By Roderick Law (Townhall)
The Office of Personnel Management has a conduit for funding labor union PACs.
James Madison famously said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” They are not, and so we need government. A corollary might be “if federal employees were angels, there wouldn’t be so many laws and regulations on the books designed to keep government officials from using their positions to advance the interests of political parties.”
For example, if one uses their job for expressly partisan purposes, that federal employee might be facing a Hatch Act violation. In egregious cases, there might be ethics sanctions or even criminal penalties. However, what would happen if the government were allowed to help partisan political organizations with their fundraising?