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.
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 »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
When will this district stop voting Democrat? NEVER!!!
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 »