Yet Mr. Papandreou displays none of righteous glee of public crusaders like Rudolph W. Giuliani or Eliot Spitzer.
She is an Oklahoma native, a janitor's daughter, a bankruptcy expert at Harvard Law School and a former Sunday School teacher who cites John Wesley — the co-founder of Methodism and a public health crusader — as an inspiration.
After early attempts in Germany and Belgium to chlorinate municipal drinking water, a typhoid epidemic in Lincoln in 1905 prompted the public health crusader Alexander Cruickshank Houston to try out the first extended chlorination of a public water supply.
The details of the settlement were not made public, but Crusaders said that it had the "potential to benefit the entirety of the football family".
Critics have dubbed him "Emperor Garaufis" and have accused him of being a publicity-seeking liberal crusader whose imposition of racial quotas has jeopardized public safety.
Her campaign also released a television commercial yesterday that highlights her education proposals and paints her as a longtime crusader for public schools.
But as the upper chamber convenes in January, vastly changed in personality, if not politics, Mr. Patrick, the founder of the Legislature's Tea Party Caucus, has picked what some may consider an unlikely second act: crusader for public schools.
He is a lecturer at three colleges, an author of several monographs on climatology, and one of the great pioneers of public medicine, and a crusader for better living conditions.
Ethics in government may be a major issue in the campaign, especially if the Republicans nominate Christopher Christie, the United States attorney for New Jersey, who will try to present himself as a crusader against public corruption.
It was the contradiction between his public posturing as a crusader standing up against criminality — who embraced the nickname as "the Sheriff of Wall Street" — and the suggestion that he himself was involved in unspecified wrongdoing that was the focus of most of the commentators.
