or, Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home
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Her little gay house elf finally finished decorating the place, from old century mid modern carpetbaggery to new century mid chic decor for the 90's woman.
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Chickens of carpetbaggery let loose upon the South were coming home to roost at the
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography
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Failure to do so will only intensify accusations of carpetbagging.
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The management team may face further demutualisation attempts by carpetbaggers, given that the company's constitution currently allows for a valid resolution to convert from only 50 members.
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Carpetbaggers were besieging offices and harassing staff.
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This talk of finding a place to carpetbag to is ridiculous.
Alec Baldwin interested in congressional run
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Albert carried Sue May's hatbox and carpetbag, and I struggled from the first with my Samsonite.
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Yet such a huge amount of cash will ensure the company remains a target for carpetbaggers, with policyholders potentially benefiting from ever-larger windfalls were the Edinburgh-based insurer to float.
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Company executives could take heart from the success of another firm at repelling a raid from carpetbaggers after members last week turned down windfalls to support the management.
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a carpetbag government
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January 14th, 2010 at 12: 37 pm spearNmagicHelmet says: the teabaggers got sandbagged by carpetbaggers.
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That's why they are now calling carpetbagger Dan Seals "DAN DEALS"!
DCCC Ad About Mark Kirk
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I can't help feeling she's something of a carpetbagger, even if she is lieutenant governor.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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He became the brain behind George W. Bush's rise in politics after moving his political consultancy to Texas (what Southerners call "carpetbagging") in the 1970's.
Karl and Muqtada
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As a former New Yorker, I hate the fact that this carpetbagger is one of our two senators!!!!!
Florida delegates file lawsuit to get delegation seated
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Abraham Lincoln" stepped from the gray Toyota minivan outside the Baltimore train station Wednesday, grabbed his carpetbag and leather valise and put on his stovepipe hat.
Abraham Lincoln rides to Washington, 150 years later
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What struck me most in conversations with several dozen volunteers, carpetbaggers and locals alike, was the almost uniform answer they gave when I asked if they had ever worked on a national political campaign: No.
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Abraham Lincoln" stepped from the gray Toyota minivan outside the Baltimore train station Wednesday, grabbed his carpetbag and leather valise and put on his stovepipe hat.
Abraham Lincoln rides to Washington, 150 years later
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What possible career was there for a freebooting, carpetbagging man of gross appetites?
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Taking the hatbox and carpetbag, she went back on the trail, a receding frail figure in a burgundy dress.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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If they really did not care at all, why did they bother to bring in a big-name carpetbagger to run in Ryan's place?
Obama Spokesman: No Candidate Has Been More Scrutinized By Media Than Obama Has
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There are a lot of carpetbaggers and scam-artists operating in southern Africa and by telephone from offshore bases.
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The carpetbaggers have given no business reason to demutualise.
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The carpetbaggers who streamed into the South for political and economic gain aggravated the wounds which the war had opened.
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Neither did Twitchell fit the carpetbagger mold cast by historian William Dunning and his followers nearly a century ago, which held that these men were ‘archetypical villains, lowbred northern adventurers who descended like vultures on the conquered South’.
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Thousands of carpetbaggers have invested in the building society, hoping that it will become a public company.
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Pombo can now add 'carpetbagging' to his long list of nefarious political qualities.
Pombo to announce new congressional bid
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In 1964, when he was a young liberal Democrat at Manhattan College, Giuliani wrote an article for the student paper calling the carpetbagging charges against Robert F. Kennedy "ridiculous.
Get Ready To Rumble
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Such states as had complied and given the negro the right to vote were under "carpetbag" rule.
A School History of the United States
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One problem for the American claim, is the term carpetbagger, means something else entirely, while in Australia it means only one thing, a steak stuffed with oysters.
Archive 2008-02-01
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As far as he's concerned, anyone participating in them is a carpetbagger, an allusion to exiled politicians whom he expects to be the regime's most prominent figures.
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The term refers to her "carpetbagging" by moving to Thousand Oaks and running in the 2nd District supervisor's race.
Ventura County Star Stories
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Quoting a song called "Mississippi" in a concession speech from Wisconsin: Is Feingold hinting that he might carpetbag southward for an eventual comeback?
Election 2010: A walk on the mild side of victory (or defeat) parties
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In Syfy's new series Hollywood Treasure (Wednesdays at 10/9c), auctioneer Maddalena travels the world to save the cultural artifacts from film and history — including the original Wicked Witch of the West's hat from The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppin's bottomless carpetbag — that have wound up people's garages and basements.
What's Become of Veruca's Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory?
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I mean, she is sort of his insurance against being called a carpetbagger, because she really is one.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Is Hillary Clinton Leaving the President Without a First Lady? - January 6, 2000
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After all, these people could not be portrayed as carpetbaggers or outside agitators.
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Well - that isn't democracy, but rule by local busybodies, tribal chiefs and jacks-in-office, plus a scattering of carpetbaggers recently returned from exile and supported by our bayonets.
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Still others maintain that he's a "carpetbagger" -- that he wanted to come to New York just to pick up a championship ring.
News & Politics
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after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
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We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials.
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Albert carried Sue May's hatbox and carpetbag, and I struggled from the first with my Samsonite.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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A convincing vote in favour of mutual status would have deterred future carpetbaggers.
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Still, local Republicans have to ask themselves an uncomfortable question: What if a carpetbagger is the best candidate to defeat Reid?
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He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known and, in financial circles, respected.
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Candace Chesterwood tossed a stack of silk handkerchiefs and a lavender pomade into her threadbare carpetbag and closed the latches with an authoritative snap.
FOR FASHION’S SAKE • by Fred Warren
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carpetbag adventurers
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In fact, he moved to Boston from Arlington a couple years ago, spurring whispers of carpetbaggery.
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British politics allows many more "carpetbagging" candidates (members that stand in constituencies where they do not live or have a history)
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A candidate in Kansas may score points by accusing his opponent of being a carpetbagger.
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Neither Royal Liver nor any of the other friendly societies has taken any action so far to deter carpetbaggers.
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In the 1880s the debt of $24 million, incurred under carpetbag regimes, increased steadily with each subsequent administration.
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I had always been convinced that previous building society carpetbaggers were being paid for their work.
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They say that they are not accepting members now because there are carpetbaggers coming in to get their share of the spoils.
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She praises the grit of her adopted city, barely raising the ire of the critics who had once lambasted her as a carpetbagger, using New York as a stepping stone to her likely bid for higher office.
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Obviously, the banks and the financiers and the carpetbaggers and everyone else in the money market sees this as a great financial bonanza potentially and it is.
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If there was any deception it was the way the highly organised carpetbaggers manipulated these polls to influence the outcome.
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He would have crushed carpetbagger (muncher) Hillary had he run against her when she first won the seat due to misguided NY voters who put her there out of sympathy for her husband's affair. gypsydaveywithablowtorch
Poll: Giuliani on top in possible 2010 Senate showdown
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I don't know what a carpetbagger is, but it didn't sound right.
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His decision to immediately depart that position and to "carpetbag" over from Burbank/Glendale over into the Eastern San Fernando Valley would not be met with joy by many of the voters who elected him in November.
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