Catchword: wheeling

Filed under: English, Money & Finance, Politics

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: In fact, he is a beneficiary of a process that allows party leaders to amass hefty contributions and then transfer, or “wheel,” the funds directly to a candidate’s campaign account.…Campaign watchdogs and other critics point to a troubling underside to wheeling. These flurries of transfers—often done in the final days of a campaign—allow wily donors to evade campaign contribution limits, they say.

Article or Document Title:
“Party leaders’ fund transfers aid senator’s rise”

Author:
Benjamin Lesser

Article, document, publication, web site:
Record

Publishing location:
N.J.

Date of publication:
Aug. 12, 2004

Page number:
A12

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