Barnegat Township’s municipal calendar became a hot topic during the township committee Tuesday morning, when a resident pointed out that October featured a photo of a dog wearing a Trump bandana.
During the public portion, resident Claire Edelstein said it was “highly inappropriate.”
“This is in October, one month before the election,” she said. “Is this implying that you want people to vote Republican? Politics does not belong in a public document.”
When Mayor Albert Bille said it was an “oversight,” Edelstein wasn’t buying it.
“An oversight would be missing an apostrophe or a comma,” she said. “Something like this is not an oversight.”
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