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Bergen County exec: State fix needed for pay-to-play laws

HACKENSACK — The Bergen County Executive on Friday issued her third veto of an attempt to alter the county’s stringent restrictions on political donations from contractors seeking government contracts. Donovan again vetoed the latest attempt, approved earlier this month by the freeholders, after money in elections limits introduced.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Once again, Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan today vetoed a pay-to-play ordinance adopted by the county freeholder board earlier this month. As with the first veto, Donovan cited what she called an “ill-conceived attempt [to] weaken what has been described as one…