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...semiautomatic weapons. Relentless lobbying and fistfuls of NRA campaign money appeared to have done the job. Never mind that polls showed 80% of New Jersey residents in favor of the ban -- both houses of the state legislature voted last summer to repeal most of , it. When Democratic Governor Jim Florio vetoed their action, the assembly voted in February to override. The senate was expected to follow suit last week. Gun lobbyists smelled victory...
...nine months since Republicans gained control of both houses of the New Jersey legislature, they have held open season on the laws passed by their Democratic predecessors under the leadership of Governor Jim Florio. Among the latest to fall was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns -- though not, even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis...
...whose electoral victory was aided by strong financial support from the National Rifle Association and its state affiliate, called the repeal an "anticrime" measure because it included increased penalties for some gun offenses. It amounts to nothing more than "a bald attempt" to fool the people, retorted an angry Florio, who intends to take the issue to the people in a referendum campaign if his veto does not stick...
...voiced his contempt for public assistance with apocryphal stories of "welfare queens" driving Cadillacs. What is surprising is how many Democrats and liberals are sounding the same themes. Presumptive nominee Bill Clinton insists that "those on welfare move into the workplace" within two years. New Jersey Governor Jim Florio denounces the current welfare system as "morally bankrupt." Many state governments, meanwhile, are slashing benefits and throwing thousands off the rolls. "America has moved from a war on poverty to a war on the poor," says Yale University professor Theodore Marmor, co-author of America's Misunderstood Welfare State...
...often draw the line at paying to solve them. "It does not make sense to take the money away from good suburban schools so that you risk mediocrity everywhere," says Susan Bass Levin, mayor of the wealthy suburb of Cherry Hill, which is outside Camden. As a result of Florio's plan, she claims, her town lost $5 million in education funds in 1989. The following year Cherry Hill adopted the first in a series of annual school-tax hikes to offset the loss...