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The Soprano State Illustrated:

Assemblyman David P. Rible retired as a Wall Township police officer at age 31 with a bad back and a fat pension.  He's collected $570,000 in disability payments since a state board decided he was "totally and permanently disabled."

Yet Rible competes in five-mile and five-kilometer runs along the Jersey Shore.  He exercises at a gym, dances as a celebrity and hauls trash to the curb at his Monmouth County home.  He commutes to Trenton to represent the 11th District in the State Assembly, where he holds a leadership position as Republican Whip and seeks publicity as a tax-fighter.

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