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Article: OPM Spells Out Un-Hatched Political Acts; Rules Due This Week List by Example the Partisan Functions Open to Employees
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 1994
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Under new rules scheduled for release this week, mail carriers
can drive around with political bumper stickers on their cars but
must cover them up when they deliver mail. A Cabinet officer will
not be able to solicit political contributions in a speech, but may
contribute a worn-out cowboy boot for auction at a campaign
fund-raiser.
These examples, and more, appear in the new Hatch Act
regulation, helping to spell out for the nation's 3 million postal
and civil service workers how they can exercise expanded political
rights.
Congress approved and President Clinton signed legislation last
year revamping the 1939 law. The amended Hatch Act bans politicking
by federal workers on the job ...