Candidate receives letter containing white powder

AUGUSTA - Someone mailed an envelope containing white powder - and two opened packages of artificial sweetener - to the congressional campaign of Republican Max Burns. <br> <br> Campaign staffers who opened the piece of mail Wednesday gave the envelope and its contents to the Richmond County Sheriff&#39;s Department, said Burns spokeswoman Anne Forbes. <br> <br> ``There was no threatening note,&#39;&#39; Forbes said. ``There was nothing threatening on the envelope. Inside there was a white powdery substance, but there was also two packages of Sweet&#39;N Low, opened.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The envelope, mailed to Burns&#39; post office box in Hephzibah and opened at his headquarters in Augusta, had a Savannah postmark and no return address, Forbes said. Burns was out campaigning when it was opened. <br> <br> Burns, a professor at Georgia Southern University, is running in Georgia&#39;s new 12th Congressional District, which stretches from Athens to Augusta to Savannah. He faces Democrat Charles ``Champ&#39;&#39; Walker Jr. in the November election.