TRENTON - It took more than a year for Bergen County Republican Organization Chairman Robert Yudin to get a state hearing on his nomination to the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. And then he got grilled by Senate Judiciary Committee members on Bergen County's blue law, which prohibits businesses from opening on Sundays, before they signed off on his nomination.
Governor Christie's blue law repeal blunder is bearing political fruit for Bergen County Democrats. And until he ditches the plan from his budget -- or legislators find a way to lop it out -- Christie's proposal provides Democrats an ample springtime bounty of attack fodder.
The August special primary election for U.S. Senate cost West Virginia's liquor retailers $1 million in lost sales, thanks to a nearly 150-year-old quirk in the state's election laws. Following the death of Sen. Robert Byrd in July, lawmakers passed legislation creating a timetable for a special election to coincide with last year's midterm general election.
North Jersey lawmakers are challenging Governor Christie's plan to lift the ban on Sunday shopping in Bergen County because it is based on a study provided by merchants who would benefit from the change. Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff said the plan to end the "blue laws" is still "in our budget," although the governor has predicted it may become a casualty of political outcry. The budget counts on the change bringing in $65 million in new revenue for Christie's $29.3 billion budget.
For a second straight day, Bergen County Democrats on Wednesday blasted Governor Christie's plan to repeal the law that bars businesses from opening on Sundays. County Republicans responded that the public should be allowed to vote on whether to keep the blue law in a countywide referendum.
PARAMUS, N.J. - During a powerful storm that flooded basements, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of families without power through a late winter weekend, residents of one New Jersey county had to wait till Monday morning to buy sump pumps, generators and other cleanup tools at local stores. That's because Bergen County - one of the country's richest retail areas with its five shopping malls and 900,000 residents - still enforces "blue laws" that prohibit Sunday shopping, except for essentials like food and gasoline. You can't buy clothes or electronics, but you can pick up a case of beer or a dozen roses, or grab lunch at a diner.
FROM THE ROANOKE TIMES The Blue Law
AIKEN - The "blue law" that once banned certain purchases in Aiken County on Sunday mornings came to an end Tuesday night, but it won't be effective immediately. The state ban forbidding purchases of items including clothes, jewelry and tools before 1:30 p.m. on Sundays was repealed Tuesday night by a third and final vote of the Aiken County Council.
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