Jim Florio Archives - New Jersey Globe

Seven governors attending League of Women Voters 100th anniversary gala

September 14, 2020 10:41 am

More than one New Jersey governor and a swath of other noted politician will virtually meet to celebrate the 100th anniversaries of the League of Women Voters’ and the 19th amendment. “With all the attention on voting rights issues across...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 7, 2020 12:04 amSeptember 6, 2020 12:24 am

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 7, 2020 12:01 amSeptember 6, 2020 12:24 am

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...

Bramnick says baby bonds is ‘Murphy’s Florio toilet paper’ moment

August 26, 2020 2:38 pmAugust 26, 2020 2:39 pm

Thirty years ago, thousands of politically inactive New Jerseyans joined a grassroots tax revolt after Gov. Jim Florio proposed a $2.8 billion tax increase. Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick says Gov. Phil Murphy’s baby bonds proposal will receive Florio “I...

Lawrence Arcioni, former leader of state employees association, dies at 94

August 24, 2020 11:53 amAugust 24, 2020 1:42 pm

Lawrence L. Arcioni, a former six-term president of the New Jersey State Employees Association – the precursor to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and a former assistant commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor, died on August 18. ...

New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate ran with LBJ in 1964

August 18, 2020 10:22 am

With the passing of Paul Porreca on Friday evening, the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate is Richard J. Traynor, who ran as a Democrat against Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-Elizabeth) in 1964. Now 91 and living in Maine, Traynor is...