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HAB911

(8,812 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 10:11 AM Nov 2017

A GOP official in Jersey shared a snotty Facebook meme about the womens march.

So a woman ran against him and won

Ashley Bennett, 32, a psychiatric emergency screener from Egg Harbor Township who showed up at an Atlantic County Freeholder’s meeting to protest comments made by Freeholder John Carman mocking the Women’s March, and then decided to run for his seat, knocked Carman off the board Tuesday.

Carman’s sharing of a facebook meme – “Will the women’s march end in time for them to cook dinner?” – brought scores of women to protest at the obscure county board, one bearing a box of mac and cheese and instructions for Carman to cook his own dinner. And it brought him national attention, including most recently being ridiculed on an episode of the podcast Lovett or Leave It featuring U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand reading sexist quotes.

Carman said he was just joking around, but it was Bennett, a Democratic challenger in a Republican stronghold district, who had the last laugh, defeating him Tuesday by nearly 1,000 votes out of about 14,000 cast for the seat on the New Jersey legislative body known as the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Bennett’s decision to run was embraced by progressive national groups like “Run for Something” which has been recruiting millennials to run for down ballot offices. She was the toast of twitter early Wednesday.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/shore/run-for-something-ashley-bennett-womens-march-dinner-john-carmam-atlantic-county-freeholder-20171108.html

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A GOP official in Jersey shared a snotty Facebook meme about the womens march. (Original Post) HAB911 Nov 2017 OP
One stop shopping for jerkiness exboyfil Nov 2017 #1
So many direct hits scored yesterday! lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #2
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lagomorph777

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2. So many direct hits scored yesterday!
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 10:25 AM
Nov 2017

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