Voting and census

The President and his complicit Senate installed a Trump crony as Postmaster General, an appointee who then cut postal worker hours, who ordered that it was okay to deliver mail late, and so forth. So what do we hear now? That voting by mail, a process that would keep Americans safe during our runaway pandemic, won’t work because the post office won’t be able to deliver ballots on time! Amazing! Destroy it, then claim as he has done before, “Only I can fix it.” Except, Trump never fixes anything.

Next, he’ll want to fix the post office by privatizing it, you know, run it like a business like all the successful casino businesses he’s run (into bankruptcy). Never mind that the current financial debt of the post office is due to a 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act law passed by a republican congress and a republican president that forces the post office to set aside enough funds to prepay all post office employees’ retirement benefits for the next 75 years! No other organization, private or government, has ever been required to do that. Prior to that law, the post office had actually been profitable!

Then, there’s the census. He wants to end it a month early. Why? So he can keep the gerrymandered districts that keep he and his pals in office. Heavens-to-Betsy, why risk having more residents get counted and maybe lean purple or blue as a result?

Never mind that school districts, towns, cities, counties and states could lose federal dollars, right?

Let’s vote the Cheater-in-Chief out of office in November.

Mark Bordsen,

Colfax