It takes a big man to force out someone from their job because they disagree with your political motivation. No scratch that, it makes a sensitive piece of sh*t that needs to grow thicker skin – PB/TK
A Powerful GOP Congressman Tattled on His Constituent for Criticizing Him, and Now She’s Out of a Job – By Ben Mathis-Lilley / May 15 2017
Powerful New Jersey Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen pushed a New Jersey bank executive into resigning her job when he alerted her colleagues that she’d made critical comments about him in the press, the New York public radio station WNYC reported Monday. Frelinghuysen, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, tattled via a handwritten note added to the end of a campaign letter mailed to a board member at Lakeland Bank:
“The form letter, on campaign stationery, asks Frelinghuysen’s supporters to donate two years ahead of his next election because he is under attack. “But let’s be clear that there are organized forces — both national and local — who are already hard at work to put a stop to an agenda of limited government, economic growth, stronger national security,” the letter says.
Above the word local, there’s a hand-written asterisk in the same blue ink as Frelinghuysen’s signature. At the bottom of the letter, scrawled with a pen, is the corresponding footnote: “P.S. One of the ringleaders works in your bank!”
Frelinghuysen also apparently attached a news clipping to the letter in which the “ringleader”—senior VP and assistant general counsel Saily Avelenda—was quoted. Avelenda is one of the co-founders of a group called “NJ 11th for Change” that has criticized Frelinghuysen, a self-identified “moderate,” for supporting Donald Trump and pressured the congressman to meet with constituents at town halls. She told WNYC that she was subsequently “questioned and criticized” for her activism by her bosses (those are WNYC’s words, not hers) and that their disapproval was one of multiple reasons she chose to leave her job.
Continue to slate.com article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/15/republican_rep_rodney_frelinghuysen_tattles_on_anti_trump_constituent.html
