New Jersey
Bill would ban LIV Golf from New Jersey
Controversy continues to encompass the brand new LIV golf league which is backed by the Saudi Arabian authorities. The league just lately held a event at Donald Trump’s golf membership in Bedminster.
If two New Jersey State Senators have their method, it will likely be the final time a LIV occasion is performed within the Backyard State.
Sens. Andrew Zwicker, D-Princeton, and Richard Codey, D-Roseland, have sponsored a invoice (S3032) that “Prohibits skilled sports activities organizations operated using funds primarily obtained from sovereign wealth funds from internet hosting sport or athletic occasions on this State.”
Whereas the laws might apply to any sports activities league, each Zwicker and Codey made it clear they had been focusing on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
Codey stated holding a LIV occasion in New Jersey was disrespectful to 911 households.
“Nobody would have believed that after that horrible day that we might be permitting international governments to carry occasions in New Jersey in an try to scrub up their picture after centuries of human rights abuses and connections to terrorists,” Codey stated in an announcement to NJ Globe.
The Saudi authorities has repeatedly denied any involvement within the assaults on the World Commerce Middle and Pentagon, though the FBI has claimed the lads who hijacked the airliners flown into the buildings had the help of Saudi nationals.
Saudi Arabia has typically been sighted for human rights violations. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be believed to have ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, though the Prince denies it.
Zwicker tweeted, “We don’t want competitions in NJ which are bankrolled by repressive governments in a shameful ‘sports-washing’ endeavor.”
The invoice has but to be scheduled for a listening to or a vote.
Gov. Phil Murphy has not commented on the pending laws.
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You may attain him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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