Word: taylorism
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...Democrat Heath Shuler is unlike any candidate that Republican Representative Charles Taylor has faced in the past. Shuler is not only young and dynamic, but he's a local boy who made good playing college and professional football as quarterback. But more than anything else, it's Shuler's rural background that makes him such a formidable challenger. During Taylor's 16 years representing the mountainous 11th congressional district in western North Carolina, he has won reelection by dominating the rural vote against candidates from the larger area cities like Asheville. But Shuler, like Taylor, is conservative on many social...
...Maybe that's why one of Taylor's first commercials slyly tried to paint Shuler, 34, as being from out of state and not a local boy at all. Shuler did indeed play college and professional football across the border in Tennessee. But few in the mountain area seem to care about that distinction: they remember Shuler as the quarterback from Swain County High School. And it's certainly why national Democrats - including former North Carolina Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, who recently came to campaign with Shuler - think this is one seat they can win against...
...that Taylor, 65, faces such a tough fight, the race is getting predictably ugly. His campaign has mounted an attack ad campaign against Shuler, with the first volley fired over how Shuler failed to pay some $69,000 in taxes for a business he was involved in. "This is the same playbook the Republicans have used for years and no one takes it seriously anymore," says Andrew Whalen, Shuler's communication director. Whalen pointed to Taylor's own problems over taxes: widely believed to be the largest private landowner in western North Carolina, Taylor has had drawn-out legal battles...
...national level, Democrats have launched a coordinated attack on Taylor for being more concerned with the interests of the G.O.P. and the White House than his home district. "Congressman Taylor has been a rubber stamp for the President and the Republican leadership and in many cases he has been out of touch with western North Carolina priorities," Sarah Feinberg, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told TIME. She pointed to his recent non-vote during the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Taylor had originally said he would vote against the free trade agreement with Central America - which...
...Taylor, a banker and timber magnate, is one of Congress' wealthiest members. and the Democrats are also making an issue of his finances. In his 2005 financial disclosure statement, he listed more than $50 million in stock in Asheville-based Financial Guaranty Corp., a Taylor-owned holding corporation, and between $1 million and $5 million in savings accounts at Blue Ridge Savings, the Asheville-based bank he founded and still chairs; a land and timber partnership in Haywood County; and shares of the Russia-based Bank of Inanovo...