Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (7424)	6/21/2006 8:00:03 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Could you imagine dating or being married to someone with such an opinion? The guys who do must have absolutely no self respect whatsoever.

To: longnshort who wrote (7424)	6/21/2006 8:26:49 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

To: longnshort who wrote (7424)	6/21/2006 8:46:27 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Court told machine tactic ( Culture of Corruption ) ( Democrats ) Chicago Tribune ^ \| 06-06-06 \| Dan Mihalopoulos and Rudolph Bush chicagotribune.com From the time Mayor Richard Daley took office, dozens of city department managers gathered before elections at the plumbers' union hall or other sites to get campaign marching orders from top mayoral aides, a former Daley loyalist testified Monday in the City Hall corruption trial. Donald Tomczak, a longtime Water Department official and veteran political operative, said he then would summon his top deputies to his office in the Jardine Filtration Plant to tell them which candidates would get help from hundreds of blue-collar city water workers. After elections, Daley aide Robert Sorich fielded requests for promotions from the political workers and tried to accommodate them, Tomczak told jurors. When Sorich rewarded his effective campaign workers by advancing their careers, Tomczak said, he thanked Sorich. But Tomczak said he also made sure to complain to Sorich when his campaign troops did not get what they wanted: "Robert, how can I keep this thing together if I can't get these people promoted?" Tomczak is the latest in a growing line of former Daley administration officials to detail systematic patronage hiring in the federal trial of Sorich and ex-city officials Timothy McCarthy, John Sullivan and Patrick Slattery. Prosecutors say the four were involved in a scheme to rig hiring and promotions in favor of applicants endorsed by the mayor's office, including pro-Daley political workers, in violation of a federal court decree restricting patronage.