12/7/2017
In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. Kellyanne Conway, White House Advisor to President Trump, is now facing her second strike.
The former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, is filing a second complaint against White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act in some of her statements regarding the Alabama Senate race.
“The willfulness of Conway’s violation and her openly expressed disdain for efforts to hold her accountable for complying with ethics requirements make clear that anything less than removal from the federal service or a lengthy unpaid suspension will not deter future misconduct on her part,” Shaub said in a statement Thursday.
The Hatch Act restricts federal employees from using their offices to campaign for or against political candidates.
In a separate statement, the Campaign Legal Center, where Shaub is a senior director, also claimed Conway should be removed from her position or given a “lengthy suspension without pay.”
The announcement follows Conway’s comments Wednesday, in which she affirmed President Trump’s endorsement of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. “The only endorsement that matters in this race is President Trump’s,” Conway told CNN. “And he came out questioning the ideology and the vote of Doug Jones. He’ll be a reliable vote for tax hikes. He’ll be a reliable vote against border security. He’ll be a reliable vote against national security and keeping ISIS in retreat. He’ll be the reliable vote against the Second Amendment and against life.”
Shaub stated employees in lower positions have been penalized severely for less serious offenses.
Shaub’s initial complaint came last month, following one of Conway’s appearances on Fox News, condemning Jones, the Democrat in the Alabama special election race.
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