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	George Washington Plunkitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924) was a long-time State Senator from the U.S. state of New York, representing the Fifteenth Assembly District, who was especially powerful in New York City.
		Plunkitt became wealthy by practicing what he frankly called "honest graft" in politics.
		Plunkitt was also a big party man, believing in appointments, patronage, spoils, and all of the corrupt practices that were curtailed by the civil service law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Washington_Plunkitt (316 words)

	Corruption as a Public Good \| Plunkitt of Tammany Hall : A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical...
		After all, Plunkitt doesn't see or doesn't admit to seeing that the robbing of public funds through honest or dishonest graft is what contributed to the social problems, like unemployment, poverty and crime, which for the most part put the needy and poor in their predicament in the first place.
		Plunkitt gives a frank description of what he sees as Tammany's benefits to society and how undoing this situation would be disastrous.
		PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL translates remarkably well a century after William Riordon transcribed the wit and wisdom of the ward healer for whom the book was titled.
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	George Washington (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief of United States forces in the American Revolution and the first President of the United States.
		George Washington Glasscock (1810–1868), early settler, legislator, and businessman in Texas
		George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family
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	What Tammany Hall Can Tell Us About Sacramento
		Plunkitt was a leader of New York's Tammany Hall and had a dim view of reformers.
		Plunkitt explained the world of politics in a slender biography published in 1905 by a newspaperman who listened to the great man at Graziano's bootfl stand in the old New York County Court House.
		Like Plunkitt, veteran California pols have used their training to dull the best-intentioned reformers, like Alexander, whose organization is suporting a bill that faces a critical vote in the Assembly Elections Committee on July 14.
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		There seemed to be a general recognition of Plunkitt as a striking type of the practical politician, a politician, moreover, who dared to say publicly what others in his class whisper among them-selves in the City Hall corridors and the hotel lobbies.
		Plunkitt is one of the veteran leaders of the organization; he has always been faithful and reliable, and he has performed valuable services for Tammany Hall.
		Plunkitt's Fondest Dream The time is comm' and though I'm no youngster, I may see it, when New York City will break away from the State and become a state itself.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/plnth10.txt (23239 words)

	Graft and Corruption in Urban Politics
		Plunkitt argues that many of the ward politicians and city councilmen he as worked with "have grown rich in politics." He states: "I've made a big fortune out of the game, and I'm getting richer every day." But Plunkitt doesn't see anything wrong with politicians becoming rich while in office.
		Plunkitt's wealth is coming from some of the very people he is supposed to be representing in city government.
		Politicians like Plunkitt don't like civil service laws; they want to place their supporters in these jobs after they are successfully elected.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/graft.htm (1889 words)

	DenverPost.com - Books & Authors: Chapter One
		Your practical statesmanship, which disdains to take George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or the soldiers of the Revolution or of the Civil War as models, has looked in some cases to Spain for your example.
		If we go back to George Washington, and ask what he would be doing were he bearing our burdens now and facing our problems at this moment, we would, of course, have to study his life bit by bit—his life as a soldier, as a statesman, and as a simple Virginia planter.
		Plunkitt's speech, far from endangering his position or reputation, seemed only to heighten his influence and appeal.
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	Glossary of People: Pl
		Long-time Senator for New York, representing the Fifteenth Assembly District, he was renowned as a representative of “Tammany Hall,” the corrupt Democratic Party machine which ran New York throughout the late 19th century, based on the support of poor Irish workers.
		Plunkitt was known for becoming wealthy based on what he frankly called “honest graft”; in politics.
		He was considered a cynically honest practitioner of what today is generally known as “machine politics,” and an archetype accumulator of “social capital.” He was especially well known for making money by speculating in land he knew would later be bought by the State.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/p/l.htm (1098 words)

	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		George Washington Plunkitt was a ward boss of Tammany Hall, New York City's political machine.
		Tammany Hall was under fierce criticism for fostering corruption in city services, and in fact, Plunkitt's transportation and general-contracting business thrived because of his political connections.
		But Plunkitt took offense to charges that all graft was dishonest.
	timmer.org /HISTORY_17B/Readings/plunkitt_of_tammany_hall.htm (538 words)

	Gilder Lehrman Center Index of Online Documents
		Fitzhugh, George, The Two Philosophies, Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society.
		Pinckard, George, Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition Under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby: Including Observations on the Island of Barbadoes, and the Settlements Captured by the British Troops, Upon the Coast of Guiana.
		Plunkitt, George Washington, On the Shame of the Cities Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.
	www.yale.edu /glc/archive (4709 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		George Washington Plunkitt was born on November 17, 1842 to Patrick and Sarah Plunkitt, immigrants from Ireland.
		The Plunkitt family, which included George, his twin brother David, and a younger brother Daniel, was quite poor and lived in the mixed African American and Irish settlement of Seneca Village in Manhattan.
		Plunkitt joined Tammany and went on to become the most outspoken proponent of rough and tumble ward politics.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=17075 (841 words)

	biography george plunkitt washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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	Steinbrenner Meets New Tammany - March 24, 2006 - The New York Sun - NY News
		George Washington Plunkitt, whose life and philosophy were chronicled by journalist William L. Riordan (in part in the pages of this newspaper's forebear), would approve of events in the Bronx in recent days.
		Plunkitt was a New York political leader at a time when the men who ran government did so not from City Hall, or the Albany Statehouse, but from a building on East 14th Street known as Tammany Hall.
		Plunkitt was the Tammany District Leader of the 15th Assembly District, and conducted his business from a bootfl stand in the New York County Courthouse.
	www.nysun.com /article/29783 (218 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		In a book entitled Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, which came out exactly 100 years ago, this son of Irish immigrants argued that some forms of thievery are simply more forgivable than others.
		Plunkitt’s parents, according to the New York Historical Society, were residents of Seneca Village, a largely African American/Irish settlement which sprung up in the 1840s and 1850s in the wild woods of what was then known as upper Manhattan.
		Kind of makes you understand why the likes of George Washington Plunkitt were not bothered if people looked the other way in order to get a break in life.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/columnists/Sidewalks/centralparkirish-050824.asp (680 words)

	Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George ...
		Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum — the New York County court house bootfl stand; Recorded by William L by George Washington Plunkitt eBook by BookRags
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		Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum — the New York County court house bootfl stand; Recorded by William L by George Washington Plunkitt
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	unbossed.com » Scalia: The Spoils System Rocks!
		In the famous words of Scalia’s hero, George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, “I seen my opportunities, and I took’em.” Clearly the words of the patron saint of the current administration and all the branches of government today.
		Plunkitt, who grew wealthy through his government service, was famous for introducing the concepts of honest graft and dishonest graft.
		It may well be that the Good Government Leagues of America were right, and that Plunkitt, James Michael Curley, and their ilk were wrong; but that is not entirely certain.
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	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
		Plunkitt was a king in a world that needed benevolent despots.
		Plunkitt reveals with refreshing honesty the seemingly rough and coarse manner with which one needed to play the game of politics in his town.
		Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt
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		Prominent aldermen, high-ranking municipal officials, even a mayoral press secretary have been accused, and in some cases convicted, of fixing city contracts, demanding payoffs and extorting bribes in return for jobs, and generally profiting personally from their positions of municipal authority.
		Mayor Harold Washington (1983–1987) used it to claim he had no responsibility for trying to settle the month-long teachers' strike that pushed back the opening of the 1987 school year by four weeks.
		He has maintained Harold Washington's initiatives in making Chicago politics and governance more inclusive as to race and gender and has fine-tuned the first Mayor Daley's idea of making the city's economic development its first priority.
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	Free Essay Warehouse.com - FREE George Washingotn Plunkitt Essay
		George Washington Plunkitt was a State Senator from New York’s Fifteenth Assembly District and was a political leader of Tammany for forty years.
		Plunkitt had a big influence in the politics of Tammany and was also a wealthy man by the means of what he liked to call “honest graft.”
		Plunkitt sets up his own philosophy, which also defines what he believes to be honest graft, “I see my opportunities and I took ‘em” (p.3).
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	Senator Plunkitt : Reciprocity in Patronage (1905)
		At the beginning of the 20th century the Democratic senator of New York (District of Tammany), George Washington Plunkitt, made a series of talks on politics, recorded by the journalist William L Riordan.
		In those talks he presented the grass roots and common sense view on politics, namely the fact that the politicians are elected in order to provide jobs and favours to those who have worked for their election.
		And it will be here sooner than they expect if the politicians don't unite, drop all them minor issues for a while and make a stand against the civil service flood that's sweepin' over the country like them floods out West.
	www.panarchy.org /plunkitt/patronage.1905.html (1009 words)

	School Work on Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
		William L. Riordon argues that, “George Washington Plunkitt said right out what all practical politicians think but were afraid to say.” Plunkitt offers many topics on political and practical issues in his series of plain talks entitled, “Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.
		Plunkitt also believes that in order for one to be a good politician one must study human nature and “act accordingly.” Plunkitt states that studying human nature includes going among the people and socializing with them to understand their needs.
		Plunkitt explains how looters go into politics for themselves and politicians, like Plunkitt, go into politics for himself, for organizations, and for the city.
	www.123schoolwork.com /show_essay/216868.html (255 words)

	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
		Originally published in 1905, this book is the collected wisdom of G.W. Plunkitt, ward boss of that infamous turn-of-the-century New York City political machine, Tammany Hall.
		Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (Textbook Paperback), by William L. Riordan
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		Georges Washington Plunkitt - on how the "machines" worked....
		What tells in holdin your grip on your district is to go right down among the poor families and help them.
		He comes up and sings, and he's a follower of Plunkitt for life.
	staff.imsa.edu /socsci/jvictory/pol_machines_progressives/plunkitt_howto.htm (306 words)

	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by William L. Riordon
		Who were George Washington Plunkitt’s constituents, and what did they hope to gain in return for their support?
		Plunkitt claims that he does not drink alcohol but that his abstention is a "pure business proposition" rather than a moral decision.
		Students should be able to relate Plunkitt’s attitude toward drinking to the role of saloons as social and political centers in working-class neighborhoods; textbook accounts of the temperance movement also note that prohibition advocates tended to associate the evils of alcohol with immigrant city dwellers.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /history/series/hc/hovey/mcdonald.htm (787 words)

	GDD News 08-Oct-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Bush era has taken government out of the hands of the hyper-qualified and given it back to the common man. This new breed may not have what the credentialists sneeringly call "relevant experience." Their alma maters may not always be "accredited." But they have something the intellectual snobs of yore never had: loyalty.
		Law returned to Washington as McConnell's chief of staff, and, six years later, when McConnell was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, he made Law the group's executive director, relying on him for help in vacuuming up campaign contributions for Republican Senate candidates and thwarting campaign finance reform legislation.
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	PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL
		[George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), long-time State Senator from New York's Fifteenth Assembly District, was for forty years a Tammany sachem and something of a power in New York City politics.
		He became wealthy by means of what he called "honest graft," but continued to hang on to political power because he enjoyed it.
		William L. Riordon, a journalist, published a series of interviews titled Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (N.Y.: McClure, Philipps and Co., 1905) which give the flavor of the man with disarming frankness-indeed, one might regard parts of the book as disingenuous.
	www.uhb.fr /faulkner/ny/plunkitt.htm (1929 words)

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