1. Daley leaned heavily on his precinct captains, charging Kennelly with inactivity. 2. I got fifty-nine precinct captains and they all got assistants, and they all got good jobs. 3. More than six hundred polling-place workers and precinct captains were brought to trial. 4. Out in the neighborhoods his precinct captains are reporting to the ward committeemen, and they in turn are reporting to him. 5. Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss. 6. Some policemen worked as precinct captains. 7. Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember. 8. Then later I went to another ward as a Democratic precinct captain, where they were having a tough election. 9. To assure party loyalty, the precinct captains merely accompany the voter into the voting machine. 10. An exception is the marvelous Andrea Martin, popping up now and then as the brittle, blustery precinct captain. |