FRHSD Board Member Called Candidate 'Unhinged Lunatic'
Marlboro representative Michael Messinger's private message about Gloria Close became public and a complaint is now in front of the School Ethics Commission.
A Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD) Board of Education member's Facebook messages have become the subject of an ethics complaint to the New Jersey Commissioner of Education. Michael Messinger, who represents Marlboro on the school board, referred to Manalapan resident Gloria Close as "an unhinged lunatic" in private Facebook messages. Close was campaigning for the Manalapan representative position for 2013 against incumbent Jennifer Sutera at the time the messages were sent. Sutera ultimately won reelection, but the alleged mudslinging was not known to Close until after the election was over. In the first private Facebook message dated Oct. 27, Messinger wrote to a friend and member of the Marlboro K-8 Board of Education the …
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Curious George
9:10 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I'm sure you are also addressing this comment to Benjifranklin, Zel, Milton McC and several of the other user names that have been used for almost 6 months here and on the NJ.com forums to ridicule, insult and otherwise trash Ms. Close. BTW, some of the language that Mr. Messinger used in his email was almost verbatim to some of those same messages. more ›