Andrew
Kloster
has
a
new
job
in
the
Trump
administration,
as
reported
by
the
Project
On
Government
Oversight.
Kloster
has
landed
as
the
new
general
counsel
for
the
Office
of
Personnel
Management.
The
New
York
University
Law
graduate
has
made
the
rounds
in
conservative
legal
circles,
previously
working
at
OPM
in
the
first
Trump
term,
becoming
a
prominent
2020
election
denier,
and
serving
as
general
counsel
for
congressman
Matt
Gaetz
(FL-01).
He
also
has
a
well-documented
history
of
saying
wildly
inappropriate
things
online.
It
wasn’t
even
a
long
time
ago,
so
it’s
hard
to
even
disingenuously
chalk
it
up
to
youthful
indiscretion.
In
2023(!)
he
was
tweeting
that
he
identified
as
a
“raging
misogynist,”
saying,
“I’m
100%
women
respecter
precisely
because
I’m
a
raging
misogynist.
I’m
so
kind
you’ll
want
to
kill
yourself
and
die,
which
is
the
goal.”
Around
that
time
he
also
tweeted,
“I
need
a
woman
who
looks
like
she
got
punched.”
Which
was
only
a
few
months
after
being
served
a
temporary
restraining
order.
He
referred
to
“literally
all
women”
as
annoying
liberals.
In
2012,
he
also
commented
on
a
Volokh
Conspiracy
article
that,
“Consent
is
probably
modern
society’s
most
pernicious
fetish.”
But
it
isn’t
only
women
that
the
new
counsel
for
the
federal
government’s
HR
department
has
attacked
online.
He
also
wrote,
“Slaves
owe
us
reparations,”
and
“slavery
was
voluntary.”
He
called
Chinese
people
uncivilized
and
compared
them
to
raccoons.
Oh,
and
he
also
seemed
to
encourage
a
civil
war.
Delightful.
Now
he’s
in
a
position
to
significantly
alter
the
protections
for
federal
workers,
as
reported
by
POGO:
As
chief
counsel
for
OPM,
Kloster
could
influence
policies
that
allow
more
politicization
of
the
federal
workforce,
could undermine
protections for
career
staff
and
allow
political
beliefs
to
become
a
factor
in
who
to
hire,
fire,
and
promote.
OPM
crafts the
rules that
implement the
Hatch
Act,
a
law
regulating
federal
employees’
involvement
in
partisan
political
activities.The
Office
of
Personnel
Management
is
also
playing
a
critical
role
in
implementing
the
president’s “Schedule
Policy/Career”
executive
order issued
last
week,
overseeing
every
agency’s
plans
to
strip
statutory
protections
from
some
employees.
Yesterday,
the
office
issued a
memo
to
all
agencies directing
them
to
designate
a
point
of
contact
for
their
Schedule
Policy/Career
conversion
efforts
by
this
Wednesday
(Schedule
Policy/Career
was
formerly
known
as
“Schedule
F”).
That’s
just
fantastic.
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