Honest graft and dishonest graft

Urban Politic Relationship With Urban Medical Services

Plunkitt’s Wisdom of Running Political Machines

George W. Plunkitt American politician from New York State, who served in both houses of the New York State Legislature. He was a leader of the Tammany Hall political organization. He was very good at running political machines even made great impact to the theory of the machine politics.

George Washington Plunkitt (November 17, 1842 – November 19, 1924)

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Definition of Political Machine Political machine, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.

Tammany Hall is an excellent example of a Political machine which was lead by Plunkitt during the late 19th century.

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Honest Graft VS. Dishonest Graft Honest grafts are actions that taking legally by the politicians to make profit for themselves while they were in power.

Dishonest grafts are taking illegal actions or even crimes to get profit which might create great damage to the city.

The Curse of Civil Service Reform Plunkitt believed that the Civil Service test for those individuals which would like to put their patriotism into their work would made those people feel disappointed. (Example: the Battle of the San Juan Hill)

Patriotism matters a lot to the workers’ attitude to their jobs. However, in order to reduce the possibility of making wrong decisions while in power or elections, the party need their workers to be as higher educated as they can. Patriotism could not handle the real political problems.

Reformers VS. Politician Reformers: Morning Glories which the show would not last for a long time since usually they were not well trained in doing political works.

Politician: Start their career when they are teenagers and learn about politics. Through the political training year after year, they would always be prepared and aimed on the most important points of the game.

Competition VS. Cooperate As a member of Democratic, Plunkitt also got jobs from Republican, most of the time he tended to cooperate with the Republican in the political stuff since he believed that “The politicians have got to stand together this way or there wouldn't be any political parties in a short time. Civil service would gobble up everything, politicians would be on the bum, the republic would fall”. He only fought against the republican leader during the election time, they were good friends that had different political opinions.

Danger of Dressing Suits Plunkitt believed that there are two taboos for a politician to do: dressing suits physically and dressing suits mentally.

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