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Related: About this forum'Lets Go Brandon' Mistakenly Stamped On Hundreds Of Official Tax Letters In Stanislaus County
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/07/15/lets-go-brandon-mistakenly-stamped-on-hundreds-of-official-tax-letters-in-stanislaus-county/Lets Go Brandon Mistakenly Stamped On Hundreds Of Official Tax Letters In Stanislaus County
By Marlee GinterJuly 15, 2022 at 11:09 pm
MODESTO (CBS13) A Stanislaus County resident is demanding answers after she and hundreds of others received an official tax letter in the mail stamped with Lets Go Brandon.
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Our office is completely nonpartisan, said County Assessor Don Gaekle. But, he continued, We didnt have anything to do with it.
Gaekle says there was no political agenda behind the message. He says ABS Direct, a contractor, printed the envelopes in error and has since apologized. Gaekle says the county not only doesnt condone such messages, but he says they dont belong on official government business.
Were a nonpartisan government office doing the taxpayers business, and we apologize that this mistake offended taxpayers, and we want to make sure that it never happens again, said Gaekle.
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By Marlee GinterJuly 15, 2022 at 11:09 pm
MODESTO (CBS13) A Stanislaus County resident is demanding answers after she and hundreds of others received an official tax letter in the mail stamped with Lets Go Brandon.
[...]
Our office is completely nonpartisan, said County Assessor Don Gaekle. But, he continued, We didnt have anything to do with it.
Gaekle says there was no political agenda behind the message. He says ABS Direct, a contractor, printed the envelopes in error and has since apologized. Gaekle says the county not only doesnt condone such messages, but he says they dont belong on official government business.
Were a nonpartisan government office doing the taxpayers business, and we apologize that this mistake offended taxpayers, and we want to make sure that it never happens again, said Gaekle.
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'Lets Go Brandon' Mistakenly Stamped On Hundreds Of Official Tax Letters In Stanislaus County (Original Post)
sl8
Jul 2022
OP
Hope ABS Direct loses the contract. I would imagine that county mailings would
Scrivener7
Jul 2022
#5
It wasn't a mistake and that contractor should not receive any more government
Baitball Blogger
Jul 2022
#9
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,258 posts)1. I wonder who stuffed the envelopes?
Hmmmmmmm
enough
(13,497 posts)2. Mistakenly?
3Hotdogs
(13,870 posts)3. "Yes. Mistake. (Hee, HEe, HEE, Wait 'till the lib'tards get their mail)"
Hire a new vendor for the envelopes.
Omnipresent
(6,665 posts)4. "Lets go Brandon" is their way of saying, they are owned by the left.
The right talks like that, because we wont tolerate, what they would really like to say.
Scrivener7
(54,003 posts)5. Hope ABS Direct loses the contract. I would imagine that county mailings would
be a good client for a member of a fading industry.
doc03
(37,432 posts)6. Just an unfortunate error like the SS accidentally losing all the texts for
J5 and J6.
Bluethroughu
(6,865 posts)7. This is why Government business should NOT be privatized.
That company should lose it's contract, they are not capable of printing envelopes.
Raven123
(6,368 posts)8. The results of government-corporate contracts. This was no accident.
Baitball Blogger
(49,216 posts)9. It wasn't a mistake and that contractor should not receive any more government
business.
Midnight Writer
(23,452 posts)10. This is an awfully "on point" "accident".