Posted on 11/03/2014 6:01:05 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
MADISON, Wis. — Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night may keep postal carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But partisan politics, now that may be another matter altogether.
An investigation has been launched into a Neenah postal carrier who allegedly dumped into a recycling bin hundreds of political advertisement mailers from the campaign of Mike Rorhkaste, Republican candidate for Wisconsin’s 55th Assembly District, Rorhkaste tells Wisconsin Reporter.
Neenah Postmaster Brian Smoot, who was alerted to the incident on Thursday, confirmed there is an ongoing investigation into the matter, and referred Wisconsin Reporter to the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service. OIG representatives there did not return several phone calls seeking comment.
“I am not allowed to comment because it is an active investigation,” Smoot said of accusations that the unidentified mail carrier mishandled the political literature.
Rorhkaste, a retired human resources executive, is running against Democrat Mark Westphal, an industrial electrician and president of the Fox Valley Area Labor Council AFL-CIO, in the race to replace outgoing state Rep. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah, who left the Legislature to become mayor of Neenah.
Speaking to Wisconsin Reporter Sunday evening, Rorhkaste said he first learned of the incident last Thursday when a Neenah resident emailed him. The resident, whom Rorhkaste did not identify, had witnessed a postal carrier dumping a bunch of material into a recycling bin at an apartment complex, according to the email.
The resident checked the bin after the postal carrier left and found hundreds of political mailers from the campaigns of Rorhkaste, 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 is running for Wisconsin 19th Senate District seat.
Rorhkaste said he called the U.S. Postal Service in Neenah, and within a half hour a supervisor responded to the scene.
“She took a number of pictures. She actually got into the dumpster,” Rorhkaste said.
The supervisor rounded up the mailers, and Smoot on Friday confirmed that the mailers had been delivered to their appointed rounds, according to Rorhkaste.
While he said he isn’t sure what the motive might have been, the Republican candidate described the alleged political mailer dump as “disappointing, disturbing.”
“You wouldn’t expect the post office to do that to anyone, regardless of party,” he said, adding that Smoot and the supervisor who responded were extremely apologetic and assured him they would investigate and deal with the situation appropriately.
The mailers were bound for a key “crossover precinct” in Neenah, which makes up nearly half of the55th Assembly District’s residents.
“I’m glad the postal service here took it seriously, and I’m glad we got the pieces mailed,” Rorhkaste said. “If that wasn’t brought to my attention, I never would have known.”
“What I was upset about is, I don’t want this to happen to anybody,” the candidate added. “This is a First Amendment right. It’s one of our nation’s cherished principles.”
He has a bright future in the postal “service”.
Now, if we could just figure out a way to deep six all republican mail-in ballots.
He’ll maybe get a couple years of “paid administrative leave”, including COL raises, then be allowed to retire at full pay.
> He should go to prison. Stealing mail is a dastardly crime.
Think he might he may have been Amish?
Did he deliver the Democrat politcval mailers? Important questions.
Enquiring minds want to know....
I sure would.
The media generally doesn’t allow us access to the answers to those important questions...
This hardly constitutes voter and/or election fraud. There are bigger fish to fry. However, that postal carrier and any others engaging in theft of the US mail should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Yours is the best three-line summarization of Saul Alinsky I’ve ever read.
Could be reduced to two:
When you define your end goal as perfection on earth,
any means to get there can be justified.
Democrats have to reward their cronies.
If it were democrat mailers all of the MSM would run the story every fifteen minutes for the next 24 hours.
Ten years in he slammer should be minimum as a deterrence!!!
In Michigan antlerless deer permits once had to be applied for through the mail, and those drawn in the lottery were returned a permit that looked like a postcard. Anyone could read what it was.
In some areas they had a funny habit of all being lost in the mail, anti-hunting postal workers were throwing them away.
Thankfully that system of mailing permits is no longer used.
Good for you. Like that. Seriously.
“We actually have to dig through containers looking for political mail to make sure it gets delivered.”
That is troubling that you even have to do this. . .
I never trust the PO for any important letters or packages, there simply is no accountability. None. Always use FedEx or UPS.
Wife has internet business, used the PO to send a couple of items bought from her to an address in DC. Two packages delivered to the address.. .and signed for. Thing is, we googled the address and had someone drive by and found it was an EMPTY lot. (Turns out the credit card was part of an ID theft crime.)
So, the PO was in on the scam, using a bogus address and showing delivered. . .and the respopnse from the DC PO. . .guess.
The postal “worker” is probably a typical LIB asshat: slacking , dishonest, worthless. The criminal should be arrested.
Knowing the mail is run by union thugs... and knowing union thugs and mobsters scratch each other’s back... I can’t help think of the scene from Goodfellas where the mailman is told not to deliver to mail to Henry’s house.
$10 to a doughnut this carrier was told to do this by mobsters who need the democrat in office to keep their union cashcow alive.
The (conservative) Wisconsin Reporter is covering this story - I wonder if any of the MSM rags are touching it?
If ‘democrat’s the name’ fraud is the game...
Here’s a new O’Keefe on voter fraud...
http://www.christianforums.com/t7849719/
They’re probably throw it a party and buy a big cake wreck.
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