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U.S. Political Mail Explained
AP
Published: Sunday, October 9, 1988

A staff member of the Federal Trade Commission, in trouble over some politically oriented letters he mailed, has told a House subcommittee that he was doing what he thought was expected.

The employee, Carter L. Clews, who was dismissed from the commission and then reinstated pending a formal investigation of his activities, admitted Thursday that he had sent letters to newspapers and television stations that were critical of statements made by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic Presidential nominee.

"I had simply tried to do my job as I understood it," Mr. Clews said. He told a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the letters he sent out were seen by his superiors at the agency's press office before they were dispatched.

Anna H. Davis, director of the commission's Office of Public Affairs, denied that, saying that the problem was in a postscript Mr. Clews added to one letter without her knowledge and that other letters he sent out had not been authorized.

The letters were sent in an effort to counter a statement by Mr. Dukakis that the commission's antitrust efforts were a joke. In the letters, Mr. Clews challenged that statement and offered the services of commission members for interviews to discuss the agency's activities and Mr. Dukakis's remarks.

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FAIL Zammy! That was a female on that video who is defending her organization from being tainted. ACORN will win this one unless something really serious can be placed in front of the people except a bogus a%$ videotape that was edited and taped. You know I would love for a ACORN representative to go on FOX Snooze. Only if those two idiots who made that tape playing a fake pimp and prostitute show up on other news stations!