Catherine Hanaway is out of the 2008 Attorney General race.
This certainly changes the dynamics.
…Hanaway broke months of speculation today when she announced she would not jump into the increasingly intriguing race for Missouri Attorney General. Instead, she will finish out the last 14 months of her term as a United States Attorney in the Eastern part of the state.
But the former Speaker of the House concedes that the decision to stay out of the race wasn’t easy….
Let’s see, could Catherine Hanaway raise money and run for office without resigning?
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT [United States Attorneys’ Manual]
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Employees in the Department of Justice may not:A. Use their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an election (5 U.S.C. §7323(a)(1).
B. Solicit, accept or receive a political contribution (5 U.S.C. §7323(a)(2), except for a political contribution to a multi-candidate political committee from a fellow member of a federal labor organization or certain other employee organizations, as long as the solicited employee is not a subordinate and the activity does not violate G below.
C. Solicit, accept, or receive uncompensated volunteer services from an individual who is a subordinate (5 C.F.R. § 734.303(d)).
D. Allow their official titles to be used in connection with fundraising activities (5 C.F.R. §734.303(c)).
E. Run for nomination or election to public office in a partisan election (5 U.S.C. §7323(a)(3)), except that in certain designated communities an employee may run for office in a local partisan election but only as an independent candidate and may receive, but not solicit, contributions. 5 C.F.R. §733.107 lists these communities.
F. Solicit or discourage the political activity of any person who is a participant in any matter before the Department (5 U.S.C. § 7323(a)(4)).
G. Engage in political activity (to include wearing political buttons), while on duty, while in a government occupied office or building, while wearing an official uniform or insignia, or while using a government vehicle (5 U.S.C. §7324(a).
H. Make a political contribution to their employer or employing authority (18 U.S.C. 603).[Updated February 1998]
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These employees may not:A. Distribute fliers printed by a candidate’s campaign committee, a political party, or a partisan political group.
B. Serve as an officer of a political party, a member of a national, state, or local committee of a political party, an officer or member of a committee of a partisan political group, or be a candidate for any of these positions.
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F. Organize, sell tickets to, promote, or actively participate in a fund-raising activity of a candidate for partisan political office or of a political party or partisan political group.
G. Canvass for votes in support of or in opposition to a candidate for partisan political office or a candidate for political party office, if such canvassing is done in concert with such a candidate, political party, or partisan political group.
H. Endorse or oppose a candidate for partisan political office or a candidate for political party office in a political advertisement, broadcast, campaign literature, or similar material if such endorsement or opposition is done in concert with a candidate, political party, or partisan political group.
I. Initiate or circulate a partisan nominating petition.
J. Act as a recorder, watcher, challenger, or similar officer at polling places in consultation or coordination with a political party, partisan political group, or a candidate for partisan political office.
K. Drive voters to polling places in consultation or coordination with a political party, partisan political group, or a candidate for partisan political office.
L. Run as partisan candidates for local partisan political office even in those communities listed in 5 C.F.R. §733.107 in which other Department of Justice employees may run for office. However, they may run as independent candidates in a partisan political election for a local office in the municipality or political subdivision, except for those appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. See 5 C.F.R. 733.105(b) and (c)(1).The restrictions listed above A through L apply only to Career SES, Criminal Division, FBI Employees, and all Political Appointees, and are permissible activities for all other employees.
Uh, yep. Other candidates are raising serious money. She wouldn’t be able to keep up without resigning. All the action is going to be in the Democratic Party primary.
Gibbons can be beat. I prefer Jeff Harris but I am now comfortable with Margaret Donnelly as the nominee. I supported Jeff before because I thought he had the best chance of beating Hanaway. Gibbons isn’t a real strong candidate and I think Margaret can beat him. Still like Jeff but I think this really helps Margaret.
I wonder if the Missouri Supreme Court ruling reinstating campaign finance limits was a factor in her decision not to run. It’s a lot more difficult to raise money in smaller chunks (even though party committees can still contribute 10 times the individual limit). Given the amount of money the other candidates have raised, she was looking at a difficult, but not impossible, task.
republican Michael Gibbons (as of the second quarter report in July) has already raised $302,889.00. That’s not the most of any candidate in the race, but it is formidable.
From what I was hearing, she thought that she was going to be decided in early September and then kept pushing the date back.
It could be that the Bush DOJ begged her to stay on since they are having so many USA problems. Although most of us believed that she could still raise enough money if she waited until after the first of the year to announce and quit. But those few months probably didn’t help them, they probably wanted the whole commitment.
This is good news for the Democrats – Harris and Donnelly are both good candidates. I’m leaning to Donnelly because I’d like to see a qualified woman as attorney general. But Harris is good too.
Forgot to mention that Margaret like Jeff has been perfect on every progressive issue in Jeff City.
someone else starts to hint at a candidacy, overshadowing Gibbons again (like with the Hanaway thing)
Scary fact: Matt Bartle is an attorney.
I don’t know where Gibbons ranks with “Conservative street cred” to resist someone like Bartle.
*whistles*
I just can’t believe that he will get the nomination, although as a Democrat I’m hoping he does.
Look for other Rs to jump in this race. I think Bartle is a good possibility, as mentioned above. There will definitely be others. None of the republicans with statewide committees are attorneys. Todd Graves is a possibility, I suppose. Anybody have any thoughts?
At the end of the 2006 election, television reporters acted as though it was a surprise that government corruption was a major issue in the way people voted out the Republicans. The industrial collusion couldn’t exist without the complicity and silence of the US Justice Department. I have personally dealt with Ms. Hanaway’s office, and have watched laws ignored, violated and had reprisal for doing so. Hanaway is a criminal. I could prove it, but unfortunately she is the one in charge of allowing that to happen. It’s quite the twist.
I have had a tort on file with the DOJ to stop the corruption affecting your economic and health of your families. Hanaway’s office has it on file, but illegally refuses to discuss it because it’s a capitol offense by the Bush adminsistrationa and people like her. Hanaway’s assistant, Terry Gardy, admits it’s national security (national corruption), but refuses to let me personally speak with Hanaway (by direction).
If the average Missourian knew and understood several things which this government has done and continues to do; Ms. Hanaway and the rest of her collegues would be hanging out in front of the federal building – literally. See my website at http://www.mark-serti-for-governor.org. Learn what industrial collusion really is, and how Ms. Hanaway is violating the law by assisting corportions to intentionally posion and extort your families. All the candidates are well aware of these facts. If you don’t think that ny of them aren’t aware, then send them the lnk and ask them them to directly comment to you. You’ll find they do know, and are all criminals – just like Hanaway.
Yes….. Hanaway is smart to get out now, and even smarter if she runs to Dubai someday to live before the public executes her, and her fellow criminal sociopaths like Bush and Cheney.