The hits just keep coming.

A customer service representative at the IRS who repeatedly greeted taxpayers calling a help-line with a chant urging President Barack Obama's re-election in 2012 could now be facing significant disciplinary action, according to the Office of Special Counsel.
OSC, which enforces the law prohibiting federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity in the workplace — the Hatch Act — has filed a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board seeking disciplinary action against the employee.

It's one of three cases of improper political activity at the agency recently uncovered by OSC, according to a April 9 press release.

Under a settlement agreement with OSC, another IRS employee, a tax-advisory specialist in Kentucky, will serve a 14-day suspension for promoting partisan political views to a taxpayer she assisted during the 2012 Presidential campaign season. According to a recorded conversation received by OSC, the IRS employee told the taxpayer she supported Democrats and that "Republicans already (sic) trying to cap my pension and ... they're going to take women back 40 years."

Later, the employee told the caller, "I'm not supposed to voice my opinion, so you didn't hear me saying that."

Meanwhile, three career officials at Customs and Border Protection are under fire by OSC for allegedly manipulating the hiring process at the agency to install three job candidates into career appointments because they were favored by then- CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin.

Bersin, who previously served as former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's top assistant for border security, was appointed to head CBP in 2010. He sought to hire three people from his prior role, who had also worked on the 2008 campaign to elect Obama, according to OSC's complaint.

However, there were no open slots for political appointees at the time. CBP HR officials then "willfully engaged in improper tactics" to manipulate the hiring process in order to appoint the three political appointees to competitive career positions, OSC alleges — a practice known as "political burrowing."

In her statement, Lerner said the law has allowed OSC to be a "better defender" of the government's merit system.

I wonder if she is related to Lois?

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