Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit October 31, 1985, 84-1982, 84-2862 (Donna Shondel and Mark J. McKechnie v. Thomas M. McDermott Individually and as Mayor of the City of Hammond, Indiana)

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge,

concurring:

As to Shondel, I would reach the same result as the majority but by a somewhat different route. The “policymaker” exception to the ban on political firings was created because of the overriding governmental “need for political loyalty of employees ...