In April, about three weeks after her boss showed her the letter, Avelenda resigned from her job at Lakeland Bank.
The board member hand-delivered the note to Lakeland's CEO, who then gave it to Avelenda's boss, who presented Frelinghuysen's letter to her.
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.