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Igel

(35,300 posts)

14. Not say.

Reply to Grins (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:39 PM

Oct 2019

If 20/200, 1/10, are political appointments, and it's reduced to a total of 120 and the pol. appointees are kept, then the political folk are 20/120, 1/6.

Big increase in composition without any more political appointees.

They *may* add political appointees, but I didn't get that from the OP.

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Not say. Igel Oct 2019 #14

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