Like a latter-day Harry Helmsley, he is using the money for a buying binge of first-class office properties.

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They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place when I first came into office that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars.

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He insists on flying coach (his wife once sent him a drink from first class), and his office at the headquarters of Kaiser-Francis Oil, crammed with teetering stacks of papers, is fit less for an oil tycoon than for a math professor.

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