21.   Four years ago, Reilly orchestrated an aggressive Jordan campaign that focused heavily on attacking then-Assemblyman Willie Brown as an untrustworthy career politician.

22.   He contends that a political newcomer cannot compete with career politicians without spending significant amounts of money to get his name and positions known.

23.   Hagel called Stenberg a career politician.

24.   He is, in short, a career politician and has been one his whole adult life.

25.   He painted Green as a career politician, indebted to special interests, be they builders that contributed to his campaign or unions that endorsed him.

26.   He said being wealthy and not a career politician allowed him to be independent.

27.   He is convinced that his business successes make him at least as qualified as the career politicians in the race.

28.   He said he has no intention of abiding by the spending limits because that would put him at a disadvantage with career politicians with higher name recognition.

29.   His campaign director, Gary South, notes that if voters stick to tradition, the next California governor will be an aging male career politician.

30.   In Maine, she has kept a lower profile than Snowe, a career politician married to former Governor John McKernan.