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This information has been developed to help educate and inform the public about the sex offender / kidnapping registration program and the laws relating to the program. It is important to understand the laws related to sex / kidnapping offenders and to know the intention and the limitations of these laws. This fact may create fear and concern for some members of the Pierce County community. Pierce County has over 2,500 registered sex / kidnapping offenders residing within the incorporated and unincorporated portions of its boundaries. We believe you need to be well informed and this site is intended to achieve that goal. The Pierce County Sheriff's Department feels you have the right to know about registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. Sex Offender Registration Program Information He said he was “stunned” over Sweeney’s loss.View information on crime statistics for Pierce County. Phil Murphy, who narrowly won a second term over Republican Jack Ciattarelli, called Durr’s posts “outrageous” during a public event Friday. He was largely unknown in state politics before Election Day.ĭemocratic Gov. He conveyed holiday wishes, posted about his dogs and wrote about his successes trying to eat more healthily.ĭurr, a commercial truck driver, defeated Sweeney in southern New Jersey’s 3rd district, spending just $2,300 on his campaign. Unknown in Politics Before Election Dayĭurr also used his Facebook account to highlight his campaign activities, posting photos of himself and others speaking with voters at their homes. He also boasted last year of defying New Jersey’s indoor mask requirements while visiting stores, and appeared to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic. 7, he wrote on Facebook, “I do not agree or support the entering of the Capitol! But I was not surprised after courts refuse to do their job!” 6 attack on the Capitol was not an insurrection but “an unauthorized entry by undocumented federal employers.”ĭurr’s Facebook posts show he closely followed and posted in support of former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud. In other posts, Durr seemed to equate not opposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates to remaining silent during the Holocaust, including with the post a photo of a yellow star that the National Socialist party forced Jewish people to wear. A spokesperson for New Jersey Senate Republicans declined comment Friday, referring a reporter to Durr’s statement.Īlso on Friday, the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations called on Durr to meet with Muslim leaders and renounce hate. That’s what I am here to do, work for the people and support their rights.”ĭurr did not respond to phone and email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday. “I support all people and I support everybody’s rights. “I support everybody’s right to worship in any manner they choose and to worship the God of their choice,” Durr said in his statement to the media outlets. In a screenshot of a 2019 Twitter post captured by a WNYC reporter, Durr wrote, “Mohammed was a pedophile! Islam is a false religion! Only fools follow Muslim teachings! It is a cult of hate!”
Twitter showed Friday that Durr’s account had been deactivated by the user. “If I said things in the past that hurt anybody’s feelings, I sincerely apologize.” “I’m a passionate guy and I sometimes say things in the heat of the moment,” Durr said in identical comments to both outlets. On Thursday and Friday, media reports highlighted posts Durr had made on Twitter and Facebook, including some critical of immigrants, boasting of defying state COVID-19 mask mandates, and making misogynist attacks on Democratic elected officials like then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.ĭurr issued a statement Thursday night to radio station WHYY, and Friday to the website New Jersey Globe apologizing for the posts. His victory over Steve Sweeney, widely regarded as the second-most powerful Democrat in state government, in Tuesday’s election shocked the state’s political establishment. Republican Edward Durr apologized on Friday after media outlets highlighted the posts.
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A truck driver who ousted the powerful New Jersey Senate president in the election previously posted online calling Islam “a false religion,” comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and defending rioters at the Capitol.