'P.S.: One of the ring leaders works in your bank!': Is this congressman's fundraising letter a thre

[Eugene]

Related GD threads:
• A New Jersey Congressman Called Out an Activist in a Letter to Her Employer
• House Republican writes letter to constituent's employer complaining about her progressive activism

Also: Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer (WNYC)

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Source: Washington Post

‘P.S.: One of the ring leaders works in your bank!’: Is this congressman’s fundraising letter a threat?

By Amber Phillips May 15 at 12:11 PM

An attorney in New Jersey, as well as ethics experts back in Washington, are in shock after one of the most powerful members of Congress — Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) — sent a fundraising letter to a woman's employer describing her as a “ring leader” in a local activist group.

Saily Avelenda resigned from her job as a senior vice president at the local bank soon after, saying the letter was part of the reason she left her job. “When it first came to my attention, I thought: ‘No. No one would do that,’” she told The Fix on Monday. “But the more I think about it, the more I could tell this was a concerted, directed effort to target me.”

Here's the operative paragraph in the March letter that Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, wrote to the bank's director:

Let's be clear that there are organized forces — both national and local* — who are already hard at work to put a stop to the agenda of limited government, economic growth and stronger national security.

The “local” was starred in blue ink, a flag to jump down to the bottom of the letter, where, next to the congressman's hand-signed signature, there is a handwritten note:

“*P.S.: One of the ring leaders works in your bank!”



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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/p-s-an-anti-trump-activist-works-for-your-bank-ethics-experts-say-this-congressmans-fundraising-letter-sounds-like-a-threat/

[Ken Burch]

1. They now believe they have sanction to bully.

n/t.

[delisen]

2. The congressman has an enemies list on his constituents?

Nikki Haley thinks the president is CEO of some kind of American corporation, and Frelinghuysen tattles on his constituents exercise of free speech to a banker. The "government as a business" belief system seems to have taken root among Republicans.

If only they would be consistent in their wrongheadedness and concentrate on giving us"shareholders" a better deal.