From Open Secrets blog:
The fate of the U.S. Postal Service, now $9.2 billion in debt, lies with a handful of lawmakers its workers’ unions hope will enact the serious reform needed to save the federal agency.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the committee that oversees the Postal Service, was once one of those lawmakers. But now, after pushing his Postal Reform Act through a House subcommittee, postal unions consider Issa their greatest foe.
Original DVD coverBack during the 2010 election cycle, Issa, considered a talented Republican lawmaker, was the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and he promised postal unions that he would work on their behalf. Postal unions responded by contributing $41,000 to his re-election campaign, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.
That sum ranked Issa as the No. 10 beneficiary of postal union money that cycle, among House members, according to the Center’s research. So far this year, however, Issa has collected just $2,000 from postal union PACs.
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“We supported Issa pretty early on last cycle, and that was a direct result of him reaching out and working with us,” Jennifer Warburton, director of legislative and political affairs for the National Association of Letter Carriers, told OpenSecrets Blog. “He said he there had to be a way to reform the Postal Service to keep the dignity of postal workers intact.”
Another member of the committee, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) received similar support from the postal unions, to the tune of $54,500 in contributions.
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Then, in the fall before 2010 election, as the USPS and postal unions negotiated labor contracts, Issa’s penned an op-ed for the Washington Times calling on Congress to reject the agency’s requests to extend the deadline for the payment of future health care benefits. Issa argued that the USPS’s declining revenues and the postal unions’ no-layoff labor contracts meant Congress needed to intervene.
After the election, Issa was promoted to chairman of the committee and an arbiter of USPS’s fate. In June, Issa introduced the Postal Reform Act of 2011, which would create an independent commission to run the USPS and enact $10.7 billion in austerity measures — such as ending Saturday delivery, closing post offices and laying off workers.
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The postal unions balked, seeing it as a “union-buster” bill that would “destroy the Postal Service.” And most postal unions have since cemented negative opinions on Issa, said Mark Strong, president of the League of Postmasters.
“We had thought he was going to be a strong leader in the House, and we were hoping that we’d be able to work together,” Strong told OpenSecrets Blog. “It’s quite evident that won’t happen, and he won’t be getting our support in the future.”
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[P]ostal groups such as Strong’s have backed Lynch’s bill, H.R. 1351, which focused on restructuring how the agency pays its employees’ healthcare and retirement benefits. But that bill has yet to make it out of committee. Meanwhile, Issa’s is now one step from the House floor.
HYSTERICAL RAISINS 
“Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow…”. Just one pinhead. And a former supporter of the USPS, at that.
It’s gotta be something in the water in DC……
i don’t know why anyone would be surprised that a bastard like issa would stab you in the back as soon as look at you. i would suggest to anyone who shakes his hand to count his/her fingers afterwards.
Postal Unions need to question the judgement of their leadership. How could they believe Issa would ever do anything for them? I don’t care what he promised, all they had to do was look at his record of and his attempt to be the new St. Ronnie of the rethug party.
i hope all his mail gets lost, especially the penis-enlarging pills he ordered.
I’ll let Next Media Animation respond for me.
people don’t realize how much more expensive it will be to have to send things through ups or fedex. even with email, there are lots of things that have to go through the mail, and it’s about to become a lot more expensive.
Five bucks per mailing would be a good estimate. Of course, this will have to be raised to ten as soon as the marketplace can be exploited. But our repub masters are thinking ahead: Why would serfs need to send mail? Government by constant crisis after crisis. This is why we have become the laughing stock of the world. We need to ask Mikko if the betting shops are giving odds yet on the exact day the US is declaired a third world country.
and the extra costs will be passed along to the customers, so even if we don’t personally mail a letter or a parcel, we’re still going to wind up paying for it.
Issa has been bought and paid for by Fed Ex or UPS. Just like a couple of past Post Master Generals, Issa will no doubt get a cushy seat on ther Board of one of those companies.
ding! ding! ding! we have a winner! that’s exactly what’s going on, carol.
You sidle up next to the devil, and SURPRISE!, you’re in hell. People don’t get much sleazier than Issa.
not sure hell would accept issa. the devil wouldn’t like the competition.
That DVD cover was perfect in this case.
hope he gets crushed by junk mail.
It makes me nosebleed to think that Issa’s name would be used in the same phrase as Benjamin Franklin.
ben franklin would bitchslap issa and all his nasty little friends.