political football
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Some of the biggest increases are in West Coast cities such as Sacramento and Portland, Oregon, where growing homelessness has become a humanitarian crisis and political football over the past decade.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
The infrastructure bill is not a political football.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2021
On Sept. 1 Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled her administration’s plan to end homelessness in the city, a political football since Richard Nixon told his administrators to give homeless activist Mitch Snyder a building in D.C.
From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2015
Gaby also serves as the political football in the opener, which finds Napoleon coercing her to go over the wall in the name of the greater good or some such.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2015
In the East they were called "blacksmith-shop politicians, nail-keg economists, grousers and soreheads"; in the West they were dubbed "corner-grocer statesmen and political football players."
From Deep Furrows by Moorhouse, Hopkins
