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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: nj.politics
- Subject: Re: Governer
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:10:22 -0500
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- In <1993Jan21.162933.10566@ulysses.att.com> les@ulysses.att.com (Leslie Johnson) writes:
-
- >I can see that you've bought the propaganda of the Governor's office
- >hook, line and sinker. Do you enjoy listening to his TV and radio
-
- No, I'm listening to friends in Trenton that are seeing results, not
- arm-chair politicians like you.
-
- >spots promoting himself, paid for with *our* tax money? "Coming to
-
- Those TV adverts are going on the air no matter how's in front of
- the camera. By the way, everyone's favorite REPUBLICAN started that
- trick. Remember how Tom Kean did all those "NJ and You" commericals
- all through the election time?
-
- >the people?" Give me a break. He's never responded to my letters or
- >phone calls.
-
- I get a letter back from his staff every time I write to him. I bet
- you don't really write to him. Kean and now Florio have been very
- good about returning letters.
-
- >Florio, realizing that this is an election year and that he has an
- >approval rating of only 33% (very low for an incumbent governor) and
- >still faced with all of the problems that he wasn't able to improve
- >(deficit, unemployment, auto insurance etc.) is pandering for votes as
- >usual - he's just changing his tactics. I'm not fooled.
-
- He's advertising programs that will help New Jersey's business. I
- dont see what's wrong with that.
-
- >He says his number-one achievment was the "assault firearms" ban that
- >made it a class 3 felony to possess a legally-purchased Daisy Red
- >Ryder carbine BB gun. Does this impress you?
-
- This is NOT what he did. You're believing the NRA b.s. They're
- just pissed because he's the first person to stand up to him and
- now if he wins re-election other governors are going to stop putting
- up with the heavy-handed threats of the NRA.
-
- Tom
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