http://www.wnyc.org/story/frelinghuysen-targets-activsts-letter-boss/
The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.
The employee was questioned and criticized for her involvement in NJ 11th for Change, a group that formed after the election of Donald Trump and has been pressuring Frelinghuysen to meet with constituents in his district and oppose the Trump agenda.
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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!”
Attached to the letter was a news article that quoted Avelenda. She says her boss presented her with both the letter and the news article. She was not fired, but she says she had a lot of explaining to do.
“I had to write a statement to my CEO, and at my level as an assistant general counsel and a senior vice president, at this employer it was not something that I expected,” Avelenda said. “I thought my Congressman put them in a situation, and put me in a really bad situation as the constituent, and used his name, used his position and used his stationery to try to punish me.”
This is such a disturbing violation of ethics that it requires attention. Since the CEO of Lakeland Bank appaently needed his executives to write statements regarding this ridiculous abuse of power from a snowflake congressman who doesn't seem to understand that getting one of HIS bosses (that is what a constituent is after all) harassed at work is something that he should not be doing, perhaps we should reach out to him and his board and let him know?
Be calm, be kind, be reasonable and do not be abusive, simply let the gentlemen and ladies know how you feel about the Congressman they support, and how you feel about how they chose to harass an executive in their employ over her exercise of free speech in her personal time attempting to exercise her right to speak with her cowardly, ethically challenged failure of a Representative.
The emails for the board of this bank are here:
https://www.lakelandbank.com/about/executive-management/
The CEO is Thomas J. Shara Jr., and the guy the Rep wrote to was Joseph P. O'Dowd, who apparently also runs an advertising business.
Here is their facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/LakelandBank/ It's their pinned post and seems like it needs some more input, how about it?
If you do business with this bank, perhaps your words would have greater meaning to these people?
As to Rep. Freylinghuysen, his website invites you to contact his offices, here they are, along with the people you should be asking for since his unethical snowflakeness will be too frightened to take your call.
Congressman Frelinghuysen has two offices to serve residents of the 11th District. Please feel free to contact either office with any concerns or questions you may have.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
2306 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-3011
(202) 225-5034
Legislative Office
Chief of Staff - Katie Hazlett
Senior Policy Advisor - Steve Wilson
Legislative Director - Austin Bone
Legislative Aide - Tom Doelp
Legislative Correspondent- Steve Silvestri
Scheduler - Chris Hansell
Open: Mon. - Fri., 9am to 5:30pm
NEW JERSEY
30 Schuyler Place, Second Floor
Morristown, NJ 07960
(973) 984-0711
Constituent Service Center
District Director - Aura Dunn
Constituent Services Representative - Judy Lemus
Constituent Services Representative - Anthony Pryer
Field Representative- Nick D'Alessio
District Scheduler - Ryan Gallagher
Open: Mon. - Fri., 9am to 5pm
You can email Rod here:
https://frelinghuysen.house.gov/contact-us/index.cfm?sectionid=29§iontree=10,29
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/rfrelinghuysen/
Twitter: @USRepRodney
