Not if one wishes to be considered a statesman instead of a small-time ward-heeler.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Last Campaign Stand: Christopher Hitchens] Reference

Forty-seven years and no real employment record except as a ward-heeler in Cook County.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The Foley affair has been particularly vexing for House Speaker Dennis Hastert — a politician in the Tammany Hall ward-heeler mode that only 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast could have dreamed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The President's Delicate Condition] Reference

Telling half-truths and sowing confusion is the realm of the ward-heeler, not the servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think For Yourself] Reference

WOODWARD: Well, I suspect, I don't know, but if you look at this, that Novak got his sources to come forward to the prosecutor and say, yes, we told this to Novak, but we did not know she was an undercover person at all, and that Novak has written that he used the word "operative" because that's something he frequently uses to describe any kind of ward-heeler or politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2005] Reference

A ward-heeler cadging votes for a Milwaukee alderman never wheedled more gingerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Trail]

"They've got my number," said the ward-heeler, in a convict whisper which was little more than a facial contortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference

A big-time ward-heeler, myself, I am more than disappointed in this administration: I am now watching the Obama surge of voters disappear and preparing to get wiped-out in countywide and statewide elections as much by my own lawyer-ridden party establishment as by the GOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

He is Carter II four days in ... a micro-managing, petty grudge-carrier showing his Chicago political ward-heeler roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"ward-heeler;" and becomes quite sick in contemplation of these abominations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture] Reference

"'Don't you talk to me about tricks, you ward-heeler!' he hollers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Depot Master] Reference

A ward-heeler cadging votes for a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Trail] Reference