Kelly's Help is Enlisted to Catch Anonymous Letter-Writer

Following the afternoon that Matt Saunders about anonymous letters mailed to Brentwood’s Ward 1, he asked for the city’s help at the board of aldermen meeting in identifying who sent out the letters.

Saunders filed the complaint for his wife, Maureen Saunders, who in a race against Jim Bischoff.

Saunders identified Glenn Jamboretz as Brentwood’s public relations advisor, and said he was the one who requested the addresses, so he must be the one who supplied the letter-writer with the information.

from the St. Louis County Election Board twice before the election. Candidates, Mike Daming and Maureen Saunders, also went for the information.

Saunders also asked Kelly how a campaign merits the use of Jamboretz.

“Are all campaigns allowed to do that? And, if not all campaigns, how does the city go about choosing who to lend one of our contract people too to help in campaigns?” Saunders asked Kelly.

Resident Barry Williams said the city should be concerned about the perception of “impropriety and illegalities,” and not just the actual.

He then told Kelly he thinks the city needs to terminate the contract with Jamboretz.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” Williams said. “I don’t know if he is guilty of anything or not, but we really can’t afford that at this point.”

Kelly responded that Jamboretz is not under contract with the city, and that holiday radio advertisements are all that his firm has done for Brentwood.

He then spoke about the letters, for the first time publicly.

“I knew nothing about these letters,” he said. “I feel very confident that Jim (Bischoff) didn’t have anything to do with these letters as well.”

Jamboretz has also denied knowledge of the letters.

Kelly said the city would help to find out who is responsible.

Following the meeting, Saunders said whoever wrote the letters must have received the voter addresses from Jamboretz.

"How else could letters be mailed to 19-year-old voters living in their parents’ home?" he asked.

The Missouri Ethics Commission will make its findings public within 90 days.