At the same time, the minister's brother-in-law insists he was hired based on merit, and how could anyone think otherwise?
Senior leaders stress hiring based on merit in their speeches (though their own elevation usually has more to do with the dark political arts).These days the corruption allegation is a choicer method to destroy an enemy than the ideological attacks of old.
"Until our elected leaders in Albany get serious about reforming the board so that the people running elections are hired based on merit instead of political connections," he said at a news conference, "we should expect more problems like the ones we've had, more failures like the ones we've had, more finger pointing and more frustration and more headache for voters".
While he is Catholic priest, Verzé didn't impose religious restrictions on the research conducted on the San Rafaelle campus and hired solely based on merit, according to scientists there.
"We can hire and fire based on merit," he said.
Elizabeth Warren, the likely Democratic challenger to Senator Scott P. Brown in the closely watched Senate race in Massachusetts, released statements on Monday night from officials at all of the law schools where she has taught insisting that her hiring was based on merit, not ancestry.
Although such oversight is not routine, the judge has argued it would help ensure that receivers' hiring practices are based on merit, not on political favoritism or nepotism.
Reality: In the workplace, few hiring decisions have ever been based on merit only.
