This is dirty... underhanded,,, just plain
low. They changed the wording of furloughed education department staff to blame Democrats for the trump shutdown.
It's a sign of desperation. They know they are really at fault, and they know the rest of us know it as well.
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
Five employees who spoke with NBC News and provided copies of their out-of-office messages said the wording was altered from how they originally had composed them. All of them are civil servants, not political appointees, and requested anonymity out of fear of professional repercussions...
One person reported changing the out-of-office message back to the nonpartisan version, only to have it revert to the partisan wording later...
“None of us consented to this. And it’s written in the first person, as if I’m the one conveying this message, and I’m not. I don’t agree with it. I don’t think it’s ethical or legal. I think it violates the Hatch Act,” this person said, referring to the law that limit federal employees’ political activity.
“I took the statement that they sent us earlier in the week to use. And I pasted it on top of that — basically has a standard out-of-office,” another one of the Education Department employees said. “They went in and manipulated my out-of-office reply. I guess they’re now making us all guilty of violating the Hatch Act.”
Police officers exposed illegal alien fraud in CT years ago, Obama’s DOJ put them in prison for it
