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Explanation: only a few congressional districts have airports, but a lot more have bus stops & train stations. TSA are the kind of shitty patronage jobs that a

Explanation: only a few congressional districts have airports, but a lot more have bus stops & train stations. TSA are the kind of shitty patronage jobs that appeal to them.

schoen 10y ago
> only a few congressional districts have airports Really? I see about 450 "primary airports" in the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United... and there are only 435 Congressional districts. (Of course some districts have more than one primary airport.) I suspect most of these have TSA checkpoints; remember that there are much smaller airports than these, and all of these airports have scheduled commercial air carrier service! The smallest airports on this list that I've flown to, BLI, SBA, and CMI, all have TSA checkpoints.
rayiner 10y ago
It's not really a "patronage" job. Nobody gets their TSA gig because they know a member of Congress.
- tsomctl 10y ago
  It's the opposite way around. People that have cushy government jobs support members of Congress that maintain those jobs.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  Maybe not the screener people, but the Assistant Deputy Director of Management Services did.