Door-to-door crowd-funded campaigns are simply not done in Romania, and Teleorman is known as "captive" PSD territory businesses, real estate, and contracts administered by a Dragnea-loyal political machine that runs it like a company town.
João Goulart, Vargas's young protégé and vice president of the Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro; PTB), was accused of using his office to transform organized labour into a political machine loyal to Vargas.
Morgan and those loyal to Castro pointed machine guns at the stunned fighters from the strike force.
Why would Democratic officials in Florida's urban areas provide their most loyal voting bloc with machines that don't record their votes?
With more and more unguarded IoT devices becoming connected to the internet every day, malicious bot lords are having an easier time conscripting new recruits into their undyingly loyal armies of zombie machines — and their next target can be your smart fridge, light bulb, kettle or door lock.
Emil Jones, the president of the Illinois Senate, retired last year; Mr. Stroger's father, John H. Stroger Jr., the county's first black president and, like his son, a loyal member of the Democratic Party machine, died in 2008.
That the uncharismatic Mr. Stroger, a loyal member of the Democratic Party machine his entire life, has become the unlikely champion of the grass-roots movement is a sign of how anxious a sizable segment of Chicago's black population is about the state of its political power — despite having Barack Obama, a South Sider, in the White House.
Apple is a company that relies heavily on convincing its already loyal users to upgrade their machines and that means generating hype something it didn't do all that well late last year.
What is fascinating, however, is that Kitson, while avoiding the publicity machine, clearly has a loyal, largely youthful fanbase.
Valve, however, has built up a loyal global fanbase and its Steam Machine models should offer excellent specifications as well as the company's innovative Steam Controller.
