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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...
...remarkably tight races, Republicans alsothreatened the re-election bids of New Jersey Gov.Jim Florio and New York Mayor David Dinkins. NewYork and New Jersey were too close for comfort--orsafe predictions--as voters got the final sayafter roller-coaster campaigns...
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...
...Lautenberg's case, his fellow New Jersey senator, Bill Bradley, nearly lost his re-election campaign because fellow Democrat Gov. Jim Florio raised state taxes...