{"id":40884,"date":"2020-08-25T11:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40884"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:31:59","slug":"no-joy-dejoy-before-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/no-joy-dejoy-before-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":""No Joy" DeJoy Before the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/font><\/p>\n

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…1. Democrats are putting DeJoy on the hot spot about whether he knew his service changes would lead to mail delays<\/strong> <\/p>\n

In his Senate testimony Friday<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. (DeJoy has since stopped the removal of mailboxes and sorting machines \u2014 although he won\u2019t put back the hundreds taken away since he started in June). <\/p>\n

\u201cMr. DeJoy, you\u2019re withholding information from us<\/strong>,\u201d said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the committee holding the hearing, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, \u201cconcealing documents and downplaying the damage that you\u2019re causing<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

DeJoy didn\u2019t really have a specific answer to why he didn\u2019t 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. \u201cWe are very concerned with the deterioration and service and are working very diligently [to fix it],\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

But overall, DeJoy gave Democrats an opening to make their central case, which is that his actions are politically motivated<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Postal Service\u2019s 240 years of delivering the mail, how can one person screw this up so fast?<\/strong>\u201d a visibly frustrated Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) asked, adding \u201cWhat the heck are you doing?<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFor anyone thinking of voting absentee, the effect of your changes is to move Election Day from Nov. 3 up to something like Oct. 27,\u201d Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said. (He\u2019s 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<\/a> the election.)…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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.<\/font><\/p>\n

Louis DeJoy Answers For His Corruption<\/a><\/p>\n