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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3447768, member: 716"]
It's better than that. Nicotra's sister is married to Bill Ryan -- the politically connected lifer who was Stephanie Miner's chief of staff, served in a...ahem...newly-created position with the airport authority, and then got invited to work as the...ahem...newly-created position of chief of staff to the county comptroller after he beat that creepy self-sabotaging Republican incumbent. He can muster up a ton of Democratic support, especially on the North Side but everywhere.

I can't tell you how many people I bumped into last fall who are staunch Democrats but who wanted no part of Tony Malavenda and were instead supporting McMahon, who had inexplicably just offered a relatively senior position to Nicotra.

It's smart politics. It's also the sleazy small-town politics of everyone's related and nobody wants to upset the establishment. McMahon bought a lot of votes. And since the election, McMahon had to move Nicotra out of his made-up position and instead apparently found him a spot as the deputy commissioner of parks. So now our county is paying two people who have no qualifications to lead that department: Joanie Mahoney's cousin, a former corrections officer with no administrative (or recreation) background, and Nicotra, who can enjoy a decent salary and comfortable position now that his job of helping McMahon win election is over.
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