"I know it has to come, and the mechanical machines have served the city well, but the city and its voters deserve a more modern machine".
The Tory faithful and the rightwing press will struggle to stomach a promised referendum on the voting system, tinkering with a first-past-the-post machine that has served them so well, if not now then over the last century.
professional, has served ably.
Mr. Paterson took his place naturally in the Albany political hierarchy, as his father, Basil A. Paterson, was a duke in Harlem's powerful Democratic machine and had served as New York's secretary of state.
Everywhere you looked, there were party pictures, little donkeys, and dream-catchers, and every surface was spackled with dried wax, from a wax-spewing candle-making machine that had served as another entertainment for the participants.
The men, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, both of Nigerian descent, face murder charges in the May 22 death of the soldier, Lee Rigby, 25, a military drummer and machine-gunner who had served with British forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Twenty-four hours after the attack, with Britain still reeling with shock at its sheer brutality, the victim was identified as a 25-year-old army bandsman and machine-gunner, Lee Rigby, who had served in Afghanistan and was the father of a 2-year-old boy.
While these have served the machine well it was accepted that they might not be suitable when operating MAST to its full potential.
Pity Todd Stroger, the embattled Cook County Board chief who, having served the machine faithfully by protecting its patronage jobs, is now being tossed under the bus as voters turn their ire on tax-happy politicians.
