— from Norm Zimlich —

The United States Postal Service is being sabotaged by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, in support of President Trump’s quixotic and self-serving campaign to undercut and discredit voting-by-mail in the coming General Election.

DeJoy’s postal slowdown strategy became more overt last week with the removal and destruction of hundreds of USPS mail collection boxes and letter-sorting machines across the country. His demolition derby coincides with the imminent onset of mail balloting for the November 2020 elections, as well as with the Congressional Recess.

Just as every US citizen has adjusted to the Pandemic, our Senators and
Representatives need to adjust their recess schedule and drag this rogue federal Postmaster General and USPS Directors into public testimony, while the evidence of their disenfranchisement campaign is fresh. State Attorneys General should also prosecute election subversion, particularly in states like Washington with 100% vote- by-mail. But Congressmen of both parties can halt DeJoy’s blatant nationwide election subversion assault in its tracks NOW.

In 2009 we the people of Orcas Island, with the help of our Congressional delegation, won a local battle to save the Deer Harbor Post Office. Now we the people of the entire country must enjoin Congressmen of both parties to prevent this sabotage of the USPS from derailing the most important election in our lifetimes. After all, along with the U.S. Armed Forces, the U.S. State Department, and the other federal agencies, the U.S. Postal Service is the People’s institution, and not any politician’s personal workforce.

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