GOP lawmaker to introduce legislation to mandate picture of president, VP at post offices

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) is planning to introduce legislation that will mandate that post offices of the U.S. Postal Service display photos of the president and the vice president.

A draft of the legislation Donovan plans to introduce says it would require that official portraits of the president and vice president be displayed side-by-side.

The proposal comes after a Staten Island resident alerted Donovan that a local post office put up photos of former President Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, but did not display photos of President Trump or Vice President Pence.

Donovan is facing a primary challenge from former Rep. Michael Grimm, who finished an eight-month prison sentence in 2016 for pleading guilty to tax fraud and famously once threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/381693-gop-lawmaker-to-introduce-legislation-to-mandate-picture-of-president-vp

[pangaia]

1. it is a freakin' business, not a government agency...

[SergeStorms]

4. And Drumpf is always complaining about it anyway.

Of course Drumpf has never been inside a Post Office building, and probably doesn't understand what they do or how they do it. He just doesn't like it.

[onenote]

8. Actually, it is a government agency.

39 USC 201: "There is established, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States, the United States Postal Service."

Amtrak is a government owned corporation. But the Postal Service is a government agency with an 11 member governing board, 9 of whom are appointed by the President with Senate confirmation.

[pangaia]

20. Thanks. I had a funny feeling after I posted that Maybe I blew it.

[George II]

2. Last fall I decided to visit the submarine museum in Groton, CT.....

....never gave it much thought before, but when I walked in the front entrance I saw the picture of trump SCOWLING on the wall. It gave me he creeps.

[SCVDem]

3. It sickens many of us

at the VA. Patients and staff alike. They were forced to put the picture up and they stalled as long as they could.

We don't need a likeness of the Fuehrer on every wall.

Impeach!

[SergeStorms]

5. Der Gropenfuhrer......

thinks his picture should be everywhere though. He reminds me of Saddam Husein. Next, he'll probably want statues erected to him in every town square across America.

[wishstar]

6. This inept administration was slow in providing pics of Trump to Federal offices

according to several friends of mine who work at Federal offices, it took longer than usual for the photos to be issued and installed. Not that they were complaining

[Scarsdale]

22. I went to renew my

Green Card. At the office was a large photo of G.W. Bush. After the fingerprinting, photograph etc. on the way out we have to fill out a card. One question was "What can we do to make your visits more pleasant in the future?" I answered "Take DOWN the photo of G.W. Bush" A week later, I had to make the trip again, since somehow my fingerprints did not pass inspection!

[Mr.Bill]

7. I'm okay with this.

As long as Jim Carrey paints the portraits.

[radliberal]

9. Great! Just what I need to spit on!

VOTE THEM OUT!!!

[Cha]

10. WTF kinda cruel

punishment is that?

[docgee]

11. Yeah, the can put them on the wanted wall!!!

[More_Cowbell]

12. I'm so glad that the GOP is concentrating on vital issues

Jerks.

[Thekaspervote]

13. I will happily defile it in our PO every chance I get!!!

[jmowreader]

14. The Democrats need to add two amendments to the bill

Amendment 1: The photographs must be funded by private sector contributions.

Amendment 2: The apparatus needed to hang the portraits on the wall must be affixed to the frame's cover glass, so that the portraits may be hanged in the correct manner. (Before anyone starts, I spelled the word between "be" and "in" the way I did on purpose.)

[SeattleVet]

15. I have the perfect 'official portrait' for it!

[Bayard]

16. Going to the post office is enough of a chore

Without also being made nauseous.

[herding cats]

17. Sure, this is important in the grand scheme of things right now.

[idahoblue]

18. My husband works for the federal government

There is no picture of the president for the first time he can remember. There is a picture of an employees children.

[Historic NY]

19. Right under the FBI's most wanted posters.

[Elwood P Dowd]

21. Just place one of these outside.

Only problem is that it might put them out of business faster than the repukes.

[Nitram]

23. Oh, boy, I can't wait for people to be arrested for defacing federal property when they

react to those two faces on the wall of their local Post Office. I worked in a USDA field office during the Bush administration, and every day I was tempted to scrawl the words "What me Worry? across that smirking caricature of Alfred E. Neuman.