"It's an anachronism dating back to the old ward-heeler, patronage-based operation." ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)
Forty-seven years and no real employment record except as a ward-heeler in Cook County. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Not if one wishes to be considered a statesman instead of a small-time ward-heeler. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2008)
But Smith was rather too exotic in a number of ways, with his New York accent and his ward-heeler air. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Foley affair has been particularly vexing for House Speaker Dennis Hastert — a politician in the Tammany Hall ward-heeler mode that only 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast could have dreamed up. ❋ Carter, Graydon (2006)
WOODWARD: Well, I suspect, I don't know, but if you look at this, that Novak got his sources to come forward to the prosecutor and say, yes, we told this to Novak, but we did not know she was an undercover person at all, and that Novak has written that he used the word "operative" because that's something he frequently uses to describe any kind of ward-heeler or politician. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Telling half-truths and sowing confusion is the realm of the ward-heeler, not the servant. ❋ Randy Smith (2005)
A ward-heeler cadging votes for a Milwaukee alderman never wheedled more gingerly. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)
I guess I've been what you might call kind of an assistant boss pretty much all my life; at least, ever since I could vote; and I was something of a ward-heeler even before that. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
If you tried to vote some ward-heeler would challenge you and you'd like as not be hauled off to the lock-up. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
Alvord, and one or two hulking, mustachioed citizens of the ward-heeler type. ❋ Herbert Quick (1893)
In the thick of it he seemed to see the ward-heeler standing at his bedside and beating furiously upon a huge ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
"They've got my number," said the ward-heeler, in a convict whisper which was little more than a facial contortion. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
Even my local councillor, Adam Vaughan, who is a really good ward-heeler and a very bright guy, joined the chorus about 10 days ago, though he described his throwing of Mr. Pantalone under the bus and endorsement of Mr. Smitherman as more of "a frank and realistic look at the way the polls are breaking…you have to fight the election you're dealt, not the one you want." ❋ CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD (2010)
A big-time ward-heeler, myself, I am more than disappointed in this administration: I am now watching the Obama surge of voters disappear and preparing to get wiped-out in countywide and statewide elections as much by my own lawyer-ridden party establishment as by the GOP. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He is Carter II four days in ... a micro-managing, petty grudge-carrier showing his Chicago political ward-heeler roots. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Roger knows a thing or two about big city politics (and many other things), and he made a strong case that Obama is relatively non-ideological; that he is a typical self-important ward-heeler who got "nailed to the bow of a big ship," anointed to figure-head the plundering pirate ship which is the Dem party. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He's a California developer called Sam Zell, as profane in public as any ward-heeler, but he seems to have maintained the Colonel's tradition of not knuckling to the bad guys. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"ward-heeler;" and becomes quite sick in contemplation of these abominations. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)
