To academia, of course.

New Jersey voters may have opted to go “Florio-free in ’93” but the former governor has stayed on the state payroll, and in the state pension system, thanks to a $90,947 side job at Rutgers University.

James J. Florio teaches one class each semester and sits on two advisory boards at the university, where he began teaching shortly after leaving office more than a decade ago. Florio has the designation “university professor” – a full-time title that comes complete with a generous state benefits package. But Florio, who runs a tax-lien collection company and works for a law firm, admits the gig at Rutgers is not full time.

Sheltering failed politicians is not limited to Rutgers. Columbia has taken in Al Gore and David Dinkins.

Don’t worry, the adjucts don’t mind a bit. They make the princely sum of $3,300 to teach a class at Rutgers, and they probably have a Ph.D.