I was looking forward to see Trump’s* sycophant billionaire Postmaster General, “No Joy” DeJoy”, testify before the US House of Representatives. I had been thoroughly disappointed by his Republican-staged sham hearings before the US Senate. The House did not disappoint!
…1. Democrats are putting DeJoy on the hot spot about whether he knew his service changes would lead to mail delays
In his Senate testimony Friday and again Monday before the House, DeJoy pitched the widespread delays across the nation in recent weeks as unfortunate dips in service, caused mostly by a shortage of postal workers due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But House Democrats obtained an internal Postal Service memo written to DeJoy earlier this month that warned his suspension of overtime and extra mail trips would cause such delays. (DeJoy has since stopped the removal of mailboxes and sorting machines — although he won’t put back the hundreds taken away since he started in June).
“Mr. DeJoy, you’re withholding information from us,” said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the committee holding the hearing, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, “concealing documents and downplaying the damage that you’re causing.”
DeJoy didn’t really have a specific answer to why he didn’t share this memo with Congress or whether he had concerns about mail delays through his changes, although under pressure from Democrats he used stronger language than before to describe mail delays. “We are very concerned with the deterioration and service and are working very diligently [to fix it],” he said.
But overall, DeJoy gave Democrats an opening to make their central case, which is that his actions are politically motivated.
“In the Postal Service’s 240 years of delivering the mail, how can one person screw this up so fast?” a visibly frustrated Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) asked, adding “What the heck are you doing?”
“For anyone thinking of voting absentee, the effect of your changes is to move Election Day from Nov. 3 up to something like Oct. 27,” Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said. (He’s not wrong, based on best-practices recommendations from both election experts and the Postal Service to mail your finished ballot at least a week before the election.)… [emphasis added]
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This is the first of four listed takeaways from House hearings on the Postal Service. Click through for the other three. You owe it to yourself to do so.
Louis DeJoy Answers For His Corruption
I particularly like how Lynch [D-MA] tore him a new asshole!
Rep. Stephen Lynch Questions Postmaster General DeJoy During Hearing
It is crystal clear that No Joy has his job for one reason only: to help steal the 2020 election for Trump* and the Republican Reich.
RESIST!!
9 Responses to “"No Joy" DeJoy Before the House”
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I agree that he doesn’t care about the PO, nor how it affects the people, and in doing dt’s bidding. How sick.
He needs to be removed.
Mr. Lynch and Ms. Porter blew him out of the park with their comments & questions. imho
Not that DeJoy cares.
I sure do!
FYI: Anyone see this? Just saw this, scrolling around the ‘hood’. lol
New York state Attorney General Letitia James has announced that she’s taking President Donald Trump’s administration to court over recent policy and operations changes at the Postal Service that have slowed down mail delivery across the country.
https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/08/25/ny-attorney-general-devastates-trump-again-over-usps-sabotage/
I watched him with Katie Porter, and he displayed brass balls the size of church bells. Among the things he didn’t know was the price of a stamp for a post card (35¢) but essentially he knew nothing he asked, but continued to hold himself as if none of that mattered and he was still the most powerful person in the room. If Elijah Cummings were still alive, this could have killed him. It nearly killed me, and I watched onlt a few (Lynch, yes, also Katie and most of AOC.)
People are pointing out that it is not the President (not directly at least) who appoints the Postmaster General, but the USPS Board of Governors, which currently has 3 R’s and 2 D’s. Something else to clean up, if we survive to do so.
Just another Trumpian POS, working to destroy what was ONCE a great country, in many ways.
I too agree with you that dEjoy has no interest in the USPS.
He backs tRump 100% and doesn’t give a hoot about the people.
I know I’ve been signing all sorts of petitions stating that he should removed from his position.
I hope that they do like Pat pointed out with the link, and sue the living crap out of him for all that he has done.
I’ve seen some footage of this hearing yesterday and DeJoy made an everlasting impression of smugness and not giving a 💩 about America’s Postal Service, its employees nor the American people it serves. He has two reasons to run the Postal Services into the ground: to rig the election by preventing a postal election so his buddy can stay and ruin the US further and demolish the competition to the commercial postal services he’s invested in
And DeJoy doesn’t care who sees what he’s about, confident that he’ll win on both accounts.
It’s very befuddling why so many apparently half-way knowledgeable folks are willing to throw themselves on their swords to save someone who they know damn well has a 99% chance of going down in flames on 11/3/20.
These are mostly rich business people. How does it POSSIBLY advance their interests on 11/4/20?
I’m sure they all have enough money to keep them comfortable in the means to which they’ve become accustomed. But that’s NOT what’s in their DNA. “NEVER ENOUGH” is their mantra.
So I don’t get it.
Super-optimism is a thinking error common among narcissists.
Thanks and tired Hugs to all!