LTE on Laurel Hester

by: Juan Melli

Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 06:15:33 PM EST

Since we pay our police good salaries and provide them with medical and pension plans, this garbage about Lt. Laurel Hester of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office not being able to pass her pension on to her registered domestic partner because she is gay is pure bull.

She did the same job as the heterosexuals did, took the same risks, and deserves the same benefits.

Hearing the freeholders talk about contracts and rules makes me sick.

I've lived in this state for 45 years, and I've seen politicians caught cheating on their taxes, police fixing tickets and doing racial profiling, judges doing drugs in public buildings and a whole slew of other crimes that should have sent them to jail, but instead they were allowed to retire on the public dime.
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But now that it's a gay person they would have to bend the rules for, suddenly they have a conscience, morals and a desire to follow the law to its fullest extent.