A group of Newark restaurants are threatening to sue if city council proceeds with a proposal to limit capacity at bars – legislation that Mayor Jerry Clifton said is already “off the table.”
Attorney Thomas Neuberger, representing more than two-dozen restaurants, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clifton and members of council Wednesday evening.
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“I think we're on strong legal grounds, but it is off the table,” Clifton said. “I think the restaurants won. However, I'm not sure that the residents of Newark won.”
So he thinks he has legal grounds and science on his side but he backs off ... again. Just another indication of the out of control, liberal-minded, and weak government we have in this city. Whose brilliant idea was this? They should be made to defend it with something other than "feelings".
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