31. Of all the garrish shows of corporate carpetbagging in the college football bowls, this one stung like chlorine in the cornea. 32. In addition, the company has been running television ads touting SBC as the hometown telephone company, competing against carpetbagging rivals. 33. Clinton said the carpetbagging issue-she has lived in New York only a month-was " a fair question ." 34. The notion of Bettman as carpetbagging American outsider carries currency here, where streets are named for members of the British royal family. 35. Every NHL player can look in his paycheck today and see the impact of the maverick ( some might say carpetbagging ) league. 36. The Red Sox hadn't dropped three straight since falling to the carpetbagging Phillies from the National League June 22-24. 37. "I think it's a very fair question, " she said in answer to the inevitable carpetbagging query. 38. Seven months after coming to town as the controversial, carpetbagging owner from Boston, McCourt is firmly entrenched and firmly in charge. 39. In the end, according to exit polls conducted in the race, a majority of the voters dismissed the carpetbagging issue as unimportant. 40. In case you haven't heard, Ken Behring is the latest carpetbagging dollar hound who is thinking about moving his NFL team here.