Court Orders Belmar To Hold A Referendum On “Matt’s Law”
Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty had a bad couple of days in Court last week.
After hearings on Thursday and Friday, Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Katie A. Gummer Ordered that a referendum on Matt’s Law, the Pay to Play ordinance that Doherty and the Belmar Council passed earlier this year that would allow the mayor to hide the identity of donors to his campaign for Monmouth County Freeholder, be held in the Borough on September 27, 2016.
Judge Gummer reiterated her earlier ruling that Belmar’s current Pay to Play ordinance which requires the disclosure of all donations and requires Belmar officials who accept donations from borough venders, developers and liquor licensees to recuse themselves from decisions involving those donors’ applications and business with the town is “the law of the land.”
Matt’s Law “is suspended and has never been in effect,” Judge Gummer said from the bench on Thursday.
Posted: July 18th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Pay-to-play | Tags: Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Dirty Doherty, Dirty Doherty's Magic Show, Judge Katie Gummer, Ken Pringle, Lawless Matt, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Matt's Law, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Superior Court, Pay-to-play, Ramon Rivera | 2 Comments »