Taxpayer-funded mail gives lawmakers direct line to constituents

Rep. Mary Fallins latest mass mailing from her congressional office may look like a campaign brochure, but its "official” business Congressional mail gives lawmakers taxpayer-funded "tool.”

 
BY CHRIS CASTEEL | Published: May 16, 2010   

WASHINGTON — In the last two weeks, 75,000 residents in Rep. Mary Fallin’s congressional district got a two-page letter with her "guiding principles for prosperity” and the phrase, "Doing What’s Right for Oklahoma.”

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Though Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, is running for governor, the letter wasn’t sent by or funded by her campaign.

The $26,000 cost of the mailing was borne by U.S. taxpayers as part...
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