Comments on Advance Indiana™: Talk About Hatch Act Problems

As I stated above, Ernie, the Hatch Act exempts ed...

2008-12-01T19:52:00.000-05:00

As I stated above, Ernie, the Hatch Act exempts education. Teachers are not barred from seeking partisan public offices.

I pledge to file complaints against every single c...

2008-12-01T19:35:00.000-05:00

I pledge to file complaints against every single city councilor candidate who I believe may be in violation of the Hatch Act in the City's 2011 municipal election.
Why wait???? No better time than the present!!!

Since several officeholders of both parties are in conflict with the Hatch Act according to AI, it would seem that both the republicans and democrats do not interpret the laaw as you do.

Wilson46201/artfuggins finally stated something that resembles intelligence

Gary we just elected a teacher as a State Rep. Doe...

2008-12-01T18:31:00.000-05:00

Gary we just elected a teacher as a State Rep. Does the Hatch Act prevent a HS teacher from being elected to a State office?

Advance Indiana: Of course it exempts them.Teacher...

2008-12-01T10:41:00.000-05:00

Advance Indiana: Of course it exempts them.

Teachers unions make sure the school faculty gets obscene salaries, which they get from the public coffers, which they turn around and use as campaign contributions toe get more teacher union friendly politicians elected.

Really the victim in all of this becomes the children, I believe the last report I saw said that over 55% of public school funding goes to faculty paychecks.

The other thing I take issue with is how the sports teams get all the funding they want, even though they have no academic purpose.

When I was in middle school (1996 I believe), the teachers drove brand new cars into the lot every day, the football and basketball teams had all new gear, and my social studies book was teaching us about the Soviet Union and East/West Germany in the present tense.

Computer lab? Sure, 5 1/4" floppies, tape drives, connected to an Apple II running BASIC as an operating system, circa 1977.

Computer lab was an excuse to play moon lander for a half hour on a computer that was older than me.

Which is why I begged my parents to let me be home schooled (they did).

But that does explain, in my opinion, a lot of what's wrong with Indiana, we blow our education funds on greedy teacher unions and the football team.

(To be fair, Ditch Mitch appears to have done something there, but instead of cutting the fat, he just doubled property taxes to pay for it all.)

The federal law conveniently exempts education and...

2008-12-01T10:27:00.000-05:00

The federal law conveniently exempts education and research from the reach of the Act.

Would this prohibit the Superintendent of a public...

2008-12-01T09:41:00.000-05:00

Would this prohibit the Superintendent of a public school (that receives Federal funds) from engaging in lobbyist activities on behalf of a school district that is registered as a lobbying organization?

Ted, you are prone to gross exaggeration. What ab...

2008-11-30T18:02:00.000-05:00

Ted, you are prone to gross exaggeration. What about Marbury v. Madison? What about Roe v. Wade? While Obama's citizenship is important, a court case dealing with the issue certainly is not the most "pivotal" decision since this country was founded.

To my knowledge, nobody has filed a Hatch Act viol...

2008-11-30T15:38:00.000-05:00

To my knowledge, nobody has filed a Hatch Act violation complaint against any of these individuals. Hell, our own county prosecutor won't even challenge a councilor's candidacy when she knows they don't live in their district. Their free ride is over. I pledge to file complaints against every single city councilor candidate who I believe may be in violation of the Hatch Act in the City's 2011 municipal election.

On Dec 5 the Supreme Court will either allow or di...

2008-11-30T15:05:00.000-05:00

On Dec 5 the Supreme Court will either allow or disallow the usurpation of both the Constitution and the Government of the United States — easily the most pivotal decision since our nation’s founding — and the silence of the news media is deafening (if not downright scary).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH7rSHcvgU

Wow, TheAlmighty's history is really, really bad. ...

2008-11-30T14:54:00.000-05:00

Wow, TheAlmighty's history is really, really bad. The Hatch Act enacted in 1939 had nothing to do with the "Red Scare" which started AFTER the end of World War II which concluded in 1945.

Second, Joseph McCarthy was a Republican who was in the minority. He was not chairman of HUAC.

Third, the Hatch Act was substantially revised in 1993 to remove many of the original restrictions put into place in 1939. This was not included in TheAlmight's revisionist history.

Since several officeholders of both parties are in...

2008-11-30T14:43:00.000-05:00

Since several officeholders of both parties are in conflict with the Hatch Act according to AI, it would seem that both the republicans and democrats do not interpret the laaw as you do.

The Hatch Act was enacted in 1939 during the Red S...

2008-11-30T10:22:00.000-05:00

The Hatch Act was enacted in 1939 during the Red Scare to give the government broad powers to fight (suspected) Communists, and to tey to prosecute union organizers (which was later prohibited by Taft-Hartley).

The government is an incoherent babble of vaguely-written laws intended for the perceived problems of the particular age they were written in.

Congress tried to repeal the Hatch Act a couple of times during the Residency of George Bush, but the first time, it failed in the Senate, then the second bill that would repeal it was vetoed by Dubya.

I don't believe that it should be repealed, I believe it should be modernized and worded a lot more clearly, with the prohibition on working on a political campaign as a federal employee applied ONLY to the Federal government, with an exception made if you are the candidate.

Anything else tramples on states rights (What federal laws don't anymore though?), and as appears to be the case here, selectively enforced and used as a weapon by political opponents.

Note: Among the "anti-communist" things the government did, the most notorious was the House Committee on Un-American Activities, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, who sent subpoenas to half of Hollywood (Including Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy), Labor organizers, and basically all of the Republican party's political enemies, that way, even if they didn't convict you of anything, nobody would employ you because of the stigma. They were usually described as the House Committing Un-American Activities.