Word: florio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's chances of making further gains, however, were not improved by last week's off-year elections. Clinton campaigned hard for New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, but both lost. That may cause many Democrats to ask, in effect: Why should I buck anti- NAFTA sentiment in my district to please a President whose ability to help me win re-election is suspect? One Congressman who admits he found the results "unsettling" is Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a state where labor is strong and every other Democratic Representative has come out against...
...President was not on any ballot last Tuesday, of course. But two Democrats he campaigned hard for, New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor James Florio, were turned out of office. Their defeats were the more galling because of the identity of their Republican conquerors. Former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani had lost to Dinkins four years earlier; Christine Todd Whitman was a relative novice who had held only one minor elective office in New Jersey and proposed pie-in-the-sky tax cuts...
Whitman's campaign manager Edward J. Rollins said that Whitman endorsed payments to ministers totalling $500,000, in connection with asking the ministers not to make strong efforts to get out the vote for Democratic incumbent Gov. Jim Florio...
Dinkins and Florio, term limits in Maine and New York City--these are all supposedly signs that we as an electorate have become, in the words of a New York Times headline, "cranky." Unwilling to give the poor incumbents a fair shake, we fickle voters have apparently "fire[d] everyone in sight" and are irrationally expecting the impossible from our elected officials...
With 63 percent of New Jersey's vote counted,Whitman led 51 percent to 48 percent. Florio's$2.8 billion 1990 tax hike was the paramount issuein that contest, viewed as a test of whetherpoliticians could overcome public anger by sellingtaxes as tough but sometimes necessary medicine...