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(62,415 posts)dchill
(38,489 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)Can't count on that one, just like we couldn't previously count on the Democrat appointed by TFG.
Demsrule86
(68,566 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Derek Kan.
Worked for Moscow Mitch, and for Mrs. Moscow Mitch, and for a Republican Finance Committee.
Biden had to appoint a Republican for the seat, but why THAT Republican?
Chance of DeJoy going bye bye are slim to none.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)He has worked closely with the most partisan GOP officials.
Get the facts.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)Has his mug on the glossy card and invites me to listen to his podcast to discuss his completion of the post offices 10 year plan. Right in the trash.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)... In April 2017, Kan was nominated by President Donald Trump to become under secretary of transportation for policy in the United States Department of Transportation.[3] He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 13, 2017.[4]
Kan previously worked as director of strategy at Genapsys, a biotech startup in Silicon Valley, as a management consultant at Bain & Company, as an advisor at Elliott Management Corporation, as a policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and as chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee.[5][6] He was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget.[7]
The Trump administration briefly considered Kan for a Federal Reserve position.[8] In July 2019, Kan resigned from his position in the Department of Transportation to take on the position of executive associate director at the Office of Management and Budget.[9]
In July 2020, Kan was confirmed by the Senate to become to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. He left the position in December 2020.
In November 2021, President Biden announced he would appoint Kan to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.[10] On May 12, 2022, his nomination was confirmed in the United States Senate by voice vote.[11] He is awaiting his swearing-in.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)DeJoy still in place.
Mail-in ballots coming soon.
Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)Over 15,000 ballots were discarded because of minor clerical errors in the primaryerrors cause because the legislature changed the laws allowing them to demand that voters use the ID they used for their initial registration, which might have been 40 years ago, but of course they didnt bother educating the public to make them aware that they needed to do this. Nor did they alert voters that they had to sign the envelope in a special unmarked place. There were other requirements, too. Its much harder for them to overturn in-person votes, especially because many counties have voting machines with paper backups.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)GOP is going to every trick in and out of the book to tamp down proper, lawful voting.
LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Only the Postal Board of Governors can do so.
And the Board has been waiting and waiting for Biden's nominees to be Senate confirmed.
Alas, now that has happened and we learn, or realize, that the Republican Biden appointed has ties to McConnell, and was a hard-core Republican.
I doubt, now, that DeJoy will be fired -- massively corrupt, and yet he stays in the most consequential election in our lifetimes.
jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)Preempt all the twists which the various GOP operatives will surface and pervert for everyone's entertainment. Let demon respond. It will be best to have him selling reactive rather than proactive propaganda. As the race for the counting commences In the public domain this summer, his value to the insurrectionists is thus diminished.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Mysterian
(4,587 posts)I find it difficult to believe President Biden would have nominated board members who would support DeJoy.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)That's the question.
Celerity
(43,357 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Celerity
(43,357 posts)sure at all.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)It's not likely to happen now.