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...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...
...landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give them the authority to remove any elected official, including Governor-elect Whitman, even before his or her term...
...protest, voters made permanent a half-cent increase in the sales tax for hiring more fire fighters and police. Even in New Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will...
...last week is any harbinger, 1994 will be good to Republicans. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Christine Todd Whitman ousted Democrat James Florio, while New York City Mayor David Dinkins lost to Liberal-Republican Rudolph Giuliani. A Republican also won the Virginia statehouse, with George Allen scoring a victory over Mary Sue Terry. Top Democrats including President Clinton tried to downplay the significance of the results, attributing them to the vagaries of local politics...
Local ministers agreed Whitman's alleged conduct is an attempt to undermine Blacks' political power and said this type of activity has never occurred in Cambridge...