Hi all,

Hard to know where to start, because it’s been a wild seven days. Spoiler alert, though, this is where it ends: Needless to say, we didn't expect to meet Tiny Human for another 6-7 weeks. @mreno79 had tracked her blood pressure through most of pregnancy, but last Monday our @NorthwesternMed docs looked at her blood pressure logs and called her to come into the hospital.

Alright, fine, let's do this. My knowledge and experience here stems from not quite five years on an agency ethics staff, including advising both civil service and Presidential appointees and their staff on Hatch Act compliance. (Opinions are, as always, mine alone.)

https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1139246135598600194

It's true that, as with any set of ethics or anti-corruption rules, details at the margins start to look arbitrary. But the heart of the Hatch Act is about separating the function of (and funding for) governing from the function of (and funding for) campaigning.