NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, Eric Adams put each other’s girlfriends in top posts

This is kind of overt, but this type of stuff always happens. Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao was appointed Secretary of Transportation when Trump got in office. I certainly don't buy that the Senate Majority leader's wife is the most qualified on they could find. I remember when I was in the Marine Corps that Senator Tom Daschle's wife came to our squadron for a joy ride in one of our F/A-18's. She was appointed by Clinton to some post in the FAA and her ride in a fighter was supposedly some kind of fact finding mission.

Appointing the wife/mistress/child of a political ally is a time honored means of political graft. It's been going on since time began and is just considered a perk of the job by most politicians. If they're not in a political position they get put in a position in a "foundation" like the Clinton Foundation that paid Chelsea Clinton a million dollars a year. Sure it's crooked, but who is going to stop it?

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