I Think I Found One New Jersey Politician Who Was Honest

Too bad this mayor is in more hot water for being honest than being a crook.

In a newsletter aimed at the town’s summer renters, he referred to a certain group of young people with a name some Italian-Americans find offensive.

Belmar is lovely and tranquil, an escape from humidity and New York City.

Mayor Ken Pringle says he wants to keep it that way, but he may have used the wrong language to make his point. In his weekly newsletter to summer renters, the mayor, borrowing a reference he thought was fairly commonly used in his town, and lifting an incident from “njguido.com,” described a certain type that descends on Belmar:

“Guidos as kind of a rare bird and are “as welcome as, oh, Canada geese.”

Pringle switched to full damage control mode on Wednesday.

“In a very positive way, the 20-somethings who consider themselves to be “guidos,” it’s not an epithet,” Pringle said. “In my own town, I will tell you that there are people who don’t like it; but it’s like a generational divide on this issue.”