By RIKKI MASSAND
Credits: Rikki Massand
February 4, 2021 at 9:00 AM
FLEMINGTON, NJ - Nearly one month after the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and ensuing attack at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and with almost a full month of points aired for and against Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners Director Susan Soloway’s attendance at the rally, outcry on both sides of the political aisle took up a sizable portion of the biweekly meeting.
On Tuesday, most of the 80 minutes spent on public comments revisited ideas county residents first noted during the Jan. 19 regarding both her freedom of speech and her judgment in attending the rally and leaving before the move to the Capitol.
N.J. county commissioner who participated in D.C. protests says she did not enter Capitol grounds
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
Pictured, from left, Hunterdon County Commissioner Matt Holt, Deputy Director John E. Lanza, Director Susan J. Soloway, Commissioner Shaun C. Van Doren and Commissioner Zach T. Rich.
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A New Jersey county commissioner attended the pro-Trump protests held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday but says she did not participate in the violent insurrection at the Capitol building that resulted in five deaths.
Susan Soloway, who earlier this month was unanimously elected director of the Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners by her fellow Republican commissioners, said she attended Wednesday’s pro-Trump rally with
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