South Jersey Republican Under Fire After Asking If Protesters Will Be Home To Cook Dinner

While millions of women participated in marches across the country and around the world on Saturday, Atlantic County Freeholder John Carman was seemingly only concerned about one thing: dinner.

“Will the women’s protest be over in time for them to cook dinner?” he asked in a post on his personal Facebook page over the weekend. “There must be a large sandwich making class going on in Washington, D.C.today,” he added in a comment on the post.

The Republican freeholder from Egg Harbor Township came under fire from the opposition for his post Monday morning.

"On Saturday, millions of women all across the country and the world stood up to hate, intolerance, and misogyny," Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman said. "That same day, Freeholder Carman embraced the very hate, intolerance, and misogyny just to get a few shallow 'likes' on Facebook. It was classless and his actions should be condemned by Republicans and Democrats alike. Standing up for equal rights for women shouldn't be a partisan issue.

"Freeholder Carman's posts may have gotten a chuckle from his buddies, but for one of our elected officials to embrace misogyny so openly is an embarrassment to all of Atlantic County. He needs to issue an apology immediately and without reservation for offending the tens of thousands of women he represents on the Freeholder Board."

Carman told philly.com he supports women’s rights, and that the post wasn’t meant to offend anyone. However, he said some of the marchers in Saturday’s March on Washington and other marches held across the country hurt their own cause by putting replicas of women’s body parts on their heads and with their “vulgarity.”

On Saturday, women gathered by the hundreds of thousands in Washington D.C. and by the thousands in cities across the country with a message of equal rights and a vow to oppose anyone who may threaten those rights.

The New York Times reported that there were about three times the number of people in Washington for the march than there were for the inauguration.

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