Emergency personnel work outside the Colorado headquarters of John McCain after an envelope containing a white, powdery substance was received on Thursday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
by Katie Fretland
Law enforcement officers believe an inmate at a Colorado jail is responsible for sending a threatening letter with an unidentified white powder to a McCain campaign office near Denver.
The letter arrived Thursday to the office of the GOP candidate for president in the south Denver suburb of Centennial. The substance was not hazardous and no one was injured, authorities said.
Investigators were looking at a second letter that was sent to a McCain campaign office in New Hampshire. That letter did not contain the substance.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the nearly 20 people who were taken to hospitals or quarantined were later released. The return address of the letter sent to the Colorado office contained the name of jail inmate, who investigators said has a history of sending threatening mail.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.







Comments
McCain's camp is getting desperate when they send letters and 'white substance' in the mail to themselves.
Posted by: Rebecca | August 22, 2008 8:03 AM
No doubt a passionate BHO supporter.
Posted by: MinisterR | August 22, 2008 8:10 AM
I cannot even begin to describe how offensive the above poster's accusation that the McCain campaign is sending something that very well could be anthrax to themselves. It shows the hate and disgustingness of Obama supporters and is something that really shouldn't be joked about or allowed to be posted seeing as "Rebecca" has no facts at all to base such an inflammatory statement on.
Posted by: Jeff | August 22, 2008 8:58 AM
I doubt a prisoner could afford all the stamps it would take to send letters to all of McCain's houses. They better keep investigating.
Posted by: Goody | August 22, 2008 9:57 AM
Hey Jeff, Rebecca's facts are just as sound as those used to claim that Obama is a closet muslim bent on handing the country over to the terrorist if he is elected. I bet you aren't denouncing those posts as offensive.
Posted by: Goody | August 22, 2008 10:00 AM
A little desperate for media attention, methinks. How low do you have to go to pull the sympathy card from the bottom of the deck?
Posted by: tiztrue | August 22, 2008 10:20 AM
Our $trillion security apparatus can't seem to catch a real terrorist, but by gawd we are safe from the graffiti artist conspiracy!
Posted by: C.Morris | August 22, 2008 10:22 AM
Democrats are so foolish - have you heard anything yet about what he plans to do? Neither has anyone else.
What is so offensive about having multiple homes, by the way? I have 3 - Atlanta, Winter Park, CO, Hilton Head, SC. I am successful - I am not ashamed of it.
One more way you geniuses seek to punish success.
Posted by: Fletch | August 22, 2008 10:23 AM
No doubt a passionate BHO supporter.
Posted by: MinisterR | August 22, 2008 8:10 AM
I guess then that makes the man who shot the church goers in Knoxville a passionate McBush supporter?
ps...Funny how Jeff didn't attack this post. Bravo Jeff.
Posted by: bill r. | August 22, 2008 10:23 AM
Yes Fletch and I'm sure you pulled yourself up by the bootstraps out of poverty and worked your way through college washing dishes at the rich kids fraternity and now you have five houses, blah, blah, blah. B.S. I'm sucessful too but I'm not so self absorbed that I need to buy five houses to show it to everyone. I appreciate how lucky I am to have parents who made sure I had a secure home and nutritious food every day and helped me make the right decisions in life and I realize that not everyone is as lucky as you and me. It's not that Democrats want to punish sucess, it's that we want to keep Republicans from further punishing people because they were born poor.
Posted by: Goody | August 22, 2008 10:37 AM
Meant to include this link to graffiti terror;
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-graffiti-arrests,0,7739543.story
Posted by: C.Morris | August 22, 2008 10:55 AM
Goody, you're wrong. McCain and his family own and live in four homes. One is his daughter's condo and another is near the Naval Academy where his son recently graduated.
Three of the seven homes he "owns" were property Cindy inherited in a trust from her parents.
Oh and, yes, Rebecca's facts are wrong and I'm a lot more sure of that than anything that has to do with BHO and his amazing disappearing records. http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=98099&catid=188
The man was an inmate. Which, like Tony Rezko, doesn't disqualify you from being a part of the Obama campaign but it sure does disqualify you from being in McCain's.
Posted by: Jeff | August 22, 2008 11:22 AM
The man was an inmate. Which, like Tony Rezko, doesn't disqualify you from being a part of the Obama campaign but it sure does disqualify you from being in McCain's.
Posted by: Jeff | August 22, 2008 11:22 AM
That's because foriegn countries generally don't hire inmates as lobbyists. You can't get anywhere in the Mccain capaign if you aren't paid to lobby for the interests of a foriegn power.
McCain 08, putting America Last, sponsored by: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, China National Offshore Oil Company, The Republic of Georgia, South Korea, Montenegro........
Posted by: K-street | August 22, 2008 11:56 AM
"OLD MAN MCCAIN SPEAKS"
SEE I WAS RIGHT AGAIN, THE LETTERS CAME FROM "IRAQ" WE MUST ATTACK, ATTACK, BUSH WAS RIGHT! OUR "INTELLIGENCE" WAS RIGHT!
RIGHT ON TIME!
WHOOO! THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE!
SO WHAT IF HE IS IN PRISON! SO WHAT IF I GOT IT LAST YEAR!
A DISTRACTION IS A DISTRACTION!
EVERYBODY KNOWS I FORGOT, I MISSPOKE, I HAD A MISSTEP! BUT I GOT A LETTER! LAST YEAR! I REMEMBERED THAT!
THAT'S WHY I COULDN'T REMEMBER HOW MANY HOMES I PUT ON CINDY'S
SCHEDULE III MORTGAGE LIABILITY STATEMENT!
OH YOU DIDN'T GET THE MEMO!
IT'S CLASSIFIED NOW!
DON'T BE DISTRACTED!
IT WASN'T MY AGE!
IT WASN'T MY HEALTH!
IT WASN'T MY "PSYCHOLOGICAL"
IT WASN'T JUST "MENTAL"
I NEED MY $58,000 VA DISABILITY CHECK! I ONLY MADE 4 MILLION AND CINDY ONLY MADE 1.3 BILLION!
I HEAR THE VOICES!
I SWEAR I DO! IT'S MCCAIN/BUSH "WILL" I'M STILL ON BOARD!
I'M SHOOTING STRAIGHT!
SO WHAT IF IT WAS JUST A "DISTRACTION" SO WHAT IF HE SENT IT LAST YEAR!
I JUST "REMEMBERED!"
"god wants world cup not false prophets"
Posted by: Roger Morris | August 22, 2008 2:09 PM
A similar letter with white powdery substance was mailed to Florida Gov. Crist, apparently mailed from south Florida. Given that friends of mine were victims of the anthrax attack on American Media where an editor was killed by the powder, this stuff--whether or not a "hoax"--is pathetic.
Posted by: rupert | August 22, 2008 2:12 PM
Rebecca--EXACTLY my thought--THEY SENT IT TO THEMSELVES.
Who even cares about nasty mcsnarky?
Know what's really important?
Al Gore's ignored energy solutions speech.
http://www.wecansolveit.org
/pages/al_gore_a_generational
_challenge_to_repower_america/
Posted by: got planet? | August 22, 2008 2:52 PM
Cindy's dealer probably just got confused and mailed her stash to the office rather than the house. You know how easy it is to get confused about the McCain's addresses. Even they can't keep track of them all.
Posted by: TAC | August 22, 2008 4:37 PM
The point is not that McCain has multiple houses, it is that he doesn't even know how many he has. He has been trying to paint Obama as an elitist and out of touch, but in this gaffe it becomes clear that McCain is the one who is out of touch with the average America. He only cares about the rich.
Posted by: Mr Face | August 22, 2008 5:39 PM