Senior Republican warns postal reform at risk if DeJoy's job is threatened

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A top House Republican is warning President Joe Biden that any attempt to stamp out Postmaster General Louis DeJoy risks blowing up bipartisan efforts to reform the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the House Oversight Committee’s top GOP member, says any fast moves to oust DeJoy from leading the USPS could peel his support away from a postal overhaul bill that’s a high priority for Democrats as soon as their party-line social spending bill clears Congress.

The proposal to fix the finances of the perpetually cash-strapped USPS came from a remarkably collaborative dynamic on the issue between Comer and Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). But Biden’s nomination of two officials to join the Postal Service's governing board — which oversees the independent agency and ultimately who leads it — has Comer wondering about a potential effort to push out DeJoy, a Donald Trump ally.

“He's come out and basically implied that he's gonna get rid of Louis DeJoy,” Comer said of Biden in an interview. “That creates a problem now with Republicans on this bill ... this is another thing that Joe Biden's gonna screw up.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senior-republican-warns-postal-reform-at-risk-if-dejoy-s-job-is-threatened/ar-AARzjVW

Sounds like Comer's been drinking too much Kentucky bourbon.

[lame54]

1. Fast moves? This is taking forever

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Call Comer's bluff, Mr. President!

Don't let him get away with this threat.

Full speed ahead, dammit!

[MontanaMama]

3. And by USPS reform,

they mean they haven't finished breaking it yet.

[brush]

4. Screw that. Biden is going to get DeJoy out. Let the repugs stew about it...

as they've been trying to privatize/profitize the PO for decades.

[C_U_L8R]

5. How we know Republicans are desperate... their kill switches

Threats of scorched earth will get them nowhere. Shitcan that DeJoy bum now.

[pecosbob]

6. "risks blowing up bipartisan efforts to reform the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service."

"A remarkably collaborative dynamic"? "Bipartisan efforts"? The only effort the GOP has made is to try to sell or shut down the post office.

[gratuitous]

7. It's so weird how the USPS worked pretty well for over 200 years

Then Louis DeJoy was appointed by that famous appointer of incompetents, and suddenly USPS can't remember how to deliver the mail anymore. Check the election results, Rep. Comer; your party lost the last one. You don't get to dictate terms and conditions.

[Celerity]

8. College girlfriend says James Comer abused her

https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2015/05/04/james-comer-domestic-violence/26901137/

A woman who dated gubernatorial candidate James Comer while the two were in college said in a letter to The Courier-Journal on Monday that he was physically and mentally abusive to her during what she said was a two-year relationship. "Did Jamie Comer ever hit me? Yes," wrote Marilyn Thomas, who attended Western Kentucky University with Comer in the early 1990s.

The allegations come as Comer, Kentucky's agriculture commissioner, enters the final two weeks of his campaign to be the Republican nominee for governor. In the four-page letter, Thomas detailed a relationship that she said "was toxic, abusive and caused me a lot of suffering. His controlling and aggressive personality alienated me from most of my family and friends at the time." Thomas said Comer threatened and belittled her and that she ultimately moved away from Kentucky in an effort to leave that chapter of her life behind. She now lives in New York City.

"Everything I did, everywhere I went, and everyone with whom I interacted had to be approved" by Comer, Thomas wrote. "Consequences were violent and swift otherwise." She said Comer became "enraged" in 1991 after they visited a Louisville abortion clinic and learned that she had used his real name on a form requiring proof that she had an escort to drive her home.

Wendy Curley, who said she shared a dorm room at Western Kentucky with Thomas, said that Thomas and Comer had "a very rocky relationship." "I would see bruises on her wrists and stuff where she'd say, 'Oh, I ran into a table,' 'I fell,' just that kind of stuff," Curley said. Curley said Thomas never told her she was being abused. "It was always something to cover (for him). She didn't want anybody to know that he was abusive to her." She also said Comer took Thomas for an abortion. "I know she ended up getting pregnant in like October of 1991 and had an abortion in the beginning of November, and I remember him seeing her to the dorm and just dropping her off after they got back from the abortion," Curley said.

[mahina]

9. Since he piped up out of nowhere

It’s good that this information surfaced. I wish her healing. That sounds traumatic.

[samsingh]

10. we'd be overjoyed if dejoy went to prison to match the slowdowns he's caused

[MagickMuffin]

11. Always with the hostage legislating

If we don't get our way then we will make sure no one gets anything. Oh, and we promise we are gonna be bipartisan. You can trust us!

[empedocles]

12. Be good if he had to pay for he damage he did to the mail sorting machines

[Scrivener7]

13. Yep. Screw them.

[List left]

14. Is this a Joke?

If you fire De-Joke we will block postal reform
If you don't fire De-Joke we will block postal reform
If you don't do what we want we won't play nice
If you do do what we want we won't play nice


Oh my whatever should we do?

De-joker out

[Walleye]

15. They are terrified of the mail-in votes. They need DeJoy

[BlueJac]

16. Full steam ahead Biden dump DeJoy!

[NCjack]

17. New, expanded life for the USPO -- now!

[KS Toronado]

18. Rep. James Comer never votes for anything Democrats want.

Just idle talk