Forum:Smoke Filled Rooms

The update on Norman Thomas got me to thinking that we haven't resolved categorizations of various people on Government and/or Party payrolls. We have "Cabinet Positions" but "Assistant Secretary of War" like Thomas and FDR in the later SV books don't have a place there. Likewise, minor political types on government payrolls like Charlie Sullivan as speechwriter or Flora Blackford's secretary Bertha in Philadelphia don't have a category. These have a more personal relationship with the politician and so shouldn't be in Category:Government Employees. Steele's "Pain Trust" would probably also fit in whatever we call it.

Now we also have more political party types like Herman Bruck and Floral before she was elected. These two we classified as Category:Politicians which is a loose fit and then there is the discussion in Talk:Albert Bauer that was never resolved. This group could also cover people like Angelina and Maria Tresca who were secretaries in the Lower East Side Socialist offices.

For the Assistant Sec. types "Political Appointees" might do while we had discussed "Political Operatives" and "Political Organizers" in the Bauer talk page. That wouldn't cover the Tresca sisters though. "Political Party Employees" might do for them if we come up with separate categories for the two types especially since Bauer doesn't seem to have been on the payroll although he probably would have gotten expenses covered if they were for "Party Business". Oh and I also just remembered Caleb Briggs and Robert Quinn on the Freedom Party side where Briggs was unpaid like Bauer and Quinn on the payroll like Bruck.

Any ideas or suggestions? ML4E (talk) 18:43, June 13, 2015 (UTC)