The following program has words that were once banned in Boston as they say,

no not Bucky Dant or Manhattan clam chowder, much worse words than that.

It's Monday, August 31st, 2020, from slated to the gist I might pesca.

Hey, is it okay if I do care about the Hatch Act?

Insofar as it is an act, which, when passed, became a law,

and the White House violated the law. I know we're not supposed to care

because, you know, triage precedent and it just simply isn't done.

The idea being that people should be elected on their public service, not their political service,

but in 1993, the act was, well, loosened somewhat so that it gave government employees

a little more speech rights and involvement rights. Still, some offices are more restricted

than others. The FBI, for example, is much more restricted than, say, the president and the

vice president because the FBI were much more concerned, apparently, about them being impartial,

than we are about the president and the vice president. But the reality is the Hatch Act,

rarely enforced and even more rarely prosecuted.

That was Denny Savalos on MSNBC. True, but sad. Here's my case for caring about

the fact that the administration clearly violated the law in the four days of the RNC.

And I know it's past days ago, although the law has a statute of limitations more than a week

unlike our national consciousness. But my case for caring that the president's administration

violated the law is that the president's administration violated the law. I'm not even talking

about the president himself or the vice president himself, and there are exceptions in the Hatch Act

for statements they make. I'm not talking about them using the White House as a backdrop,

necessarily. What I'm talking about is that everyone else who was featured all over the RNC

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