Well, since Head Start is not the Christian Coalition, has no real meaning to the conservatives running, robbing and raping the country right now, the folks in charge of Head Start are being warned against Lobbying officials on behalf of keeping their doors open and serving their constituency...kids. See, the Hatch act, named for our extra-collegial leather-lover Mr. Hatch, forbids such un-American activity as talking to your representatives for political purposes if you make money on the federal payroll. It doesn't cover the President on a Carrier however lying about al-Qaida being cooked...

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Federal law bans using government money or staff time to lobby Congress for or against legislation. But if a Head Start teacher talks to a Head Start mother about legislation and urges her to call her representative in Congress, is that lobbying?

Federal officials say maybe yes, maybe no. But just in case, they say, they sent a letter this month to Head Start centers warning them of the provisions of the Hatch Act, which bars certain political activity
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"Head Start has been around for 38 years and no previous administration has ever seen fit to twist and contort the federal laws in order to justify what appears to be an unconstitutional attempt to silence the critics of its proposal," said Ron Herndon, chairman of the association.
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But in 38 years, there's never been adminstration that so violently hates the poor, disenfranchised and minorities like the 1600 Crew. No wonder they want to dump Head Start, it just opens the payback door, yet again, for the religio-fascist fundies to get more for themselves..both power and money.