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KELLYANNE CONWAY AND THE HATCH ACT
Powerline ^ | 06/14/19

Posted on 06/14/2019 5:09:45 PM PDT by Liberty7732

Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway stands accused of violating the Hatch Act. The alleged violations consist mostly of comments Conway made on various news shows disparaging certain Democratic candidates such as Joe Biden, Cory Booker, and Elizabeth Warren.

I very much doubt that the Hatch Act was intended to bar the president’s political advisers from criticizing potential opponents. The Office of Special Counsel (not to be confused with Robert Mueller’s former shop) is the outfit that found Conway guilty of Hatch Act violations and said she should be removed from her job. It describes the purposes of the Act as “to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.”

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1 posted on 06/14/2019 5:09:45 PM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

I’ll bet this is a holdover from the Obama nightmare.


2 posted on 06/14/2019 5:12:54 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Liberty7732

Is there a law that can stop her husband from talking?


3 posted on 06/14/2019 5:19:49 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: Liberty7732
This is an Alinsky move by the Left.

They've already went after McConnell.

They are trying to pick off Trump loyalists one by one.

4 posted on 06/14/2019 5:20:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: Liberty7732

Ignore them. She speaks for the president. To criminalize speaking for the president is beyond silly.


5 posted on 06/14/2019 5:24:21 PM PDT by marron
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6 posted on 06/14/2019 5:24:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: CMailBag

It’s a holdover from the Bush nightmare.

The fact that that woman sits on the FEC still, 12 years after her term expired, is a major scandal in and of itself.

One which Trump and the Senate should correct in full, immediately.


7 posted on 06/14/2019 5:25:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Tired of Taxes

She probably wishes there was a law that could stop him from eating.


8 posted on 06/14/2019 5:33:25 PM PDT by cdcdawg (How do you say "At least we aren't speaking German" in Spanish?)
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To: Liberty7732

The President should say “Kellyanne, you can keep your job on one condition. DUMP that loser husband of yours.” Why not leverage the situation?


9 posted on 06/14/2019 5:37:13 PM PDT by Trumpnado2016 (Welcome to Trump World.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

“Is there a law that can stop her husband from talking?”

George Conway has an unusual antagonism to Mr. Trump. It’s unusual, and I sure hope it’s not for the usual reason.


10 posted on 06/14/2019 5:47:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Liberty7732

This does seem like pretty small potatoes.


11 posted on 06/14/2019 5:52:56 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: CMailBag
The Office of Special Counsel

Never heard of this, can't be an executive functions.

12 posted on 06/14/2019 6:04:18 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever!)
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To: Liberty7732

ZER044’s operatives Kathleen Sebilius & Julian Castro got political too & all was forgiven by Democrats.
Once again, the rules are always different for lunatic liberals.


13 posted on 06/14/2019 6:28:20 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: thoughtomator
In May 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Henry Kerner to become Special Counsel at the United States Office of Special Counsel.

He spent 20 years as a prosecutor in California before becoming staff director for U.S. Senator John McCain at the United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The FEC is not the United States Office of Special Counsel. You must be referring to Ellen L. Weintraub.

14 posted on 06/14/2019 7:23:59 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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15 posted on 06/14/2019 7:41:04 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Liberty7732

The Hatch Act was never meant to apply to Political advisers, or to Presidential appointees that serve at the pleasure of the President.

It was always recognized that these are political appointments, not based on merit by exam or other preference.


16 posted on 06/15/2019 1:23:58 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Not yet - but when there is, it can stop all of us from talking....careful what you wish for...


17 posted on 06/15/2019 4:34:23 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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when there is, it can stop all of us from talking....careful what you wish for...

True. We must protect our rights to free speech.

Maybe we can make just a small change to the First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, except for George Conway, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

18 posted on 06/15/2019 2:37:14 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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Yeah - it takes a bit of twisting for each of us to get his own personal way...but in George Conway’s (and I might have added the press in with him), I’m OK with it.....making me a “kinda-sorta Constitutionalist”....might have to change my mind.......


19 posted on 06/16/2019 4:03:05 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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