Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott may have violated the Hatch Act by campaigning for John McCain say federal investigators.
Federal investigators are now looking into whether Scott broke the law by campaigning for John McCain.
Officials with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel say they have received so many phone calls from the public that they launched an investigation into Sheriff Scott on Tuesday.
The question is – did he use his position as sheriff to influence an election? If so, he could be in violation of a federal election law called the Hatch Act.
I would agree that no Sheriff should use his position to try and effect the outcome of an election. Which is why I find it so concerning that Barack Obama has both prosecutors and Sheriffs in Missouri promising to prosecute anyone who runs “misleading” ads or makes “misleading statements” about Obama’s record. They also promise to “remind” voters about Barack Obama’s tax cuts and other proposals.
This unprecedented and illegal activity by the Obama campaign outraged the governor of Missouri who said this:
“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election…
Again, I would tend to agree that Sheriff Scott should not be campaigning for McCain. But if we’re going to investigate one instance, then we need to investigate them all.
-Chris Jones
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