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Pay-to-play ban works, and that upsets some
Bergen County’s 4-month-old pay-to-play ban, a hard-line, plug-every-conceivable-
Which is exactly why frustration and a wave of panic are rippling through the county’s professional political class.
Fund raising has slowed to a trickle. Donors are being advised by their attorneys not to give to Bergen County races, fearing that they could risk losing lucrative county business by merely showing up at a $500-a-head golf outing. (Stile, The Record)