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wheeling n. The best bill in the whole bunch is A-1660, a comprehensive measure the Senate passed last year. It covers all levels of government and eliminates the back-channel practice known as “wheeling,” which lets contributors skirt limits as counties transfer money back and forth. [English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

wheeling n. Kean and Lance said the Democratic proposals don’t address the practice of “wheeling” whereby contributors “launder” contributions by making them to a different county political organization, which in turn donate the money to the contributor’s county organization. [English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

wheeling n. Freeholder Amy H. Handlin, who in recent months has emerged as an advocate for government reform, and Monmouth County Republican Party Chairman William Dowd both said yesterday that the practice of “wheeling”—in which money collected elsewhere in the state is used in Monmouth County campaigns—must be addressed first by the Legislature. [New Jersey English Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2005)

wide stance n. You can easily win any argument with a rightwinger now simply by accusing them of “taking the Republican Wide Stance” on any issue when they spew the talking points. The best thing about this counter propoganda is, they handed it to the left on a silver platter. [English Politics New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2007)

wine track n. That’s because Maryland, said Thomas Schaller, associate professor of political science at University of Maryland Baltimore County, has become a “wine track” state, similar to California, New Jersey and Connecticut, where incomes are high, people are well-educated and the electorate is less concerned about race. (He distinguishes Maryland from “beer track” states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.) [English Politics Jargon New or Nonce] [full cite] (Nov. 9, 2008)

wisdom of repugnance n. Professor Nussbaum is certainly right that feelings of disgust, like feelings of shame, are extra- if not irrational: we don’t argue ourselves into disgust or shame: we feel it immediately. Professor Nussbaum is deeply suspicious of those feelings. She sharply criticizes the physician-philosopher Leon Kass for advocating the “wisdom of repugnance”—the wisdom of disgust and revulsion—because our disgust might be misplaced. [English Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2004)

wise persons’ panel n. Canada is the only country in the industrialized world without national securities regulation. The current patchwork system is a throwback to the days when financial markets dealt mainly with local companies, operating mainly in one province. The “wise persons’ panel” on securities regulation, as it was called, noted that almost a third of the firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange now operate in all 10 provinces. [English Politics Jargon] [full cite] (May. 14, 2006)

woolly booger n. Ms. Peltier has been just as determined to read every word of the legislation that crosses her desk, often to the consternation of fellow members, to keep anyone from sneaking a “woolly booger” past the House. “I get up at 3 a.m. to read the bills, and that’s true,” she said. [Oklahoma English Politics] [full cite] (May. 17, 2007)

woolly booger n. “Right to work is a chamber of commerce woolly booger designed to confuse the public,” said Rep. Don Ross, D-Tulsa. [Oklahoma English Politics Slang] [full cite] (May. 17, 2007)

woolly-booger n. Smithson, also a retired state trooper, called Roan’s amendment a “woolly-booger,” a colloquial term for last-minute language inserted in a bill that has far-reaching impact. “He’s a very sharp House member, and he saw an opportunity to get a woolly-booger right in the middle of this bill,” said Smithson. “Nobody bothered to read it because it was a clean-up bill.” [English Politics] [full cite] (May. 16, 2007)

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