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Article: DEL. NORTON CITES SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, HOME RULE VIOLATIONS IN FILING BILL TO REMOVE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FROM FEDERAL HATCH ACT

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March 19, 2007
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., issued the following press release:

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Hatch Reform Act of 2007 to eliminate the discriminatory practice of treating inappropriate local partisan activities as local violations under the federal Hatch Act. D.C. is the only local jurisdiction that is treated as if it were a federal agency under the Hatch Act, a pre-Home Rule holdover that was not needed after passage of the Home Rule Act. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and its Special Counsel still use staff time and federal resources on investigation, fact-finding and judgment of unfamiliar local violations here. As a ...

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