Posted on 07/13/2005 2:50:25 PM PDT by Irontank
Claiming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is ``more concerned about the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire'' than the needs of New Yorkers, Edward Cox took his nascent U.S. Senate campaign another step forward Wednesday, naming an exploratory committee whose members include Henry Kissinger, Theodore Roosevelt IV, and William H. Taft.
Cox conceded his closest adviser, if he does decide to challenge Clinton in 2006, will be his wife, Tricia Nixon Cox, the daughter of former president Richard Nixon.
``Tricia is my best supporter and my best adviser,'' Cox told reporters. ``She's had a lot of experience in campaigns, going back to I think when she was six months old and was held in her father's arms in his first congressional campaign. ...She's going to be a part of this campaign.''
She joined him on a stage announcing the members of the exploratory committee, but did not speak. She was not with him when he met reporters later in an adjoining room at the Women's National Republican Club headquarters in Rockefeller Center.
Although Cox says he has not made up his mind, saying his exploratory committee will help him ultimately decide, the Manhattan lawyer was not bashful about firing some early barbs at the Democratic incumbent.
``She parachuted into New York solely for the reason of running for the Senate and now she's running for the presidency,'' Cox said. ``How can she focus on the problems of New York when she's really thinking of running for the presidency?''
Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Clinton, said, ``While the Republicans sort out their nominating process, Hillary Clinton will continue to stay focused on working for New Yorkers.''
The senator repeatedly has said she is focused on her re-election and demurs on the topic of a presidential run.
On the issues, the Republican said he supports President Bush's concept of privatizing Social Security, calling it ``a bold new idea for the United States.'' He cautioned, however, ``How we get there is the question.''
Cox said he ``comes from a culture of life point of view'' on abortion and stem cell research, but said later he supports the death penalty.
He said despite Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro's possible Senate run, he said, ``I don't expect there will be a primary,'' adding later that he thought Pirro's experience as a prosecutor makes her better suited to run for state attorney general. Pirro has said she will not seek re-election as district attorney and is considering a run for statewide office, but has not said what job might interest her.
Both the Senate and attorney general jobs are open in 2006, as is the governor's seat.
Cox contended New York currently is suffering from a lack of clout in Washington because both its senators _ Clinton and Charles Schumer _ are Democrats, while the Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress.
``History has proven that New York gets the most out of Washington when we have that bipartisan representation,'' said Cox, a Pataki-appointed member of the State University of New York board of trustees and on the state's Commission on Judicial Nomination.
Despite that, Cox continually jabbed at Clinton. He said he has traveled the state as he considers a run and will continue throughout the summer.
``To be sure, this will not be a listening tour,'' he said in a reference to Clinton's trips around the state before her 2000 campaign. ``I am a New Yorker. I was born in New York, I was brought up in New York.''
Clinton, as a young lawyer, worked in Washington on Congress' Nixon impeachment hearings. Nixon resigned as president as a result of the Watergate scandal that led to the impeachment hearings.
The exploratory committee members include Kissinger, once a key adviser to Cox's late father-in-law; Roosevelt, former chairman of the League of Conservation Voters and a managing director at Lehman Brothers; and Taft, a former ambassador to NATO and legal adviser to the State Department. Also on the panel are former White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein and former Navy Secretary John Lehman, who also served on the 9/11 Commission.
"I think Pirro, not Cox, has a chance of beating Hillary. I've heard that Pirro has a husband with legal problems, though."
Jeanine Pirro is only 51 and has plenty of time to become known and run for higher office. She has big time problems with her husbands conviction for tex evasion, but still remains very popular herself. She would make an excellent AG.
Bloomberg is the best (worst) example of a RINO in the country. He doesn't count. I'm not aware of a single conservative principle he follows. Even if there is one, that isn't enough for him to count as evidence of a Republican's electability in NY. For him, it's purely a convenient label because he couldn't win the Rat nomination because he wasn't part of their machine.
If it's really 60 million, that's great. But no amount of money is enough to beat Hitlery in NY unless we have a very strong candidate.
Nothing Bloomie has done impresses me in the least as a Republican.
There should not be a "but" in that sentence. Supporting the death penalty is a very pro-life position.
"Nothing Bloomie has done impresses me in the least as a Republican."
Bloomberg has my support because he has been an excellent Mayor. His oppponents would return the City to a dangerous mind set that is anti-business, anti-development and soft on crime. New York is the safest city in America, and we want to keep it that way.
DC 37 with 110,000 members, 85% of whom are Black and Hispanic voted overwhelmingly to support Bloomberg . They have done this in an unprecedented early endorsement, before the Democrats even choose a candidate.
So what?
My point is that Bloom isn't a Pub, he's a centrist Democrat (rather than the nutballs that you mentioned returning the city to a dangerous mindset) and you are supporting that belief.
How many of them voted for Bush?!
Bloomberg is running on the GOP ticket, and he has my vote. Every Republican and Conservative I know in the city will vote for him because he has been an excellent Mayor.
You don't live here and you don't understand NY politics.
Everyone who is pro-business, pro-development and anti-crime will vote for Bloomberg. We like his management style and his ability to work with almost everyone for a better NY.
We don't want political hacks like Ferrer or Fields to run our city.
You can vote for him until you turn blue, because that is what he is, and that is what NYC is, irrespective of your Rino, right of Hillary pols who mean little to the National scene.
Cripes, you might as well make San Fran your sister city.
That being said, I'm sure he is better than what NYC calls "democrats," but NYC is voting Hillary in 06 and 08 and you know it.
Trashing NY is so September 10,2001
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