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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if Symone can run under the Hatch Act under some technicality - and I really don't see how - what she's doing is so against the spirit of the Hatch Act, I can't support her in good conscience. What she's doing seems so entitled and opportunistic. All those other government employees couldn't run [b]but I can because I'm special! [/b]

I mean, she showed up and gave a speech at that Democratic meeting last week. How is this ok?

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She asked the people at her office who decide these things. They're the ones who said it was OK. How does that make her entitled or opportunistic, and how is she saying she's special? She didn't make the call.

Maybe this will lead other government employees to run, which would be nice. The pool of qualified candidates gets thinned out too much because of the stupid SB caucus. (One more reason the ACDC infuriates me)[/quote]

It smells very fishy to me. I wonder if she gave them all the information. Do they know for example that she is showing up at Arl Dems events to speak and that she's in a caucus? I wonder....[/quote]

They probably gave her permission to run as an independent. Not sure they know she's giving out the dates of the Dem caucus and is listed as a Dem candidate on ACDC's website. Under OSC's advisory opinions (which, to an earlier poster, OSC is really the office who decides if it's allowed), a bunch of things could turn a non-partisan race into a partisan one including participation in a political party's caucus or seeking a political party's endorsement. The state law declaring an election as nonpartisan only creates a rebuttable presumption that it's nonpartisan. If Walker or any other candidate seeks the endorsement of a political party, the race could be deemed to be a partisan one and feds would not be allowed to participate.  Really not sure how she's getting around this issue, but I'm not the Hatch Act police.[/quote]

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