Police investigation has begun after Michael Guest and Fliss Butcher yesterday received threatening and pornographic material, which the two Dunedin city councillors say is from anti-stadium campaigners.
Crs Guest and Butcher both contacted Dunedin police after the anonymous material arrived in letter boxes at their home addresses.
Cr Guest last night said the envelope that arrived at his home contained a blank sheet of paper with a photograph attached showing a high-powered rifle complete with telescopic scope "and a silencer".
"I thought to myself, `What a bastard to do something like that.'"It could have been opened by a member of my family. It's a gutless coward who has sent it."
Cr Butcher, who voted against the stadium at Monday's meeting, said she received a pornographic magazine, with a type-written note attached comparing her with the contents.
"It was just disgusting, horrible - sent to rattle me, obviously, which it did," she said.
Both councillors were last night adamant the material could only have come from anti-stadium campaigners, despite Cr Butcher's position on the project.
Cr Guest, a supporter of the stadium project, said his letter came two days after Monday's "vociferous" council debate, and "I have no doubt it's something to do with the anti-stadium people".
Cr Butcher went further, saying the material "just smacks of the Stop the Stadium".
Stop the Stadium president Bev Butler distanced her organisation from the material last night, saying her organising committee's six members "don't have time" for such a campaign and she knew "nothing at all" about it.
While not condoning the tactics, she believed they showed how "very angry" people were at the stadium project.
"This all happens spontaneously when you have got so many people upset. Expect more and more of this to happen," she said.
