One of the ringleaders works for your bank!” Avelenda’s efforts to unseat Frelinghuysen were outlined in a NPR report shortly after, the congressman sent a campaign fundraising request to a Lakeland board member’s home address and wrote in blue pen at the bottom: “P.S. By March, her boss’s warning took on an ominous tone.
“I remember laughing, thinking, OK, I will strip out all the pens that have Lakeland’s name on it from my purse,” she says. Still, in February, Avelenda’s boss warned that Frelinghuysen was a “friend of the bank” and told her not to mention Lakeland or display any bank paraphernalia at public events hosted by NJ 11th For Change. As assistant general counsel and senior vice president at the firm, Avelenda did her due diligence: She consulted NJ 11th For Change’s attorney and Lakeland’s Code of Ethics policy, which states, “Each Employee shall have the opportunity to support community activities or the political process, as he or she desires,” provided it’s not done on company time and follows New Jersey state law. Rodney Frelinghuysen.įrom the start, Avelenda, 45, was careful to square her new activism with New Jersey pay-to-play laws, which restrict certain political donations, and the regulations of her employer, Lakeland Bank.
“I needed to make sure that that was never the case again.” By spring, she had split her time between work, family, and volunteering at NJ 11th For Change, an organization currently focused on challenging pro-Trump Republican Rep. “I decided that it was my fault that the election had gone the way it did because I hadn’t done more,” she recalls. The day after the November 2016 election, Saily Avelenda, a longtime New Jersey resident, sat down with her husband and told him she had to make a change. But for several women like Briskman, adding “activist” to their résumés has upended their professional stability. The 2017 Virginia elections revealed the strength of this new female-led movement, with the number of women in the state’s House of Delegates almost doubling from 17 to 28 (almost 29 a contentious race between Republican David Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds ended in early January after a recount and, ultimately, a random drawing). Indivisible, a network of local resistance groups, says that 74 percent of its e-mail list subscribers are women and protests led by female volunteers and Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) torpedoed the GOP’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Thousands of women across the country have dedicated their free time to shape the anti-Trump movement: The 2017 Women’s March rallied an estimated 4 million women in the U.S. By Halloween, she’d been fired and escorted out of the building, her employers citing the company’s social-media policy against “obscene” content on personal sites.įor several women like Briskman, adding "activist" to their résumés has upended their professional stability.īriskman may be the most famous corporate casualty of the resistance, though she’s not the first. When Briskman went to work on Monday to her other job as a marketing analyst for a government contracting group called Akima, she gave HR a heads-up about her new turn as a social-media star. Then came the reckoning: The yoga studio where she worked part-time as an instructor began getting aggressive e-mails and bogus bad reviews on the studio’s social page. Briskman, 50, “outed” herself by posting the image as her cover photo on Facebook and Twitter. It went viral, retweeted by over 30,000 people. The moment was immortalized by Agence France-Presse photographer Brendan Smialowski, and then tweeted out by another journalist, Voice of America White House bureau chief Steve Herman. Just feet away from the black vans, she raised her middle finger in a gesture of defiance. And the fact that he’s at the golf course again! The fourth weekend,” she tells me. “I was so enraged about the image I had in my head of Trump throwing paper towels at people. While biking near Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, the Virginia resident spotted a line of black cars: the presidential motorcade.
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