Indeed, educational administration posts were often political plums requiring little, if any, formal training in education.

No one who said he just got the job as a political plum for being a powerful fund-raiser for President Bush is saying it now.

In the past, the office has usually not been viewed as a political plum.

A town supervisor position in Nassau is one of the better political plums.

The post office moved about depending on which merchant was awarded this political plum.

There have been other political plums as well.

Being appointed Observer on Strymon is known to be quite a political plum.

Apparently the sheriff's job was a political plum, not then dangerous.

The salary was a thousand dollars a year, and the loss of that political "plum" made a great stir among the politicians.

The center had been created in the early nineteen-sixties as a political plum for Texas.