Snippet 4 -- Improper Political Activity

Seems like the tantalizing Year of the Snippet.

An activist public service? Sure, public servants are apolitical actors, hermetically sealed in their non-partisan chambers of bureaucracy. But how impartial are they really? The answer, according to a new report from the Public Service Commission, is the 287,978 folks on the federal payroll produced a total of 18 complaints about improper political activity. Only seven led to "corrective actions"—a whopping 0.002 per cent of all employees.

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