dedicating one (1) gray hair to Rep. Mark Walker referring to Louis DeJoy as a "logistics genius" and then following that up with a complaint about "cancel culture"
Walker, who is a Southern Baptist minister, voted against the reauthorization of VAWA. Also: rollcall.com/2018/04/30/wal…
did not have "rural Appalachia" on today's bingo card, clearly a mistake on my part (Mike Duncan is from east Tennessee and serves on the board of trustees of Alice Lloyd College)
DeJoy keeps saying that he simply "made the trucks run on time." This is an interesting way to frame things! I talked to workers previously about why it contributed to backlogs: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"I understand you bring private sector expertise to this role. I guess we couldn't find a government worker to screw things up this fast" -- Rep. Stephen Lynch
Gary Palmer is using his time to complain about "anarchists laying siege to cities across the country"
Greg Steube says that as a veteran he is very offended by previous comments that compared postal service workers -- who have been dying from COVID, remember! -- to the troops. (Stuebe, for reference, was a JAG)
Hard to miss how surly DeJoy's demeanor is in response questions from AOC
Pressley is taking a sharper tone with DeJoy here, pointing out that working for the USPS was historically one of the only living wage jobs available to Black Americans
She's asking DeJoy for data disaggregated by congressional districts on COVID-19 cases and deaths among postal workers, by Friday
Now citing previous reporting on anti-union actions and sexual harassment issues at DeJoy's former companies, asking Duncan if he was aware of those issues (he says he wasn't)
Katie Porter is currently doing a very good job of demonstrating that DeJoy doesn't know very much about basic USPS services
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