You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
New Jersey State Assemblywoman Evelyn Williams, who was recently appointed to fill the seat vacated by the death of Donald Tucker, was caught and arrested for trying to switch price tags on sheets and bedding in a discount store. More specifically, she was caught on camera trying to put $14.99 price tags on $59.99 bed sheets and a $49.99 comforter.
She must have been low on cash, because earlier in the week she had been fired from her $70,000 job as an Essex County Corrections Officer for collecting $11,000 in retirement benefits while continuing to work.
Described by the Newark Star Ledger as a “confidante” of Newark Mayor Sharpe James (and a former Deupty-Mayor), Ms. Williams also has quite a spotty driving record. According to the Star Ledger:
Her license was suspended 13 times between June 1995 and December 2004, mostly for unpaid parking tickets. Her last suspension, for failing to appear in Newark court, was in effect until Dec. 9, four days before she took the oath of office for her Assembly seat.
Essex County Democratic Chairman Phillip Thigpen, presumably one of the “Democratic Leaders†who voted for her appointment, was quoted as saying, “I express my confidence in Evelyn. There is some misunderstanding along the way.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket! It must all have been some sort of a … uh …misunderstanding.
Thanks to Dave of A Different Lemming for the heads up..
totally off topic but MERRY CHRISTMAS JIMBO!!
Comment by mr. helpful — December 24, 2005 @ 3:56 am
The Jersey stories never cease to amaze.
Comment by dogette — December 24, 2005 @ 10:56 am
Wow, what a sterling example for our children! Nothing out-strips the ethical excellence of New Jersey Pols.
Merry Christmas!
Comment by MCPO Airdale — December 24, 2005 @ 12:50 pm
All a mistake… she just touched that 14.99 thing, the tag stuck to her finger, then stuck to the 49.99 thing when she touched that.
Happens all the time.
As proof of which, I offer the fact that it happened to her twice in the same day 🙂
Comment by Harvey — December 26, 2005 @ 5:51 pm