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Brady warns Democrats: The issue is party jobs By Thomas Fitzgerald Inquirer Staff Writer Forget the wage tax, the downward spiral of the city economy, and improving schools. Republicans want your job. Philadelphia Democratic chairman Bob Brady included that warning in a pointed memo addressed recently to about 2,500 members of the party's city committee, urging them to work harder to reelect Mayor Street. Giving up control of City Hall to the GOP, which in recent months took over the city Parking Authority and the Convention Center, would "jeopardize" patronage jobs that Democratic loyalists hold across the city, Brady wrote....

Wanted: Someone to work flexible hours, relaxed dress code, excellent pay, state job. Governor's stepdaughter preferred. On April 16, 2002, Bambi Todd, the stepdaughter of Gov. Paul Patton, was appointed, despite a hiring freeze, to be "responsible for public information, strategic planning, training, and assisting the executive with the day-to-day operations" at the Kentucky Racing Commission. The commission said the post was "essential or of a critical nature to the ongoing operation of the program," when it established it three weeks earlier. But Todd didn't work the weekend after the Kentucky Derby, when the eyes of the world focused on...