Sentences with phrase «appointed patronage job»
Anker's opponent, Steve Tricarico, said the super PAC's mailers attacked him for holding a politically appointed patronage job in the Brookhaven Town highway department.
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Jameson Doig, author of a book about the agency's history, Empire on the Hudson, says that while the Authority has always been a backwater of patronage, Gov. Christie took the practice to new heights, appointing more than 70 people — primarily those who helped him out in the 2009 election — to jobs within the agency, both high and low level.