What Hatch Act?

So let me see if I have this right. If I am a federal government employee, say a union shop steward in an agency, and I stand up in my workplace in front of a TV camera and endorse a Democrat for president. I can’t be fired because I’m just exercising my First Amendment right to free expression.

Why should it be any different for me than for Kellyanne Conway? It appears all I need do to be exempt from the Hatch Act is to claim its enforcement on me is an impingement on my First Amendment constitutional protections. Welcome to the law under Donald Trump as interpreted by his master spinner of alternative facts, the white queen of deflection.

Yay! Let the workplace campaigning begin today! It’s a glorious triumph of the First Amendment. Hundreds of thousands of unhappy campers in agencies all across the federal government can finally speak out about the theft, incompetence and malice of the gremlins Trump put in charge of our agencies. And we can do it on the clock and in the workplace! Thanks for clarifying that for the hundreds of thousands of fed up career civil servants, Kellyanne.

And Donald Trump has our backs on this, right? After all we’re “all very fine people.”

Jim Wavada

Spokane