First a couple of quotes from long time California politician
Jesse Unruh:
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"If you can't take their [lobbyists] money, drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and vote against them, you don't belong here."
"Money is the mother's milk of politics."
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Originally Posted by wodin
I'm quite familiar with political machines, living in the bluest of all blue states, where the Democratic machine has been in power for decades.
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Political machines are not necessarily a bad thing for the people in their area.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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The implicit contract between the machine and voters is "You support the machine, and the machine takes care of you." Successful machines stayed in power because they kept their part of the deal and did try to take care of supporters. What I was able to see from afar following Daley's exit was that the reform slate didn't do as good a job of keeping their part of the bargain.
(My SO grew up on Long Island under a Republican machine, was involved in local politics, and intimately familiar with the process. The machine was not a bad thing for those living under it.)
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Dennis
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Machines only stay in power because people keep voting for them. I am of the opinion that people do vote in what they perceive to be their best interest relative to their
Umwelt. (My favorite expand my vocabulary word for the week).