Megan Matteucci
Savannah Morning News
Local Republicans say one person may have taken advertisements for today's election a bit too far.
Mary Flanders, the chair of the Chatham County Republican Party, came into the office Sunday to do some last-minute preparations. She checked the phone messages and found one that startled her, she said.
The caller, who identified himself, said the message was for "you all m-----f-----g crazy Republicans," according to a Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police report.
"I hope all your families die in a really bad accident or of cancer," the report stated.
Flanders saved the two-minute long message and called police.
"It's not a threat; just a nasty, hateful, wish you were dead kind of call," she said. "We just wanted to make a formal report in case something happened."
Although the message was not nice, it appears no crime was committed.
An officer documented the complaint as a harassing phone call and advised Flanders how to take a warrant out in Magistrate Court, police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson.
"Based on the report, it appears the citizen left a rude and obnoxious message on the headquarters answering service," he said. "Although the message was about two minutes in duration, it would be up to a judge to decide if the conduct warrants an arrest for harassment."
Flanders said she doesn't know the caller, but received his phone number from the headquarters' caller identification system.
"He lives in South Carolina and isn't even a voter here. I can't imagine why he would call here," she said. "But we do have a lot of television ads over there."
Police say this is the first political complaint they've received this election season.
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