No one knows who sent racist flyers, so town is taking the investigation into its own hands [View all]

Two years after racist campaign flyers circulated in a New Jersey town, officials are taking an unusual step to try to answer the lingering question: who sent them?

The flyers — which arrived in Edison Township mailboxes less than a week before November 2017′s Election Day — featured photos of school board candidates Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel, stamped with the words “deport” and “Make Edison Great Again!”

Shi, who is Chinese-American, and Patel, who is Indian-American, previously told NJ Advance Media they have no knowledge of who sent the flyers. Both won the school board election.

Concerned Edison officials appealed to the state Attorney General to investigate who was behind the incident.

Read more: https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2019/06/no-one-knows-who-sent-racist-flyers-so-town-is-taking-the-investigation-into-its-own-hands.html


File photo of the racist Edison mailers sent out the week before the 2017 election.