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Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio dies at age 85
News12news ^ | 9/26/22 | News 12 Staff

Posted on 09/26/2022 6:25:06 AM PDT by NJRighty

Jim Florio, the former democratic governor of New Jersey, has died at age 85.

Florio's death was announced by his law partner, Douglas Steinhardt.

(Excerpt) Read more at newjersey.news12.com ...


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1 posted on 09/26/2022 6:25:06 AM PDT by NJRighty
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Didn’t RUSH have a nickname for him?


2 posted on 09/26/2022 6:27:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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This was the man who taxed toilet paper after promising not to raise taxes. People protested by throwing rolls of TP over the fence at the governor’s mansion. He was quite unpopular.


3 posted on 09/26/2022 6:27:27 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: 1Old Pro
Didn’t RUSH have a nickname for him?

I think it was Bob Grant who called him Flim Flam Florio. Not sure if Rush had his own nickname for him.

4 posted on 09/26/2022 6:28:44 AM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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Met the man. Nice guy.


5 posted on 09/26/2022 6:29:13 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Another gravesite worth pissing on.


6 posted on 09/26/2022 6:33:40 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can control you.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

A close friend of mine said the same thing. Even though Florio was a dem, he apparently was a very nice even to those he disagreed with. Much different than Murphy who is a condescending jerk.


7 posted on 09/26/2022 6:35:08 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: 1Old Pro
Didn’t RUSH have a nickname for him?

I remember local NJ radio station, WKXW, calling him Phonyo.
8 posted on 09/26/2022 6:35:19 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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Bob Grant was a hoot. Film Flam Florio and Mario “the sfachime” Cuomo. He could call them as they were.


9 posted on 09/26/2022 6:37:12 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Bob Grant was a hoot. FLIM FLAM Florio and Mario “the sfachime” Cuomo. He could call them as they were.


10 posted on 09/26/2022 6:37:55 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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This Communist pushed an "assault" weapons ban in the 1990s, going so far as to order owners to surrender them or render them inoperable which even California didn't do in their anti-constitutional laws.

Jim Florio's funeral pyre needs to be on top of a New Jersey garbage dump and his ashes dumped in municipal waste processing plants throughout the state.

11 posted on 09/26/2022 6:42:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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I’m sure he’ll still be voting come November ...


12 posted on 09/26/2022 6:45:24 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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“I think it was Bob Grant who called him Flim Flam Florio. Not sure if Rush had his own nickname for him. “

Rush used that name too - GREAT NAME for him.


13 posted on 09/26/2022 6:48:52 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 42 degrees)
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He would call the NYC mayor Davi Dinkins, the bathroom attendant


14 posted on 09/26/2022 6:57:48 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Didn’t RUSH have a nickname for him?
I think it was Bob Grant who called him Flim Flam Florio. Not sure if Rush had his own nickname for him.

Yes it was Bob Grant( then on WABC Radio - New York) who coined that nickname. He hammered Florio and then NYC Mayor, David Dinkens relentlessly. In my opinion partially responsible for Christine Todd Whitman’s victory. Although her 2 terms were questionable at best.


15 posted on 09/26/2022 7:00:00 AM PDT by Fire137
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-—If Cristie Whitman did one good thing, it was defeat Florio—


16 posted on 09/26/2022 7:02:38 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: XRdsRev; one guy in new jersey

Florio’s bio says he once served on the board of directors of Trump Entertainment Resorts.


17 posted on 09/26/2022 7:02:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: 1Old Pro

Flim-flam Florio was Rush’s name for him.


18 posted on 09/26/2022 7:06:13 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Oh, wait…that was Bob Grant.


19 posted on 09/26/2022 7:07:24 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Florio's death was announced by his law partner, Douglas Steinhardt.

Wow, even his death was a law decision.

20 posted on 09/26/2022 7:14:16 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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