This is actually worse...it sounds like she BEGGED to be a part of the machine.
Why not say the machine BEGGED YOU to be in charge?
"For critics, those endorsements were a sign that Parker, who is the 50th Ward leader, was merely a cog in the Democratic machine and that her administration would be a continuance of the status quo. Harris said that narrative has it backward: Parker wasn’t hand-picked to run by the machine; she cajoled the machine into backing her run."
