It’s corruption personified: Keith Wright serves as both chairman of the Manhattan Democrats and as a lobbyist for Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. When Wright comes a knocking for a client, the carrot for Democratic lawmakers is donations — the stick is being punished by your own party leader.

Oh, Wright vows he doesn’t lobby elected officials — but it’s a proven fact that he lobbies their staffs.

Indeed, the firm lists him on legally required public-disclosure forms as lobbying the Legislature, City Hall and City Council, even if it now claims that’s only out of an overabundance of caution.

Reform-minded Manhattan Democrats are trying to force a county committee meeting to push a rules change to explicitly prohibit a party chairman from lobbying. For all Wright’s protestations of purity, this is party activists’ second effort to pass the ban since he took the Davidoff gig.

“Fundamentally a political party, particularly the Democratic Party, should not have a lobbyist as its leader,” rebel Lower Manhattan district leader Paul Newell told The Post.

A party leader has huge influence over who even gets a chance at elected office. The conflicts inherent in such a leader lobbying government officials are obvious — even if he never directly lobbies an elected. Just a name-drop and a wink is too much.

Cashing in on his years in public office may well be Wright’s best way to make big bucks, and it’s shockingly legal. But it doesn’t make cashing in on his party job reek any less. Democrats deserve a county leader they know isn’t selling the power they give him.