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Kellyanne Conway dismisses Hatch Act violation: 'Let me know when the jail sentence starts'

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday scoffed at a government office's findings that she violated a decades-old law barring officials from weighing in on elections in their government capacity as she railed against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's record.

Conway tore into the former vice president and senator over his vote on the 1994 crime bill, his role in overseeing the 1991 Anita Hill hearing and his record on immigration as she fielded questions from reporters outside the White House. But she insisted she was not commenting on the 2020 election and that she has a right to size up the record of her boss's potential opponent.

"I’m going to talk about people’s records because I have the right to," Conway said.

"I’m not concerned about Joe Biden," she added. "I’m concerned about the failures of the last administration to deal with the issues of the day, including North Korea."

When reporters noted the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found she violated the Hatch Act with two interviews she gave in late 2017, Conway was dismissive.

"Blah, blah, blah," she said as one reporter recounted the OSC's findings.

"If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work," Conway said.

"Let me know when the jail sentence starts," she added.

The OSC — an entity separate from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation — determined in March 2018 that Conway had violated the Hatch Act with two separate interviews related to the Alabama Senate special election in 2017.

The report cited interviews Conway gave in her official capacity to "Fox & Friends" on Fox News and "New Day" on CNN in which she described then-candidate Doug Jones as "weak on crime" and a likely vote against Trump-backed tax cuts. Jones went on to defeat Roy Moore.

The OSC referred its findings to President Trump "for appropriate disciplinary action."

However, the White House maintained at the time Conway had done nothing wrong, saying she did not explicitly tell viewers which candidate to vote for.

In response to an assertion by Conway that she was misquoted in the March 2018 report outlining her violation, an OSC spokesman told The Hill in a statement that the agency "stands by its findings."

Under the Hatch Act, enacted in 1939, federal employees are barred from making partisan comments that could sway an election or advocating for political candidates while using their official designations. Civil penalties for violations can include fines or dismissal.

Politico reported that formal complaints to the OSC about potential Hatch Act violations increased nearly 30 percent during Trump's first year in office.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...e-know-when-the

My this WH is full of smug elitist who think they are above the law and better than everyone else. Crooks.

Where is the 'Law and Order Party' now? She keeps breaking the same law and says,"Blah blah blah, tell me when the jail sentence starts..." ! Maybe we should help her get that information.

So, when a president, any president, veep, or anyone else in government is doing a rally for someone in their party, that's a hatch act violation?

Well John Kerry also committed a Logan Act violation so there's that. It doesn't look to go when your source is "The Hill." That's not a credible news outlet, sorry, rejected.

Great, that negates "Fox".

The hill isn't credible???? Conservatives in this forum are such a lost cause.

And there it is ......attract the source and .....Whatabout .....

In case anyone missed it, nobody in this White House cars about law and order.

Yeah, the Hill has never been credible. What are you smoking? It's a liberal rag.

From Conservapedia:

The Hill is a political newspaper and website founded in 1994. It is located in Washington, D.C. and is a subsidiary of News Communications. At one time it was a weekly publication but has since expanded to a daily format while lawmakers are in session. News for and about Congress with a special focus on business and lobbying, political campaigns, and the goings on in the Washington, D.C. beltway. The Hill has the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill periodical.

While not necessarily conservative, The Hill is generally more balanced compared to other mainstream media sources, although the comment sections for its online stories tend to get overwhelmed with liberal posters who make vulgar, immature and grossly misinformed comments that deliberately mischaracterize and libel conservative public figures and anyone who supports them. In 2018, it announced it would no longer attend the White House Correspondents Dinner minus "major reforms" after the event featured vulgar anti-Trump speakers.[1] Leftists have occasionally attacked The Hill for not always reporting on the news from a left-wing perspective.[2]
https://www.conservapedia.com/The_Hill


thanks for playing; try again.
It doesn't surprise me that a centrist 'rag' would be considered Left by you.

New York Times bans reporters from CNN's Don Lemon, MSNBC's Maddow shows for being 'too partisan

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/the-times-gives-maddow-the-cold-shoulder

Well now, ain't that something.

Are you sniffing glue again? You obviously don't know what the hill is.

Non-sequitur.
"Squirrel!!!"


I will chase none of your cheap, shiny objects.

Try that stuff on someone who is your intellectual equal. Air at my elevation is too thin for you to breathe.



pfffft.

I told you to keep your intellectual head in the sand till this is over.

But NOOOOOooooooOOOOOOooooooOOOOO

reenee, reenee, renee....
you really are a perpetual white-noise machine, aren't you?

stuck on 'loop mode,' as well.

Fixed it for ya by placing emphasis on a keyword and correcting the mode. Hammer meet nail.

I think most of you should go reread the hatch act. It's to prevent your boss from telling you who to vote for if you're a government employee, and to prevent those workers from using government time and materials on campaigning. As I recall, a whole bunch of government employees should have charged under this law during the 2012 election, but it's one of the midst ignored laws in the country, as it can be challenged by the 1st amendment.

Once again ...whatabout and ignoring the laws on the books when it fits your agenda to do so. Not surprised.

That's not all it does. It sounds like you should read it.