Mathias mailers are questionable

I can't believe the lengths some politicians will go to during campaigns. Recently, Rep. Sid Mathias mailed out two 350,000 piece mailers using taxpayers' money. No doubt, he sent it out because he has an election this year.

I thought that was bad until I got a third mailer that Mathias got the taxpayers to pay for showing him and his supporter wearing campaign paraphernalia prominently displayed. All this misuse of taxpayer money, and right in the middle of the election! This kind of behavior has got to end.

Robert M. Gerhold

Wheeling