It is really freezing a governor's administration. It's very damaging. These scandals always are.
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I've seen him far more tense. Whenever he has a formal press conference in the East Room or something, he's terrible. I mean, he's really tense and nervous. I thought he was relatively relaxed -- after that confrontation with Helen Thomas in which he let his real self show, that is, the self that many of his advisers see in private. Laughs He's known to have quite a temper and to cut people off when he disagrees.Larry Sabato
When you're worth a couple hundred million it's less of a problem than most people.
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It's very hard for governors to say they're on their own. Inevitably, there's going to be taxpayer funds involved in their social life because they're being guarded, they don't drive themselves, there's someone driving a limousine. Taxpayer funds are always used in one way or another, and that gives the press an opportunity to cover it.
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She has been in six months, and she has already had more controversies than the average congressperson does in a career. You never bet against an incumbent. But I tell you, in her case I wouldn't bet more than a nickel on her.
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It was really Katrina that triggered this because there was genuine outrage. It opened the floodgates. The media saw that the American public was finally willing to listen to criticism of the administration.
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It's a good thing for Richardson. What other presidential candidate in the Democratic Party would be called upon by an administration in a nonpartisan way to represent American interests in a dangerous place.
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