In the video, Sager identifies herself and says she is running for Middletown Twp. Committee. She also tells the pot proponents she has to be careful what she says because Middletown is an "extremely, extremely red" area. She tells a reporter in the group that the entire conversation is off the record. They discuss marijuana and she says she supports needle exchanges; she also says she doesn't want to stigmatize drug users, or criminalize drug use.
At the end of the clip, an unidentified man said he doesn't like the opioid awareness speakers who are in public schools, calling some of them "criminals."
"What constitutes a criminal? To me, a lot of police are criminals," Sager replies. "So where do you go with that?"
She does not elaborate.
The conversation was not videotaped by the reporter. It was recorded by Edward "Lefty" Grimes, who bills himself as a pro-marijuana activist in New Jersey. Art Gallagher, a conservative Monmouth County blogger who writes More Monmouth Musings, said a reader tipped him off to the video when Grimes posted it on his Facebook page. However it has now been taken down from Grimes' page. Grimes did not answer Patch's questions about why he posted the video and then took it down. (Coincidentally, Patch actually interviewed Grimes last year at the opening of a medical marijuana store in Secaucus.)