Nostra
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You clowns are really having to scrape the bottom of the barrel for your pissy pants outrages.No, I don't have access to cases on this.The plain language of the regulation. It says you can't use your title.Has that ever been adjudicated? Do you have previous case law or a determination to prove that?
Did she use her title?
Use is not the same as saying your position, and again, she just says her position in the header of the account, which is public knowledge.
To use her position she would have to have stated "As holder of position X, I endorse Y"
She didn't do that. She further clarified in the account header that she was speaking as herself, not her position.
Again, this is why all the articles say "may have" instead of being more determinate, because they know if this was actually brought before an ethics board it would go nowhere.
She's using her position in her account title, so yes, she is using it. All postings on that account therefore are part of it since the account labels her by her official title.
Again, you have a similar case that was adjudicated that proves your point?
She says her job in the title. public knowledge. She does not say "As position X, I endorse Y" which would be actually using her title.
Show me a case that proves otherwise.
I'm not saying her job title isn't public knowledge. I'm saying she uses it in her account, which means she has to follow the ethical rules about how to behave when using her title.
This isn't controversial. It's clear as day.