After a huge anti-tax campaign against Governor Jim Florio, New Jersey became Florio free in ’93 as he was denied a second term. More than 20 years after Florio left office, has New Jersey been in any better shape since ’93? One problem New Jersey didn’t have before then was the pension crisis. Jim Florio was the last governor to fully fund the plan. He also paid down a huge state budget deficit and spearhead an assault weapons ban bill in New Jersey. In this episode, Jim Florio talks about his days breaking from Camden County Democratic boss Angelo Errichetti, what it took for him – a southern New Jersey Democrat – to win a statewide election, and how he came to be the father of the Superfund site while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. This episode is sponsored by the Pollack Financial Group.
