Mr. McCall has been calling for reform in Nassau County for years and has an intimate knowledge of its finances.
But administration officials acknowledge that they are sensitive to any comparison between Mr. Bush's fund-raising activities and those of former President Bill Clinton, whose intimate involvement in Democratic Party finances repeatedly drew the White House into controversy.
The Commerce chairman, Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, backed by the Republican Ted Stevens, brought up a bill that infuriates that part of the intrusion lobby: Hollings would require "opt-in" consent of Web users before any disclosure of their intimate data about health, finances and religious and political beliefs.
And courts have long involved themselves in the intimate details of school financing and in the administration of prisons.
In the long run, political analysts from the Democratic and Republican Parties say, Ms. Pirro's strengths could overcome any of her husband's liabilities, despite a trial that has provided intimate glimpses of the family finances and has threatened to implicate her.
Awkward Money Chat is an award-winning series where guests discuss the most intimate details of their personal finances.
I Know You Want A Big Wedding After The Baby, But You're Not Going To Have The Money For It Again, unless you have intimate knowledge of someone's finances, questioning them over a coffee date isn't going to win you any popularity points, at any time.
Mr. Berman, for his part, says his intimate knowledge of the city's finances is one of his strengths, and accuses his rival of spreading doom and gloom.
- Parents who tell you things that you don't want to know or ask probing personal questions about your life, e.g. about sex, finances, details of their intimate relationships or yours.
They portray Britain as Iceland writ large, horribly exposed because of its big banking sector and intimate involvement in the sort of global finance that has gone so spectacularly wrong.This is overwrought stuff.
