Sentence examples for ward-heeler from inspiring English sources

Then too, the old political culture, the ward-heeler ways of Newark and Jersey City and Camden, has been slow to dissipate.

The exchange, sounding like dialogue from the Bada Bing club, provides a window into the ward-heeler mentality that has come to afflict too much of the bureaucracy during the Bush administration.

Surely, Senator McConnell — long an outspoken opponent of campaign-finance reform — can't mean to block a vital new law of the land in order to champion a discredited ward-heeler.

Then there is the apparent nepotism, the dozens if not hundreds of mundane emails in which petitioners for this or that plum Washington job or high-profile academic appointment politely appeal to Podesta – the ward-heeler of the meritocratic elite – for a solicitous word whispered in the ear of a powerful crony.

Not if one wishes to be considered a statesman instead of a small-time ward-heeler.

But when he talked about the how, rather than the why, he could sound more like a ward heeler.

As a community organizer, Obama led a protest against Jones, and in his memoir he unflatteringly describes him as an "old ward heeler".

He is, after all, a lifelong insider who, with his squat frame and bulbous nose, looks more like a 1950s ward heeler than an archetypal president.

He made it clear that the issue was not Mr. Burris's qualifications, but Gov. Blagojevich's standing as a desperate ward heeler who's lost all credibility.

Bill's transition from elder statesman, leader of his party and bipartisan ambassador to ward heeler and hatchet man has been seamless — and seamy.

McGuinnes entered politics at the age of eight, wher he became a ward heeler for Senator Pat McCarren, then the boss of Greenpoint.