Moses equated the new anti-Tammany coalition with old Tammany corruption

Evidence

As for the Farley-Flynn candidate, Moses said, he was a “pious fraud” whose attempt to portray himself as a reformer would forever be known in the city’s history as “the strange interlude of ‘Holy Joe’ McKee.” Electing McKee mayor, and thereby giving power to Farley and Flynn, would bring to City Hall only “another kind of Tammany.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1586

Categorization

• SEED: Moses’ line that machine politics is invariant across party labels — ‘the same old McCooey’ bridging two dynasties — points toward an article about the fungibility of urban political machines across eras.
• XREF: connects to: Decades of anti-Tammany rhetoric vanished when Moses needed the machine — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2974; Tammany government was driven by greed, not will to help — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1448