Refusing to violate the Hatch Act
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This should be an easy call:
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.
The airport isn’t showing the video, which Reuters reported began airing at airports across the country Thursday, due to its “political nature,” according to Port of Seattle officials.
“The Port of Seattle will not play the video on its screens at SEA Airport, due to the political nature of the content,” a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “We continue to urge bipartisan efforts to end the government shutdown and are working to find ways to support federal employees working without pay at SEA during the shutdown.”
And it’s spreading:
Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets have declined to display a video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem blames congressional Democrats for the government shutdown and anyrelated travel delays, citing the political nature of its content, according to local authorities.
Officials that oversee airports serving Buffalo, Charlotte, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, said the video could violate internal policies that bar political messaging or contravene state or federal laws that prohibit the use of public resources for political activity.
If Noem wants to air propaganda about the Trump shutdown, the virtues of murdering pets, etc. she can pay ad rates for it. Airing it as an official government communication is tinpot dictator stuff.