Just about everyone from toll collectors, DMV clerks, game wardens, etc to all the bureaucratic nobody make work positions infesting every state agency are patronage hires. Everyone has what is colloquially known as a “Chinaman”, a political insider who ensures employment of friends and relatives no matter the competence or qualifications.How do you clean the Aegean stables?
The only way to make a change is for the state to be put into receivership, the management purged, unions eliminated and a complete restart of the government. But it won’t happen.