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...plan expected to cost about $1,000 a year to more expensive plans providing fuller and more complex coverage, but all must be designed so that the buyers can easily see exactly what they are getting for just how much money. Says Brenda Bacon, planning adviser to Governor James Florio: "The individual will now be able to compare apples to apples...
...Jersey another very rich Republican, Christine Todd Whitman, won the gubernatorial primary. In November she will face Democratic Governor Jim Florio, who became the object of Jerseyites' intense loathing after a $2.8 billion tax increase in 1990. A former state utilities regulator and a moderate, Whitman nearly beat New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley in an election three years ago by tying him to Florio. "We're going to be Florio-free," Whitman promises...
Panel members opened the discussion to the audience for questions Audience members included Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg '80 and New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, recent Profiles in Courage award recipient
...lobbyists claimed that banning these weapons would create a serious inconvenience for hunters and collectors. They then mounted a ferocious campaign to elect legislators who opposed the ban. Their efforts paid off when both houses passed an amendment that would have left the law weak and powerless. Gov. Jim Florio vetoed the amendment and though the lower house overrode his veto, the senate sustained it, keeping the ban intact. The NRA has vowed to continue the fight...
They were wrong. Last week the senate voted -- unanimously -- not to overturn the ban. What had changed? Citizens swamped lawmakers' offices with calls supporting the ban after Florio stumped the state, appealing to voters to voice their feelings about such weapons: pistols that whip off 10 shots or more from a single clip or the rapid-fire shotgun that drug dealers like to call "street sweepers...