A frustrated citizen, shouting into the silent darkness

My fourth attempt to reach the Senate committee that oversees the operations of the US Post Office.

Federal Voter Suppression Scheme, under color of law, in full effect

fourth attempt to reach your committee

Partisan megadonor Louis DeJoy preps the federal agency he heads to suppress millions of targetable ballots against the candidate he’s made massive donations to.  There is a quorum of governors in place to replace him (two vacancies being Tubervilled?).  Not even their Election Mail Committee seems concerned about the inexplicably long nationwide delays in mail service ahead of what is expected to be an unaccountably close election. 

I would like to send you the letters I sent to the USPS Board of Governors with details about this terrifying reality that nobody, including the Senate committee that oversees the Post Office, seems at all concerned about.   HOW DO I DO THIS?

Is there any way to get a response to my query?   I have had only silence, and an automated reply, from my two senators, my congressman, your committee.

Is democracy worth fighting for, or is the radical right’s position that “majoritarian tyranny” has put this failing country in a fix only autocracy can save us from the more intelligent assessment of the challenging moment we face as a nation?

I decided, and I think wisely, not to add “what the fuck is wrong with you useless fucking fucks? Are you all already preparing to transition to full Nazi rule, you goddamned mercenary mother abusers?”

I also didn’t trouble them with the damning fact that within two months of DeJoy’s appointment in June 2020, he had already ordered 671 high volume mail processing machines dismantled.  He also ordered the removal of mail boxes across the country (guess which zip codes were affected). 

Trump refused, in August 2020, as the pandemic raged, to release funds ($3,000,000,000, approved by Congress) needed to get the Post Office up to full speed before the election and ensure the timely delivery of ballots cast by mail. Instead DeJoy’s post office sent letters to millions of voters informing them that their mail in ballots might not be available in time for them to vote by mail. The Post Office Inspector General apparently did not find that DeJoy, who predicted additional Post Office cutbacks and massive delivery delays before Election Day, had done anything unethical, or maybe not.

Here is the Postal IG’s report. The Inspector General concluded that there was no ethical conflict with the Trump megadonor and his wife, Dr. Aldona Wos (Trump’s nominee to be US Ambassador to Canada) owning between $30,100,000 and $75,000,000 in assets in Postal Service competitors like UPS and trucking company J.B. Hunt as DeJoy met all ethics requirements regarding disclosure, divestment and recusal from decisions in which he may have a conflict.

Of course Trump’s Postal IG found that. [1] Why wouldn’t he, or if you prefer, why would he? Recall Trump’s imbecilic retraction of his statement about Putin meddling in the 2016 election. The world’s most prolific liar said, with the straightest of faces, that he’d obviously meant exactly the opposite of what he said, as one does.

It turns out that the Trump “megadonor”, who is nowhere near a billionaire (net worth a puny $600,000,000) gave a piddling $2,500,000 to Trump and the RNC in the last election cycle or two. Here is the website for Louis Dejoy and Aldona Wos’s charitable foundation.

[1] From the IG’s report:

On July 21, 2020, and August 3, 2020, DeJoy provided written memoranda to the Board of Governors (the Board) and Ethics recusing himself from participating in matters involving the remaining 14 company holdings identified by Ethics. In the memoranda, DeJoy also instituted a screening process to avoid participating directly or indirectly in any matters involving those identified holdings. DeJoy took these preventative measures within the three-month period required by federal ethics regulations.

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