Mail-Jamming Suit Hits The Courts
Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 06:37AM
Every dog has his day they say. Love him or hate him you just can't hide Joe Kelly Levasseur's campaign mail in The Manchester Post office until after the election and get away with it - so it seems.
Maybe some judge can find a way to make this situation go away before it starts getting ugly (as in publicized). I hope not.
Recently, former candidate for various political offices in Manchester, Joe Kelly Levasseur, filed a case in Superior Court, in the same city, regarding his mail not being delivered on time last November when he as running for a city office. The US Post Office actually paid Joe back for his “lost” mail.
I have not seen the actual court filings yet but it looks like the bulk mail company which delivered Joe's political mail did so along with a total of 44,000 other pieces. But only Mr. Levasseur's mail “got lost” for a while.
Now I have worked in a facility that shipped US mail and I know that we did not leave piles of mail in closets, containers, or bathrooms when we left in the morning. In fact, we even climbed up conveyor belts, under the auto-belt delivery system and catch nets slung around machinery that caught stray pieces of mail. All the yellow tied-at-the-top mail bags were emptied. So how this happened is going to take some explaining. And a long, long, long, detail-oriented trial. I hope.
Point of note: The lawyer handling the case for Mr. Levasseure is Chuck Douglass, former State Supreme Court Justice, US Congressman, and all-round political fixture here in NH.
Enter a bit of history: Chuck Douglass had his mail “not show up on time” back in 1990 I believe it was (TJ can check that for me) when he ran for Congress. Wow what a coincidence!
I had my political mail tampered with by the Hillsboro post office in 1996. Why I do believe we all have enough in common here to hold a good old boy reunion at a pub every so often. But who else would come!!!!
Let's try some other groups who have complained to me about this “lost mail” scenario since the pattern showed up. Try right-to-life groups for instance. I have heard similar complaints from them as well. It could have been an unsophisticated attempt at bulk mail by the conservative groups that caused the delays in the past but you can bet that from now on we will all be paying close attention to every mail drop we do.
As a bonus in this lawsuit we have the resurgence of "his lowness", Geoff Wetrosky, the out-of-state Democrat campaign thug for hire who was caught stealing signs from candidates and the GOP. As Geoffy was careening towards Democrat Party Chair Cathy Sullivan's home/motel? that fateful night last November futilely attempting to shake the dauntless Republicans on his tail, he was desperately barking into his cell phone. (Or so I am told by one of the guys in the car.)
Just whom was Geoffy, the John Kerry paid for campaign thug, chatting it up with during his attempted escape from the scene of the crime? I would hope a nice long trial would include some discovery of his cell phone records. In any case, we know he landed at his “temporary domicile” 192 South Mammoth Rd., the home/motel? Of Dem Party Chair Cathy Sullivan with his stolen signs. That is where the Manchester cops caught him and let him go. 192 South Mammoth Rd. is same the address he used to steal a vote in the Manchester election several days later before he escaped back to South Dakota.
So what did the Dem. Party Chair know and when did she know it? What about Mayor Baines who Geoffy was working for? Or how about US Senator John Kerry who was footing the bill for Geoff Wetrosky the campaign thug for hire? What did they know about Wetrosky's past campaign problems in other states?
Boy this mail-jamming sure is complicated.
Reader Comments (7)
If anyone tampered with the mail in any of these cases I agree that would be a sickening crime against Democracy. As in any criminal investigation you need proof. If this is true I hope you can find that proof. Questioning the postal worker under oath may just do it. But, this IS a criminal matter-- why haven't the police done this. Are you alleging that the police are part of some conspiricy?
All of which raises a further question. How can Mr. Douglass jump to a "conspiricay" that involves Kathy Sullivan if there is no proof of a crime? Isn't that jumping the gun a little bit.
Contrast all of this with your admitted friendship with Chuck McGee who we know committed a crime against democracy and served time for that crime. In your own Tuesday June 6, 2006 column you wrote about running into your pal McGee.
TO WIT:
"Best of all, I ran into my old friend Chuck McGee who works at Spectrum and got the grand tour Spectrum's print shop and of Chuck's corner office with the big picture window."
So--to follow the conspiricy logic that you subscibe to. Does your admitted friendship with a known political criminal constitute conspiricy?
The answer is no--not without corroberating facts.
So how is it that you and Chuck Douglass portray Kathy Sullivan as a conspirator to an as yet unproven crime.
Could your accusations this be politically motivated?
I understand that you are a columnist and political partisan. So be it--but as a one time Supreme Court Judge, Chuck Douglas should be ashamed to put his name behind this fatally flawed legal logic.
Chaz Proulx
Comments noted.
I'll ask Grover what he thinks.
Just because Chaz doesn't know how to spell 'conspiracy' doesn't mean he's never seen one.
When something happens this many times, over and over, in conjunction with other crimes, it's time to be suspcious don't you think Chaz?
Chuck Douglass has only to be commended for finally going up against the Democrat culture of election corruption and finger pointing. Time they looked in the mirror.
My spell check let me down.
Ed
I enjoy your sense of humor. ( I can't blame Grover for everything can I!)
Chaz
I forgot to mention.
It was Spectrum Publishing that deliverd the 44,000 pieces bulk mail that Levasseur's was apparently selected out of.
That would be Chuck McGee's employer now.
What a small world we live in.
You know. Testimony from the phone-jamming case shows Chuck tried, starting at 8:01 am the morning of the phone-jamming incident and every few minutes after, to try to shut it down when he found it was illegal.
There goes "intent" to commit a crime, but he was indicted and a very successful, for the Dems., trial and publicity campaign ensued - to this day.
But Wetrosky, a known campaign thug, who knows his trade well, gets caught stealing signs and votes and no prosecution is pursued by the Manchester Police or the NH AG.
Mail is diverted at the Manchester Post Office - a fact, and allegedly several other times over the years and no legitimate investigation or prosecution is started. Ditto my case in Hillsboro.
That is what lawsuits are for.
I hope it lasts for years and goes right to the top.
Isn't this a federal issue?
I certainly hope so - in the lawsuit sense.
Let's get the ball rolling at the Superior Court level first. Even if it takes a few years.
Depositions will generate more info and lock everyone into statements on record.
Then we can go for the Federal suit.
I know we all want to get to the bottom of this and hope it will not happen this year again at least.
The phone-jamming case took from 2002 and is still going.
By the way Putney. When you worked at the post office did you leave mail hanging around the facility overnight?