No Hatch Act Violation Here

You can't run for partisan political office if you work for the Office of Personnel Management. But you can if you work for USIS, the privatized OPM spinoff that conducts background investigations on individuals for the agency. The Clarion News of Pennsylvania reports today on candidates for the position of prothonotary (defined as "a chief clerk in certain courts of law") in Clarion County. They include Republican candidate and USIS employee Margie Burford Halvin, who, the newspaper reported, said at a candidates' forum that her work makes her "aware of the charges people are facing in the court system."