Darrell Issa invites Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda Solis to testify

[alp227]

Source: Politico

Darrell Issa’s campaign against the White House’s political affairs is escalating.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman invited former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and former Secretary of the Labor Department Hilda Solis to testify before the panel on the Hatch Act — a law that bars executive branch employees from engaging in political affairs.

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Issa is hoping to catch the office, which was restructured during the Obama administration to better comply with the Hatch Act, violating the 20th century law. The office has been recently cleared by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel of wrongdoing since it reopened.

Issa has attempted to build a campaign against the White House’s political affairs issues by accusing Solis of soliciting donations for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign when she served in the Cabinet.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/darrel-issa-kathleen-sebelius-hilda-solis-110388.html

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. In the words of a famous Republican,

"There you go again." Wasting time and money and embarrassing the state of California. I hope everyone who clicks on this OP will go to this website and donate whatever you can. Wherever you live in the U.S., Issa has negatively impacted the productive functioning of your government.

http://www.peiserforcongress.com/

[kardonb]

4. Issa

wasting time and money IS their whole strategy : get NOTHING done , and get payed by the taxpayers for this !

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Alp227

Gotta give you a rec for bringing these antics to our attention.

[pkdu]

3. By definition, .... Issa is violating the Hatch Act and other 20th Century Laws every time

He convenes a hearing

[liberal N proud]

5. At what point did this become the new definition of insanity?

This perverse obsession with bringing down the President of the United States by all means.


Isn't that what terrorist want to do?

[wordpix]

8. or definition of treason - Issa, Kochs, Boner, etc should be investigated

They are doing nothing but trying to bring down the gov of the US and pull off a coup

[aquart]

12. Yes. It's also a Putin gigglefest.

[riversedge]

6. They would be damned if they and

damned if they don't. I have watched some of the hearings in the past--or parts of them. Republicans are rude to put it mildly with their questions. If it were me, I would just stay away from Issa and his pals.



......Earlier this year, he played an audio tape during an Oversight hearing that appears to show Solis asking for funds from a deputy. There is an ongoing “law enforcement investigation” into Solis remarks, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said at the time.

In 2012, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel found that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act during a speech to the Human Rights Campaign when she said Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton “needs to be the next governor of North Carolina.”

Sebelius later apologized for the remarks.

The hearing will give the two former secretaries the opportunity to explain their actions and distance the White House from any new Hatch Act Concerns. But Republicans will surely jump on the opportunity to attempt to establish a narrative of political wrongdoing.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/darrel-issa-kathleen-sebelius-hilda-solis-110388.html#ixzz3BgZbxbsx

[freshwest]

11. The Brooks Brothers Rioters violated the Hatch Act in spades.

Rachel Maddow at the time:

These congressional aides and GOP operatives have been identified and been promoted to higher jobs:



Miami’s rent-a-riot



By John Lantigua - Nov 28, 2000

http://www.salon.com/2000/11/28/miami_8/

A lot of details there. I bet Issa was cheering it on, from wherever he was.

[ladjf]

7. America would be better off if Issa left politics. nt

[freshwest]

10. He can't afford to leave. Without cover from his fellow conspirators, he'd be in jail.

[ladjf]

13. Good point! nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. BENGHAZI....BENGHAZI....BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!

Oops that was last week.