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FAA officials accused of pressuring staff to vote for Obama
The Hill ^ | 09/05/12 | Keith Laing

Posted on 09/05/2012 7:52:35 PM PDT by george76

A government accountability group is accusing supervisors at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of urging the agency's employees to vote for President Obama and other Democrats in November.

The Washington, D.C.-based Cause of Action, which identifies itself as nonpartisan, said Wednesday that FAA officials at a Seattle office told employees that the agency’s funding would be more secure if Obama defeats Mitt Romney to win a second term.

The allegation, if true, would be a violation of the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits government agencies from getting involved in partisan activities.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: faa; hatchact
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1 posted on 09/05/2012 7:52:40 PM PDT by george76
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This is what Socialism looks like. :(


2 posted on 09/05/2012 7:56:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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Somebody needs to be in jail. This is still America. You can’t do that kind of crap here.


3 posted on 09/05/2012 7:56:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: george76
Holder will investigate.
4 posted on 09/05/2012 7:56:46 PM PDT by funfan
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To: george76

It brings “The end justifies the means” to mind.


5 posted on 09/05/2012 7:57:27 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: george76

Nothing is really partisan in Seattle, there is only one party there.


6 posted on 09/05/2012 7:59:40 PM PDT by Eva
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To: george76

Gee is there no end to what this administration will do to get re-elected?
This has to be a new low for these assholes!


7 posted on 09/05/2012 7:59:48 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady (When all the working class leave California what will be left?)
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Someone should call the DOJ and report this travesty...

....ummm... no wait...

8 posted on 09/05/2012 8:02:27 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: george76

And, after everything President Reagan did for them, too.


9 posted on 09/05/2012 8:02:59 PM PDT by moovova (Hope-ium...Time to kick the habit.)
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To: george76

“which bills itself as non-partisan” - I don’t give a damn how it bills itself - are you pushing for votes? If so I want you in jail.


10 posted on 09/05/2012 8:05:33 PM PDT by jimfree (In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter has more relevant&quality executive experience than Barack Obama)
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The entire government bureaucracy has been turned into part of the Obama campaign


11 posted on 09/05/2012 8:09:48 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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thats what happens when unions and gov workers out number working class.


12 posted on 09/05/2012 8:14:58 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: george76

Did an Obammy Democrat break the law???!!! Don’t bother telling the Republicans because they could care less.

If a foreign president being seated, Holder’s gun running to Mexican Cartels and Obama dictating law through Executive Order is not illegal, neither is violating the Hatch Act.


13 posted on 09/05/2012 8:38:23 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Bttt.


14 posted on 09/05/2012 8:39:13 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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FAA tells it’s employees they have a better chance of keeping their jobs if obama is re-elected.

Small businesses all over America tell their employees they’ll LOSE their jobs if obama is re-elected.


15 posted on 09/05/2012 8:48:31 PM PDT by Terry Mross (2016 THE MOVIE....scarier than any zombie movie.)
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Ahh, fo shizzle! Would a DemonRat do that? Ohhh yeah!


16 posted on 09/05/2012 9:06:17 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Interesting - my mid-level FAA management nephew who in the past has considered himself a conservative Republican lapsed into an irrational hissy-fit at a family party last week when I mentioned something about the election - “Republicans don’t care about the workers” (Ask the Reagan Democrats I said) “We can’t go back there - they can’t cut interest rates any more for Reaganomics to get the money to make trickle down work” (We cut the corporate tax rate, bring home profits from overseas, cut regulations like Obamacare, and produce our own energy like oil said I) “Now you’re defending the big oil companies - we go to war to get their oil for them and they screw everybody” and he drifted away - strange, but then I remembered some time back when he had said that ‘rat administrations were good for the FAA because they got to hire lots more workers, but Republicans meant leaner times - they must be feeling the heat and expecting defeat.......


17 posted on 09/05/2012 9:43:58 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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Naturally, it’s the party of government.

Obama has already set the tone, if you don’t like a particular law, just ignore it. It’s cool.


18 posted on 09/05/2012 9:52:49 PM PDT by oyez ( .Apparently The U.S. CONSTITUTION has been reduced to the consistency of quicksand.)
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Nothing new here... has been going on since before radar was used by controllers (Find a copy of ‘Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control’ by Nolan and read the History of ATC for some good background of ATC and labor). In more recent times, the consideration of various FAA jobs as “inherently governmental” has been the focus, as any function that is not, can be competitively procured. Controllers in particular do not want their jobs privatized.


19 posted on 09/05/2012 11:14:19 PM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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Sounds like a friend of mine. He rails about ‘’evil corporations’’(he owns a bar/restaurant, go figure) and the '' evil government'' and then in the next sentence he's all about ''green energy'' and the ''government creates the middle class''. I dunno, the guy's been a friend of mine since high school(class of 1975). Maybe it's just LSD flashbacks.
20 posted on 09/06/2012 12:07:56 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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