Although Daley has long insisted that machine politics in Chicago are dead, Tomczak described a Daley campaign organization in which high-ranking city officials doubled as political coordinators.
Promotions for water workers were based more on precinct-by-precinct election results than actual job performance, Tomczak said.
Tomczak, 70, provided jurors with a tale of his lifetime journey through Chicago politics and City Hall--from his first public job as a Water Department laborer to his admission last year that city trucking contractors gave him almost $400,000 in bribes.
It would also be sweet to feel an odd sensation against the right side of my butt, as if I was sitting on a big bump on my chair, and reach back and find that my wallet had magically been stuffed with $50,000 in hundreds.
The two events are about as likely to occur.