SAVE THE POST OFFICE
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I agree that Trump’s Postmaster General is conducting deliberate sabotage to disrupt mail service and steal the election for Trump and the GOP. Fight for $25 billion to the USPS in the next COVID relief bill and demand investigation now. Thank you for championing the postal service.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
For Blumenauer, Bonamici, DeFazio, Schrader: I agree that Trump’s Postmaster General is conducting deliberate sabotage to disrupt mail service and steal the election for Trump and the GOP. Fight for $25 billion to the USPS in the next COVID relief bill and demand investigation now. Thank you for championing the postal service.
For Walden: Shame on your for refusing to stand up to Trump through all these months and enabling his march toward autocracy. I ask you to stand up now and condemn sabotaging the post office in order to steal an election. Your voice can still make a difference.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE:
Oregonians are joining with activists across the country to power a Landslide Democratic victory in November 2020, from the state house to the Senate to the White House. Here’s how you can get involved
- Call Arizona voters on Thursdays – training at 5pm, calling begins at 5:30 https://swingleft.org/group/indivisible-oregon
- Write letters to voters with Swing Left and Vote Forward. Saturdays 12-2pm https://swingleft.org/group/indivisible-oregon
- Write postcards to Voters of Color with Reclaim Our Vote. Sundays 3-5pm https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpcumhqD4tGtGRU0wtVcsurcoIe50m_7EP
BACKGROUND:
After only eight weeks on the job and with elections around the corner, Trump’s new Postmaster General has reassigned 23 senior executives, instituted a hiring freeze and ended overtime for carriers.
This is not just a plan to sabotage the post office and then serve it up for privatization. It is an ambitious national voter suppression plan. Add the sudden announcement that the Census will end a month early even as Census taker hiring lags, and we see stolen elections and consolidation of anti-democratic rule.
We must pull out all the stops. Wisconsin progressives were able to stop a last-minute multi-pronged plan to suppress voting and steal a special election for the State Supreme Court. They organized online and by phone to help people vote, and a progressive won the seat by ten points. The numbers are on our side, but we can’t save our country if we leave it to chance.
Now is the time to phone bank, write letters, send postcards, and text voters. If we don’t dump Trump, ditch Mitch and flip the Senate we will wake up on Nov. 4 to a USA we really don’t want to live in.
SOURCES:
Democrats Decry “Sabotage”: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/democrats-sabotage-usps-friday-night-massacre-postal-service.html
Postal Service Overhauls Leadership: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/07/postal-service-investigation-dejoy/
Michigan Senator launches investigation: https://time.com/5877104/michigan-senator-post-service-mail-delays/
Rep. Connolly: This Is A Trojan Horse.https://twitter.com/GerryConnolly/status/1291880860422152192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1291880860422152192%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F2020%2F08%2Fdemocrats-sabotage-usps-friday-night-massacre-postal-service.html
