One elderly Ohio man was apparently frustrated with Republican politicians. So he worked out those frustrations in what can best be described as a unique way.

Police allege Richard John Steinle, 77, mailed dozens of poop-laced letters to GOP politicians, including Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Insider reports.

Steinle was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly mailing potentially hazardous (read: smelly) material, and he faces a punishment of up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Jordan and the rest of the 25 Republican members of the Ohio Senate have been the beneficiaries of Steinle’s unusual way of making a political statement. The letters, in which Steinle also referred to the lawmakers as “pigs” and “racist,” were mailed between August 2021 and July 2022, Cleveland.com reports.

All of the letters contained feces and Steinle apparently sent legislators in Kentucky and Washington D.C. the same letters.

When postal workers found three more letters addressed to Ohio politicians, federal investigators decided to stake out Steinle’s home, and five days later, they followed him to the post office. Whereupon they watched him don a glove and drop a letter in the mail collection box. When investigators opened the letter, it was indeed, smeared with poop. The letter also included a $1 bill and a greeting card.

Investigators found other letters sent to lawmakers in different parts of the country, including California.

And there’s more to this story than you might think. Steinle is a former Portage County Common Pleas Court Mediator. He was fired from this role in 2017 after serving more than 17 years as a mediator after conducting more than 4,000 mediations, according to a lawsuit he has filed in federal court.

According to the lawsuit, Common Pleas Judge Laurie Pittman fired him after he wrote a letter to the editor that was published in April 2016 in Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer. In that letter, he had sharp words for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation for charging excessive insurance premiums.

Steinle writes that Pittman told him he needed her permission to submit the letter but he told her he wrote the letter as a private citizen, arguing that he has a right to free speech. I have to wonder where this judge gets off thinking he needs her permission to write this, but that’s just me. There may be situations at play here that I don’t know about.

The lawsuit was settled seven months later. Terms of the settlement weren’t revealed but it’s no wonder Steinle was disgruntled.

And I have to say, this man used a clever gambit to mail the letters, simply by using three different addresses—the 9th Ohio District Court of Appeals, the FBI’s Akron office, and the home of an appeals court staff member. He carried a grudge against this person because the staffer’s spouse refused to represent him in a lawsuit, per court records.

If this is true, then one can hardly blame him for being disgruntled.

Steinle’s hearing is set for August 25.