[TLI]

The Republican lawmaker says he's concerned the White House has used staffers for partisan campaign activities, which are prohibited under the Hatch Act.

And then there is this?

"Patrick aides still openly marvel at Simas’s grassroots organizing skills, and the fact that he has a working phone bank in the basement of his Taunton home."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/01/09/taunton-david-simas-rules-out-senate-appointment-gubernatorial-run/ZI7bZ5quQinehpkYxnDTHL/story.html

No potential for staffer Simas to undertake campaign activities there, right?

Nahhh!

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[Tailgunner Joe]

Issa slams White House over aide's defiance of subpoena - Issa said that the White House's claim violates a 2008 federal court ruling that says presidential advisers are "not absolutely immune from congressional process."

"Flouting a federal judge's opinion about our system of checks and balances is yet another attack on our Nation's Constitution by this President," Issa said in a statement. "We already know that two members of President Obama's Cabinet violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for political campaigning. Given these examples of known wrongdoing, assertions that this Administration's taxpayer-funded political efforts should be above Congressional oversight are absurd."