You Can Drive a Full-Size Minivan Through the Loopholes in Louis DeJoy's Statement (C. Pierce)

[Nevilledog]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33637349/louis-dejoy-postal-service-statement-election-vote-by-mail/

Like hanging, the possibility of being sued by 20 state attorneys general, and/or being roasted on a spit in front of congressional committees, seems to concentrate the mind wonderfully. Postmaster General—and abandoned James Lee Burke character—Louis DeJoy on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that he (maybe, perhaps) will suspend all of the various shenanigans that have made him famous over the past month or so.

I am announcing today the expansion of our current leadership taskforce on election mail to enhance our ongoing work and partnership with state and local election officials in jurisdictions throughout the country. Leaders of our postal unions and management associations have committed to joining this taskforce to ensure strong coordination throughout our organization. Because of the unprecedented demands of the 2020 election, this taskforce will help ensure that election officials and voters are well informed and fully supported by the Postal Service.

I came to the Postal Service to make changes to secure the success of this organization and its long-term sustainability. I believe significant reforms are essential to that objective, and work toward those reforms will commence after the election. In the meantime, there are some longstanding operational initiatives — efforts that predate my arrival at the Postal Service — that have been raised as areas of concern as the nation prepares to hold an election in the midst of a devastating pandemic. To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded.

Feel free to drive your full-size family minivan through the loopholes in this statement. For one thing, there’s nothing in there about repairing the damage DeJoy already has done; are the sorting machines that have been removed from USPS facilities around the country going to be returned? Who knows? The indefatigable Ari Berman reports on the electric Twitter machine that 671 sorting machines have been removed already, including 24 in Ohio, nine in Wisconsin, and 11 in Detroit. (Micro-targeting much?) Berman also points out that DeJoy’s statement does not address the directive to leave undelivered mail behind or the move to charge first-class rates for ballots, and that it says nothing about overtime pay for USPS employees working what is anticipated to be a Christmas-level rush at the beginning of November.

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[jorgevlorgan]

1. You can drive it through his argument unimpeded

Because he simply does not have one. "I no longer am
(doing this thing that is clearly a crime) because I dont want people to think I'm committing a crime" is not an argument, it's a full confession.