So for people like my doctoral candidate friend, taking a cleaning hiatus is a bad idea.
The only other national environmental group that endorses presidential candidates, Friends of the Earth, the smallest of the three, is still weighing whether to support Mr. Gore or Mr. Nader.
The Washington Times notes that candidates' friends — like Rev. Wright or in Mrs. Clinton's case, Eliot Spitzer — sometimes have the effect of enemies.
He replied like a good politician, saying that he had put himself up as a candidate because friends and his own party had pressured him to do so.
But dozens of the candidate's friends, fellow church members and relatives describe a man whose faith is his design for living.
Mr. Liu's campaign also failed to report instances of bundling, in which well-connected individuals collect contributions for a candidate from friends, relatives and others.
Senator Joseph R. Biden, the Delaware Democrat and presidential candidate, said friends have urged him to talk more about surviving a life-threatening aneurysm nearly two decades ago.
Reporters also pressed him about when he would release a list of his campaign's bundlers — the well-connected people like Mr. Pan who collect contributions for a candidate from friends, relatives, business associates and others.
Mr. Liu has also failed to disclose, as required by law, the names of his bundlers — people who stitch together contributions for a candidate from friends, relatives, business associates and others.
Mr. Liu also failed to comply, The Times found, with a city requirement that he disclose the names of so-called bundlers — well-connected individuals who collect contributions for a candidate from friends, relatives, business associates and others.
