*** Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail - House Oversight Hearing***

[Mersky]

Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail, Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots

[Mersky]

1. Chairwoman Maloney is reading opening remarks

[c-rational]

2. The placard in front of DeJoy spells Honorbale (sic) incorrectly...how appropriate.

[PaDemocrat]

3. Comer is an @$$

[steve2470]

4. this ranking Republican is doing his best to confuse things and LIE LIE LIE

Gaslighting, nothing wrong, keep moving.

[Mersky]

8. He indicated he was more interested in poaching the Postal Service

Than whether his constituents are getting the mail or if United States citizens get to have a fair and free election. So, yeah, requires a lot of lying, stammering, and performative bullshit to get through a hearing like this.

[Mersky]

5. Some Mail Is Delayed Five to Six Days in NYC, Postal Workers' Union Says

News coverage of delays in mail as given by the Chairwoman:

Some Mail Is Delayed Five to Six Days in NYC, Postal Workers’ Union Says
By Clodagh McGowan New York City
PUBLISHED 5:36 PM ET Aug. 13, 2020

Like most businesses, the Astoria Bookshop closed its doors to customers when the pandemic erupted. That's when the Postal Service became a lifeline, allowing owner Lexi Beach to sell books online.
But she's noticed problems recently: deliveries to her store with postmarks that are two weeks old, and books mailed to customers in Queens ending up in other states before being delivered back in New York.

-snip-

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/08/13/nyc-elections-2020-nyc-vote-by-mail-mail-is-delayed-by-days-union-says

____

From Courier Journal in Kentucky: Postal Service’s Cost Cutting is Frustrating Kentuckians -
(behind paywall)

____


And the last article mentioned by Rep. Maloney:

'Like Armageddon': Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
LA Times
Laura J. Nelson, Maya Lau
,LA Times•August 20, 2020

Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS.

Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS. (Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union- Tribune)
Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.

At a mail processing facility in Santa Clarita in July, workers discovered that their automated sorting machines had been disabled and padlocked.

And inside a massive mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles, workers fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes.

-snip-

https://news.yahoo.com/armageddon-rotting-food-dead-animals-180715834.html

[agingdem]

26. we had a "500 year flood",

an ice storm that trapped us in our homes for days and yet my mail was still delivered every day..so now DeJoy, that Lex Luther wannabe, is insisting nothing has changed..my mail is almost non existent..my meds, once on time, are days late, overnight delivery of perishable goods arrives three and four days late, rancid or visibly rotting...and yet, this Louie insist this business as usual..he's a lying asshole but given the piece of garbage he works for "lying asshole" is part of his job description...

[The Blue Flower]

6. DeJoy looks quite uncomfortable

having your feet held to the fire does that

[uponit7771]

7. Dejoy Looks like a comic book villain

[Mersky]

10. Good grief, no doubt. Is right out of central casting for 'mail thief'

Or white collar crime defendant

[oasis]

9. Rep. Connnoly ripping Dejoy. Dejoy's eyes are shifting while his ass

is twitching.

[SamKnause]

11. DeJoy looks guilty.

I hope they rake him over the coals.

Republicans whining they weren't notified.

Same shit different hearing.

I fucking hate republicans.

[SamKnause]

12. Republicans favorite words:

Fraud

Hoax

Fucking liars.

Oops, left out conspiracy.

[Kali]

99. of course those are thier favorite words

they are what they do best

I mean, after all...be best!

[SamKnause]

13. Rep. Jody Hice now blaming "riots" on postal delays.

[mucifer]

17. The riots did mess up important UPS deliveries on the west side of Chicago for weeks

It was a horrible mess. My patient couldn't get her g tube feeds. We had to get creative.

But, that was months ago and it's been worked out.

Oh and that was UPS NOT USPS.

[CottonBear]

28. I heard some Republican "witness" say UPS instead of USPS.

That tells me all I need to know about him.

[mucifer]

34. Honestly, it was a big safety issue in those days to not go into the west side of Chicago with big

packages. It was bad. I saw my patients. But, I wasn't bringing anything but a nursing bag.

[CottonBear]

25. Hice is from my district. He has NEVER come to the biggest city in the district,

because it’s a blue city with lots of black and brown people. He has no office here, nor has he ever had a constituent meeting here. He is a worthless, mean and stupid representative.

[OnDoutside]

14. Christ, Gym Jordan and DumDum Gohmert look Major League against these Republican no hopers, and

THAT'S saying a lot.

[Mersky]

15. Saw rep walker chitchatting with dejoy before the hearing

Wonder how much mega donor dejoy gave to his campaign? Brb...

[SamKnause]

16. Five minutes of praise and sucking up to DeJoy.

[Mersky]

20. Why wouldn't he? I mean, he received $2,800 from dejoy on May 3, 2019

According to rollcall (which I will not link to, because good reasons), dejoy’s given $21,000 to walker since 2014.

[uponit7771]

18. DeJoy; "... I didn't direct ending overtime I suspended overtime !!!..." REALLY ?!?! WTF

[agingdem]

31. not exactly plausible deniability...didn't direct ending overtime..suspended it

that's like saying admission is free, pay a the door...he's not very good at bullshit...he doesn't like this accountability thing, does he?!

[uponit7771]

33. Nope, not at all ... now he's bullshitting about overtime addressing the overtime question to

... "limitations" vs suspending it

[agingdem]

37. to paraphrase Inigo Montoya

"You keep using those words (suspend, limitations)...I do not think they mean what you think they mean"..NoJoy and the orange dung heap were obviously separated at birth

[femmocrat]

19. He's lying.

He said he didn’t slow down the mail. I don’t believe a word he says!

[SamKnause]

21. DeJoy seems angry.

Zero postal experience.

Most unqualified of all candidates that were up for the job.

[Mersky]

22. Technical difficulties - placeholder for current guy speaking

Stream dropped, audio issues. Will add his remarks here.

[blogslut]

23. Is Gym Jordan participating in this hearing?

I don't see him. I can't imagine him appearing via remote. Did he maybe refuse to attend in person because he's too manly to wear a mask?

I hope he isn't there today. His yelling gives me a headache.

[Mersky]

24. Rep Maloney is holding up the report: Service Performance Measurement - PMG Briefing Aug. 13, 2020

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/PMG%20Briefing%20%E2%80%93%20Service%20Performance%20Management%2008-12-20.pdf

[Mersky]

27. "We didn't have executive briefings like this before."

translating dejoy - he said he doesn’t know what he’s doing

[Karma13612]

29. NoJoy

Has a bit of a stammer problem.

So, I’d say he is up against a wall and feeling pretty bad.

Good, he downplayed the failures until pushed against said wall.

I hope someone asks him how REMOVING and taking Sorting Machines OFFLINE helps with efficiency!

[uponit7771]

35. He's playing with words saying he didn't "direct" actions but suspended them and then not ..

... answering direct question and changing the wording of the question to equipment etc when asked about the sorting machines.

[PaDemocrat]

30. Maloney is destroying him..

[Mersky]

32. OMG - foxx is guarding dejoy

She actually pivoted from not going into her own recent issues with mail delivery to congratulating him.

Ridiculous.

[Mersky]

36. dejoy gave foxx $2700 in 2016

Has been contributing to her campaigns since 2006 (was her first time running as an incumbent). Also, that was back when he was running the “New Breed Corporation”

[oasis]

38. "Eliminate overtime". Decoy "purposely" didn't try to find out who issued

the order.

Riiiiight

[Mersky]

39. Rep Eleanor Norton spoke

(I was distracted looking up campaign contributions from dejoy to republicans - there’s so many.) Please add any comments about her questioning.

[crickets]

40. Just flipping through broadcast channels -

Both CNN and MSNBC have trump delegate counts on the screen. CNN is showing the RNC Convention with no sound in split screen off to the right side, because apparently it's so important on the first morning. Ugh. Thank goodness for CSPAN.

[Mersky]

41. Trucks must leave on schedule

doesn’t matter whether there’s actually any mail on them.

Postmaster dejoy - shipping air on time since June 2020.

[CottonBear]

45. I want to scream! It's a SERVICE not a business! I loathe DeJoy. N/T

[blogslut]

42. Some glitchy sound going on

Rep Clay must have bad wireless

[jayfish]

44. Jeebus!

Why don't they just cut his feed and move on.

[Mersky]

43. Rep Clay - having technical issues

They might skip his section, and comeback to him later.

[Karma13612]

46. The "no OT" memo email---

NoJoy says he DOESN’T want to find out who generated it?

He admits it to Rep Norton!

Why not! If it went against Dept policy, why not?!

[Mersky]

47. Rep Lynch making good points!!!

“Did you know the Postal Service has never allowed itself to be put in this position.”


Now, he is going through how the USPS has gotten the mail out on time through wars and crises...

Pretty darn forceful section - I’m gonna need to add a clip here.

[crickets]

50. Lynch is firing with both barrels.

He's basically accused DeJoy of deliberately breaking the USPS. It's getting hot in the room.

[oasis]

54. And Dejoy's reply, "humina, humina, humina".

[Bluepinky]

66. Lynch was excellent!

Smart, assertive and knowledgeable about the USPS, has many family members who work there.

[jayfish]

48. Rep. Lynch Killing It.

Laying out the history of PO delivery.

[Mersky]

49. After 240 years of delivering mail on time, how can one person screw this up? - Rep Lynch

[stillcool]

51. Thank you for this...

and all the $$$ info you've put it.

[Mersky]

52. Grossness: dejoy is shielding himself with 650k postal workers

and is not gonna say anything useful

[Karma13612]

53. Woohoo!

You go Rep Lynch!!!!

[crickets]

55. Palmer R-AL is angling for both siderism, "It all started going downhill with Obama" argument.

Now he's trying to lay the foundation for voting by mail to be rife with fraud because of voter registration issues. Claims the Obama Biden admin were responsible for inaccurate voter rolls. Makes a poor joke about Chinese hackers being responsible for technical issues.

[uponit7771]

56. GET HIM COOPER !!! 500,000 ballots rejected because of late arrival !!!

[Mersky]

57. "That's not efficiency, that's insanity" - Rep. Cooper

Holds up trucking records. And then went on to point out that dejoy, “has single-handedly moved up the election date.”

[uponit7771]

58. ANSWER THE GOT DAMN QUESTION !!!

[Mersky]

59. Did you payback several of your employees for contributing to the tRump campaign?

[blogslut]

60. Ooh, Jim Cooper is pushing all Dejoy's buttons

I like it

[BumRushDaShow]

64. Cooper nailed him

(as a lawyer)

[Mersky]

61. Are your mail delays implicit campaign contributions?

Getting at the heart of the matter!!!!

[crickets]

69. Cooper got down to the point. I think he startled everybody by going that far.

If judged comparative to others caught out before him, Cooper points out DeJoy would be fined and removed from office of USPMG. Also points out DeJoys slowing the mail is essentially another form of campaign contribution. "Is your backup plan to be pardoned like Roger Stone?" :room gasps: Ouch.

[CottonBear]

62. "Is your backup plan to be pardoned like Roger Stone?" DAMN!

“Will you provide us with all communications with (Trump’s chief of staff)?”

[blogslut]

63. Steube reminds us all he was a brave, brave soldier

How dare he, a brave soldier, be compared to a lowly postal worker.

[stillcool]

67. yeah..aren't a lot of postal employees veterans?

[PatSeg]

76. USPS employs more veterans

than anyone else in the U.S.

[jayfish]

68. Staffers Need to Compile Stats...

on postal worker casualties right f'ing now. What a POS!

[Mersky]

65. Wolverine's detached parasitic twin* is aghast that anyone could suggest that tRump is interested

in interfering in the election with dejoy’s help.

*steube

[maxrandb]

70. It was the riots fault

Be very, very afraid of black and brown people... maybe some LGBTQ people as well... coming to burn your Stepford neighborhood.

I guess we know what the theme of the Retrumplican Party will be up until November.

Dems ought to bring up pictures of the tiki torches boys and proud boys and ask what the delays were in those areas.

[Mersky]

75. He mischaracterized the nature of the hearing thus far

Why wouldn’t he lie and spin those events, too?

Then goes on to portray dejoy as some kind of victim of not his own inexperience, poor performance, and questionable policies, but of Democratic members of the Oversight Committee who dare question him.

[maxrandb]

77. Is it ever Retrumplicans fault?

[Mersky]

71. Rep William Clay - asked for any data leading up to changes he implemented

dejoy is doing his typical taking issue with the word, “changes”.

[crickets]

72. Norman R-SC actually *apologizes* to DeJoy about the berating he's receiving.

Of course, if there were no USPS problems directly traceable to DeJoy, he wouldn't be in front of a committee hearing, now would he? Wow.

[CottonBear]

74. Most of the GOPers have offered same apology. N/T

[crickets]

79. Unsurprising. I joined late, so thanks for catching me up.

I love how Connolly pushed back on that right after, pointing out that DeJoy's poor performance is the reason for the hearing after all. 🤭

[CottonBear]

83. He was good! I'm listening. DeJoy sounds like a Mob associate. N/T

[CottonBear]

73. GOP Rep from SC talking about "burned out cities."

Scary others!

[Mersky]

78. You've not had contact with the tRump campaign?

Rep Connally asking in regards to his testimony before the Senate.

[Mersky]

80. The only contact that dejoy offered up was mnuchin

Needs further probing, imo.

[crickets]

85. +1

Mnuchin says he was not involved in postmaster general selection
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mnuchin-says-he-was-not-involved-in-postmaster-general-selection/ar-BB18cLoh?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

Separately, David C. Williams, the former vice chairman of U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors who stepped down in April, said Mnuchin had "politicized" the agency and suggested "decision making" for the Postal Service "was largely transferred to the Secretary of Treasury." [snip]

He asserted in testimony before the Congressional Progressive Caucus that Mnuchin "continued contacts" with Republican appointees "issuing orders and expressing his approval and disappointment with their performance."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/democrats-louis-dejoy-postal-service-399489

“By statute, the Treasury was made responsible for providing the Postal Service with a line of credit,” Williams said. “The Treasury was using that responsibility to make demands that I believe would turn the Postal Service into a political tool, ending its long history as an apolitical public infrastructure.”

Williams said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was leading the attempts to politicize the agency, and Mnuchin insisted all Republican appointees "come to his office and kiss the ring and receive his blessing." Williams alleged Mnuchin wanted to confirm a wide swath of agreements within the USPS, as terms for receiving the line of credit.

"Clearly the president was determined that the Postal Service should inflict harm on Amazon," Williams said at the hearing.

[maxrandb]

81. I want to meet Gym Jordan walking down a dark alley

just once in my life.

[PaDemocrat]

82. Jordan is a joke

ASSHOLE

[Mersky]

84. Yes, it's seemingly true that Gym is on every committee

He’s going for a quantity over quality effect. If there’s a mic and cameras - he’ll be there.

[Mersky]

86. Rep Krishnamoorthi is now questioning Duncan

Is pretty hard hitting and requires a video clip!

[crickets]

87. He points out direct quotes from a published letter accusing Democrats

of planning to pad votes through absentee voting. USPS Board of Governors chair Duncan tried to lie outright and saying he doesn't know anything about it. Caught!

[Mersky]

89. Meet the chairman of the Board of Governors for the USPS: robert m duncan

***Note - this is his bio from the USPS site: https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/robert-duncan.htm

Robert M. Duncan
Chairman, USPS Board of Governors
Chairman, USPS Board of Governors Robert M. Duncan
Robert M. Duncan was appointed to the Postal Service Board of Governors by President Donald Trump and was confirmed by the Senate in August 2018. The Senate confirmed Duncan for a second term in December 2019. His current term expires on December 8, 2025. Duncan was re-elected as Chairman of the Board of Governors in November 2019.

His federal government service began in 1989 with an appointment to the President’s Commission on Executive Exchange. Duncan was also assistant director of the White House Office of Public Liaison under President George H.W. Bush. Duncan served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 2006 to 2011 and as the Board’s Chairman from 2009 to 2010. In 2017, he was named the 17th Chairman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

Outside of government service, he served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2007 to 2009. As RNC Chairman, he raised an unprecedented $428 million and grew the donor base to 1.8 million – more donors than at any time in RNC history*. Duncan was also President and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. He taught democracy to former communist leaders through the International Republican Institute, and he participated in the EastWest Institute’s U.S. China High Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Alice Lloyd College, a private four-year liberal arts college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, and Chairman and CEO of the Inez Deposit Bank in Inez, Kentucky.

Duncan holds degrees from University of the Cumberlands and the University of Kentucky College of Law, and he has completed various executive education programs.

Latest update: December 2019

*bolded section was presented on a placard by Krishthnamoorthi during the hearing

[crickets]

100. Oh, no conflict of interest there, nosiree. Wow. nt

[oasis]

90. Rep. K with a masterful setup of Duncan's questionable connections,

being a bigtime GOP money raiser and serving on the Postal Board of Governors.

He first got Dejoy to state that the wearing of those two hats would be inappropriate.

[crickets]

88. "Were you elected by a unanimous bi-partisan board?" [edited w/addition]

DeJoy actually answers yes.

The Postal Service scandal doesn't belong only to Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell played a big role
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969548/-Every-single-member-of-the-Postal-Service-board-was-appointed-by-Trump-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell

But Trump isn’t the only Republican who’s been visiting with DeJoy, and DeJoy isn’t the only Postal Service leader who can thank Republicans for his sudden rise. As Yahoo! News reports, DeJoy is in "in frequent contact with top Republican Party officials.” Presumably that means Mitch McConnell. Which is quite the coincidence seeing that every single member of the current all-white, all-male Postal Service board of governors can thank McConnell for that role.

As it turns out, since 1970, members of the board of governors have served in staggered 9-year terms. The idea is to have a board whose membership is spread across multiple administrations and which owes allegiance to no particular White House. That should mean that about half those currently seated on the board are left over from Obama’s term in office, with others appointed by Trump. But that’s not what happened. In 2015, Obama re-nominated most of the existing board members for a second term, including those members appointed under Bush. Those six members should all still be on the board. None of them are.

That’s because McConnell did what he did so often—blocked those nominations. By the time Trump stepped in, the number of remaining Bush- and Obama-appointed board members was exactly zero. Then, as with federal judges, McConnell abruptly got out of the way. That means that every single current member of the United States Postal Service board of governors was appointed by Donald Trump. That board then officially ousted lifelong Postal Service employee Megan Brennan, and replaced her with Republican fundraiser Louis DeJoy.

ETA2
Years of turmoil at Postal Service governing board fueled political firestorm, critics say
https://abcnews.go.com/US/years-turmoil-postal-service-governing-board-fueled-political/story?id=72482926

Sanders' decision in 2015 and 2016 to block two of the Obama administration's nominees -- made at the behest of powerful union leaders -- and McConnell's decision to block the rest in retaliation created a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to appoint a full slate of picks to a panel that is meant to be comprised of bipartisan members serving staggered, seven-year terms.

That standoff over the appointees has emerged as a poignant example of the law of unintended consequences in Washington -- and Postal Service insiders now place it at the root of the current threat facing both the Postal Service and the upcoming presidential election. [much more]

[Mersky]

91. Jamie Raskin!!!

He’s always good

[Mersky]

92. Would you hire me without a background check? - Raskin

[Mersky]

93. What gave you the impression that the job was yours for the asking?

[Mersky]

94. What made steven mnuchin's involvement in your selection unprecedented?

[crickets]

95. More on Mnuchin

Mnuchin Paved Way for Postal Service Shake-Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/business/economy/dejoy-postmaster-general-trump-mnuchin.html

In early February, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invited two Republican members of the Postal Service’s board of governors to his office to update him on a matter in which he had taken a particular interest — the search for a new postmaster general.

Mr. Mnuchin had made clear before the meeting that he wanted the governors to find someone who would push through the kind of cost-cutting and price increases that President Trump had publicly called for and that Treasury had recommended in a December 2018 report as a way to stem years of multibillion-dollar losses. [snip]

Since 1970, the Postal Service had been an independent agency, walled off from political influence. The postmaster general is not appointed by the president and is not a cabinet member. Instead, the postal chief is picked by a board of governors, with seats reserved for members of both parties, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate for seven-year terms.

Now, not only was the Trump administration, through Mr. Mnuchin, involving itself in the process for selecting the next postmaster general, but the two Democratic governors who were then serving on the board were not invited to the Treasury meeting. Since the meeting did not include a quorum of board members, it was not subject to sunshine laws that apply to official board meetings and there is no formal Postal Service record or minutes of what was discussed.

Article also goes into detail about trump's "issues" with Amazon and Bezos.

[Mersky]

96. New Breed now XPO logistics

They identified problems with contract file. Would you release those contracts?

[Mersky]

97. republicans are throwing feces so that dejoy can't answer questions

because Jamie Raskin has to pack the work the republicans refuse to do into his five minutes of questioning.

[Mersky]

98. Brief recess

[Karma13612]

101. What are NoJoy and the photographer

Talking about?
I always that photojournalists were silent recorders of truth.

[Kali]

111. maybe the angle he is being shown at

at least on the feed I'm watching - NOT flattering

[Mersky]

102. Oof - got back in here a little late

[Mersky]

103. Rep Rouda is laying things out pretty clearly

[Mersky]

104. Mentioned there is a bill on mcconnell's desk

removing the prefunding mandate

[Mersky]

105. Asking him whether he's modified the Postal Service's 'business plan'

And that he should give them written documentation about how he’s veered from the 5 year plan

[Mersky]

106. dejoy said he wouldn't do it

[Mersky]

107. "It's like telling Jamba Juice they can't plug in the blenders to do their job." - Rouda

[crickets]

108. Rep Rouda calling out the Repub supported trump scam to shake confidence in mail-in voting.

DeJoy's letter to the 46 states calling delivery of ballots into question is feeding that. Mail is being delivered late, hurting businesses, veterans, and others needed prescriptions. Points out that USPS delivers almost everywhere with no mandate to make a profit. Also points out how USPS is hobbled by the 75 year prefunding of health benefits and pensions, which is widely disapproved by postal workers, board of governors, and bipartisan members of Congress. Free business advice: the bill to change that and free up billions is on McConnell's desk, tells DeJoy to call McConnell and ask him to pass it.

DeJoy has no problem with the pre-funding mandate. He supports it.

DeJoy is "working on" making changes to his future business plan for the USPS. DeJoy claims USPS should be self-sustaining, Rouda points out that eliminating the pre-funding would accomplish that. [obviously, duhjoy.]

[CottonBear]

109. Hice (R GA) accusing postal union of planning to NOT deliver Republican ballots,

because they endorsed Biden.

That is a horrendous lie!

[crickets]

116. Yep. He's also dragging in the Hatch Act, which if we really wanted to go there

would have a drastic effect on trump's RNC Convention speakers roster, not to mention all of the free rally coverage on WH grounds he's been getting for years.

Hice is acting like we've never had successful absentee and mail-in voting for years. All of these Repubs are. Didn't a judge order trump to prove mail-in voting fraud or stfu, just in the last day or so? One of the Dem reps really should bring that up. Again and again.

[Mersky]

110. dejoy hasn't considered the postal service's impact on the election in his 70 days at the USPS

because duhjoy*


*Lol - see Crickets above

[Mersky]

112. Rep Khanna questioning dejoy, now

[oasis]

113. GOP Rep. Hice is lying about Postal Unions violating the Hatch Act. nt

[Mersky]

114. You understand that there are millions who see these actions in the opposite? - Khanna

How many millions would it take to reinstall these machines? Less than a billion?

[Mersky]

115. What is the harm in putting these machines back in place?

[crickets]

121. "We don't need the machines" is obviously a lie given what's going on.

DeJoy doesn't want to admit he destroyed many of those machines and can't put them back. Also refuses to admit that voter confidence is vital and would be restored along with those machines and a return to better service.

"Give me a billion and I'll put them back."

Nailed him. What a putz. It's all about money, and DeJoy knows McConnell will never pass the bill that would give him the $$$.

[Mersky]

117. Get me the billion and I'll put them back... - dejoy

Get him the billion to fix what he broke? Good gawd this guy is terrible.

[Karma13612]

123. It's a quid pro quo

It’s extortion.

[blogslut]

118. Ro Khanna is cornering Dejoy

The honorable postmaster does not like it.

Khanna got Dejoy to admit he would re-install the sorting machine if he got a billion dollars.

[Mersky]

119. Rank member comer is kissing tRump's butt by proxy

[maxrandb]

120. DeJoy, the Post Master General, can't even quote the Postal Service motto

I fucking love that Democrat who asked him to recite the motto...

DeJoy was like, "uh...rain, gloom,...mumble, mumble... something, something".

Fuck, just a God Damned average ordinary American could quote that.

It was like watching Donnie Shit for Brains talking about "Two Corinthians".

[blogslut]

122. Funny how this week, the slowdown is Obama's fault, according to the GOP/Dejoy

What a coincidence

[Mersky]

124. Ugh, comer et. al are covering for dejoy

and it is disgusting. The time, resource, and democracy wasting liars must be booted out of office.

[Mersky]

125. Rep Mfume now has the mic

Is describing the effects on everyday Americans receiving late fees, etc. due to delays in the mail.

[crickets]

126. Trying to blame the removal of boxes on Obama and Biden

Comer trying to make it sound like current complaints are the fault of Democrats, and a hoax. Not pointing out the reason nobody squawked about it before now was because boxes were not removed in targeted numbers that hurt people to the point they felt the need to complain.

DeJoy: "It's a long standing thing, and I would rather talk about ..."

Yeah, I bet you would rather talk about something else.

[Mersky]

127. Is asking dejoy to put the density reports back online

I’m now interested in those, too.

[crickets]

129. Me too. [misplaced reply here, oops. leaving as is.]

DeJoy will not admit that by changing long standing programs at the USPS regarding mail delivery he has directly affected mail service and slowed it down.

DeJoy: "concerned" and "working on it" -- nobody is bothering to pin him down on how he plans to work on it.

[Mersky]

128. What would say to the veterans and seniors that are experiencing late deliveries? - Mhume

duhjoy: We are concerned about every delivery that is late and we are working to get it back on track.

[Mersky]

130. Lol, dejoy is having trouble with grothman (R-WI)

He doesn’t know the right team answer for what the postal service will do with all the extra postage revenue from ballots being mailed with return postage in Wisconsin.

(dejoy has no idea what to do with that question. more revenue from election? wha? goes spiral eyes as he cannot compute the strategic answer that will assuage the orange one.)

[Mersky]

131. Rep Wasserman Schultz is now questioning dejoy

[Mersky]

132. We have been asking questions of you for weeks and you have been hiding answers from us

- my rough paraphrasing as she argues that he has not been honest with them

[oasis]

133. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a longtime supporter of NALC.

She has been guest speaker at several bi-annual conventions of the National Assoc. of Letter Carriers.

[Mersky]

134. Ooooo caught him

he can’t have it both ways and claim decisions about the sorting machines aren’t his to make, then go on to say he won’t let them be plugged back in.

[crickets]

137. Bingo! eta

He's claiming local management makes the decisions about the sorting machines. WOW.

[Brother Buzz]

135. My observation and takeaway...

When DeJoy's buttons are pressed he starts talking like a Mafia mob boss straight out of Hollywood central casting. Most curious.

[Mersky]

136. I don't know who this thumb-in-a-tie is on my screen

But he is full of sh*t

[crickets]

139. Clay Higgins R-LA, and thumb-in-a-tie is the most hilarious and accurate description!

[Mersky]

138. Lol. From your heart, dejoy why oh why USPS?

Uh, jobs...experience, uh,.. vague statement about leadership, so fuggedaboutit

[Mersky]

140. Rep Sarbanes: you have an opportunity today to demonstrate your intentions are pure

[Mersky]

141. THREAD #2

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213962364