Sentences with phrase «patronage jobs by»

Some Suffolk County Dems accuse Schaffer of being more interested in holding on to power and gaining patronage jobs by cutting deals with local GOP and conservative party leaders than helping his own party win state office races.

Sparaco was subsquently arrested in November 2014 by District Attorney Zugibe and dismissed from his second patronage job by Wayne Ballard under pressure from members of the Clarkstown Town Board.

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Three days before adjournment, legislative supporters of Vrdolyak livened up an otherwise mundane session by moving to preserve Kelly «s control over the park district and its thousands of patronage jobs.

Patronage jobs for relatives, personal holiday cards printed at taxpayer expense, and lavish weddings for the fair director's daughters were among the shocking examples of «flagrant, chronic abuse» detailed yesterday by a watchdog's probe into mismanagement at — of all places — the Great New York State Fair.

Queens sources say Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer is in line to land a plumb patronage post: The Queens County clerk job that was left vacant by the recent death of Gloria D'Amico.

Breaking news story reported first in the Rockland County Times on January 5, 2012 BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair -LSB-...]

The lawsuit said Hoyt used his position of political power, by being able to dole out patronage jobs, to «seduce, manipulate, sexually harass and sexually assault the Plaintiff without any repercussions.»

(WBEN) Inspired by a «Golden Parachute» deal for the current Erie County Water Authority Executive Director who is likely to lose his job soon because of a change in political patronage power, Assemblywoman Monica Wallace is calling for a limit on these types of severance packages at authorities across New York State.

Any budget that approves retaining over fifty political patronage jobs and funding slots for forty more political pals at the expense of over a hundred hard - working experienced professionals should not be tolerated by the people of Westchester.

After Astorino was elected county executive in 2009, a year when he was endorsed by the Independence Party, he accused Cavallo of seeking patronage jobs for members of his party.

There is, at the very least, the outward appearance of impropriety in the Ballard / Lasker connections that should be addressed, especially by those seeking re-election in a town where patronage jobs are one of the top issues.

Reda was replaced as the Rockland County GOP Chairman by Lawrence Garvey and Sparaco will depart his patronage job in Clarkstown at the end of the year.

Savino was the Bronx GOP Chairman when he was hired by Supervisor Gromack into a part - time patronage job for $ 87,000 as Clarkstown's Tax Certiorari attorney.

«While patronage jobs and political pay - for - play are significant problems in Rockland County and Clarkstown, this seems to be nothing more than hysterics by an overindulged brat who was egged on by a clownish, demented uncle.»

Sparaco is presently employed in the Clarkstown Highway Department in a patronage job provided by Superintendent Ballard.

The Water Authority has long held the reputation of being a haven for political patronage, with a patronage jobs determined largely by which party controls the County Legislature.

Nor was Lincoln so idealistic that he'd be opposed to using corrupt means to buy the votes, such as by promising outgoing, «lame duck» members in House of patronage jobs as soon as their terms would expire.

Urged on by his boss, perpetually exasperated Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) reluctantly sends out a trio of scalawags — wonderfully played by James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson and a curiously under - utilized John Hawkes — to try and buy the votes of lame - duck Democratic congressmen with patronage jobs and folders of cash.

In addition to brittle job security, administrative tribunals are tainted by rampant political patronage.