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  • Obama's Springfield mentor Emil Jones - "an old-sytle appartchik … gruff, earthy, and a chain smoker;" son of a 34 th ward precinct captain and his bete noire in the State Senate, Rickey Hendon.

    John Bracken 2010

  • An appartchik for media control recanted years ago; GHeorge Orwell.

    Liberal Values 2009

  • I wanted to be represeted by the MP I and my fellow constituents vote for, not some twat picked at random or, worse still, some Labour appartchik who will toe the line.

    Nice 'work' if you can get it 2007

  • snaps one party appartchik who admires the controversial compromise stitched up between universities minister David Willetts and his boss, Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Hamlet.

    The Guardian World News Michael White 2010

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