Posted on 11/03/2002 12:08:04 AM PST by The Raven
Washington, D.C.) -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today reacted with outrage to reports that a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) executive has been forced to resign amidst allegations that she attempted to manipulate postal service resources to punish a candidate for the U.S. Senate who had been critical of the mismanaged government mail system.
"There has long been much to criticize at the USPS, from financial losses and taxpayer subsidies to regular price increases amidst poor service and low productivity," CCAGW Vice President Leslie Paige said. "But this is a new level of corruption and mismanagement. Taxpayers and their representatives in Congress should be up in arms."
USPS Senior Vice President Deborah Willhite resigned abruptly Friday amid allegations she used the federal mail budget to hurt the re-election chances of Arkansas Republican Sen. Tim Hutchinson. According to U.S. News and World Report, Willhite, the postal service's top lobbyist, pushed to have the budget of Arkansas post offices cut--and Hutchinson blamed. The dollars were to be transferred to Georgia's post offices, allowing supporters there to credit Democratic Sen. Max Cleland. The outcome of the Arkansas and Georgia races could tip the balance of power in the Senate.
"Since this spring, CCAGW has been calling for a complete and public audit of USPS books to root out the millions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse we know exists," Paige continued. "We have reiterated that call today with letters to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of both the House Committee on Government Reform and Senate Governmental Affairs. This latest scandal confirms that not only do postal officials lose, misspend and abuse the postal budget with impunity, they may also be using their scarce resources to manipulate elections, which is clearly prohibited by the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act. It's time for independent third party to get to the bottom of where all our money is going."
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation's largest (one million members and supporters) nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
Thanks kcvl for all the info on this rotund Hillary! harpie.
I guess the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" is to blame in her twinkie induced mind.
Intriguingly that transfer of airlift to FedEx was made just immediately before all the airlines decided that they probably didn't want mail in the holds of their passenger aircraft anyway (SEE: 9/11, anthrax attack). FedEx has an all-freight fleet.
Presumably your reference doesn't really give much of a care to national defense, public safety, and so forth.
It's not that he is a liar - he's simply ignorant. I would be quite happy to brief him on all that he needs to know any time.
When anyone TELLS me I NEED TO PAY MORE that really pisses me off. It's not as if I don't already pay over half to the stupid goverment that doesn't have to balance it's books the same as I do!
GO AWAY!!!
WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE!!!
Like what?
But the government can't figure out why the postal service has management problems and is losing money badly. Maybe it's because their executives are too busy doing crap like this!
What a joke! John Glenn is a dirtbag who sold out his principles the day he landed in Washington. As for John Glenn's last space flight, that was nothing but a Klinton payoff. Read what Chuck Yeager had to say about it HERE.
The lawsuits were flying after that collapse.
The old facility that they were replacing had approximately 6 million square feet on something like six floors. The building spanned the 8 lane Eisenhower Expressway. It was built like a fortress.
The building was so huge that large portions weren't in use anymore.
It was so huge that an enterprising manager, that had $250,000 of discretionary purchasing authority on her signature alone, decided to build herself a $250,000 apartment complete with jacuzzi on a portion of one of the unused floors.
Now, before you jump to the conclusion that she built it all for herself, let me tell you that she did use it reward the male employees that she had determined carried the biggest packages day-in and day-out.
She really had those guys humping to continue to receive their apartment privileges.
Well, until someone that was probably a little jealous called those narrow-minded postal inspectors on her.
Thats too gentle.
This is happening in my area too. I just wonder how widespread this is? More importantly "who impimented it?"
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