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George Pataki joins GOP race for president
UPI ^ | 5/28/15 | Danielle Hayes

Posted on 05/28/2015 7:27:18 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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George Pataki joins GOP race for president By Danielle Haynes Follow @DanielleHaynes1 Contact the Author May 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM

Former New York Gov. George Pataki speaks during the dedication ceremony in Foundation Hall, of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2014. File Photo by UPI/Richard Drew

NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- Former New York Gov. George Pataki announced he's joining the race for president in 2016 with a video message on his website Thursday.

The 69-year-old was governor of New York for three consecutive terms, leading the state through the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks at the World Trade Center.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; rino
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To: SoFloFreeper

Most people could not pick George Pataki out of a line up so why is he running?


21 posted on 05/28/2015 7:59:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

New Hampshire primary FEB 9. Massachusetts & Vermont MAR 1. Just fragmenting the vote until the MAR 15 winner-take-all primaries. The 70-year old geezer’s got nothing else to do.


22 posted on 05/28/2015 8:08:29 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Most people could not pick George Pataki out of a line up so why is he running?

He's hoping to endorse the potential winner and get an executive appointment. Just like Hillary did.

23 posted on 05/28/2015 8:19:01 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He has every reason to believe that running as a centrist RINO will work. Just ask presidents Romney and McCain.


24 posted on 05/28/2015 8:19:22 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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How about we just say, “Anyone registered Republican is a candidate for the presidency.”?

That looks like the way it’s going....


25 posted on 05/28/2015 8:19:39 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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Pataki is saying all the right things. The buzz after his announcement is going to be interesting.


26 posted on 05/28/2015 8:21:49 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: SoFloFreeper

Should be good for a laugh. He already did a Top Ten list on Ketterman years ago. (Late 90s?)


27 posted on 05/28/2015 8:22:53 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Letterman. I hate the tiny keyboard.


28 posted on 05/28/2015 8:23:32 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

George “Dole” Pataki.


29 posted on 05/28/2015 8:30:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He’s sweatier than Nixon v. Kennedy and works the teleprompter worse than even B-HO.


30 posted on 05/28/2015 8:31:13 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
WHY?!
31 posted on 05/28/2015 8:36:03 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: bandleader

“Pataki.He was good as New York’s governor.”

Pataki was a disaster for NY and the NYS Republican party.

Under Pataki, the state budget has soared 79.5 percent — from $63.3 billion in 1994 to $113.6 billion in 2006. Pataki’s 12-year-average annual spending rate is 4.9 percent.

George Pataki turned the New York GOP into a machine devoted exclusively to the empowerment and enrichment of his coterie,” the New York Post’s Eric Fettman observed. “There’s nothing left that even resembles a genuine infrastructure capable of recruiting candidates with strong statewide appeal

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/219575/goodbye-george-deroy-murdock


32 posted on 05/28/2015 8:39:21 AM PDT by tlozo
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To: SoFloFreeper

What a doofus, he died his hair, plastered down the comb-over, got himself a great tan and says he’d be a great president. A real RINO, 12 yrs. as governor in NYS and nary a whimper about abortion, and all on with gay marriage.


33 posted on 05/28/2015 8:54:55 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: SoFloFreeper

This “run” will get him the invites to corporate board of directors and perhaps a few speaking engagements - I guess he so wants to be relevent and make a few bucks at the same time.


34 posted on 05/28/2015 8:56:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: kenmcg

....and lets not forget his enabling of the assault weapons ban. NY adopted and ratified their own version


35 posted on 05/28/2015 9:05:22 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: SoFloFreeper

I think this is completely pointless. The Rs are already screwing this up. Talk about your ego maniacs!


36 posted on 05/28/2015 9:12:25 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pataki was very RINO as governor of New York State and seemed to compromise and meet the Democrats frequently.
I do remember George Pataki’s first week in office though.
Thomas J. Grasso murdered an elderly couple in their 80s in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was sentenced to death. Mario Cuomo, governor of NY, did legal skullduggery and had him brought to New York to serve a previous 20 year sentence before Oklahoma could have him. As Pataki’s first act as the newly sworn in Governor of New York, Pataki, pardoned Grasso. Oklahoma immediately took possession of him and brought him to Tulsa for execution. He was room temperature soon after that.


37 posted on 05/28/2015 9:19:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit to exercise as a right?)
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To: fatnotlazy

The more the merrier! Lets hear his message—what will he do to save the Republic? We can weed them out in time—we are better off than the Demicrats—who just have corrupt Hillary doging the press as the scandals grow.


38 posted on 05/28/2015 11:13:08 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The more the merrier! Lets hear his message—what will he do to save the Republic?


I heard him on Hannity, this afternoon, and he sounded a lot better than I was expecting. I didn’t hear his introduction, and I kept thinking...Who is this? It CAN’T be Pataki! Sure enough, it was. Very states rights on issues, which surprised me. Up on ISIS/foreign policy issues.


39 posted on 05/28/2015 8:31:01 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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