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#MuhHatchAct: Today's Mockingbird Talking Point
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:00 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:00 am
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:01 am to VoxDawg
Was it a Hatch Act violation for Obama to do pressers with actors in lab coats to push Obamacare?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:02 am to teke184
Is this another situation where the left wants certain laws enacted for their enemies but not for them?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:02 am to teke184
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Was it a Hatch Act violation for Obama to do pressers with actors in lab coats to push Obamacare?
POTUS & VPOTUS are exempt.
https://www.doi.gov/ethics/prohibited-partisan-political-activity-reminder-required-hatch-act#:~:text=The%20Hatch%20Act%20generally%20prohibits,while%20using%20a%20Government%20vehicle.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:03 am to VoxDawg
at libs talking about funneling tax dollars. Those child rapers wrote the book on doing that
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:05 am to VoxDawg
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Except for the President and Vice President, all federal civilian executive branch employees are covered by the Hatch Act, including employees of the U.S. Postal Service.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:05 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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Is this another situation where the left wants certain laws enacted for their enemies but not for them?
Enacted? No. It's been on the books for over 80 years.
Enforced? Absolutely.
Remember, Biden, Hussein, Rice, Clapper, Yates, Brennan, Comey, et. al. held a meeting in Jan. 2017 in an effort to determine the viability of prosecuting Gen. Flynn on the Logan Act, a statute on the books since 1799 but never successfully prosecuted.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:09 am to VoxDawg
Crickets from these folks on the post office union endorsement. TDS
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:14 am to Tigers0891
Technically, I believe that the Postal Workers' Union itself isn't made of federal employees. It's a loophole, to be sure.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:21 am to VoxDawg
He can't keep getting away with this!!!
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:21 am to 3rdPart Tiger
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including employees of the U.S. Postal Service.
Would this include postal workers wearing a vest that says APWU while working?
APWU = American Postal Workers Union
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:24 am to 3rdPart Tiger
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all federal civilian executive branch employees are covered by the Hatch Act, including employees of the U.S. Postal Service
The why is the postal union allowed to officially endorse a candidate?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:25 am to VoxDawg
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Technically, I believe that the Postal Workers' Union itself isn't made of federal employees. It's a loophole, to be sure
So..... the postal workers union isn’t made of postal workers???
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:29 am to memphis tiger
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the postal workers union isn’t made of postal workers???
No, but those who work for the union proper (which is the body making the endorsement) is made of private sector individuals, and what can be assumed are former federal employees aka Postal Workers.
Again - loophole/technicality
Posted on 8/5/20 at 10:50 am to memphis tiger
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The why is the postal union allowed to officially endorse a candidate?
Because the union is a separate legal entity that is not employed by the federal government.
Same with the Border Patrol Union endorsing Trump. Not a violation.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 10:52 am
Posted on 8/5/20 at 11:04 am to VoxDawg
I don't know that giving a political party acceptance speech from the White House would violate the Hatch Act, but it would indeed be very bad form ... in that it would further blur the distinction between "President as leader of our country" and "Individual as leader of his political party."
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