DeJoy: "I'll submit that I know very little about postage stamps"

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Source: Axios

Under questioning from Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Postmaster General Louis DeJoy acknowledged at a hearing on Monday that he knows "very little about postage stamps."

Why it matters: Porter and other Democrats have accused DeJoy, a Trump donor and successful businessman, of being unqualified to serve in his position at a time when the U.S. Postal Service is set to deliver a record number of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election.

The big picture: DeJoy, who clashed repeatedly with Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee during Monday's hearing, vehemently denied that he is "engaged in sabotaging the election" as part of a campaign by President Trump to undermine mail-in voting.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/katie-porter-louis-dejoy-postage-8183bae0-02a1-4c5c-b871-4c9bb826d442.html

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Representative Katie Porter questions Louis DeJoy today about the Postal Service

Link includes video of the entire exchange

[ananda]

1. Wow. Good job, Katie Porter!

Still, I wonder if any of these hearings will
change anything.

What needs to happen is to actually enforce
the Constituton and the rule of law.

[doc03]

2. Some comment. from a Postmaster General. He was sent there

to sabatage the USPS and privatize it. If Trump gets 4 more years he will destroy the entire federal government.
Private schools, VA, prisons and USPS.

[Hoyt]

3. It's hardly a prerequisite for the job to know the exact number.

Now, he should have some idea of how the average cost and revenues relate to annual budget, what a 3% increase in rates will do, etc.

Kind of like asking Bill Gates how many characters will Windows password take when talking about security.

[LisaM]

10. I don't know. The previous person in the office was a former letter carrier.

I think that he should know - at least roughly - what a first-class stamp costs, particularly since there have been rumblings about not treating ballots as first-class mail.

[Steelrolled]

13. Yeah, she was wasting her time with most of those questions.

I imagine she was going for social media time which, I have to admit, most people in politics believes is important.

[Laelth]

4. Wrong answer, bonehead!

You’re the Postmaster General, for crying out loud.



-Laelth

[Miigwech]

5. He did not order the changes? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Didn't he brag about how removing the machines was going to improve efficiency? My brain has been pretzeltized.

[KS Toronado]

6. I'd love to take that shit eating grin off his face, and his giggling pissed me off.

We have another guy who thinks he's above the law.

[olegramps]

8. These assholes know that we will not do a damn thing. They are just as the Mafia who robbed people.

He takes the machines off line that can do the sorting job of sorting in one hour what it would take 60 clerks to do in a day. I hope someone has the balls to confront him. But, I won't hold my breath. They kick the shit out of us and we crawl in the corner and whimper. Sorry, but I am not impressed. I would be if they led the postal clerks into the centers and restored the machines. What do you think the nation's founders have done. Wring their hands and say oh my. They literally crap all over us and we don't do a damn thing and they know it. They just laugh.

[PatSeg]

7. Katie Porter is amazing!

[whistler162]

9. And in other news DeJoy almost

run over by a ghostly 1938 Ford Convertible Coupe driven by a man wearing Prince-nez glasses and smoking a cigarette through a cigarette holder and accompanied by a Scottish Terrier.

[Illumination]

11. Comforting to know that we're in good hands with NoJoy & that he's smart, knowledgeable

& competent! Aren't we lucky? Trump always makes such great choices!

[apnu]

12. What a moron, who doesn't get postage stamps? (nt)