Give Her the Chair! The Chair!
by matt at 6:00 am on June 12th, 2007 in Bush Man DateReport: GSA head engaged in political activity - USATODAY.com
The head of the main federal contracting agency, a longtime GOP supporter, should be “punished to the fullest extent” for violating a ban on political advocacy on government time, a watchdog agency concluded.
The Office of Special Counsel, in a letter to President Bush released late Monday, said General Services Administrator Lurita Doan engaged in “the most pernicious of political activity” banned by the 1939 Hatch Act when she asked, at a meeting of General Services Administration political appointees, how they could help Republican candidates.
“I recommend that Administrator Doan be disciplined to the fullest extent for her serious violation of the Hatch Act and insensitivity to cooperating fully and honestly in the course of our investigation,” wrote Scott Bloch, special counsel for the independent investigative and prosecutorial agency.
Before you assume that Bloch is some kind of commie holdover from the Carter or Clinton administrations, let’s get something straight. He’s actually a particularly odious Bush appointee and partisan Republican who was part of the “faith-based” nonsense and loves him some good, old-fashioned gay-bashing. I’m not sure what kind of punishment (besides firing) Doan faces, but having the name “Lurita” while employed as anything other than a character on the Jeff Foxworthy Show should carry a sentence of at least five years at hard labor without the possibility of parole.
sarabeth wrote:
Can someone explain to me what kind of law the Hatch Act is supposed to be?
It bans things, and when you do them anyway, your punishment is that you get written up and sent to the principal’s office?
So if the principal is in a good mood — say he just got pleasured by somebody — you get off scot free?
Posted 12 Jun 2007 at 9:05 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
And as for Lurita, that comes straight from The Simpsons, for my money.
When Homer has an affair, it will be with someone called Lurita.
Posted 12 Jun 2007 at 9:06 am ¶