#patronagesystem — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #patronagesystem, aggregated by home.social.
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Critics saw the move as a throwback to the #corrupt 19th-century #PatronageSystem, when all #federal #jobs were #partisan spoils rather than based on #merit. #Congress ended that system with a series of #CivilService #laws dating back to the Pendleton Act of 1883. Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of #GovernmentEmployees, described #ScheduleF as “the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes.”