| A candidate in Kansas may score points by accusing his opponent of being a carpetbagger. |
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| The radicals soon made Spencer one of Alabama's first post-bellum U.S. senators, and he became the classic carpetbagger. |
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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 two biggest hurdles executives entering politics face is being viewed as either a carpetbagger or egomaniac. |
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| He was told that he was a carpetbagger, but he desperately wanted to serve the people, as I do. |
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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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| But many Newarkers saw Mr Booker as a carpetbagger, as not black enough, or as too close to Wall Street. |
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| Though his new home is barely an hour's drive south, that practically makes him a carpetbagger by local standards: a huge weakness. In this section Will there always be a New Orleans? |
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| He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard or Deliverance. |
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| A carpetbagger who wants the Nationwide to demutualise yesterday failed to be elected to the building society's board. |
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