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Posted: Thursday, 17 July 2008 7:13AM
Belmar Mayor Apologizes for Newsletter
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BELMAR, NJ (AP) -- Belmar's mayor says he's sorry for disparaging comments that he made in the town's July 4 newsletter.
Ken Pringle says the newsletter is tongue-in-cheek satire meant to curb the behavior of rowdy renters and visitors to the Monmouth County beach town.
However, some people were offended by the July 4 edition which played on stereotypes featuring ``Staten Island girls,'' ``blondes'' and Italian-Americans as ``Guidos.''
A story about two women who couldn't figure out how to take out their garbage appeared under the headline ``Let us guess . . . they're blonde.''
Describing a fight involving a Staten Island woman, the mayor wrote, ``Journalistically speaking, ``SI woman punches other woman' is right up there with ``Dog bites man.''
Pringle says he probably stepped over the line.
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