Robert Duncan, chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, is listed as a director of a super PAC that'

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Robert Duncan, chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, is listed as a director of a super PAC that’s backing Trump in the 2020 election.

GOP and Trump ties run deep on the U.S. Postal Service's board of governors

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Hello? He appointed EVERY ONE OF THEM. This should not be surprising. Disgusting, yes.

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2. Thanks Mitch!

The Postal Service Scandal Doesn't Belong Only To Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell Played A Big Role
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/08/postal-service-scandal-doesnt-belong-only
8/17/20 3:37am
The Postal Service Scandal Doesn't Belong Only To Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell Played A Big Role
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.
By Mark Sumner
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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.

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3. This Whole Thing With The USPS Was Something That Was Planned Out And Strategized For....

a long time now.

This is out and out planned vote suppression on a countrywide scale carried out by a group of people that want to destroy our democracy.

It's really a sad commentary for our country where you get a former first lady acknowledging in a convention speech that the other side is engaged in willful voter suppression using a variety of tactics.

We know that this is happening. We know that the Repugs pull this crap every election - and here we are a couple of months away from the election - and we're talking about how this vote can be stolen from under us.

If I was a veteran - that fought for the U.S. and our Rights - I'd be really pissed at the Repug Party and Trump for tampering with my Right To Vote.

How any veteran or current member of the military can vote for these criminals - I don't know.

[soothsayer]

5. I agree they've wanted to privatize but I doubt they expected a big mail in push

Coronavirus brought that

[TheFarseer]

4. If you guessed he has no experience

with the postal service, you would be correct.