But what was perceived as his imperious manner and numerous missteps in his 300-lawyer office hurt his re-election chances.
"No one is in office to hurt people.
And they worry that a feud between the Senate and the governor's office could hurt their chances in November.
There is also the political damage that he can continue to do by remaining in office — even hurting the A.N.C.'s chances of winning next year's election.
For her, the workplace never updated beyond the 60s: "a little sexual tension in the office never hurt anyone," she wrote in 1991, when the US judge Clarence Thomas faced harassment charges.
But it was marketed as an action movie and it didn't do big box office, which hurt, because it looked like we'd made a big failure of an action movie, whereas in actual fact it's a true-life story of a guy who was a drug addict, reformed, became a born-again Christian and ended up building an orphanage in Sudan.
Rudolph W. Giuliani has been lauded worldwide for his stalwart leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the judge handling the former mayor's divorce case suggested yesterday that he had been less laudable in his private life and that his years in office had hurt his relationship with his children.
Also, a five-minute dance party in the office never hurt anybody.
Six months ago, Republicans were already worrying their failure to pass any major legislation by Donald Trump's 100th day in office could hurt them in the 2018 midterm elections.
But since it's the holiday season -- full of spiked-nog-infused lapses in judgment, gift-induced hurts, office party pitfalls and inter-familial tensions -- odds are good that you'll have to apologize for something in the coming days.
That rift, where the unions could be played off against each other in various Senate offices, really hurt our efforts to hold the center.
