FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com)

A newly released letter from government officials finds that Republican FCC commissioner Michael O'Reilly broke a federal law preventing officials from advocating for political candidates when he told a crowd that one way to avoid policy changes was to "make sure that President Trump gets reelected." The Verge reports: After he made the comments, the watchdog group American Oversight filed a letter with the Office of Special Counsel, which handles Hatch Act complaints. In response to the group's letter, the Office of Special Counsel said today that O'Rielly did, in fact, violate the Hatch Act. The letter said O'Rielly responded that he was only trying to provide an explanatory answer to how those changes in policy could be stopped, but the office rejected that reasoning. The office said it has sent a warning letter to O'Rielly this time, but will consider other infractions "a willful and knowing violation of the law" that could lead to legal action.

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Ho hum

[Anonymous Coward]

Another case of official corruption, this is what trump's base elected him for.

That's not a joke. Trump's entire candidacy is predicated on showing libtards that even the shittiest, most venal, incompetent, cowardly, un-american, traitorous dumbfuck is still better than obama. He's just delivering on that promise and his base fucking loves these guys. Just today Pence praised a man convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling as a "tireless champion of the rule of law."

LBJ said it back in 1960 and its still true today:

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

If any of you libtards think outing this corruption will make an iota of difference, think again. The GOP is not a party of ideas, its the party of liberal tears and taxcuts for the ultra rich. They embrace corruption as long as the people doing it are on their "team."

Well Obama appointed him

[greenwow]

Here's an article from 2015 that mentions Michael O'Reilly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150224022942/http://www.cnet.com/news/sorry-your-broadband-internet-technically-isnt-broadband-anymore/

Just like how Obama approved Ajit "pile of shit" Pai.

Uhm, that's ALL the sections

[raymorris]

Uhm, I copied/pasted and commented on ALL of the sections and of the entire Act.

Are you trying to say the entire Act only applies to FEC employees, are or you just really, really stoned?

Re:The first federal employee ever to talk politic

[AmiMoJo]

When Clinton runs a private email server it's the crime of the century, when one of Trump's friends illegal supports him or pays off a porn star on his behalf it's just a witch hunt.