Hatch Act probe nets hundreds; few penalized

Federal Times: During the fall 2008 presidential campaigns by then-Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, an Education Department civil rights attorney zipped off an email: “Let’s face it, even though WE KNOW many Republicans are inherently racist anyway ... most of them are not solely voting against Obama because he’s Black,” the lawyer wrote in message sent from an official departmental email account.

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