Posted by
Ed Lilly on Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:48:34 AM
Apparently the mayor of Belmar, NJ, a beach town that relies on summer tourism to boost its economy, had a blog about goings on in Belmar. That's right, HAD a blog. I guess it was going pretty well, and the locals found it pretty entertaining, until...
To the Staten Island
girls who may have been taught to fight dirty in Brownies, Ken Pringle
is sorry. To the muscle-bound, tanned-as-coconut-shell visitors he
referred to as "guidos," employing a term widely considered an ethnic
slur, the mayor of Belmar offers his apologies.
And to blondes everywhere, whether they know how to take out the trash or not, the blog-writing mayor is really remorseful.
The comments in his blog for summer renters in this legendary party town on the Jersey shore were meant, Pringle says, as tongue-in-cheek jabs at visitors behaving badly—which Belmar surely has each summer.
My hunch is that the folks at the local chamber of commerce just about stroked out when the mayor started peeing in the Cheerios of all the tourists those businesses rely on to have a good year.