Ej with Jim Gearhart in 2013 in AC. Jim lead the early 90's tax revolt on NJ101.5 | photo by EJ Ej with Jim Gearhart in 2013 in AC. Governor Jim Florio pushed through a $2.8 billion tax increase that year, the largest state tax hike in the country at the time, extending the sales tax to things like toilet paper along the way. Legendary morning host Jim Gearhart called it the spark that put this station on the map, and thirty-six years later, that's still exactly what we are. Hillsborough just proved you don't need the radio station to still know how to use it.