carpetbagger

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Of course he's a carpetbagger, and he is blanketing the Hampton Roads airwaves with commercials.

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  1. noun A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage.
  2. noun An outsider, especially a politician, who presumptuously seeks a position or success in a new locality.

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  • The names of the two officers of the Fair Election Fund, the nonprofit PAC that laid out all that money on ads painting Clark Mason as a carpetbagger from Seattle. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
  • The story was the Cambodian leader wanted to get even with his Thai counterpart for acting like a carpetbagger in financing an attempted coup in his country. —  The Nation - Breaking News
  • Instant Editorial: Connie's "carpetbagger" label must go
  • In two years, without being able to ride the coat tails of Obama again, Franken will be sent back home (whereveer that might be for the carpetbagger). this quote from Sen. Harry "hell no, I won't let any black people in MY Senate" Reid: —  UrbanGrounds
  • Moran in particular notes the endorsements to portray McAuliffe's as a carpetbagger who hasn't paid his dues in Virginia state politics. —  News for InsideNova.com
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  1. So called because they carried their belongings in carpetbags.
 

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