New Jersey mayor’s husband, Gina Laplaca, accused of drunk driving while her little child in the car last month, said the public should be easy with her because she is not the “mayor of a great city.”
“It is not as if she were the mayor of a great city. Lumberton has only 13,000 people,” said Laplaca husband Jason Carty, to The Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday.
“All I want is for my wife to improve and that everyone leaves her alone.”
The 45 -year -old Democrat was supposedly captured in video by another driver who vanished all the way and almost crashed into a public service post after she picked up her 2 -year -old son of the nursery on San Patricio Day.
Police arrived at Lapla’s house and found their child tied in a car seat in the rear passenger seat.
Then, the officers do their sobriety tests in the field of performance, where you can see the stumbling again when asked to stop a leg.
While investigating their car, the officers supposedly found a bottle of water full of alcohol and a small bottle of liquor.
Lapla was now arrested and accused of driving under influence, driving without collection and endangering the well -being of a child. It was released with a summons to appear before the Court on April 28.
Carty, former Westhampton Fire Chief, told the Philadelphia inquiring that his wife is “in a hospital and on a path to recovery.”
Last week, the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, urged Lapla to “put aside his public duties.”
However, Lapla, who was elected mayor of Lumberton in 2022 by a Committee of five people and won re -election in 2023 and 2024, confirmed in an email at the end of last month that would not give up his mayor’s position.
“I will not give up my position. Our community must be more childish and understand about people who try to improve better. As we all know, there is a huge black eye and a black cloud over our city at this time,” email obtained the reading of Fox 29.
The outraged residents of the municipality of Lumberton packaged a meeting of the Committee Board after their trial and email saying that he would not give up to meet against the 45 -year -old Democratic mayor.
The member of the Laplaca committee, Terrance Benson, put on the side of the residents and requested his resignation.
“My personal opinion is for the mayor to give up and heal,” Benson said.
He arrived only one week after he resigned as business administrator in the municipality of Neptune, according to the Asbury Park press.
Lapla’s resignation occurred after an online video showed that it was escorted outside the meeting of Mount Holly Fire Commissioners by the Police on March 5.
In the 14 second video, Lapla was heard to call another “skank Bi-H” woman while the police took her out of the room.
“You have no idea what I have bone, you F – King Skank Bi – -H,” he heard scream.
The heated exchange was lit when the public criticized her husband’s appointment as captain of the Ewing Township Fire Department in Mercer County, said Asbury Park Press.
Carty issued a statement after the video that “personally asked Gina to leave the meeting due to the harassment she was submitted to the rebel crowd was published.”
“If only a brief clip was published that shows them by applauding, but the truth is that she was harassed for about an hour. Some people made unpleasant and misogynistic comments for her and should be suffered on issues,” he said.
Lapla had been the business administrator in the municipality of Neptune since January 2022.
