These are the first direct quotes from the letter that I’ve seen.
“This letter is written to inform Delaware elected officials, elected by the people I might add, of the situation that began in 2010 and may still be ongoing today involving Sussex County Councilman Vance Phillips of the 5th District and an under aged girl,” it began.
That certainly got everyone’s attention.
The letter was two pages long. It accused Phillips, a Republican, of carrying on an improper relationship with a 17-year-old whom he met while both of them were working on the campaign for Glen Urquhart, the Republicans’ congressional candidate two years ago.
“I place the ball in your court and request you ferret out your own bad apple. I suggest to you that if you fail to do the right thing with regard to Mr. Phillips, the situation will be made public through the regular media as well as social media. In addition, the public will be made aware that you were complicit,” it said.
The letter was signed, “An Anonymous Sussex County Citizen.”
The parenthetical expression, “elected by the people I might add,” tips off that this was composed by a teabagger. I think the other interesting part of Cohen’s piece is this statement by Vance Phillips attorney:
“My guess is the letter is from someone in the law enforcement community. It is threatening. Let the coward come out of the darkness into the light, and there will be a responsible accounting. It’s a bullying, cowardly personality that wrote that,” Hurley said.
Two things… Law enforcement community? Really? Is he trying to flatter Christopher into tipping his hand? Also, it is clearly a threatening letter, but the people being threatened are state legislators.
I suggest to you that if you fail to do the right thing with regard to Mr. Phillips, the situation will be made public through the regular media as well as social media. In addition, the public will be made aware that you were complicit
Could the letter writer really be so naive as to think that the recipients would respond to such a ham fisted, and meaningless threat?
If I was a cop, I’d be looking for the dog that hasn’t barked. What commenter at DelawarePolitics hasn’t commented for a while? Who are the teabag callers to WGMD that have suddenly come down with a case of laryngitis? I’d make a Romney sized bet that this letter wasn’t the first time this person tried to call out Vance Phillips.