Postal chief DeJoy has long leveraged connections, dollars

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Amid concerns about widespread mail delays, Congressional Democrats are looking into how Louis DeJoy came to be hired as postmaster general. DeJoy, a prominent donor to President Trump and other Republicans, wasn't among 53 original candidates for the job.

Instead, in what Democrats call a breach of protocol and blatant cronyism, DeJoy’s name was added as a contender by the board member leading the search, John Barger. He was acting on behalf of the board’s chairman, Robert “Mike” Duncan, a former Republican National Committee chairman who knew DeJoy and his wife through work on a White House advisory group. DeJoy, Barger and Duncan were prominent donors to President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

His prolific giving to organizations and GOP candidates, including $1.2 million to Trump, has also drawn a spotlight to the transactional appearance of some of his contributions. His wife, Aldona Wos, is a prominent donor as well, and has been nominated by Trump to serve as ambassador to Canada; her nomination is pending.

In the years before Andrew DeJoy enrolled, the family’s foundation donated several thousand dollars a year to Duke. But in 2014 they escalated their giving with a $737,000 contribution, according to tax records. The money helped finance the Blue Devil Tower, a massive glass-encased addition to the school’s football stadium, which includes the DeJoy Family Club, a “first-class” banquet hall overlooking the field with space for 600 people.

During the 2012 governor’s election in North Carolina, DeJoy, Wos and more than 60 employees of New Breed from eight different states routed more than $165,000 to the campaign of Republican Pat McCrory. The donations were made at a time when contribution limits prevented individual contributors from giving more than $8,000 to a candidate in an election cycle.

In 1994, the National Labor Relations Board found the company was “motivated by anti-union animus” when it quietly hired nonunion employees at a California facility, a finding upheld by a federal appellate court. The company was also ordered to pay $22,000 in back wages to 23 workers in North Carolina in 2006 after it was cited for 40 labor and hour violations, records show.

David C. Williams, a former Postal Service inspector general who said he resigned as vice chairman of the board of governors in April after it became clear DeJoy would be hired, said Mnuchin was using a multibillion-dollar line of credit with the Postal Service as leverage to take effective control over labor agreements, prices and contracts with Amazon and other large shippers.

 

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Here's another guy who has to go to prison and he can pay for all those machines out of his own lieing pockets. He's just another one of tRump creeps.

I’m outraged that DeJoy was placed in this position! I’m tired of the money & power game in this country. It’s criminal!!! The Post Office is an American institution that needs protection. Come on, Congress, kick some ass!!!

These guys are getting away with it and nothing is done .. apart from shallow words without actual action

Dems have wasted their two years being in the majority in the house on pointless investigations. Hopefully we get to hear them shouting from the minority over then next term of Trump.

Trump has hung a giant garage sale sign on our country. Contribute to his campaign and you can own a government organization too.

Maddygram 1.3M is your answer

The EVIL

Nice, could not make the top 53! What a prize, best people only.

These happen in Federal Civil Service all the time. Unqualified get good jobs & qualified do not. Common to hire people not on OPM certificates. Even ratings rigged. Not uncommon to see people from same faith or same ethnicity in some departments. EEO farce & litigation.

Mnuchins excuse for meddling in usps in order to protect the loan is a lie Else y would he work to get yrc (zollars) a $700m loan for $70 m valued company? At low rate? While dod suing yrc for fraud? Mnuchin lies

So if ur concerned about bd behavior in past related to unions as a concern re upward, check out the central states pension fund Zollars & barger stuck trucking cos in it & ran them out of biz or merged them, leaving the pension underfunded Now expected to run dry by 2025!

Meanwhile leftists are executing Trump supporters.

Congressional Dems - not what you would call “quick on the draw”

Time to remove him. He is attempting to sway the elections. I am guessing by the direction of the President.

It's irresponsible to try to politicize this: The 9 governors elect the postmaster general; the governors and the postmaster general elect the deputy postmaster general. No more than five governors may be adherents of the same political party. He was elected unanimously!

American politics (as are worldwide politics) are as corrupt as anything I’ve ever heard of or witnessed. And the fact that Trump is so hard faced is a joke. Mind you, he’s just the latest in a long line of liars!

displacement activity. fantastically irresponsible.

shocker TrumpKillsUSPS TrumpFailure

He was picked because he was willing to crawl the deeper into the gutter than the others and kiss the boots of the trumpie dictator

He got the job because he is another corrupt friend of Trump. And will do his bidding. How times does this have to happen before justice is done?

You can create all the conspiracies you want but u will find that he was hired by a completely independent board. Period. Don’t perpetuate this false narrative.

DNC

“Looking into” whoop Dee fucking shit. Were has that gotten us?

Did he swear a loyalty oath only to Donald Trump, too?

What do you mean how he came to be hired? That’s the dumbest crap I’ve seen so far today. Unqualified individuals have been in positions they didn’t earn or deserve since I was a kid. Dems need not spend time on that. Move to the issue and fix it. Who GAF how he came to be hired?

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When so many problems exist in this country... THIS is a fabulous idea! Democrats making this a priority will surely help the American people. 🙄 (fkn idiots)

How he came to be hired? Good 'ol fashioned networking and a little bit of quid pro quo.

We should be outraged! USPSsabotage DeJoyMustGo TrumpFailure TrumpFailedAmerica

Put there to re elect Lyin King

Let me make it simple: He was willing to bend over and take it up the ass for Trump...

Because he is the scummiest and most corrupt.

Please don’t let this story grow stale. Keep on it. Our very Democracy is at stake!!!

Nepotism: NEPOTISM. Nepotism. What spelling the word will you use here?

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