Posted on 12/03/2023 6:03:10 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Top White House spokespeople failed to comply with a law intended to prevent federal employees from using their offices to influence elections after press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was warned against using "MAGA" to describe certain Republicans, a government watchdog agency said.
In a letter first shared with NBC News, the independent Office of Special Counsel said that Jean-Pierre and deputy press secretary Andrew Bates took actions "contrary" to official guidance on adhering to the Hatch Act when they slammed “MAGA” Republicans’ budget plan this year — days after Jean-Pierre was told she had violated the 1939 statute.
The OSC issued government-wide guidance over the summer that deemed the use of “MAGA” and similar terms effectively off-limits as campaign-related slogans after determining that Jean-Pierre was in violation of the Hatch Act when she repeatedly referred to “mega MAGA Republicans” in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. “MAGA” is the campaign slogan for former President Donald Trump in his current White House bid.
A week after NBC News published the OSC's warning to Jean-Pierre in June, she issued a statement criticizing Republicans’ “hardcore MAGA” budget, while Bates, in a memo, went after “MAGA tax welfare.”
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MAGA Republicans = Patriots
Leave it to Democrats to try and make patriotism a bad thing just like they did with the MAGA hats trying to equate the hats with the Nazi swastika which is rich coming from them how they stand with Hamas. I am so sick to death of these MEGA assholes!
‘Warnings” mean nothing to Democrats.
Like anybody in this DOJ is going to do anything about it.
Another law that only applies to republicans.
So?
They did the same thing with the word “militia.” Or how about the word “red”? Red used to mean commie. They’re using the Goebbles playbook. Don’t kid yourselves.
Well, to too much of America "MAGA Republicans" means scruffy, bearded guys in motorcycle jackets with an AR-15 in one hand and a Trump sign in the other. Karine knows her Goebbels and won't stop pushing it.
She deserves no less than Dinesh D’Souza got.
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Which DOJ or existing senate committee is going to conduct an investigation of the White House for the Hatch act? Rhetorical question
It will require a tornado to see pigs flying before this happens.
Will she suffer consequences? Of course not.
Which DOJ or existing senate committee is going to conduct an investigation of the White House for the Hatch act? Rhetorical question
It will require a tornado to see pigs flying before this happens.
D’Souza was charged with an illegal campaign contribution. Cash contributions are easier to prove than political statements, which also may fall under the 1st amendment, even if they are biased. I hate what KJP says as much as you do.
Oh, good — a stern warning.
Well, they won’t do it again!
Until the next time...
Have they ever released video from her DUI? What was the final outcome?
A little midget Caribbeaner bag ‘o wind from Martinique mahn, badmouthing Americans and we’re pay the ho big bucks to do it. Refugees should not be allowed to be employed by our government. They didn’t come here to get good government jobs. They came here because they are too cowardly to fight for their own countries.
They DID?
NO. Say it ain’t so!
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