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They are a party of thugs The new tammany hall crowd.
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What a sad message that sends to younger kids. "tammany wrote," The irresponsible and frequently inflamatory posts in this thread really make me question the desirability of these comment sections ...
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Are some stereoptypes okay (the yenta, the cowfee lady, the yiddishy old Jewish man) while others are not (the grubby money counting market Jew, the greasy haired slick conniving Jew, the smoke filled back room tammany hall/mob Jew)?
Can we please not revive that ugly stereotype? | Jewschool 2007
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That's sounds more like tammany hall than anything else.
legitgov 2010
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January 21st, 2010 at 5: 30 pm tombaker says: think what this will do to local jurisdictions … tammany hall writ large – a little Boss Hogg in charge of every municipality across the land, all of them “on the team” of whoever’s buying the Statehouse, and in turn the “Big Bosses” who will “manage” D.C. (R-appointed) SCOTUS formalizes and endorses open corruption. send flowers to the National Mall. the funeral kind.
Think Progress » Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’ 2010
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