.MaddowBlog: US Office of Special Counsel: Kellyanne Conway needs to go.
It may not have seemed especially notable two weeks ago when White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway used her position to go after former Vice President Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign. Conway is a longtime Republican operative; she supports Donald Trump’s re-election; and so it may have seemed obvious that she’d target a leading rival from the other party.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent government agency that enforces the act, said it sent a report to Trump detailing “numerous occasions” in which Conway violated the law by saying disparaging things about Democratic presidential candidates in television interviews and on social media while acting in her official capacity as counselor to the president.
The OSC added, “Ms. Conway’s violations, if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act’s restrictions. Her actions thus erode the principal foundation of our democratic system – the rule of law.”The Office of Special Counsel, incidentally, is led by Henry Kerner – a Trump nominee who was confirmed by the Republican-led Senate in a voice vote.
Steven Groves, the White House deputy press secretary, dismissed the OSC’s findings as “deeply flawed,” before suggesting that Hatch Act restrictions violate Conway’s free-speech rights.
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