Posted on 08/12/2015 8:54:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Environmental Protection Agency employees are supposed to work in a non-partisan way but that hasn’t kept them from donating more than a quarter of a million dollars to Democrats in recent elections, a Daily News Caller Foundation analysis has found.
Data compiled by OpenSecrets.org shows that in the 2012 and 2014 election cycles, contributors who listed EPA as their employer gave 90 percent, or $331,174, of their total federal campaign donations to Democrats, and just nine percent, or $32,891, to Republicans.
Those numbers may actually understate the number of EPA employees making political contributions because the analysis doesn’t include those who did not report the agency as their employer to the Federal Election Commission.
President Barack Obama, who has issued new EPA regulations equivalent to the length of 43 Bibles, has especially benefited from employee donations. In the 2012 election cycle, EPA workers contributed $167,000 to Obama’s re-election campaign.
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Cue the Claude Raines meme...
Government employees should be allowed to vote for, but not allowed to buy their bosses.
What are they worried about ???? 99% of the candidates both Democratic or Republican completely and totally support the EPA and for that matter so do the Supremes. Their jobs are more secure than a tenured college prof chasing coeds.
Who would seek a job with the EPA besides someone who thought that government was the world’s savior?
I think you could make a big step toward fixing this country just by saying that government employees don’t get to have unions, donate to campaigns, or vote.
Are not lottery employees, family members prevented from buying lottery tickets?
“I think you could make a big step toward fixing this country just by saying that government employees don’t get to have unions,”
Just stop the unions.
I aint ever goin to that site again..
I believe that mine spill disaster was sabotage. That’ll get 100 new employees for the EPA.
“Who would seek a job with the EPA besides someone who thought that government was the world’s savior?”
I know Conservative people who went to work for the EPA,,, as a resume’ enhancer. In future job interviews they could say, “I worked for the EPA. I know how to handle them.” Not that uncommon in certain fields, for instance, working at utilities.
I’d let ‘em have the option to union....For those entities that are Constitutionally authorized
So, taxpayers, whose $$ are thieved to pay for these illegal (see above) ‘workers’ (PLUS hefty benefits, again paid by...), turn around and ‘donate’ to the party of...BIG govt.
I’m not so much pissed off at the latter, it is expected. It’s knowing that, in the end, it’s *OUR* (my) $$ going to people I would never give it to willfully; hence, the obvious ‘answer’...
....and furthermore had no skills valued in a real market funded WITH the consent of those coughing up the dough, and therefore with some say in the results?
Gestapo
Marxist merry-go-round money.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE…438…here
https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies
pick 10, or 20, or 40 for a start.
Is there a way one can find out the annual budgets of all these “necessary” agencies?
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