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[quote=Anonymous]When I worked at a federal agency here, there was a book known as the "Plum Book" which was stuffed with resumes of people seeking political appointments. Of the people who were appointed, some were well-connected, some were well-qualified (having worked in the private sector at high level positions in that particular field), and some had raised a lot of money for the campaign. In generally, the better-qualified people got the Assistant Secretary and Under Secretary jobs. The money-raisers got the Deputy Assistant Secretary jobs.

We also got a "speech writer" who was connected to a big deal in Congress, except he couldn't write his way out of a paper bag so us staff ended up doing the speeches for him.

There are also the Special Assistant jobs, generally GS-15s but by appointment not promotion. These tend to be younger folks, in their late 20s and 30s, without a long career record, who often seemed well-connected. And I will refrain from mentioning the details about one special assistant who, it was rumored, had slept with a key campaign person....[/quote]

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