Officials from the black car, livery and yellow taxi industries have united in opposition against smartphone apps since Uber's introduction, while many of Uber's users have accused the Bloomberg administration of sullying its self-professed reputation for tech-friendliness.
Their use by a candidate who has built his reputation on his professed integrity has puzzled, shocked and repelled many in the Republican Party who, like Powell, have known John McCain for years.
When his interviewer, weary of Chopper's reputation as a self-professed advocate for never letting the truth get in the way of a good story, reminded him of his penchant for telling tall tales, the 58-year-old responded: "Yeah, of course, right, but I'm telling the truth now".
Mr. Odom, a native of northern Nevada, professed love for his adopted hometown in an interview but acknowledged that he routinely invoked Chicago and its reputation for Democratic machine politics as a useful punch line when he spoke to groups on the road.
Throughout that time, he took great pride in the college's growing reputation for excellence, as well as in its alumni, which include 45 priests and more than 20 fully professed religious brothers and sisters.
Still, many professed optimism.
He was a professed socialist.
For all Saville's contradictions and professed difficulties, I am not convinced that he isn't secretly happy in what he describes as "the interzone between things", blessed with a reputation that enables him to ignore briefs and cause trouble.
Take Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the professed "steamroller".
The problem is the professed beliefs.
