#carpetbagging

Right-wing nutjob Glenn Grothman to carpetbag into 6th Congressional District to run in GOP primary against Tom Petri

Glenn Grothman, the #2 Republican in the Wisconsin State Senate, announced that he will attempt a primary challenge to Republican Congressman Tom Petri in the 6th Congressional District of Wisconsin despite the fact that Grothman’s hometown of West Bend is located about 15 miles or so outside the congressional district.

While Petri is a corrupt incumbent who has financial ties to military truck…

Is Sean Eldridge a political wunderkind or carpetbagging brat? Either way, he's running for Congress. --> http://voc.tv/15Q3Dg7

The dapper and charismatic gay marriage activist, who recently announced his first bid for political office, certainly hopes so. Married to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Eldridge is sparing no expense in his unlikely campaign to represent a largely rural Congressional district in upstate New York. But with Hughes’ seemingly bottomless wallet at his disposal, could Eldridge actually pull it off?

The social media universe that Eldridge’s husband helped to conceive is not so sure.

Hughes and Eldridge have made no secret of their intention to use Hughes’ astronomical wealth to win Eldridge a congressional seat — and in 2011 they purchased a $5 million, 80-acre estate in New York’s Hudson Valley, in the quaint hamlet of Garrison. Eldridge originally pondered a bid for a seat there, but when that prize seemed unattainable, he looked northward to a nearby town, Shokan. It was there that the couple purchased a $2 million dollar contemporary home and where Eldridge is now running for office — a  move which has elicited accusations of carpetbagging.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but lately I feel suffocated by cultural carpetbagging.  Privileged people from up North, apparently ashamed of their own culture, keep coming to the South to make a living pimping mine out and selling it back to me. 

If you organize an event around traditional Southern music, dance, crafts, or other folk arts, how DARE you refuse to include practitioners of those arts who are actually from the region?