For Democrats, Path to Vote-By-Mail Victory Runs Through the Postal Service

“Progressives” are angling to build an illegal supermajority on the Postal Service governing board, destroying what’s left of election integrity—but only if Senate Republicans let them.

Restoration News was the first to report on the latest front in election integrity: The battle for control of the U.S. Postal Service. Now that conflict is heating up.

In May, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) launched a new offensive to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors with the goal of transforming the $81 billion organization into the world’s biggest mail-in ballot collector. APWU protesters gathered outside the board’s quarterly meeting in Washington, D.C., to harangue Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—a Trump appointee—and demand Biden replace the DeJoy-friendly board with a “progressive” majority bent on firing him and expanding vote-by-mail.

Their agent of choice: Former Rep. Brenda Lawrence, the recently retired Democrat representing Detroit. Lawrence is a former postal worker and member of both APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers. The other likely candidate is former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who passed the $57 billion Postal Reform Act of 2022 (with DeJoy’s help), expanding mail delivery services and postal worker healthcare benefits.

Either woman would effectively serve as the postal unions’ representative on the board. Both support massively expanding USPS’ vote-by-mail capabilities, as do all of Biden’s board nominees, notably Republican Derek Kan.

But there’s a catch.

The 9-person board is limited by law to 5 members of either party. Democrats already control 5 seats: 4 by overt Democrats, and a fifth through the nominally “independent” Amber McReynolds. As we’ve pointed out, McReynolds is the former head of the National Vote at Home Institute, the activist organization responsible for the Left’s rapid adoption of all-mail elections in 2020, and an outspoken “progressive.”

Labeling her an “independent” is ridiculous on a board where partisan leanings matter.

There’s no reason Biden wouldn’t pick either Lawrence or Maloney to replace the outgoing Democrat Donald Lee Moak. But activists are angling for the President to also replace outgoing Republican member William Zollars, handing the Left an illegal supermajority of 6 votes—and the power to finally fire DeJoy.

The Far Left Moves In

This campaign is already in full swing. The Save the Post Office Coalition includes 300 left-wing groups ranging from the ACLU, to the government workers union AFSCME, to the radical global warmers at 350.org—evidence that the Left sees taking over USPS as a top priority, not a niche issue.

The coalition’s top priority is filling both seats with governors who will “deliver a majority on the board,” “with or without Republican support” in the Senate.

For the auto workers unions, the coalition demands union-built “emission-free vehicles” whose engines won’t “poison” “black and brown communities” with “toxic air.” Who knew gasoline-powered cars were killing people left and right?

And Congress—not the states, notice—must massively expand vote-by-mail by federalizing elections. Conveniently, the coalition points out that Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN) already has model legislation to do exactly that.

We know the Left’s modus operandi well: Fabricate a public “crisis,” magic up a fake grassroots coalition, then devise a “solution” (which invariably helps the Democrats). Just consider the array of groups backing this project:

• Virtually every major union, including the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, SEIU, National Nurses United, and National Education Association;
• The United Church of Christ;
• The Center for American Progress, the Left’s top think tank;
• Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, a mega-funder;
• Demos, the think tank of the far Left (more on its own anti-DeJoy coalition here)
• The gay and transgender group Lambda Legal;
• Vote.org, a voter registration machine;
• The “green” get-out-the-vote group League of Conservation Voters;
• Everytown for Gun Safety, the Left’s premier gun control organization;
• People for the American Way, which protests conservative judicial nominees;
• Stand Up Republic, Evan McMullin’s ever-more-leftist NeverTrump group;
• The Hub Project, a strategy front for Arabella Advisors’ $1.6 billion “dark money” network; and
• UnidosUS, a Hispanic get-out-the-vote group (formerly the National Council of La Raza, or “the Race”)

The coalition itself is managed by Take on Wall Street, a union-backed successor to the Occupy Wall Street debacle in 2008. But Take On Wall Street is actually a front for Americans for Financial Reform—itself spawned by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a professional protest group that specializes in running astroturf campaigns populated with hundreds of “progressive” groups.

Hold the Line

The way to stop this scheme is simple: Refuse to confirm two Democrats to the USPS Board of Governors. Democrats have a bare majority in the Senate, but any vote relies on two swing votes by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Joe Manchin (WV). Winning either—and keeping the GOP in line—is enough to stop the scheme.

Republicans are smart to use vote-by-mail to defeat Democrats, and in all likelihood they must if they want to win in 2024. But that also means keeping the Left from handing control over elections to Washington. If they’re serious about election integrity—and winning elections—they’ll do both. (read more)