{"id":1531771,"date":"2022-06-28T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531771"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:19:12","slug":"biden-energy-secretary-violated-federal-law-by-using-office-to-promote-democrats-special-counsel-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-energy-secretary-violated-federal-law-by-using-office-to-promote-democrats-special-counsel-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Energy Secretary Violated Federal Law By Using Office To Promote Democrats, Special Counsel Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-energy-secretary-violated-federal-law-by-using-office-to-promote-democrats-special-counsel-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Biden<\/a> Energy Secretary and former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a> Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jennifer-granholm\">Jennifer Granholm<\/a> violated the Hatch Act during an October 2021 interview when she used her office to promote Democratic candidates, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC).<\/p>\n<p>Granholm\u2019s violation was revealed after watchdog group Foundation for Accountability &#038; Civic Trust (FACT) requested that the OSC investigate comments Granholm made to media outlet Marie Clare on October 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with the outlet, Granholm said it was \u201cgood news \u2026 voting gave Democrats a bare majority (in Congress),\u201d before attempting to clarify by stating she was \u201cusing Democrats as a substitute for the policies that you believe in, the policies that you would like to see happen,\u201d the Detroit Free Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2022\/06\/28\/jennifer-granholm-hatch-act-warning\/7762380001\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OSC determined that Granholm\u2019s comments crossed the line as they were \u201cdirected at the success of the Democratic Party.\u201d The special counsel, however, decided not to pursue disciplinary action. Instead, the OSC slapped Granholm with a warning, writing that she had not received \u201csignificant\u201d training on the Hatch Act before making those comments. Granholm was sworn in as energy secretary in late February 2021, more than seven months prior to making her comments about Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Granholm has been advised that if in the future she engages in prohibited political activity while employed in a position covered by the Hatch Act, we will consider such activity to be a willful and knowing violation of the law,\u201d the OSC letter sent to FACT on June 9 said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.gov\/Services\/Pages\/HatchAct.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B,connection%20with%20federally%20funded%20programs.\">Hatch Act<\/a>, passed in 1939, prohibits federal government employees from engaging in \u201cactivity directed at the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group \u2013 while the employee is on duty, in any federal room or building, while wearing a uniform or official insignia, or using any federally owned or leased vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Energy spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/special-counsel-biden-energy-secretary-violated-hatch-act\">confirmed<\/a> to Fox News Digital that Granholm had received a warning from the OSC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Granholm takes her ethics obligations seriously,\u201d the spokesperson said, according to Fox News. \u201cAnd, she remains laser focused on delivering President Biden\u2019s equitable clean energy agenda which will help lower energy costs for American families and enhance our nation\u2019s security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Energy Secretary and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm violated the Hatch Act during an October 2021 interview when she used her office to promote Democratic candidates, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC). Granholm\u2019s violation was revealed after watchdog group Foundation for Accountability &#038; Civic Trust (FACT) requested that the OSC investigate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1531828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}