Over 200 political mailers advocating for GOP congressional candidate Alison Esposito were dumped by a creek in New York’s Hudson Valley, and the Republican Party filed a complaint with the U.S. Postal Service alleging election interference.
According to the complaint, a person in Wappingers Falls reported to the New York Republican State Committee that 200 to 250 pieces of political mail were found Wednesday shredded on the side of Brown Road by Sprout Creek.
The mailers were originally sent by the committee.
“So far this is the only batch of mail that has been found, but there could be others,” James Curran, New York’s GOP general counsel, stated in the complaint.
“It’s certainly a case of election interference,” state Republican Party spokesman David Laska told the New York Post on Thursday.
“Someone committed a very serious offense,” he said, adding that the Postal Service must investigate whether the seemingly dirty trick was done by one of its postal workers or contractors.