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Losing in Albuquerque

Hatch Act violation

Claims Examiner
Department of Labor
Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:36 AM

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First of all, to be in compliance, if he would have kept the party politics out of the race and truly run as a non-partisan position, he would have been in compliance of the Act.

Since he did not reject the party label, he suffered the consequences of his actions. In another aspect, I wonder where all of his money came from to run. According to the Hatch Act, he could only accept $$$ from other Federal employees. I am sure that his campaign finances and campaign committee structure were examined as well for any potential violations.

We are only getting a brief snap shot of this story, but I am sure that there is a bigger story here than what is being stated here so far.

Anyway, the finally outcome is that he did violate the Hatch Act, and he paid his price. A 120 day suspension seems a little bit excesive, but then again, what was he going to do if he won?

Hatch Act

Mary Lee Seifert
CMS
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:28 AM

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in the 1970s a federal employee was elected Mayor of Bowie, MD in a nonpartisan election. Why was this allowed then and not now?

Re: Hatch Act

HR Spec
DON
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:47 AM
In this case, the federal employee ran as a Republican in a non-partisan election. In theory, he was not a member of either party. The MSPB (and the court) found that he advertised himself as a Republican, received an endorsement of the party, and accepted money from the Republican party. In effect, he was running as a party candidate which created the Hatch Act problem.

SC cert petition

McEntee's attorney
private practice
Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:04 PM

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No money or assistance of Republican party in any way. Individual Republicans and associations (of which the OSC determined contained too many Republicans) did support Mike.Stay tuned, perhaps the SC will consider whether the First Amend. allows the gov't to decide how much core political speech( I am a Republican) the hicks of Albuquerque can be allowed to hear.

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