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Sen. Ossoff destroys DeJoy over failing to read and respond (Original Post) spooky3 Apr 2024 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Think. Again. Apr 2024 #1
Love Senator Ossoff, Quondi's Boo. sheshe2 Apr 2024 #2
Years ago I worked for a federal agency. When a letter from a Senator spooky3 Apr 2024 #3
It could be any of the reasons you just stated. sheshe2 Apr 2024 #4
Together with unmitigated contempt. vanlassie Apr 2024 #5
This sheshe2 Apr 2024 #7
The way he speaks PlutosHeart Apr 2024 #13
It's also very possible that the letter never arrived, which would be damning. dawg Apr 2024 #39
Yes--when my mother's agency got a "Congressional"..... lastlib Apr 2024 #11
i second this . AllaN01Bear Apr 2024 #16
Months prior to the 2020 election agingdem Apr 2024 #22
Ossoff is excellent. Nicely done nt ramen Apr 2024 #6
He probly HASN'T received it yet--- lastlib Apr 2024 #8
That's been my experience in North Carolina. BComplex Apr 2024 #28
DeJoy.doesn't.care vapor2 Apr 2024 #9
He'd better care about his budget, which the Senate partially controls. Nt spooky3 Apr 2024 #10
"Letters come in all the time"???? lostnfound Apr 2024 #12
DeJoy: LETTERS come in all the time. (I ignore them all) Captain Zero Apr 2024 #26
THERE is waste, fraud, and abuse in government. lastlib Apr 2024 #30
A shocking response indeed malaise Apr 2024 #32
love him! ecstatic Apr 2024 #14
Mine too. He and Senator Warnock represent the best of Georgia brer cat Apr 2024 #27
owned by boss. AllaN01Bear Apr 2024 #15
Mahalo, Spooky & Sen Ossoff! Cha Apr 2024 #17
Hi Cha! spooky3 Apr 2024 #23
Aloha, Spooky! Cha Apr 2024 #24
Every time I've seen moniss Apr 2024 #18
My Senator - I love this guy!! 💙 crickets Apr 2024 #19
I cand imagine.. I remember when he Cha Apr 2024 #25
WOW! That was a thing of beauty! OSSOFF on the job! Thank you, Senator! liberalla Apr 2024 #20
We used to call those letters moniss Apr 2024 #21
Too bad our representatives don't treat letters from constituents the same way. MichMan Apr 2024 #29
Amen nt. moniss Apr 2024 #33
To be fair, they gets lots of constituent letters whereas spooky3 Apr 2024 #34
Ossoff's letter was the Senator acting on behalf of his constituents Prairie Gates Apr 2024 #38
I stand corrected. MichMan Apr 2024 #40
That was the OP who said that ("destroyed") Prairie Gates Apr 2024 #41
Wow! malaise Apr 2024 #31
Arrogance and incompetence are a terrible combination--and spooky3 Apr 2024 #35
... progressoid Apr 2024 #36
Ossoff impressive Prairie Gates Apr 2024 #37

Response to spooky3 (Original post)

sheshe2

(85,184 posts)
2. Love Senator Ossoff, Quondi's Boo.
Tue Apr 16, 2024, 11:38 PM
Apr 2024

He was amazing there. He destroyed DeJoy.

And for the record, President Biden cannot fire Dejoy only the board can do that.

The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed during the pandemic

https://fortune.com/2024/04/10/usps-dejoy-price-hikes-customer-dissatisfaction/

spooky3

(35,063 posts)
3. Years ago I worked for a federal agency. When a letter from a Senator
Tue Apr 16, 2024, 11:53 PM
Apr 2024

Or Rep came in, heaven and earth moved to respond immediately. I would bet that’s the experience of most others in that situation. The idea that DeJoy either deliberately ignored the letter or is so incompetent that he didn’t have a procedure in place to call his attention to this letter and take appropriate action is outrageous.

sheshe2

(85,184 posts)
4. It could be any of the reasons you just stated.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 12:13 AM
Apr 2024

However I am going with incompetent and no procedure in place. He is a trumper after all.

PlutosHeart

(1,390 posts)
13. The way he speaks
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 12:41 AM
Apr 2024

gives me the impression of a very ignorant person. But then again he was put there to dismantle because he certainly is not capable of good planning or thinking.

dawg

(10,659 posts)
39. It's also very possible that the letter never arrived, which would be damning.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 02:02 PM
Apr 2024

I live in Georgia, and I've had mail take a month to get to me from a town 12 miles away.

lastlib

(23,816 posts)
11. Yes--when my mother's agency got a "Congressional".....
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 12:36 AM
Apr 2024

tires started squealing, rubber started peeling--they. MOVED. to respond. It takes DeJoy's level of cosmic incompetence to fail to respond. Heads ought to roll over that failure--starting with deJoy's!

agingdem

(8,160 posts)
22. Months prior to the 2020 election
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 02:15 AM
Apr 2024

Trump knew he was going to lose the election so he and his enablers devised a plan to "fix" the election in Trump's favor...Trump ominously warned his rally imbeciles the only way he could lose the election is if Joe Biden's rigged the votes...Bill Barr questioned the validity of mail-in ballots and Louis DeJoy slowed the mail, removing mailboxes and trashing sorting machines...DeJoy is Trump's guy...

BComplex

(8,672 posts)
28. That's been my experience in North Carolina.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 04:27 AM
Apr 2024

One letter with a wrong address was returned to me after 8 months!!! My daughter to this day has not gotten her Valentine's card I sent this year. A friend sent a letter from Colorado in early March that has not gotten here. This has become a mess everywhere, and the prices for mail have gone sky high.

lostnfound

(16,321 posts)
12. "Letters come in all the time"????
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 12:39 AM
Apr 2024

Did Dejoy REALLY SAY THAT?? To a US Senator??
OMFG.

Here’s a phrase bonehead. “The respect due to the office”.

Captain Zero

(7,207 posts)
26. DeJoy: LETTERS come in all the time. (I ignore them all)
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 03:39 AM
Apr 2024

That is what he seems to imply, is it not?

How much does DeJoy get paid?
$313,180 in 2022. per google.

Total Compensation package by general estimates is $428,000 per annum.

lastlib

(23,816 posts)
30. THERE is waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 07:57 AM
Apr 2024

They should give him a dollar a year UNTIL he gets the mess cleaned up.

Or better yet, just FIRE his ass now!

moniss

(4,587 posts)
18. Every time I've seen
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:38 AM
Apr 2024

DeJoy and he's asked any tough questions he goes into that familiar corporate big-shot condescending mode where he sort of snorts a laugh and then tries to deflect or just straight out fails. I've lived a long time and worked high on the hog and low and these kinds make me want to puke because every one of them I ever had exposure to was piss-poor at doing their job and only had their abilities at office politics and being a snake to keep them afloat. Worthless scum.

Cha

(300,933 posts)
25. I cand imagine.. I remember when he
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 03:24 AM
Apr 2024

Sen Ossoff ran.. We all were Hoping So Much he would Win!

liberalla

(9,536 posts)
20. WOW! That was a thing of beauty! OSSOFF on the job! Thank you, Senator!
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:40 AM
Apr 2024

DeJoy sounds like an incompetent goof!

moniss

(4,587 posts)
21. We used to call those letters
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:46 AM
Apr 2024

"red tag" letters because every secretary and assistant was under strict orders that if you got a letter from an elected official or a regulator you were to immediately drop anything you are doing and make a copy of the letter and walk the original and the copy to your boss wherever in the building they were and it didn't matter if you had to barge into a meeting to hand it to them. You were to treat those letters like the place was on fire. So the staff referred to it as "red tagging" something incoming.

spooky3

(35,063 posts)
34. To be fair, they gets lots of constituent letters whereas
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 09:46 AM
Apr 2024

Agencies etc get very few Congressional inquiries.

Prairie Gates

(1,711 posts)
38. Ossoff's letter was the Senator acting on behalf of his constituents
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:56 PM
Apr 2024

in response to incompetent leadership of a federal agency affecting their lives.

Like, what do you think happens when a representative or Senator receives a complaint letter from a constitutent? They group them together and act on them like Ossoff is doing here. Weird to call out our Reps on a video of one of them doing exactly what he should be doing. I mean, did you get to the part where he discusses the distress felt by the people of Georgia as a result of DeJoy's abysmal incompetence?

MichMan

(12,331 posts)
40. I stand corrected.
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 03:53 PM
Apr 2024

DeJoy was destroyed by Sen. Ossoff. When is his replacement taking over?

I only contacted my representative once, and got a reply from a staffer thanking me for my concerns.

Prairie Gates

(1,711 posts)
41. That was the OP who said that ("destroyed")
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 04:03 PM
Apr 2024

Not me. It also has zero to do with the post I responded to.

Point stands: It's extremely weird for you to call out the Democratic Senator for doing exactly what you say does not happen (reps being responsive to constituent concerns).

Prairie Gates

(1,711 posts)
37. Ossoff impressive
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:51 PM
Apr 2024

Well, lots of people send letters!

Oh yeah, are a lot of them US Senators sitting on your funding committee you absolute malignant dunce?

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