Laurel Hester
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Hester Laurel Hester
Laurel Hester has been fighting two almost intractable foes that are lung cancer and the Ocean County freeholders, who had refused repeatedly to let her leave her domestic partner the pension she has earned in two decades of local police work. Lieutenant Hester, aged about 49, in a wheelchair pushed by her partner, Stacie Andree, who is 30, told the freeholders that she had rejected her doctors' orders and had come to witness the vote to thank everyone individually for what they have done. She said that he had made himself an example of what democracy is all about, and she said by detaching her oxygen tube to make a statement.