A Huge Government-Funded Information Filter Everyone knows a presidential election win incepts an avalanche of hires. Every one of the hundreds (thousands?) of Executive Branch agencies, commissions, boards and departments - get (massively over-)populated. Campaign staffers become government staffers. Old office staffers become new office staffers. State and local government bureaucrats - get called up to the big show. And, of course, there is the government’s perpetual Friends and Family personnel plan. Oh - and completely unqualified donors become international ambassadors. All of these are tried-and-true government awful-isms. What follows is one of which you may not been aware. And it is perhaps even more anti-republican, obnoxious and redundant than you are imagining. There are nearly