KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An official at the United States Postal Service confirmed Friday that four mail-processing machines have been removed at its Kansas City, Missouri, facility.
The removal of machines comes as part of changes made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, according to a report from CNN.
The USPS official said that in addition to the four machines removed in Kansas City, the USPS had removed two machines in Springfield and one in Wichita “for efficiency and lower mail volume.”
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“We are seeing the destruction of the postal service,” U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver II, a Missouri Democrat who represents KCMO, said. “I don’t think there are any questions about it.”
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The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported Friday that Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft was notified in late July that the USPS may not be able to return all mail-in ballots to election authorities by the Nov. 3 election.
That delay could invalidate some ballots for the general election, when the country will elect a president and Missouri will elect a governor, among other races.
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That was then, this is now.
A campaign piece, from Uniting Missouri, the PAC propping up Governor Mike Parson (r), arrived in our mail yesterday:
“Officials say you should return your mail or absentee ballot now to ensure it is received and counted in time.”
No shit, Sherlock. Who’s responsible for this state of affairs?
Wait a minute. In Donald Trump’s (r) world aren’t mail-in ballots rife with fraud?
This right wingnut mail piece is just oozing cognitive dissonance and gaslighting. Not that their target audience would notice.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Our #CommitmentToAmerica is to protect the fundamental principles that keep our communities safe.
I condemn ALL who hijack a legitimate national conversation and use it as an excuse to loot, destroy, and kill. Their actions are reprehensible and have no place in our nation.
[….] 8:39 AM · Sep 16, 2020
In the 4th Congressional District?
Lindsey Simmons (D) [2020 file photo].
The reality:
Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
Hard to keep communities safe when the President of the United States gasses his own citizens.
[….] 5:44 AM · Sep 17, 2020
“It was an accident, I swear.”
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Vicky Hartzler @VickyH4Congress
US House candidate, MO-4
Democrats’ plan if they win this November is to silence voices of people who disagree with them. They’re more interested in passing their own liberal agenda than working with people across the aisle:
[….] 11:08 AM · Aug 31, 2020
Some of the responses:
Vicki, and I mean this sincerely, I hope you lose this election. I hope the good people of Missouri see that you are intent on perpetuating the us vs. them rhetoric currently dividing this nation and preventing any meaningful progress from being made.
I think she may prefer “Vicky.”
Please show examples of when Republicans have shown interest in “working with people across the aisle”
The party of Mitch McConnell can shut ALL the way up about “reaching across the aisle.”
There you go.
No more fear tactics, Vicky.
What’s she talking about? As if the GOP works across the aisle.
You’re silencing our voices right now. In this present reality of police brutality, a pandemic, economic depression, unnatural disasters. Trump’s America is the worst America has ever been. You want to scaremonger about a different leader who is actually sane? That’s your play?
When that’s all they’ve got…
I really like the liberal agenda. Reduction in death and sickness, increase in funding for small business and prosecution of every member of the Trump administration that has been corrupted.
The @GOP strategy is repeat lies often and hope that people start to believe and vote against their own interests. Or they are racists. Pretty simple.
Hold a town hall
1. This article is over a year old.
2. How is considering ending the filibuster an example of “silencing” anyone?
Good catch.
They’ve got nothing but lies, hate, & old news.
What are Republicans doing then when you and they silence the voices of the MAJORITY who disagree with you?
Well, now they get to name post offices, Ironic, eh?
Your Senate Majority Leader won’t even bring up Democratic bills for a vote. Tell me, what exactly have the Republicans done to each across the aisle
Please show me that “plan”. I’m a die hard Democrat and haven’t seen what you claim. #LiesLiesLies
Republicans are hiding behind their social media accounts, mean tweeting, because that’s what the @potus taught them to do when they don’t want you focus on their own failures. @senatemajldr has had legislation on his desk for months designed to help the American people.
Says the Congressperson who doesn’t even have anyone answer the phones for constituents any more. Now you can only communicate via email, when much of her district lacks adequate internet. Well, I guess you could mail a letter…oh, wait.
There’s that irony stuff again.
Examples please! Hartzler it’s bull shit and you know that. You are one of the most divisive people I know in Missouri, And that’s saying a lot.
Seriously? What world do you live in? Are you pretending be this stupid? You really know the truth. Your party’s now the trump party. If you choose to stay in there, at least accept the narcissistic morons agenda for what it is. Complacent.
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
First Wall Street, now #BigTech lines up for Biden/Harris. The ruling class strikes back. That’s what this election is about
[….] 7:54 AM · Aug 12, 2020
And, some of the priceless responses:
“The ruling class” In MO that would be David Humphreys. “As Hawley’s biggest donor, this billionaire gave Hawley over $4 million, nearly 75% of his indiv donations for his AG’s campaign & Hawley has since ignored bipartisan calls to investigate Humphreys after allegations of p2p”
Contributions to Josh Hawley’s (r) 2016 Attorney General campaign for the third quarter – from the campaign’s October quarterly campaign finance report filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
We have the “best” politicians money can buy
Ah yes, the one ticket in our presidential history that doesn’t have an Ivy League graduate is for the “ruling class.”
Haha says the senator who went to Stanford and Yale who does nothing for us in Mo.
Ask him about his flatbed truck.
Yeah, it’s a shame she didn’t bootstrap her way through Rockhurst, Stanford and Yale the way you did, as a “man of the people”, Josh.
You are so caught up in the divide, mock, and ridicule posturing for your Fox & friends. What will it take for you to reach out and unite Missourians? #WorstGOPSenator #thirstyHawley
Can you even locate Missouri on a map?
That remains to be seen.
Dude, you only play a commoner on tv.
Not to worry, Josh. I’m sure one more round of Republican tax cuts for the rich will bring them back to you.
A Senator complaining about the ‘ruling class’?
Yeah, we noticed that, too.
FYI: Sen. Hawley went to an exclusive prep school, then to Stanford, and Yale Law school, clerked for the Supreme Court, then worked for a multinational elite corporate law firm. He is the very definition of ’elitist’ trying to position himself, falsely, as a blue-collar guy.
Don’t confuse Josh with facts.
For one who defends an Oligarchy, you certainly don’ seem like a Bolshevik. Your faux populism may play with a few, but not many.
Look at yourself, banker’s son. You went to the fancy high school of the patriarchy, and then to Stanford and Yale. You clerked for Roberts. Every inch of your path, the ruling class carried you along. Now you’re Trump’s Plus One. You want to draw comparisons?
Wow. A daughter of immigrants who attended an HBCU is now in “the ruling class”? Sounds like the American dream to me.
There is that.
So, some of the brightest minds, most successful entrepreneurs that created global powerhouse US companies are supporting candidates they believe will really #MAGA. Got it. Thanks for pointing that out Joshie.
Because the ruling class has been soooo devastated by the current administration.
Stanford to Ivy League Showboat Queen tells us about the elite.
Did you learn about the ruling class at Stanford or Yale?
Jeeves, my luggage to the lifeboat, stat!
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Heh. Including a ladder reference would have made it a twofer. Adding a midday workout would have been a threefer.
So tweets a card-carrying member of the ruling class.
Republicans literally gave the ruling class massive tax cuts. You rose the deficit for that, the largest in history.
Is it hard to run under hypocrisy?
republicans consider that a feature, not a bug.
Bahahaha what class do you represent, Hawley? When’s the last time you were in Missouri? Daddy trump certainly doesn’t represent us. And I know you don’t either… this angle isn’t working for you. Better say something about Hong Kong.
The party of *checks notes* socialists and wall street…. you guys really are clowns
Didn’t you support the ruling class tax cut?
this is hilarious coming from a guy who doesn’t know the difference between a flatbed truck and a trailer. also, you went to rockhurst, stanford, and yale, so maybe sit the “elitist” bullshit on the back burner, j-dog.
That about sums it all up.
Ivy League patrician mocking the “ruling class”. That’s “rich”. Do you support Trump’s promise to defund Social Security and Medicare?
U are bad at your job
The good thing for him – he considers it just another step on the ladder.
The ruling class apparently excludes preppy, Ivy-educated lawyers whose daddies were bankers like you?
The ruling class? You are an Ivy League US Senator. Stop.
Disingenuous political hack thinks voters are too stupid to know Republicans are in power.
Republicans attacking Democrats as the party of “the ruling class” will never, ever stop being frigging hysterical!!
And where did you go to school? Oh yes, Stanford and Yale. You are a phony.
So the President isn’t part of the ruling class? It’s gotta be so weird to have to constantly pretend to be a victim.
You went to Stanford and Yale. Spare me “the ruling class” bullshit, Chauncey.
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After last night’s assault by federal law enforcement on peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. – so Donald Trump could hold up a bible for a photo-op:
Kasie Hunt @kasie
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., stops to talk to cameras, says he has seen “conflicting reports” of what happened at the White House. Says looting and violence is detracting from what should be the focus on George Floyd. 1:11 PM · Jun 2, 2020
As always, some of the responses:
U should of told him it was in Hong Kong. Only then he would of believe you.
There was no looting or violence at Lafayette Park when Trump ordered the peaceful protesters to be gassed.
It was a peaceful demonstration. We watched this live on television. There is plenty of video/audio evidence.
Trumps fake photo op, (look at me) terrorizing peaceful protesters, gassing them, hitting them with shields & moving up curfew by 1/2 hour is a distraction. Trump saying he loves peaceful protesters, is a blatant LIE. He ordered his militia to “dominate” the crowd using force.
I didn’t realize the White House had been looted. What did the looters get? Did the media catch any of it on film?
[….]Republican corruption is only exceeded by cowardice.[….]
Former Governor Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].
Eric Greitens @EricGreitens
In the past, we’ve had leaders who wanted to give people a safe space to loot and to burn.
When I was Governor, we were clear that if someone looted, or burned, the only safe space they were going to have was in a jail cell.
[….] 3:08 PM · Jun 1, 2020
[….]No one cares what you think, you lying, pathetic, law breaking, racist, sexual assaulting troll.[….]
When you were governor, you just tied up and blackmailed your mistresses.[….]
You’re irrelevant. Be quiet.
OMG. The have the #dirtymoney #tieherup #stealfromcharity disgraced ex governor on giving advice as to deal with violence? The world is upside down
I had forgotten all about you. No one cares about your opinion
Get back under your rock.
Tell us again, Eric, what else happened when you were Governor. For instance, why you’re NOT Governor. We’ll wait.
Are you still trying to be relevant?
Did you construct jails out of duct tape? Did you tie anyone up?
And your safe word was…?
Being here in Missouri really worked out for you, eh?
Oh, please, for the love of all that is holy, go away.
– A Missouri citizen that didn’t forget
You forfeited by quitting two years ago today, sexual predator. Now bugger off.
Didnt you leave in disgrace? Stay gone
Interesting. Why did you stop being Governor again?
Aren’t you the guy who got run out of office in disgrace?? Get lost, punk.
A safe space like your basement?
You are a terrible human being. Stand down. Stop embarrassing our state any more!
“When” you were Governor. How did that end?
There’s a reason you don’t work there anymore.
Oh man you should really sit everything out not just this situation but everything. You must be enjoying the masks … Oh I’m sorry, it was blindfolds wasn’t it?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk! 9:21 AM · May 14, 2020
Dare you.
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