It has come to my attention that a fellow kossack, badgerbadger, witnessed today what I believe was a blatant and egregious violation of the Hatch Act of 1939. For all of you that aren't aware, the Hatch Act prohibits partisan political activity by Federal employees while on duty, in uniform, or from a government vehicle.
From Wikipedia
The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) in the executive branch of the federal government, except the President and the Vice President, from engaging in partisan political activity. Named after Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, the law was officially known as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities.
The act precluded federal employees from membership in "any political organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government," which especially applied to fascist and communist organizations.
I'd like to thank badgerbadger for allowing me to publish his story...
In badgerbadger's own words:
...I walked up to a center for senior citizens and plainly hear the US Postal Service delivery man SLANDERING Fred Clark and telling everyone in the lobby NOT to vote for him - to vote for olsen!
This was offensive to me (remember, I was canvasing for clark) and I called him on it. He challenged me to call his supervisor, offering to give me the number, though then he would not actually do so.
So I said I would just go to the post office and talk to the postmaster. Unbelievably, this moron told me "You don't know what post office I work out of!" (in little Berlin, WI?!?!?!?!).
I did immediately go to post office, but postmaster there would not even allow me to give him the number of the truck. He lied to my face, stating I pointed at him (certainly did not) and then he yelled at me, turning beet red, that I was yelling at him!
He seemed to take great pride in throwing me out of the post office and directly challenging me to complain to someone else (which I did).
It was amazing the attitude of postmaster I talked to - confrontational and bullying. Makes me wonder if this isn't par for the course.
(snip)
The truck number was:
6211909
And the location of the event was:
WYNDGATE APTS ON MARKET SQUARE (136 N CAPRON ST, BERLIN , WI
It happened about 2 pm and the facilities appears to be a senior center (assisted living too?). There were bunches of residents in lobbying that this moron was ranting to.
They, however, seemed to be largely swallowing the mailman's propaganda lock-stock-and-barrel and I was actually denied entrance to the building even though I was not soliciting and had specific people to see.
I would tend to think the Postmaster is an accessory after the fact.
I think there may be a couple of job openings at the Berlin, WI Post Office.