Sentences with phrase «campaign made hay»
The appeal comes after Norquist and the Long campaign made hay over Rep. Bob Turner's comments to Capital Tonight that he would be open to closing tax loopholes.
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One progressive Catholic group made political hay out of Santorum's weak showing among Ohio Catholics, emailing reporters a statement titled «Santorum campaigns on divisive wedge issues, promptly loses Catholic vote.»
Bantering with reporters on a campaign bus en route to Buffalo, he tried to make political hay of 9/11, saying that Gov. George Pataki, who defeated Cuomo's father in 1994, had taken a back seat to Rudy Giuliani after the attacks — that he had, in Cuomo's words, «held the leader's coat.»
Madel could make hay out of Greenfield's state - registered cash stash, which campaign finance experts say is a legal but hardly ethical way to collect contributions from real estate and other special interests barred from donating to his Council campaign coffers, thereby skirting the city's strong campaign finance laws.
The GOP was making hay of the incident, but something much bigger tanked Denenberg's campaign).
«For someone to question all that in the course of a political campaign just to make political hay — I don't take kindly to that.»
Smyth, while initially pledging to run a positive campaign and steer clear of the taped exchange between McLaughlin and his aide, has, in fact, sought to make political hay of the incident, featuring it in campaign ads.
There may be other events designed to highlight the resistance: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is pondering one to provide a policy counterpoint to Trump, according to an adviser, and has made political hay from bashing the president during his re-election campaign.