To the Editor:

With my 45 years of both elected and appointive positions as a sitting mayor, elections chief, aide to a N.J. senator and most recently, as deputy chief of staff for a county executive, I learned, among other things, one very important lesson: never put into writing comments that can cause you immediate pushback or worse. Obviously, a couple of your readers don’t follow this long-time writing axiom.

Let’s take the more contemptible letter first – the writer last week from Tuckerton, calling Supreme Court Justice…

October 10, 2018