Sentences with phrase «offer patronage jobs»

The cause — the end of slavery — is unquestionably righteous; the means to that end — Lincoln covertly sending the founder of the Republican Party to test the waters of brokering a peace deal with the Confederacy and unofficially employing shady surrogates to offer patronage jobs to House Democrats simply waiting for their Congressional tenures to end — are more questionable.

Unfortunately, this has been a trend for the Poloncarz administration: instead of finding capable individuals, the County Executive looks no further than his inner circle in order to offer patronage jobs.»

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But beyond vowing to examine the budget for waste and inefficiencies, they've offered only general proposals to reduce police overtime, eliminate patronage jobs and cut outside legal contracts.