{"id":35503,"date":"2005-05-30T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/05\/30\/shocked-shocked-that-patronage-exists-in-chicago-politics\/"},"modified":"2005-05-30T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T09:03:12","slug":"shocked-shocked-that-patronage-exists-in-chicago-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050530-12\/?p=35503","title":{"rendered":"Shocked (shocked!) that patronage exists in Chicago politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">NPR<\/a> reported on a startling discovery in Chicago: That government jobs go not to those best qualified to perform them, but rather to those with the best connections. Who&#8217;d-a thunk it? <\/p>\n<p> Shocked by this discovery, the Daley administration vowed to end it. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> The City of Chicago&#8217;s top lawyer Mara Georges told incredulous City Hall reporters yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4665091\"> the hiring system will now be completely fair, objective, and free of political influence<\/a>. &#8220;City hiring will be on the square, yes.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The Associated Press notes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-chicago-clout,1,4668487,print.story\">City officials have long denied that political favoritism or patronage had anything to do with who got jobs<\/a>.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/\"> The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> captures the sentiment quite succinctly: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/brown\/cst-nws-brown04.html\"> <i>Who knew politics as usual in Chicago is against the law?<\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR reported on a startling discovery in Chicago: That government jobs go not to those best qualified to perform them, but rather to those with the best connections. Who&#8217;d-a thunk it? Shocked by this discovery, the Daley administration vowed to end it. The City of Chicago&#8217;s top lawyer Mara Georges told incredulous City Hall reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-35503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NPR reported on a startling discovery in Chicago: That government jobs go not to those best qualified to perform them, but rather to those with the best connections. Who&#8217;d-a thunk it? Shocked by this discovery, the Daley administration vowed to end it. The City of Chicago&#8217;s top lawyer Mara Georges told incredulous City Hall reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}