Representative be waived onto their Committee Without objection so ordered. Welcome to our hearing on recent developments and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then the Ranking Member. Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her with your permission our colleague will also have an Opening Statement. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the federal i government serving every household every day 630,000 brave individuals at every district and according to pew research 91 percent of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During the coronavirus pandemic the Postal Service value is greater than ever as a formal component and serving as a linchpin nations responsee pandemic. Found 2020 harris poll that the Postal Service ranked as the most Important Company to americans during the pandemic because it is a constant in our lives. That ings companies it outranks compan
Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . Ill recognize here with your permission after myself. O our colleague ms. Lawrence is going to issue have an Opening Statement. I will recognize if somebodyv on your side wants to have additional okay. That would be fine. The cr you justow let me know. Okay. Theit s Postal Service is the crowned jewel of our federal government. It emplo serves every household b
Listed what they had done, including spending 300,000 on things that they had no Legal Authority to do so. Charging fees, that they had no Legal Authority and fire the cultural director and replace the head of the commission. The bottom line is if you were a commission and you were in charge of a staff and a staff screws up it reflects on you. You cant sit there and say, oh, if we find our executive director in violation, that has no reflection on us at all. Even though we turnover 99 percent of what we do to them, and in cases like mine, mr. St. Croix has a complaint against him and he gets to dismiss it on his own authority. And you dont call that some sort of a conflict of interest . The bottom line is you are here to insure that this process is an open process, and a fair process. I have heard a number of things here that i find totally discon certaining apparently miss herrick got her directions from mr. St. Croix or your staff. She has had conversationwise mr. St. Croix and the s
Any other thoughts from the commissioners on this . In a theoretical file, not the one at issue, are matters such as the timing of meetings, or strictly procedural matters included in the correspondence files of an investigate oral matter. Generally strictly procedural, and for example, when you talk about a meeting time, that is embedded within the procedure process, for instance if i am going to meet with a complaintant and you document your notes, i met with this complaintant at this time and here is what we discussed. So you would see it in that, i think, clearly would be confidential. What i am asking about is if you send an email to a Ethics Commission saying can we talk at 2 00 is that in the file . No, you are not going to see can we talk at 2 00 you will see the result of that conversation. We met at. And we discussed. Because it is a form of Record Keeping or an interview record, if you will, a discussion record. One thing that i would like to say, from an audit investigation
Is Holding Meetings on sfgtv in full view of the public it becomes more apparent how much of an enabler this body has been, it enables city bodies and personnel to evade their daoulties under the law and to hide that from public scrutiny. The whistle blower laws are not be used to protect the whistle blower but to protect the target. They are being used to hide the true facts of the investigation and to allow the city agency and employees to evade their actions. They hide the extent and the validity of the investigative process used by the ethics staff and the public records law are always intended to disclose rather than conceal public matters. Instead these laws are purposefully misinterpreted to protect the agencies in question but also the ethics staff. As far as you not having a conflict of interest, lets look at the Arts Commission when they got the report from the civil grand jury that listed what they had done, including spending 300,000 on things that they had no Legal Authori