Kentucky Senate Candidate Amy McGrath Supports US Rural Post Offices

if you want to Save Kentucky Rural Post Offices, Vote for Democratic Senate Candidate Amy McGrath. She supports the US Postal Service and will stand up for US postal workers to ensure that Kentuckians have much-needed rural post offices.

Senator Mitch McConnell has failed to show he cares about the US Postal Service. The “Delivering for America Act” that provides $25 Billion needed COVID-19 relief has been sitting on his desk for months after it was passed in the House.

Amy McGrath supports the US Postal Service and while in Morehead, Kentucky on her tour across the state, she talked about how important the postal service is to rural communities and why rural post offices need to be kept open.

A reporter for LEX 18 News stated:

“Local post offices across the country are shutting down leaving people, specifically in rural communities, with less access to the mail, and Kentucky leads the pack when it comes to that.

“The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting found that 62 post offices have closed down across Kentucky over the last 10 years. That’s the most in the country.”

McGrath said that this should be a big concern for everyone. Not only because of the election but also because many rural Kentucky families depend upon the postal service for things like prescription deliveries.

“McGrath wants Congress to act and help the postal service.”

“The postal service is a service same way the military is a service,” McGrath said. “And I think too many people depend on that service and it’s an important service especially for rural Kentucky.”

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The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting stated in an article by Graham Ambrose entitled, ‘They Need That Post Office’: KY. Post Offices Have Been Disappearing For A Decade:

Save the USPS – Amy McGrath for U.S. Senate

“Kentucky’s rural post offices are threatened. Over the last decade, more post offices have been closed in Kentucky than in any other state, according to data from the U.S. Postal Service. Closures have hit every region, from coal towns in Appalachia to villages in the open fields of the Jackson Purchase.” 

“What’s lost is a beloved institution and last public commons in communities with few if any public spaces left.“

““The post office is a gathering place. It’s a hub for local information exchange,” said Ken Tunnell, a Paint Lick resident and sociologist who taught at Eastern Kentucky University.“

Baskett Post Office, Kentucky – Creative Commons

It’s Time to Save Our US Postal Service Now

Postal workers are essential workers. During the COVID-19 pandemic hundreds of thousands of dedicated postal workers tirelessly deliver our mail to residences and businesses throughout the United States. In order for millions of US citizens to safely vote, mail-in ballots are necessary more than ever to enable Americans to be able to exercise their right to vote and have their vote counted as cast. It’s time to give USPS the support it needs to continue providing crucial services to all Americans.

Congress has included $25 Billion COVID-19 relief to the US Postal Service in a bill passed by the House. However, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell wants to only give USPS a “loan” of $10 Billion. This is unfair, especially at this time when workers need appropriate PPE in order to carry out their work safely.

In a recent article posted by the APWU.org (American Postal Workers Union), author, Debby Szeredy wrote:

Over the years, we have had cuts. Did you know that 54,678 post offices have been closed? We have 31,322 post offices left. There are 10,678 zip codes that don’t have a post office. By 2013, we had 402 mail processing facilities consolidated; now we have 265. These closures have caused constant overtime and high transportation costs. Our PMG [Louis DeJoy] has plans to cut the Postal Service even further, compromising our national, public, and essential infrastructure. This will affect communities and jobs everywhere. The previous PMG slowed down first-class mail delivery by 3-5 days; now people are reporting first class delays of up to 14 days. This is frustrating postal consumers. We cannot let the Board of Governors and the new Postmaster General destroy the world’s finest postal system.

APWU.ORG Article #SaveThePostOffice

How to save the U.S. Postal Service, “the last holdout of true private communication”

Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, speaks to Democracy Now!

Mark Dimondstein explains that Mr. Trump’s remarks are part of his agenda to privatize the post office. Americans need to speak out to #SaveThePostalService

If Barrett gets on the US Supreme Court, the Bush v Gore ‘Stop the Vote Count’ Team will all be Together Again

Senator Amy Klobuchar today at the Senate Judiciary Committee Barrett Hearing asked if it was a “coincidence” that Justice Roberts, Justice Kavanaugh, and now possibly Amy Coney Barrett who ALL worked for the 2000 Bush legal team in Florida coincidentally could be back together again on the highest US Court of the land just in time for the 2020 Presidential Election.

During the 2000 election in Florida, Bush’s legal team wanted to stop the vote count of certain punch card ballots and count other “butterfly ballots” that had been filled in by Republican operatives in Florida.

“Amy Coney Barrett was just three years out of law school, a 28-year-old associate at a boutique Washington law firm, when she was dispatched to Florida to help George W. Bush’s legal team rescue thousands of Republican absentee ballots.”

“At issue were thousands of absentee ballot request forms in Martin County — just north of Palm Beach County, home of the notorious “butterfly ballot” — that had missing voter registration information.”

“After county officials allowed the GOP to take the forms back and fill in the missing information, a Democratic voter sued, saying ballots cast by those voters should be tossed out. The county canvassing board, the Florida Republican Party and the Bush campaign argued that the votes should still count.”

According to a Washington Post Article: “How Amy Coney Barrett played a role in Bush v. Gore — and helped the Republican Party defend mail ballots”

This article by David Sirota and Andrew Prez in Jacobinmag.com outlines how the three conservative Republicans happened to work together to stop the vote count in Florida so voters would fail to have their votes counted: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-bush-gore-election-trump: Their article stated:

“Donald Trump says he expects the Supreme Court to decide the 2020 election, as it did in Bush v. Gore. If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, the court will have three justices who worked directly on the case that undemocratically determined the 2000 election.“

Coincidence?

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