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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt looks like Kellyanne Conway broke a federal law on national TV again
Kellyanne Conway appeared Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends in her capacity as a White House official, but weighed in on the Alabama special election. Doing so appears to violate federal law, according to several legal experts and former ethics officials who served in previous administrations.
Conways endorsement looks like it violated the Hatch Act, a regulations that limits federal employees involvement in partisan politics. The rule specifies that an official may not use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.
Doug Jones in Alabama? Folks, dont be fooled, Conway told Fox & Friends viewers, appearing in her capacity as a White House official. Hell be a vote against tax cuts, hes weak on crime, weak on borders, hes strong on raising your taxes, hes terrible for property owners, and Doug jones is a doctrinaire liberal which is why hes not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him.
So vote Roy Moore? one of the hosts asks her.
Conways smooth delivery falters slightly. Im telling you, we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through.
https://thinkprogress.org/kellyanne-conway-hatch-act-8765987220d5/
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Lock her up!
Happy Thanksgiving!
spanone
(135,844 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)politicians publicly endorse other politicians all the time.
The COMEY latter makes sense because that was Comey using his position as FBI director to publish a bullshit letter to sway public opinion. But on the other hand if he said "i am endorsing Trump" that is okay isn't it?
I guess i don't understand where the hatch act ends and the 1st amendment begins....
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)if she quit and went to work for Trump 2020, then fine.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)You can not address mailers during business hours, while you are on the government clock.
She was campaigning, in her official capacity, while doing government work. She was on the clock, campaigning on our dime.
Firing level offense.
Takket
(21,577 posts)so.... during your free time......... it is okay.... but when you are working on government time (like repping the White House on TV) you are not allowed to promote candidates?
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)Conway will be on record, and there may come a time it will haunt her. It is so much better than letting the Trump clan act without any public notice. It's worth it, every.single.time
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)Nope, will never agree to that type of inactivity.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)An observation that nothing will come from an ethics violation, based on the outcome of the last one filed for nearly identicial activity, says nothing at all about whether one should be filed.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)Otherwise you would have accepted my last two posts that something is better than nothing. instead you constantly Interject with the negative futilistic negativism. It's all pretty transparent. You had more that one opportunity in this sub thread to state that the complaint should have been filed......and yet the go to fall on our swords is your go to.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)The thought that the complaint should not have been filed literally never crossed my mind.
In fact I filed (at least) two ethics complaints with the OGE against Conway in response to similar behavior in the past, before they changed the website to make it impossible to easily file a complaint. I posted something here about the first complaint I filed, as well as about the change in the website after the second.
But since your post suggests you pay attention to what I post, you probably know that.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)And you lived up to the warning......you lost this argument some time ago. You are a waste of time
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)and acknowleding what you said about how I constantly respond an example of me being insulting?
I've been responding pretty calmly and without a lot of emotion to:
1. Your inaccurate assumption about what I was thinking when I made my initial post
2. Your doubling down when I explained that wasn't what I was thinking
3. Your insistence that to have any credibility I needed to have responded the way you might have responded
4. And finally calling me a waste of time, and twice implying that you are stalking me (first commenting on how I always respond when - to my knowledge - I've never interacted with you before and now suggesting you are talking to other people about how I respond).
I'm not particularly fond of people imputing motives to me that I don't have - or make allegations that are generally untrue about how I have interacted with you - yet all I have done is to correct your assumption about my motives and inquire in a joking manner about why you are so cranky.
I haven't lobbed a single insult at you, despite your allegations to the contrary.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)...still at it I see. Yes, it's all insulting. And to top it off your attempt at turning this sub thread around to make yourself seem like a victim. It would be pretty laughable if it weren't so sad.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)The only thing I have to say about that and what it says about some participants of this site is;
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)closed for the next three years or until further notice. By order of the Prezident of the once great United States
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)bluestarone
(16,976 posts)it be refiled after we get control ?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)She obviously doesn't know, doesn't care, or doesn't want to follow the rules, I mean LAW.