• 19 Dec 2008 at 10:20 AM

Blaggo Breeding Ground?

On the jobs board of a Top-5 MBA program:

The Mayors Office Fellowship Program attracts bright, highly motivated individuals, gives them a broad overview of municipal government and provides a unique, hands-on experience.* Fellows participate in budgetary, legislative, and programmatic areas of city government and work directly with Mayors [sic] Office staff. Mayoral Fellows are afforded an unparalleled opportunity to learn about public service and policy-making by directly contributing to the executive office of the City of Chicago.
[...]
Fellows are paid at a rate of $20 per hour.
To download an application, please visit http://www.cityofchicago.org/mayorfellowship

[HT: LF]
*Oh, of this we have no doubt.

Comments (27)

  1. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM

    first

  2. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 10:37 AM

    This sounds like a very interesting opportunity. Any idea what kind of scratch I’ve got to throw Blago’s way to make something like this happen for me?

  3. Posted by ab | December 19, 2008 at 10:38 AM

    Umm…what exactly does this have to do with Blago? Because he’s from Chicago? And the city has internships???!!! What a pointless post.

  4. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 10:42 AM

    Thank god I didn’t apply to Booth, phew.
    - HBS ’09

  5. Posted by financialmarketjim | December 19, 2008 at 10:45 AM

    This guy used to work there.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m54bAfxgYPw

  6. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM

    Did you catch the report (from ABC I think) yesterday that Blago was a bookmaker before he began his political career?
    I wonder what odds he’s giving against his acquittal.

  7. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:03 AM

    All of the posts this week have sucked…what is happening to DB?

  8. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM

    Soon to be renamed Douchebreaker.com
    -El Whoro

  9. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM

    All of the posts this week have been fantastic…keep up the great work DB.

  10. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:10 AM

    i think its all the LNS crowd from DC posting this video.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m54bAfxgYPw

  11. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:13 AM
  12. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM

    Blago is governor, not mayor. I don’t get it.

  13. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM

    $20 an hour plus $100 an hour in under the table cash.

  14. Posted by ep | December 19, 2008 at 11:19 AM

    You don’t become Governor of Illinois without the Chicago machine, silly rabbits.
    I’m surprised I have to explain the humor behind attempting to lure MBAs from top programs into the Chicago political machine for $20/hr, or the connection to current economic and municipal-political events.

  15. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:21 AM

    Blaggo is a joker he went to the university of tampa and made is made out to pepperdine for law school. someone make an analysis of his pedigree, class, intelligence etc.

  16. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:22 AM

    Blaggo is a joker he went to the university of tampa and made is made out to pepperdine for law school. someone make an analysis of his pedigree, class, intelligence etc.

  17. Posted by Bess Levin | December 19, 2008 at 11:33 AM

    “All of the posts this week have sucked…what is happening to DB?”
    – and yet you kept reading and commenting through Friday? What a trooper (cocksucker) you are.
    “Soon to be renamed Douchebreaker.com
    -El Whoro”
    – While it was much appreciated, UBS employees up in Stamford should probably be focused on keeping their jobs rather than taking the time to come up with super clever quips like the above.

  18. Posted by ab | December 19, 2008 at 11:37 AM

    @ep
    “You don’t become Governor of Illinois without the Chicago machine, silly rabbits.”
    Heard of George Ryan?

  19. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:38 AM

    And, for the first person who plans to claim Bess is wrong for calling out the asshole by firm name, pre-emptively fuck yourself.

  20. Posted by ab | December 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM

    @ep
    “You don’t become Governor of Illinois without the Chicago machine, silly rabbits.”
    Heard of George Ryan?

  21. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 11:57 AM

    @18 (and @20 dupe post) George Ryan, although Republican, was very much the “machine” candidate as he was running against Walter Netsch who was considered to be a “lakefront liberal” reformer. The centerpiece of Ryan’s platform was a $10 billion roads and infrastructure program which any Chicagoan knows gets the “machine” guys salivating.

  22. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM

    @17 Busted. She knows your IP, fool!

  23. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 12:08 PM

    Blago has one g, there, I said it.

  24. Posted by ab | December 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    @21
    Check your sources. Pretty sure Walter Netsch never ran for anything. And the actual candidate (Glenn Poshard) was supported by Daley (i.e. the “machine”).

  25. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM

    $20/hour * 100 hour week * 52 weeks = $104,000
    Looks a lot like IBD associate money in a zero bonus year

  26. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 12:18 PM

    Blago went to Pepperdine and got a J.D.? Wow, that’s something to makes EP jealous since she was probably rejected and that’s why she hates California so much.
    Notable faculty there:
    Ken Starr (Dean of the Law School)
    Other former visiting faculty:
    Sam Alito
    Antonin Scalia
    William Rehnquist
    So that’s his breeding ground, a wingnut breeding machine! Very interesting.

  27. Posted by guest | December 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM

    @24, 21 here. You’re right, the Dem candidate in the prior election to Ryan’s first term was Dawn Clark Netsch , Walter’s wife. Agreed that Daley didn’t officially cross party lines but the machine guys knew Ryan was really their guy.

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