Democrat Rep. Tries To Punk Postmaster General DeJoy, But It Backfires: ‘Every Accusation You Made Is Inaccurate And More Misinformation’

Rep. Lynch says most of his family works for the post office, so he takes a significant interest in the service. He spouts off instances when the post office continued to deliver the mail, like 9/11, the Great Depression, Civil War, etc.

Then he tries to attack the Postmaster-General, who has only been in office for approximately 70 days, saying that he has failed the post office and failed America.

Rep. Lynch:

“Two weeks ago, after you (DeJoy) had been Postmaster for just a few weeks, that all changed. In the middle of a pandemic that has killed 170,000 Americans, and, on the eve of a national election at a time when the CDC is advising people not to gather and limit outside contact, the postal service started removing 671 high-speed mail sorting machines across the country. You stopped the APWU from sorting the mail, and you stoped the national letter carriers and mail handlers form working overtime to deliver the mail. And, for the first time in 240 years in our history of the United States Postal Service, you sent out a letter, embarrassingly, in July to 46 states that said the post office can’t guarantee that we can deliver the mail in time for the elections in November. And we have reports from across the country as you acknowledge, service has been delayed and mail is piling up.”

*Time Out*

His argument is purely political so far. The Postmaster-General has stated multiple times that these are budget issues that have plagued the USPS for years and that he promises to deliver every single ballot in November. Keep that in mind when you read the rest of what he accuses DeJoy of doing.

Lynch Continued:

“In this moment, it is our Postal Workers that happen to be our men and women in uniform. They are on the frontlines of this pandemic. Throughout this pandemic, they have risked their health and safety to deliver or try to deliver mail, medicines, and mail-in ballots to every American home and business six days a week.”

*Time Out Again*

Do you want to know what struck me as odd? How much this guy loves the post office. It’s not just about it being an American institution. This guy LOVES the post office. Nobody loves the post office this much. The people who actually work for the post office don’t love the post office this much.

And then I got to thinking… I wonder if Lynch voted for the 2006 law that required the post office to switch from paying into people’s retirement as they earn it to having to “pre-fund” retirements based on projections, which led to massive losses in revenue.

Lo and behold, Rep. Lynch did in fact vote “aye” on the law that is one of the biggest failures of the United States Post Office.

PolitiFact: James O’Rourke, a teaching professor of management at the University of Notre Dame:

“This advance funding requirement places a burden of about $6.6 billion on the postal service that would not exist if they followed a pay-as-you-go approach,” O’Rourke said. “This burden has quite nearly bankrupted the USPS over a 15-year period.”

The man who describes the postal services as “men and women in uniform on the frontlines” voted for legislation that served to bankrupt the post office. Now he is trying to blame it on a man who has only been in charge for 70 days. Typical Democrat.

Lynch Continues:

“In my heart, I am tempted to ask after 240 years of patriotic service delivering the mail how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks? Now I understand that you bring private sector expertise. I guess we couldn’t find a government worker who could screw it up this fast. It would take them a while. The President is running this post office like a business like he said, he is running it into the ground as he has declared bankruptcy a few times on his own business.”

It dissolves into a shouting match after this, at which point DeJoy looks like a bear waiting to maul Rep. Lynch as Lynch yells at DeJoy, accusing him of intentionally dismantling the postal service. Lynch stops just short of saying that DeJoy is stealing the election for President Trump.

Lynch: “My last question is this: What the heck are you doing?”

DeJoy *as mad as can be*: “First of all I would like to agree with you on the heroic efforts of our 650,000 employees across the nation, and the history of the postal service for their 250-year history of serving the American public. I am very proud to lead the organization. The rest of the accusations are actually outrageous.”

Lynch interrupts: “Will you put the machines back?!”

DeJoy: “No, I will not!”

Lynch: “You will not?”

DeJoy: “I will not.”

Lynch: “You will not? Well, there you go.”

DeJoy: “There I go what? Those machines have been coming out (of service) for years and are not necessary. Every accusation you made other than adhering to the truck schedule is inaccurate and more misinformation for the American public.”

This was a New England shouting match for the ages, and it really tickled the Southern girl in me when DeJoy snips back, “There I go what?” as if they were in the back alley somewhere debating whether or not the Patriots could win without Brady. DeJoy is a badass, and I hope he overhauls the post office. Maybe DeJoy will be the Postmaster-General who brings efficiency and pride back to the USPS.

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.@RepStephenLynch: "I am tempted to ask after 240 years of patriotic service delivering the mail how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks?" @USPS Postmaster General: "Every accusation you made…is inaccurate and more misinformation for the American public." pic.twitter.com/O9LiMIy17Y

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 24, 2020