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carpetbagging

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car·pet·bag·ging  (kärpt-bgng)
adj.
Of or relating to carpetbaggers or their practices.
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Adj.1.carpetbagging - presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality; "a carpetbag stranger"; "a capetbag politician"
expedient - serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"


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He did the same with the 20th Senate District, edging out former Assemblyman Richard Katz and becoming the first Latino representative of a district that had once been a bastion for non-Latino, carpetbagging Democrats who kept moving into that district to seek office -- Herschel Rosenthal before Alarcon, and David Roberti before Rosenthal.
After talking to Iraqi organizations, Brahimi realized that the carpetbagging inventor of spurious WMD schemes and consumer of CIA subventions had virtually no support in the country.
In the last days of the electoral count, certain Republican leaders had secretly promised that if filibustering would cease, Hayes, upon becoming president, would withdraw the troops and allow the Carpetbagging governments to totter and fall.
 
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