Scott, you are right. There were two identical fliers that were sent out. The second one that came had the return address of Stathakis' business. However, I just photographed the wrong one. Sorry for the confusion.

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Katy,
I wrote a piece in the Source editorial and also commented on the Patch regarding receiving the same type of 'postcards from no one'. I still have them and they too are from fictional addresses - the only difference is they are smut for Manzella, Batchelder and Leman. I also had brought up the point that I wondered if all residents in Shelby Twp received these, or if only those who signed 'certain petitions' were singled out.....

Ann,
I never signed a petition, so maybe that's why I didn't receive anything. However, I thought that earlier some people stated they had received mailings regarding Leman (or one of them) that stated they were from a false address in Lansing? I may be confused or have some of the info wrong. It's not so much the negative ads, unfortunately those are everywhere, but its the false addresses and not stating who you are. If someone wants to send out false info or negative info and put their name on it, that's fine by me, although all the negativity really makes me not want any of the idiots in office... Personally, I would find it very refreshing to have a candidate who is confident enough in their strengths and skills to tell me what they plan on doing to make the community better, not just list everything the opposition has or will do wrong...

Unfortunately, the majority of the youth in the community don't really know that this goes on. Being a young (younger) voter myself, I can honestly say that most of the election stuff just gets on my nerves. I understand that most candidates want the young vote, and generally want the younger voters to exercise that right. However, most don't feel like the issues really involve them, therefore, they aren't really motivated. I tend to pay more attention to it because I currently work in PR and find some of this stuff interesting, although that has been a more recent development. I can say that all the immature antics are exhausting and frustrating. To know that when voting the only option you have is "the lesser of two evils," makes getting motivated to go out to the polls very difficult.

Matt... although many think you are from an alternate universe... you do have a dissenting voice in this Community as long as you keep it civil. Speaking of "civil", I would change your stance on not pursuing a civil lawsuit against the husband of the candidate who lost for Treasurer... as what that guy did on election day on your property crossed all lines of "civil behavior" and any decent standard the rest of us folks in this Township live by. It is really quite a shame that so many children in this Community have been exposed to that video gone viral. That was a sad day in this Community.

Pursuing civil action is fine to "hurt" someone that "hurt" you but my main objective and "agenda" is justice and equality.
Isn't it odd that I was charged for a crime that no one saw while others were NOT charged for a crime everyone saw?
This is a problem with deep roots in our community and this does, can and will effect other innocent citizens.
Yes, I was wronged and I'm sure some lawyer somewhere is drooling but I have this underground ridiculous sense of commitment to integrity that means I have to pursue all avenues to address an injustice that can harm others before worrying about myself.
I see what I did as flushing out and bringing to the surface a problem that affected the entire community and people just felt helpless to prevent.
I exposed a politician that used her position to profit at the taxpayers expense.

Funny that some politicians see owning a business outside of the community as bad but suing or swindling the taxpayers you want to represent as just fine.

All those that attack me and don't address the real issue are NOT looking out for the taxpayers or citizens best interest.
I don't know you Ms. Franklin, (although some claim I am you).
I don't ask for your support but I appreciate it and hope you see that what I'm doing as a good thing. (Maybe useless and futile, but good).

Sarah,
Matt will never sue anyone for anything. The last thing in the world he wants is to open himself up to discovery.

Oh.... I'm open to discovery, there is nothing I have done as bad as people have tried to portray about me, but criminal charges come first.

Actually Matt,

If the information given in the fliers is proved to be false in nature, the person can be sued for libel, since it was printed and distributed. While they may not go to jail for doing that, they can be sued for monetary damages. Problem is, they need to find the person who did it in order to sue. Sorry, Public Relations major, so we dealt more with libel since we deal more with printed material, but it's basically defamation of character. It's a civil issue, but still "illegal."

Why are people who just come here to personally attack and intimidate allowed to post. You can criticize what I write but why go off topic like this..... Oh, I get it, try to shut the truth out.

It's up to voters to educate themselves, see the charlatans, who have agendas and special interest, for who they are and vote in their own best interest. I think that's what happened in this past primary and I think some of the literature sent out did educate voters about some candidates special interest.
I mean, who cares if a candidate is part owner in a company that is located in another community compared to a candidate that is suing the voters while trying to represent them. Now we will actually have a trustee on the board (In November) that is suing the people he is swearing to represent and has been accused of over billing citizens while working for the township and still hasn't made any effort at restitution to those citizens while holding us all in contempt (suing us) for catching him being unethical..... It's baffling to me....it just keeps swirling around in my head "how can this person ever put the needs of the community ahead of his own when everything we know about his past says he can't?"

Sarah,
I agree. Politics today is a trainwreck.
But we can't start arresting candidates for telling lies because who determines the truth?

But they were Manzella's own words and actions, not made up junk like some of the others. That's more truth than negative. If it wasn't a political campaign it would be wrong, but in politics, the truth is the best policy.