Now this is just disgusting
From Patrick Poole writing at
PJ Media:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: McDonald�s Employee Admits Being Paid $15 to Protest WW2 Veterans
Yesterday I reported from the National World War Two Memorial on several members of Congress crashing the barricades set up by the National Park Service that were keeping out several hundred Honor Flight veterans � many of whom were WW2 veterans � from visiting their own memorial. The Park Service claimed that the memorial and the entire National Mall area had to be closed because of the government shutdown.
The same scene was reenacted again today as two Honor Flights from Missouri and Chicago arrived in prearranged visits. These Honor Flights were met by hundreds of ordinary citizens and about a dozen members of Congress, who once again crashed the barricades to let the veterans into the WW2 Memorial.
After about an hour, about 20 protesters arrived on the scene chanting �Boehner, get us back to work� and claiming they were federal employees furloughed because of the shutdown.
In the video below these protesters were marching towards the press gaggle and I was asking them to show their federal IDs to prove they were in fact federal workers. No one wore their federal ID and none would provide it to prove their claim.
Then, remarkably, a guy carrying a sign passed by wearing a McDonald�s employee shirt, which I noted. I then began asking them how much they had been paid to protest, at which point the guy wearing the McDonald�s shirt came back and admitted he had been paid $15.
If these really
were Federal employees, this would be a direct violation of the
Hatch Act.
Posted by DaveH at October 2, 2013 4:55 PM