Did you see our message last week about Louis DeJoy's latest scandal?
Check it out below. It's unbelievable.
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Hi,
The planet is on fire. Gas prices are skyrocketing.
But Postmaster General and Trump holdover Louis DeJoy is still trying to
move forward with his plan to spend billions on a fleet of gas-guzzling
trucks that get 8.6 miles per gallon.^1
But Louis DeJoy got some very bad news: He's being sued.
A coalition of environmentalists, autoworkers, and state attorneys general
filed lawsuits to stop this sweetheart deal for polluters and force DeJoy
to buy clean electric vehicles instead – as President Biden intended. And
since DeJoy skipped legally required environmental reviews and ignored the
recommendations of the U.S. Postal Service inspector general, they have a
good chance to win.^2
Demand Progress members and our allies have helped build widespread public
awareness that Louis DeJoy is a corrupt Trump crony who should be fired.
Now, with your help, we can help push more letters demanding that Congress
stop his gas-guzzling boondoggle.
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DeJoy signed a contract and made a down payment on 165,000 gas-powered
trucks before any environmental review was made public. He failed to
consider cleaner alternatives. He ignored environmental impacts, including
air pollution and global warming.^3
Those steps are all required by law, and DeJoy skipped all of them.
Worse yet, Oshkosh Defense, the corporation that got the deal for the
trucks, promised to provide 1,000 union jobs when it got the contract but
then moved the work to a non-union state.^4
DeJoy has given the Biden administration and Congress every reason to step
in and overrule this purchase. This should be the final straw. Louis DeJoy
should be fired. Now.
It's up to us to sound the alarm through our massive online following and
make so much noise the White House and Congress can't ignore us.
Demand Progress already helped to pass the Postal Service Reform Act. Now
we are activating our 1 million-plus membership to insist that DeJoy's
deal be blocked and the USPS fleet electrified, and we're not letting up.
[ [link removed] ]Chip in $10 and help stop DeJoy's gas-guzzling truck deal.
Thanks for standing with us,
Robert and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. The New York Times, "Democrats Want Investigation Into Postal Service's
Gas Guzzlers Contract," [ [link removed] ]March 14, 2022.
2. Mother Jones, "A Wave of Lawsuits Aims to Halt Louis DeJoy’s
Gas-Guzzling Postal Fleet," [ [link removed] ]April 28, 2022.
3. Press release, "AG Ferguson files lawsuit against Postmaster DeJoy for
violating bedrock environmental law when replacing mail truck fleet,"
[ [link removed] ]April 28, 2022.
4. Oshkosh Northwestern, "Does Oshkosh Corp. want to build USPS mail
trucks in South Carolina to avoid union labor? U.S. lawmakers want to
know," [ [link removed] ]March 24, 2022.
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