I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.
There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.
I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.