The revelation comes as lawmakers grapple with accusations of widespread misogyny in New Jersey's halls of power.
MAHWAH, N.J. — New Jersey Mayor John Roth became so drunk at a township employee’s house party that he took off his pants and passed out in her empty bed without her permission, he said in an interview this week.
The revelations about Roth's conduct come as New Jersey lawmakers are grappling with accusations of widespread misogyny in New Jersey's halls of power. A working group of women political leaders and advocates has formed to hear from women via an online survey about workplace sexual harassment in the Garden State political realm.
In Roth’s case, no one has leveled any public accusations about his behavior at the Jan. 10 party, to which roughly two dozen town employees were invited. An anonymous letter signed by"concerned employees of the township of Mahwah" circulated last week detailing the night's events. Roth, a Republican, became mayor of this township of 26,000 in 2018 after voters recalled his predecessor, Bill Laforet. Laforet, who had survived a prior recall attempt, spent years butting heads with the council — there was severe backlash when he criticized the governing body over its approval of regulations that council critics said targeted Orthodox Jews — before voters tossed him out and replaced him with Roth.
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