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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile, tens of thousands of government employees turn down gifts, tickets, special events ALL the time because ethics matter to them. But people who complain about the “government “ are here defending this guy. Madness.[/quote]

Yeah, people who haven’t worked for the government have no idea how strict these rules are.

I once heard Norman Mineta tell a story about how, when he was sent to a WWII internment camp as a boy, he brought along his baseball bat as one of his few precious possessions and a way to pass the time with other kids. The guards took away his bat because it supposedly could be used as a weapon. When he was an adult serving in one part or another of government, someone who knew that story sent him the gift of a bat that had been used by one of the baseball greats as a gesture to basically right one small wrong of history. Unfortunately, he had to send it back because its value was above the low threshold for gifts he could accept. At least he had a great punchline for the call he made to the would-be gift-giver: “The government’s taken my bat AGAIN!”

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