Daily Congressional Special Edition- Cyndi Taylor Krier Post Office (Vanity)

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[mnehring]

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On March 5th, the US House of Representatives unanimously approved the naming of a Post Office after Cyndi Taylor Krier. Normally, a vote like this would not make news in The Daily Congressional. This, however, is a special case. According to The Washington Post
“One of Washington’s minor traditions is to name post offices after heroes, usually recently deceased. A lot of them have been named recently for service members killed in Iraq.

But Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) has taken a new approach. He’s pushing to name a post office after a prominent, very-much-alive lobbyist.

And that’s not all. His legislation started moving through the House on the same day the lobbyist’s employer donated $5,000 to him.

That’s a tradition of a very different sort.

Smith’s bill would name a San Antonio post office after Cyndi Taylor Krier, the vice president of Texas government relations for USAA, a large financial services company based in the same city. The firm knows the federal government well; its banking and insurance customers are members of the U.S. military and their families. “

The bill was sponsored by Texas Congressman Lamar Smith and cosponsored by the following Congressmen:

Rep Barton, Joe
Rep Brady, Kevin
Rep Burgess, Michael C.
Rep Carter, John R.
Rep Conaway, K. Michael
Rep Cuellar, Henry
Rep Culberson, John Abney
Rep Doggett, Lloyd
Rep Edwards, Chet
Rep Gohmert, Louie
Rep Gonzalez, Charles A.
Rep Granger, Kay
Rep Green, Al
Rep Green, Gene
Rep Hall, Ralph M.
Rep Hensarling, Jeb
Rep Hinojosa, Ruben
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice
Rep Johnson, Sam
Rep Lampson, Nick
Rep Marchant, Kenny
Rep McCaul, Michael T.
Rep Neugebauer, Randy
Rep Ortiz, Solomon P.
Rep Paul, Ron
Rep Poe, Ted
Rep Reyes, Silvestre
Rep Rodriguez, Ciro D.
Rep Sessions, Pete
Rep Thornberry, Mac

[mnehring]

The text of the legislation did not mention she was a lobbiest for the USAA- it only discussed her family history, her being a university president, and her early years as a clerk and judge.

[mnehring]

Ping

[trumandogz]

What a scam.

Even Ron Paul signed on to this one.

[El Gato]

The firm knows the federal government well; its banking and insurance customers are members of the U.S. military and their families.

And they serve that community so well that "I have USAA" is enough to shut up insurance salesmen from other companies.

BTW, their banking customers are not all service members, anyone can open a bank account. Children of USAA members can also get insurance.

We've had USAA for renters, home and car insurance since 1971. (ROTC and Academy cadets are eligible, and have been since sometime before then. Enlisted members were not always eligible, but they are now, ditto members of the Guard and Reserve, other than officer cadets).

[af_vet_rr]

The text of the legislation did not mention she was a lobbiest for the USAA- it only discussed her family history, her being a university president, and her early years as a clerk and judge.

As if that was reason enough to break tradition and name a post office after her rather than somebody killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. If her family was so damn important, it could have been named for them instead.

What's most amazing is how Lamar thought he could get away with this and that nobody outside of Congress would notice that the post office is being named for a living person, and that said living person is a lobbyist and their company in fact donated to Lamar on that same day..

[YCTHouston]

Thanks for posting this. Pretty freakin’ disgusting.

[mnehring]

It does constitute a need for an explanation for Lamar along with every single cosponsor (the entire Texas delegation, Ds and Rs.) I can think of many fallen soldiers, including friends, who that could be named after. I also would like to know who this Cyndi Krier is that she would accept this.

[YCTHouston]

Looks as if Krier likes getting things named for herself. She already has a JPD center named for herself in Bexar County:

http://www.tjpc.state.tx.us/publications/Other/FacilityPictures/0152001/0152001.htm

[mnehring]

How nice(sic).. I would bet most of us, if we saved the entire country from Alien invasion(for example) wouldn't be clamoring for our names on post offices. I guess someone needs her ego stroked.