The Peter ‘Mathews for Congress Campaign’ committee says that it found in the political mail log records of 13 local post officers that 67.7 percent campaign mailers (28,017 out of 43,301) of their candidate were not recorded as having delivered to regional post officers or to the voters, according to a press release. The committee undertook the exercise to check the log records after reports that many district voters had not received campaign mailers that were sent before the March 2 primary.
Mathews, a college and university professor of nearly three decades, lost the Democratic nomination in the 37th Congressional District of California against incumbent Democrat Juanita Millender-McDonald.
The release said campaign mail delivery irregularities apparently occurred also in at least two of several other ‘Mathews for Congress Campaign’ in the past.
The U.S. Postal Service had investigated an incident of the similar nature in Mathews’ 1994 campaign, according to reports.
