Sentences with phrase «patronage jobs like»

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In the dying days of Tammany Hall, Silver laid claim to this patronage law secretary perch, a job routinely parceled out to machine Democratic clubs like the one he had joined on the Lower East Side.

Sounds like you had a nice patronage job to me and everyone knows state workers are for the most part useless.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.