Posted on 11/14/2014 3:04:51 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Since the Republican won, he could make things a little warm for the Post Office IG. Time to play for keeps.
Sounds familiar. Covering up a crime by doing an internal investigation.
The postal carriers love the campaign mailers (and junk mail) because it keeps them in work. I have not talked to one postal carrier that did not say they really appreciate getting campaign mail to deliver.
Yep. If a civilian saw those same fliers sitting in the van and picked them up and tossed them in the same dumpster, he’d be prosecuted for sure.
Like that matters?
The mailman acted stupidly.
He should absolutely go to prison.
Stupidly? He acted criminally.
The postal worker just might have helped these Republican candidates get elected.
I got so much Republican/ Democrat political junk mail and I was so disgusted I hand shredded it and threw it directly in the recycling bin. It totally ticked me off. I actually thought about not voting at all.
Come on. Let the poor guy go. America is a lawless nation now! Laws don’t apply to anyone. If it feels good to it. To hell with the laws! Right Barry?!
About 30 years ago when I was living in Los Angeles, I saw something similar happen. Once the federal indictment came down, the union said, "We don't know this guy."
What they usually do is offer them the choice of resigning and losing all benefits or be prosecuted. At least that’s what I’ve personally seen on more than one occasion at the office I worked at until my retirement.
Thanks for the info.
Yes, I agree!
” I have not talked to one postal carrier that did not say they really appreciate getting campaign mail to deliver. “
My carrier would demur. We had a hard fought city council election going and I filled an entire grocery bag with election mailers. So many trees gave their lives for so many lies.
“Since the Republican won, he could make things a little warm for the Post Office IG. Time to play for keeps.”
Certainly the Republican candidates should file a civil suit.
“COULD???” face charges? The criminal broke several federal laws. Is this ountry insane or what?
Whoever paid for the flyers should sue the postal carrier for the cost of the items and the cost of postage, plus punitive damages. And if they lost the election by a reasonably slim margin, they should sue for whatever they can get in regards to the potential job loss, etc.
“Based upon our investigation, this was nothing done toward a specific candidate or party. It looks like it was a decision made by the carrier, and it was not a good decision,” to not deliver the campaign advertisements, Robert Rukes, special agent with the inspector general’s office in Chicago, said at the time. “A lot of times, what happened in this situation, you have a carrier who felt overwhelmed with the volume of mail so they decided to discard some of the mail without delivering,” Rukes added... “Sometimes people just make decisions that are out of character,” Rukes said. “One thing we want to stress is that the vast majority of postal workers are honest, hard-working employees.”
...The political mailers were from the campaigns of Mike Rohrkaste, Republican candidate for Wisconsin’s 55th Assembly District, and Glenn Grothman, a Republican state senator running for the open 6th Congressional District seat, as well as political messages from a special interest group in support of former state Rep. Roger Roth, a Republican who was running for Wisconsin 19th Senate District seat. All three Republicans won their respective races... There were no reports that campaign mailers from Democratic Party candidates have been similarly mishandled. Most of the mailers came from Rohrkaste’s campaign. Rohrkaste, a retired human resources executive, ran against Democrat Mark Westphal, an industrial electrician and president of the Fox Valley Area Labor Council AFL-CIO... Rohrkaste told Wisconsin Reporter on Nov. 3 he found it striking the mishandled mailers only came from Republicans.
What’s the difference between this guy and the IRS or even Gruber? They’re all lying and cheating for ‘the cause’...
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