Mitt Romney won the state last year, 57 percent to 41percentt, but took only one of the five most populous counties, bound by Fort Worth.
But he said that the county was bound by opinions from Mr. Sabatino; Robert Cimino, the county attorney; and the county's bond counsel that no borrowing against the future revenues was allowed under the program as it is currently structured.
The challenges affect the county, not just school districts, because, in an arrangement found virtually nowhere else in the state, the county is bound by law to pick up the debt of its school districts and towns.
"The state and its counties are bound by the decision, and they do not have religions," said University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on the 1st Amendment and religious liberty.
But this election season, New Jersey's two most populous counties -- affluent and suburban Bergen and the more middle-class and urbanized Essex -- find their hotly contested county executive races bound by an unlikely common thread: the proposal for a new arena in Newark.
According to Israeli press reports, "Since June 2008, Gaza students are required to be accompanied by an official diplomatic delegate from the county they are bound to.
"All of our county delegates will be bound to the popular vote for Chariton County," said Andrea Rice, the county Republican chairwoman, who presided over the meeting and reminded caucusgoers that Mr. Santorum had carried the county by 58 percent.
"All of our county delegates will be bound to the popular vote for Chariton County," said Andrea Rice, the county Republican chairwoman, who presided over the meeting and announced the results.
Mr. Dronenburg also argues that county clerks are not bound by orders from the governor, the state attorney general or other state officials to marry gay couples.
Passing a statewide pension overhaul initiative that applies the same rules to behemoths such as the 1.6 million-member California Public Employees Retirement Systemm and smaller city and county retirement funds is bound to create unintended consequences, said Teresa Ghilarducci, an economist at the New School of Social Research in New York.
At a news conference last night, Lawrence Salley, Westchester County's transportation commissioner, said the plane that crashed -- a single-engine, four-seat Cessna 172 -- had taken off from the county airport at 12 09 p.m., bound for Albany.
