For obvious reasons, Todd Stroger is an easy target for critics of patronage hiring and public waste. But it’s not like he’s the only elected official who’s hired political allies and relatives for jobs that don’t always add up as necessary to outside observers.

Among the 220 employees on the staff of Cook County Recorder of Deeds Eugene Moore is his son, Eric, listed in payroll records as an administrative assistant paid about $53,000 a year. But according to other records and a spokesman for the recorder’s office, Eric Moore spends his days transporting documents and computer equipment from the county building to the recorder’s five suburban branches.