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   'Pay-play' ban offers (NJ) Democrats loophole
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News DateThursday, March 24, 2005 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0
Description"Acting Gov. Richard Codey signed what he calls the strongest "pay-to-play" ban in the nation this week, but the Democratic State Committee is circulating a blueprint for getting around it.

Angelo Genova, who is the party's top lawyer and who helped write the law, also drafted a memo explaining how state contractors can still make hefty campaign contributions even though the new statute is supposed to curb the practice.

The Feb. 1 document was distributed among top Democratic fund-raisers before the party's annual fund-raising gala, which was held Tuesday just hours after Codey signed the pay-to-play law."

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