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Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App by esoterica on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:27PM (#22239095)
Most people working in politics have done work for a zillion other candidates and the state/national party apparatus before. That’s the nature of political work; campaigns only last a few months so people are always job hopping. If that counts as a conflict of interest than every staffer for every single candidate is guilty of a conflict of interest.
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Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App by freewilly1040 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:59PM (#22239551)
You're supporting my point. If a staffer worked for a campaign and in a role in charge of election integrity at the same time, as this firm is doing, it would indeed be considered a conflict of interest.
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Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App by kelnos on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:33PM (#22239951)
I think the parent's point is that if you only consider contractors/staffers who don't have conflicts of interest of this sort, your hiring pool drops to a number that is too small to be useful.

Whether or not that's true is debatable, but I think it's a compelling point.

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Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App by mattrp on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:04PM (#22240312)
>your hiring pool drops to a number that is too small to be useful.

That's why it's called a swamp.

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