Carr is not camera-shy, as fans of the old Carpetbagger Oscar videos can attest.

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The move has been seen as designed to wrongfoot the campaign organised by the internet web site Carpetbagger.com.

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Her Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, called her a "carpetbagger" because she had not previously lived in New York.

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The first was in 2009, when I wandered into Detroit as a carpetbagger and tried to help jumpstart the local economy.

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Rogers comes off as a carpetbagger who nonetheless inspires the Local.

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As more return and stay, they help shed the carpetbagger image.

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The buzz is now all about how best to obscure that she's a carpetbagger, and an especially giant one since she lives famously in a famous house in another city.

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This precludes the development of a British-style carpetbagger movement.

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