The time-off-to-campaign-at-any-cost practice was brought to lawmakers’ attention by a letter carrier in Wisconsin, who testified that the absence on short notice of multiple employees at his post office and those in nearby towns left them short-staffed and paying out overtime to the workers who stayed behind. One letter carrier was gone five weeks.
The local post office manager pushed back and tried to deny the time-off requests, the letter carrier, Timm Kopp, testified Wednesday, but was rebuffed by upper management.
“I know it’s true that historically the Democrat Party has been the party to help the Postal Service,” Kopp told lawmakers, “but these partisan acts will not help, only hinder its efforts.”
Now this is a major violation of federal law which according to the inspector general has been going on for the past three administrations without being reported. One would think that it would be covered by that evening’s news.
According to Newsbusters Fox News reported the story during its evening news but:
…the disturbing nature of these federal violations by a federal entity were not enough to stir the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo to action. But CBS did find the time to run a two minute and eight-second report on how Jurassic Park got the speed of the T-Rex completely wrong. A mailman can out run the T-Rex apparently, but they can’t out run congressional oversight.
And a scandal which most recently involved the Democratic Party can outrun the mainstream media news. It is not known when Mr. Kopp the postal carrier who told Congress about the postal service and the Clinton campaign will be found dead of an apparent suicide
