public trough

The Harris campaign used all its scarce money to run TV ads depicting Cooley as a greedy politician supping at the public trough.

They are positioning themselves as defenders of the little guy against powerful interest groups lining up at the public trough.

The public trough has never been enough to support the institutional health of public HBCUs, many of which were birthed through the Second Morrill Act of 1890.

As one newspaper wrote of Pearson in 1961: “Regardless of party he went after the crooks at the public trough. He has been, in his day, responsible for sending more dishonest Congressmen to jail, for exposing more shady practices in our nation’s capital than perhaps any other single individual.”

“What’s so offensive to progressives is that you have corporations feeding at the public trough again,” said Jeff Cohen, a co-founder and policy adviser for RootsAction.org, one of the few liberal groups to flat-out oppose the bill.