" I've always run for, and with, both Republican AND Conservative Party support. That's how I've won before and that's how we need to win
again. If you're like me you're tired of watching our party lose in New York. We haven't
won anything new in New York State for the past 11 years. Instead we have lost our US
Senate seat, our Attorney General, Congressional seats, State Senate and Assembly seats
, County Executives in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester and too many other races. Why?
Because some Republicans have forgotten who we are and what we stand for. New York
Republicans have won when they proudly run on our issues and conservative Republican
values. That's how Ronald Reagan, Al D'Amato, Jim Buckley, and even George Pataki
all first got elected. Liberal Republicans just can't win in New York anymore. And they
certainly can't out liberal Sen. Clinton. I'm proud of my record as Mayor of Yonkers. We
cut the income tax surcharge by 2/3rds and the real estate transfer tax by 2/3rds as well
and we kept property taxes low with the first year with no property tax increase in 30
years. We brought back hundreds of millions in investments and thousands of jobs. We
took back our schools and housing from an out of control federal judge. We cut crime.
And in our state's 4th largest city, Yonkers, a Democrat city, running as a Conservative
Republican, I won twice by landslides. But some misguided Republican leaders think we R need to nominate someone who holds the same positions as Hillary Clinton on some
important issues. I think they're wrong. That's why we've been losing ground for 11 years
and if they have their way, the core of our party will have no choice and stay home and
we'll lose again."
-- Mayor John Spencer of Yonkers