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Harris and the Hatch Act
Townhall.com ^ | October 21, 2021 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 10/21/2021 6:44:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

Vice President Kamala Harris, who appears to be in the witness protection program when it comes to her assigned role of restoring our southern border, has re-surfaced in a video she sent to 300 Black churches in Virginia. In it, she calls on congregants to vote for Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe. She even reminds them they can vote on Sundays and urges them to do so following their church service, presumably after worshipping an Authority higher than the state.

Did Harris just violate the Hatch Act? The Hatch Act says of employees of the federal government: "an employee may not use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election." I'm sure "getting out the vote" for McAuliffe qualifies.

In the video, Harris touts what she says was McAuliffe's record during his previous governorship from 2014 to 2018. She claims he brought thousands of jobs to the state. Former President Donald Trump also made this claim. But the Biden administration gives no credit to Trump for anything, though it has quietly restored some of his policies, such as requiring migrants to remain in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed.

Some other takeaways from the Harris video include her failure to mention anything the current Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, has done. It is as if Northam has been erased from memory, like the Soviet Union used to do with leaders who had fallen out of favor and whose photographs were scrubbed from official ceremonies, and ultimately history, to service the Bolshevik propaganda machine.

In the video, Harris says when she attended church in Oakland, California, "it was our sacred responsibility to raise our voice and to lift up the voices of our community." Translation: vote for Democrats, though their track record is less than admirable when it comes to serving Black and brown communities. For Democrats, African Americans never seem to succeed and are always in need of government. Why? To do what? Reduce shootings in the streets of our major cities? Create and keep families together? Give parents an opportunity for their children to escape failing public schools and allow them to choose a school that provides a real education in a safe environment? None of the above. It is in Democrats' self-interest to keep African Americans loyal and beholden to their party, though so little is given in return.

When a liberal Democrat "talks God" there is no criticism from the advocates of church-state separation because the left, which now dominates that party, knows they aren't serious. You can call yourself anything you want so long as you ignore the instructions, admonitions, and salvation message of Scripture. That's why Roman Catholics like President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi seem to get away with proclaiming themselves "faithful Catholics" yet ignore — even oppose — their church's teaching on abortion, marriage and homosexuality. As long as you are for the same policies advocated by secular progressives you can be "religious," and the left doesn't care.

Democrats who have told conservative Christians they should not try to impose their beliefs through government obviously have no problem imposing misinterpretations of Scripture and even non-beliefs through government and judicial fiat. Some are even inconsistent in those beliefs, accepting their church's teaching when it opposes the death penalty for murderers, but rejecting teachings that seek to protect unborn human life.

By sending a video to Black Virginia churches, Harris is guilty of the same condescension we have seen for years within her party when it comes to certain demographics. If government is the answer, would it not have succeeded by now with so many programs enacted and so much money spent?

Will Harris be held accountable for violating the Hatch Act? Of course not. Washington always protects its own, unless the person is a Republican, or Donald Trump.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harris; hatchact; inept; kamelfaceharris; noshowqueen

1 posted on 10/21/2021 6:44:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
She even reminds them they can vote on Sundays and urges them to do so following their church service, presumably after worshipping an Authority higher than the state.

I would think that voting for a baby killing Satanist on the Sabbath would be a mortal sin.

2 posted on 10/21/2021 6:49:13 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Kaslin

Why the Hatch Act? A toothless piece of granstanding that gives the uniparty the appearance of conflict.


3 posted on 10/21/2021 6:50:22 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: Kaslin

Rules not applied to all, are not rules they are Tyranny.

Kamala and Biden stand for Tyranny. Biden took bribes, via his son when he was a Vice President, and Kamala ignored the existing laws on the Hatch Act. Without a functional FBI, CIA, DOJ, State Department, and EPA, which have been functionally politically weaponized, we can only have Tyranny, not a Republic.


4 posted on 10/21/2021 6:52:48 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Though the libs are relentless in pursuing this kind of crap against conservatives.
Without media support, it just serves to distract attention away from the bigger crimes that are going on.


5 posted on 10/21/2021 6:54:25 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: Kaslin

“Will Harris be held accountable for violating the Hatch Act?”

Any chance of the death penalty?


6 posted on 10/21/2021 7:01:18 AM PDT by Beagle8U ("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reed is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Why the Hatch Act? A toothless piece of grandstanding that gives the uniparty the appearance of conflict.

To the best of my knowledge no one has ever been prosecuted under the Hatch Act.

7 posted on 10/21/2021 7:02:25 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Don Corleone

“To the best of my knowledge no one has ever been prosecuted under the Hatch Act.”

Correct, and if someone thinks a Democrat will be the first while they hold power, uhhhh, no.


8 posted on 10/21/2021 7:29:13 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Let's Go Brandon!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Yes and so did he black churches. Under a normal rule of law, the IRS should revoke their tax exempt status.


9 posted on 10/21/2021 7:44:08 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Kaslin

Algore did this, too, and blew it off. “No controlling legal authority.”
The only way this could be enforced against Harris is by impeachment and the Democrats are not likely to do so.


10 posted on 10/21/2021 7:48:09 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Pontiac

I agree.


11 posted on 10/21/2021 7:59:55 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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To: Kaslin

NO DEM in Biden’s admin give a damn about any laws.


12 posted on 10/21/2021 8:02:06 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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What is a ‘’black church’’? I thought we were all equal in the eyes of the Lord?


13 posted on 10/22/2021 11:18:29 AM PDT by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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I am sure they are, but not to ignorant people which black democrats are.


14 posted on 10/22/2021 11:41:11 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden, aka president Milk Carton)
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