All aboard: Relatives of embattled state Sen. Martin Sandoval hitch a ride on CTA payroll – Chicago Sun-Times

While Sandoval held significant power over transit agencies as the chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Transportation Committee, his daughter and daughter-in-law were hired by the CTA — after his son was hired by another transit agency, the Pace bus system.
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debtsor
4 years ago

When will this district stop voting Democrat? NEVER!!!

Astonished
4 years ago
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People vote their tribe. Sandoval is the poster-boy for the clannishness of most of the world’s peoples. Around the world, it’s considered NORMAL to hire members of your family over far-better-qualified people, both in private and public organizations. This is part of why the West became wealthier than the rest of the world. People are NOT the same the world over. We are genetically distinct from those whose ancestors spent most of the last 1500 years living under very different conditions. The people of Western Europe evolved social behaviors that collectively constitute “commonwealth orientation,” where nepotism and clannishness are inexcusable.… Read more »

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