I'm sorry, but one further note on the hatch act: the general
restrictions (the ones that apply to general government employees) are:
Federal employees may NOT:
- use official authority or influence to interfere with an election
- solicit or discourage political activity of anyone
with business before their agency
- solicit or receive political contributions (may be
done in certain limited situations by federal labor or other employee
organizations)
- be candidates for public office in partisan elections
- engage in political activity while:
0 on duty
0 in a government office
0 wearing an official uniform
0 using a government vehicle
- wear partisan political buttons on duty
Even if thse rules were directly translated to the ICANN context, my
case is a very long way from violating any of them -- I don't even have
an ICANN uniform (well, I have a couple of t-shirts -- but those are
available to anyone).
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Kent Crispin "Be good, and you will be
kent at songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain