Posted on 08/30/2010 6:15:04 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.
"ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the 'Reclaim the Dream' rally and march," began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.
Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963.
The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan's request.
Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.
"It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It's highly inappropriate ... even in the absence of a direct threat," Boaz said. "If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
These effing pieces of excrement need to be put down now!
A government paid for by the PEOPLE
to serve every whim of, and propaganda for,
pRes_ _ent Obama the Tyrant, Dictator, Mullah,
and Destroyer, and his undocumented traitors
and Czars in their War against America.
Went to Examiner and commented.
That was fun.
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They shouldfeel uneasy as we want them to join the unemployed.
Old trick really. Just like local governments that cut cops but refuse to cut the salaries of bureaucrats or middle management parasites.
We need to just call for a 15% across the board cut in ALL government employees. Just fire them. Kick their a##es to the curb and tell them to get some real work.
Then the rats would really start crawling out of the wood work.
The imbecile heads of these useless federal depts spend half their time writing retarded e-mails, the other half training, going to seminars, and going on vacation.
The Chi(cago)-coms treat the Federal bureaucracy like just another chapter of the DNC.
This is what happens when union goons and community organizers run the country. Elections have consequences. Thanks, Juan.
Hey! Doesn’t that violate the Hatch Act?
Is this link to the story good? I just get gobbeldy goop
when I click on it-maybe it is just my computer
the Education Secretary needs an education by the courts. What a dimwitted loser.
Duncan was chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools for seven years before Obama nominated him in December 2008.
Not mentioned in the story is if any employees who attended were taking time off or if they were on the clock.
We is in Charge Now.
Scroll down and you’ll see the story.
that has got to be illegal
“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.”
Only 3000 were in attendance at Sharpton’s rally. I’m figuring there were about 1000 slug/thugs who got reprimands this morning.
‘no controlling legal authority’ /s
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