Jersey City animal welfare advocates descended on City Hall Wednesday night to deliver a pointed message to the council: the administration’s decision to park a former aide arrested on DUI charges inside the city’s Animal Care and Control Division was an insult they weren’t prepared to accept quietly.
The group — made up of volunteer trap-neuter-return organizers, rescue workers and community advocates — waited until close to midnight to address the council, waving signs bearing the crossed-out face of Phillip Orphanidis.
“It’s sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back for the animal welfare advocates,” Alex Alton, co-founder of A Purrfect JC, a volunteer TNR organization, said at the meeting…