Sgt Sean Haggerty has made a place for himself with the NH Conservatives crowd – and not necessary a “cool” one. We DO resent someone who is being paid with our hard earned money advocate against our Rights (re: SB116). And I WILL go that next point – I think the reverse is wrong, too. I really don’t believe that someone in government, on the taxpayer dime, should be doing advocacy testimony. Period. Not their place and certainly not in their official capacity. To give a straight laced, fact only report at the behest of our elected leaders? Yes, and desired in some cases, but it should be completely devoid of any whispers of subjective opinion. You want to do that – take a day off, show up in civvies, and announce your name and town rather than in uniform and badge (video after the jump).
But here’s another example (reformatted, emphasis mine) – Instapundit: “Taxpayer-Funded U. Wisconsin Chancellor Spends Her Days Lobbying Alumni Against Scott Walker“.
Rebecca Blank, the taxpayer-funded chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has sent a number of emails to alumni openly lobbying against a budget proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that includes cuts to higher education. A Feb. 18 email from Blank blatantly implores alumni to call state legislators to complain about the proposed education cuts.
“If you choose to contact your legislator on behalf of the university, I encourage you to thank them for engaging in an active discussion about the university budget, tell them you recognize that the state is facing a difficult budget situation and that the university must do its share along with other state agencies, but that a budget cut of the magnitude called for in the proposed budget is just too big and will have a significant negative impact on UW-Madison and its students,” Blank propagandizes in the email obtained by The Daily Caller.
