This is the Tom Hartman program.

It's the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

We're going to have a bunch of guests on from there throughout the four days of the convention.

But to start out, David Serroda's with us, his newsletter, TMI, as in too much information,

is really doing great. It's really growing.

David Serroda.com, you can find the whole thing you can tweet him at David

serota and I am a subscriber to TMI and I recommend you be too.

David has done some just absolutely great work.

David, welcome back.

I see your blogging or newslettering or whatever you would call what you're doing

about how the US Postal Service Chairman has led the Senate GOP's hundred million dollars

super pack now that's not Louis de Joy right that's right that's the guy

basically who hired Louis de Joy, the Postal Service is governed by a governing board of

appointees, which then hires the Postmaster General.

And Donald Trump appointed, or not really nominated a guy named Mike Duncan in 2018 to the Board of Governors.

Mike Duncan is a former Republican National Committee chairman, so a political operative.

He still serves on the Kentucky Republican Party, Mitch McConnell's Kentucky Republican Party,

and he became chairman of the board and he was then reappointed to a full seven-year

term to run the Board of Governors of the Postal Service in December of 2019 getting a unanimous vote in the Senate that includes all the Republicans and all the Democrats except I should mention

The presidential candidates were not there for that debate so every Democrat except the presidential candidates voted to

confirm mike dungen and as you mentioned uh... mike dungen is not just the former

r and c chair mike dungen is as of january twenty twenty

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