An anti-Paul person is saying...

[NoMoreApathy]

Ron Paul is not an employee of the Federal Goverment, his is an employee of the State of Texas.

He's NEITHER.

He's an elected official. Elected officials are not government employees. They dont' work for the government, they work for the people who elect them. No one in the US government tells an elected official what to do.

If elected officials were employees, they'd be bound by the government's Standard Operating Procedures, which they are not.

This goes for Federal, State, and Local.

 

[lvenable]

I'm an Air Force veteran, and I not only contributed what little I could afford to a presidential campaign in 2000 and 2004, I also volunteered. The thing is, you CAN NOT "represent the Armed Forces" while doing such activities. That is, you can't be in uniform when you participate in political activities.

....Please don't ask me who I was supporting during that time. It's a sore subject that I'm really embarrassed about now. Let's just say I've made some big changes in the past year or so...

Anyway, as far as donating to someone running for president, I don't think there's any problem with it. I know I did it, and lots of my co-workers did too. Nobody ever said that you can't donate money to a campaign. The only thing that I heard talked about was the fact that you can't be in uniform or on duty when doing anything politically-related.

 

[Mark37snj]

He's NEITHER.

He's an elected official. Elected officials are not government employees. They dont' work for the government, they work for the people who elect them. No one in the US government tells an elected official what to do.

If elected officials were employees, they'd be bound by the government's Standard Operating Procedures, which they are not.

This goes for Federal, State, and Local.

So then how does them being paid work? Does the state of Texas pay his salery on behalf of the people of Texas from their taxes? And how is that different then how employees gets paid? Is it just a technicality in the way the law is stated that makes them not an employee?