AX OP ED From:
http://divisionstreet.wordpress.com/tag/david-axelrod/
The Op-Ed is no longer available online, but I have retrieved it from a newspaper database in order to take a look. The abstract:
“A WELL-OILED MACHINE:
A system that works? Political debts contribute to better city services. By David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant whose clients include Mayor Richard Daley.
Fraudulent acts such as test-rigging are one thing. But if hiring of a qualified worker who comes recommended by a politician is treated as evidence of a criminal act, then [U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald]’s approach will ensure that only applicants without political involvement are considered.”
Axelrod wrote the Op-Ed in question just a month after Mayor Richard M. Daley’s patronage chief “was accused of systematically circumventing a decades-long federal ban on most political hiring by secretly directing top city managers to hire ‘preselected’ applicants favored by politicians and union officials,” as the Tribune reported
Another great literary work posted here by Ooh-Ah :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151959/posts
IF...Kipling Only Knew
If…Kipling Had Met Blagojevich ( by Rosett)