Postal plot (more DemocRat shenanigans)

U.S. News- Washington Whispers ^ | 11/04/2002 | Paul Bedard

[Pokey78]

A Democratic executive of the U.S. Postal Service abruptly quit last Friday amid allegations that she used the federal mail budget to hurt the re-election chances of Arkansas Republican Sen. Tim Hutchinson. Sources allege that Deborah Willhite, the Postal Service's top lobbyist, pushed to have the budget for Arkansas post offices cut–and Hutchinson blamed. The money was to be transferred to Georgia's post offices, allowing supporters there to credit Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who's in his own tough re-election battle. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott caught wind of the deal making and demanded the resignation of Willhite, an Arkansan who has donated to Hutchinson's opponent and to Cleland. Willhite, however, says "it's all a plot" to discredit her and that she planned to resign anyway. "It spins a good story," she says, "but it's just not the case." Postmaster General John Potter is scouring all recent budget moves for other political hanky-panky.

[syriacus]

I think Max Cleland is eligible to be called a NIX-iecrat, a Democrat who partisanly votes against what Bush asks for, even if his own constituents might want what the President wants.

Cleland

is betting that his constituents, who by a wide margin punched George W. Bush's ticket last fall, won't remember that their Senator voted against Bush's modest proposal to return one third of the $5.4 trillion surplus to the taxpayers"

"Cleland is betting the median one-income families of four in Georgia won't remember that they were denied a 75 percent tax cut by their senior Senator's decision to vote the party line as drafted by the Senator from South Dakota."

"Cleland is betting the median two-income families of four in Georgia won't remember he voted against the President's proposal that would have reduced their taxes 42 percent."....

Here is another comparison: Hollywood liberal Dianne Feinstein voted with former President Clinton 88% of the time. Paul Wellstone, perhaps the Senate's most liberal member, voted with former President Clinton 87% of the time. What was Max's percentage? It was 84%. Not only does Max wear the Clinton/Daschle Democratic collar, it's 24 carat gold with diamond studs.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Users of the Postal Service. Stamp buyers, and the like.

[muawiyah]

A www.google.com search for "Deborah Willhite" and "Barbara Hatch Rosenberg" yields 3 crossreferences.

They are:

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2001/12/14/8s.html

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2001_12_14_biow.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0110230257oct23.story?coll=chi-newsspecials-hed

This last reference from the Chicago Tribune is the most troubling.  In a very short section it contains an assertion by Willhite about why the USPS didn't immediately test for anthrax, which is immediately followed by an authoritative excuse for that specific assertion by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg.

To wit:

"We had been advised there was no immediate need for us to do any testing," said Deborah Willhite, a senior vice president at the U.S. Postal Service. "The initial thought was that there would be no way that anthrax would present itself out of a sealed envelope."

Envelope specially designed?

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, an environmental science professor at the State University of New York at Purchase, said the letter may have been designed to release its deadly contents that way.

"A normal preparation would not have seeped out, floated in the air and been inhaled so readily," said Rosenberg, a bioterror expert."

 

Naftali Bendavid, the writer, didn't seem to follow up with the story these two spun, nor her reasons for following the Willhite statement with the Rosenberg complementary statement.  Let's guess that she had them on the phone at the same time.

Let's go through this again slowly. Although Willhite was not the top boss, she was at the top - one of the Senior Vice Presidents. In short, she was very, very influential, and if she was in a position to manipulate national capital budget information to benefit Democrats running for office, she had more influence than has historically been the case for the "company flak".

Let's grant that she had authority, and that she had something more to do with the decision to not test for anthrax than she's ever let on.

If we but note the follow-up career of Barbara Hatch Rosenberg as she attempted to blame first this person, then another, then another, we might well ask if she wasn't maybe the person who advised the USPS to "NOT TEST"?

[steplock]

Deborah Willhite, Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Public Policy

She's not exactly a junior official either!

Add that to the blocking of college votes in Arkadelphia (after they find the students are 80% conservative).

and the other Voter fraud already occuring in "Early Voting"

[steplock]

One last item on this report:

It is not going to be published UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2002.

Why? Maybe they don't want the voters to know too soon??

[Lauratealeaf]

This is disgusting! The last election in 2000 my husband and I were in Germany and had a terrible time getting our absentee ballots. We were told that they were mailed out three weeks before the election which was supposedly the practice in Sebastian County.

Well, a week before the election I was getting pretty frantic because we still did not have them. I called the county clerk's office and the lady told me that they had been mailed out three weeks before the election just as I had been told.

So, I went to our APO (army post office) which was located inside Campbell Barracks which is a very hard post to get on. (they won't let spouses on post until after two o'clock in the afternoon because of their parking problem even though they let all sorts of Germany nationals and Europeans on post but that is another story)

Anyway, I asked the woman at the help desk if she knew where our ballots were. (I had already checked our mail box inside the post office) The lady checked in the back and came walking up with them. They had been placed in "bulk mail" even though they had first class postage on them. The absentee ballots were also clearly marked as absentee ballots so that really made me angry. Bulk mail basically consisted of magazines, catalogs and junk mail and typically would take a long time to get.

Most of the magazines would be placed in our boxes a few months after they arrived. I filled out a complaint form but my complaint was never answered.

My husband and I filled out our ballots that night and mailed them express the next day and with return receipt requested. I never received a return receipt back on my ballot. My husband did and it showed that his ballot had arrived at the county clerks office on election day.

So, at least one of us got to vote for President Bush. I have a feeling that the shenanigans happened somewhere between the post office in Fort Smith and the army post office. I have a feeling it happens to a lot of people and probably will again this year.

[solo gringo]

When you think you have heard it all here comes some more of the Clinton disease.Forget about being honest,don't worry about breaking the law just win that is all that counts.If anyone gets in the way destory them.

[patj]

Willhite, however, says "it's all a plot" to discredit her

Notice how she has the dem excuse down, it's all a plot, ala Clintons.

If the Republicans are the party of the rich, then I say the Democrats are the party of cheats, liars and crooks.

[pulaskibush]

It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy!

[GOPJ]

bump

[hawkeye101]

What is strange is that the postal unions decry postal managers as being the most heartless, cruel people on the planet, yet postal managers are big government bureaucrats who love increasing budgets and taxes and keep the liberal democrat machine alive in Washington. But the postal unions all support big government liberals who would keep power with the postal managers. Incestious insanity? Yep.

[Spiff]

Presented by the Federal Election Commission

Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient

Contributions to Political Committees

WILLHITE, DEBORAH
ARLINGTON, VA 22206
U S GOVERNMENT

PRYOR, MARK LUNSFORD     VIA MARK PRYOR FOR US SENATE
	11/26/2001	1000.00	22020040223

WILLHITE, DEBORAH
ARLINGTON, VA 22206
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM     VIA HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FOR US SENATE COMMITTEE INC
	12/16/1999	500.00	20020040961
	07/28/2000	250.00	20020272244

CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM     VIA FRIENDS OF HILLARY
	08/16/2001	250.00	22020170243

WILLHITE, DEBORAH
ARLINGTON, VA 22206
US POSTAL SERVICE

DUNN, DONALD     VIA LET'S GET IT DUNN
	11/17/1999	250.00	20035090271
	05/25/2000	250.00	20035842973

RAPOPORT, MILES S     VIA RAPOPORT FOR THE FIRST
	06/22/1998	300.00	98033210434

WILLHITE, DEBORAH K
ARLINGTON, VA 22206
U S POSTAL SERVICE

DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
	08/17/2000	1250.00	20036153745

WILLHITE, DEBORAH K.
ARLINGTON, VA 22206
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE/SENIOR VICE P

HILLPAC
	03/01/2002	500.00	22990785901

Total Contributions:    4550.00

Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions

  These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions

WILLHITE, DEBORAH
ARLINGTON, VA 22208
U S GOVERNMENT

PRYOR, MARK LUNSFORD     VIA MARK PRYOR FOR US SENATE
	08/13/2002	1000.00	22020702220

Recipient Total:    1000.00

[Libloather]

See this one yet? RATS at the post office...

[Liz]

......lowlife so 'n so's......

[faithincowboys]

the motor voter bill needs to be cancelled. We also need to reform this. In certain Northern and Southern states, the border area is so Damn blue. Whats to stop non-citizen Canucks and Mexicans from voting. Southern counties in texas are practically run by Mexico.

I think the strategy is to register as many per precint -- despite the fact that the people are dead, illegal, made up, etc.-- and then have the poll workers stuff the ballot boxes at the end of the night. Every fake person gives them another vote to manufacture. SO these precints have a 100% turnout and the voter rolls are at least 10 percent phony.

In addition, some of the people who are legally registered, if they don't show up to vote, the poll workers vote for them. It's not complicated.

This country isn't ours anymore. The undemocratic thugs have taken over. Boss Daley's crooked operation has gone national.