US Postal Service is using an outside PR firm to fight election fears as Trump fumes over upcoming h

[SheltieLover]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/19/politics/dejoy-postal-service-trump-vote-by-mail-senate-hearing/index.html

By Kristen Holmes, Jessica Schneider and Paul P. Murphy, CNN
Updated 5:25 PM EDT, Wed August 19, 2020

(CNN)It's been a bad few weeks for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and it might just get worse before it gets better as efforts to convince Americans mail-in voting is safe may put him in direct conflict with President Donald Trump.

Guided by a public relations firm, DeJoy and the US Postal Service are now scrambling to clean up after weeks of criticism and allegations that the Trump administration was using the agency to meddle in November's election. DeJoy's efforts at two congressional hearings and other public appearances will be critical.

After an emergency closed-door meeting Saturday between DeJoy and the Postal Service Board of Governors, a source familiar tells CNN the agency engaged PR firm Weber Shandwick to help manage crisis messaging and combat some of the anti-Postal Service and mail-in voting rhetoric coming from the White House.

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Ok, who here has ever hired a PR firm when you have screwed up at work?

Lock. Him. Up!

[ProfessorGAC]

1. There Is No Defense

You cannot "improve efficiency" by dismantling equipment installed to enhance efficiency.
I don't know how a PR firm frames a message when it's so simple to spot the lie. And, easy to point it out.
Can they defend the overtime thing because it's cost cutting? More than likely.
But, they can't defend cutting efficiency to become more efficient.

[SheltieLover]

6. I concur, Professor!

Indefensible!

He should be arrested for violating the public trust, USPS property, and attempting to interfere in the national election.

And he should pay for equipment destroyed out of his personal funds. 671 x $3 mill each. That will leave a bruise.

This was done deliberately. He ordered the destruction. He should be imprisoned and made to pay.👍

[malaise]

13. I'm betting the ReTHUG PR firm costs more than the overtime

Lock them up

[NCjack]

2. DeJoy needs a damn good criminal attorney team. Not so much a PR firm.

[Nevilledog]

3. +1

[SheltieLover]

9. YUP!

[Atticus]

4. I am not actually aware of any "anti-Postal Service rhetoric". I am aware of FACTUAL

anti-DeJoy and anti-Trump rhetoric, but I have not heard anyone bad-mouthing their mail carrier or local post office.

[SheltieLover]

8. Me either, Atticus

Criminal behavior!

What would happen to you or me if we deliberately damaged federal property?

Lock him up & make him pay out of HIS funds!

[Ms. Toad]

10. Trump blasts them all the time -

Which is what the article is addressing here, based on the end of the sentence:

After an emergency closed-door meeting Saturday between DeJoy and the Postal Service Board of Governors, a source familiar tells CNN the agency engaged PR firm Weber Shandwick to help manage crisis messaging and combat some of the anti-Postal Service and mail-in voting rhetoric coming from the White House.

[Sedona]

5. How much did the PR firm donate to the Repukes?

[SheltieLover]

7. Good question!

AND are they being paid with US taxpayer funds? My guess is yes!

[empedocles]

11. USPS funds for trump

[stillcool]

12. blame it all on Trump's B.S

just forget about what DeJoy and the Board of Governors are doing, and make it all about Trump. Will it work?

Perhaps the most public-facing postmaster general since Benjamin Franklin, DeJoy is also considering capitalizing on his newfound spotlight by doing local television interviews to assuage voters over fears their mail-in ballots will not be safe with the US Postal Service, a source told CNN.
While many close to DeJoy blame postal unions for the leaks and negative press, he is also preparing to record a public service announcement alongside union leaders from the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union that will air on television stations around the country starting in September. Ronnie Stutts, the president of the National Rural Mail Carrier Association, confirmed he would be part of this effort with other union leaders.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/19/politics/dejoy-postal-service-trump-vote-by-mail-senate-hearing/index.html