ICYMI: Kean mailers dumped by USPS worker at Pennsylvania Shop-Rite

In case you missed it… a new report by the New Jersey Globe revealed that investigators have opened a probe of alleged mail theft regarding Rep. Tom Kean’s mailers.

N.J. congressman mailers dumped by USPS worker at Pennsylvania Shop-Rite
NJ Globe
November 2, 2024

A U.S. Postal Service employee is under investigation after a postal worker allegedly dumped about 300 direct mail pieces in support of Republican Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) into a dumpster at a Pennsylvania supermarket.

The New Jersey Globe has confirmed that a woman wearing a USPS uniform was observed pulling up next to a dumpster at a Shop-Rite in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, taking several postal bins out of the trunk of her car, and throwing them into a dumpster before driving off.

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The pro-Kean mailers, sent by an independent expenditure committee connected to the national GOP, were meant for voters in Succasunna, part of Roxbury Township in Morris County and one of the most heavily Republican municipalities in New Jersey’s 7th district.

“We saw her dump it,” a security company official working for the supermarket told the New Jersey Globe.”

A security official is heard saying on the video, “We have a license plate.  She has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the mail’s from Jersey.”

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“I believe in the security of our elections and voting by mail, but this incident is deeply troubling. I hope the USPS acts swiftly to resolve whatever crimes have been committed, and I urge them to be open and transparent about the specifics of this incident,” Kean said.  “Protecting the integrity of our democracy is imperative.

In 2020, Nicholas Beuchene, a 26-year-old letter carrier from Kearny, pleaded guilty to charges that he disposed of a large quantity of mail, including roughly 200 vote-by-mail ballots sent to West Orange, into a dumpster in North Arlington.

Read more here.