political machine

All pages referencing political machine in the public record.

• Two Eras of Machine Politics — From Tammany Hall to The Power Broker Detroit's charter school network maps to two historical models of American corruption. The Sabree-Kilpatrick era is Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall: patronage, court control, open graft. The Banks era is Robert Moses: never elected, controls through private authorities, makes himself indispensable by controlling the flow of public money to vulnerable populations.

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