But the mayor is held in higher esteem than many elected officials across the country, who have watched their approval ratings nose-dive.
He helped prosecute mob bosses and their hired hands, but reading "Eddie Coyle," it's clear that he at least admired their language, and didn't hold cops or elected officials in much higher esteem.
The Amateur Comedy Club salutes our esteemed colleague Boine, who died February 4 in White Plains at 79. Elected to the club in 1965, he was a cherished fixture in many roles: video archivist, historically minded curtain speaker, dress code stickler, Green Room raconteur.
But as we've seen too many times to count, this basic esteem of real expertise is often missing in those elected to political office -- climate change being the most glaring recent example.
For example, the success in rural Cambodia was largely attributed to the existing system of formally elected volunteers who were held in high esteem within their local communities (Jacobs and Price 2003; Jacobs et al. 2007).
If our elected representatives show so little respect for those who serve our country, is it any wonder that they are held in such low esteem?
The issue of nepotism took center stage in the political arena in 1960 when President-Elect John F. Kennedy nominated his younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy, to the esteemed position of U.S. Attorney General.
Back in 1995 when he was a flamboyant musician with few political aspirations, Michel Martelly quipped that he'd dance naked atop Haiti's National Palace if elected president -- a move emblematic of many Haitians' low esteem for the post.
It may undermine the esteem of minority candidates as they would not be sure if they are elected on their own merit, or due to the scheme and the merits of the rest of the team of MPs.
I was elected by the people of our Commonwealth, by Republicans, Democrats, Independents and others, as was every single Justice on this esteemed Court.
