From the TRIBUNE-REVIEW:
…A statewide grand jury last week, among numerous recommendations, said “all campaign work on legislative time must be eliminated.”
The grand jury stopped short of a recommendation that some analysts say the General Assembly should consider: a state version of the federal Hatch Act. The 1939 law prevents federal civil service employees from engaging in partisan activity. It applies to state and local workers if they’re paid with federal money. Certain employees are exempt, including about 3,000 under the president….
In Pennsylvania, “they ought to consider a flat, outright ban,” said G. Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster.
“If there’s a (state) Hatch Act, you can’t say you’ll work for the campaign even after work”…
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