He'd come to the city hoping to find a political appointment.

The role can be a political appointment or a civil service position.

Nearly every other job - and there are about 7,000 political appointments to be made - is up for grabs.

One only has to look at the political appointments to the board to understand this.

So big, in fact, that it was recently made a political appointment.

Anything higher in government was going to be some kind of political appointment, and not likely to happen.

It was a political appointment and she would have to toe the line.

For more than a decade, she has had a state position that is considered a political appointment.

It's one thing for a governor to sell a political appointment.

Along with many other people I was absolutely against this highly political appointment.