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

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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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