Dan Scavino officially reprimanded for violating Hatch Act

[Tanuki]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2017/06/09/white-house-social-media-director-dan-scavino-violated-hatch-act-with-tweet-targeting-gop-congressman/

"White House social-media director Dan Scavino Jr. violated a federal law that bars public officials from using their positions for political activity when he urged President Trump's supporters to defeat a GOP congressman, the Office of Special Counsel has concluded.

As a result, Scavino was issued a warning letter and advised that additional violations of the law could result in further action, according to a June 5 letter that the office sent to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which filed a complaint about Scavino's tweet.

Scavino's April 1 message called on the "#TrumpTrain” to take out Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) in an upcoming primary, referring to him as “a big liability.” Amash is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, a group that Trump had blamed at the time for derailing legislation that would have repealed parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Even though Scavino was tweeting from his personal account, his page at the time listed his official White House position and featured a photo of him inside the Oval Office."

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Wow,a letter

of reprimand in his file. Anyone else in Governmental Service or a GSA Job would be fired immediately if not sooner.

[progressoid]

2. Not to worry. Next time he'll get a stern tongue lashing.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. You Forgot To Add. . .

. . .someone will go to his office and say "Tsk Tsk Tsk!"

[gratuitous]

4. This is gonna go on your permanent record, mister!

Someone put Scavino on suicide watch!