I thought the Hatch Act prohibited civil servants from engaging in partisan political advocacy in the course of their government work.
Silly me. That rule apparently doesn’t apply to Democrats.
I don’t think there are many laws which apply to ‘rats in good standing (read, “electable”). The left had a hissy fit when President Trump said that his voters would vote for him if he killed someone in broad daylight in the middle of 5th Ave, but they’re the ones who actually did vote for a murderer, many years before, and repeatedly-Swimmer Kennedy. Who would believe that a man could just walk away and go lie down and go to sleep, after leaving a woman to die a slow terrifying death, and not having lifted a finger to try to save her? And then be elected and re-elected for decades, and lionized as some great statesman? The man who, with another senator, thought it was funny to make a “sandwich” of some poor waitress? I don’t expect any Kennedy to have a sense of shame, but what in the hell was wrong with Democrat Massachusetts voters to keep voting for this man? They weren’t overlooking just some rascally rogue womanizer, they were giving a pass to a man who committed cold-blooded murder. Did it ever go through his mind, the death he left that poor woman to die? Maybe that’s one reason why he was a drunk.
Trashing talking among coworkers isn't likely a violation. I think you have to directly aid or interfere with a campaign using government resources. For the rank and file like secretaries, that means not campaigning during working hours or using the office resources for a campaign.
Working on opposition research using government assets and giving it to a campaign entity like Fusion GPS would be a violation.