Posted on 07/27/2005 3:04:04 AM PDT by Liz
Gov. Pataki told a group of aides last night that he will not seek re-election next year — and alluded to a possible run for president in 2008 .............
.....the dinner was attended by about 30 people, including Pataki's wife, Libby, along with some of the governor's closest aides and supporters.
They included state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long and Pataki fund-raiser Cathy Blaney.
In recent months, Pataki has indicated an interest in testing the water for a potential 2008 presidential run, although state and national GOP leaders give him little chance of succeeding.
People who attended the dinner said Pataki left the door open for a presidential run........"It's in my mind, and I will let you know, and the people of the state know, when we're ready to do that," said Pataki, a three-term governor who came to office after defeating Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994 pledging to remake a state government that had been run by Democrats for decades.
Nearly a dozen public-opinion polls this year have shown Pataki facing defeat at the hands of state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the all-but-certain Democratic candidate for governor in 2006.
Two weeks ago, Pataki appeared at several events in Ohio — the site of the first presidential primary caucus — and did nothing to quell speculation that he is eyeing the White House.
State Republicans will face a desperate struggle to find a top-flight candidate.
..........former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has ruled out entering the race in order to concentrate on his private business interests and a potential 2008 run for president, according to his political advisers.
Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a New York native.........said earlier this year that he may enter the race if Pataki bows out, although state GOP leaders give him little chance of success.
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If Pataki is testing the waters he may find them cold.
Reminds me of Rockefeller.
Pataki's loser issues like being pro-abortion speak loud and clear as to where he's going---to political oblivion.
Well, it's a given that anyone who has ever won an election, including selectmen and dogcatchers, has a scenario where they become President.
But Governor Pataki must be clinically insane to even think of spending a dime on such foolishness.
His RINOness is the least of his problems. There are RINOs, notably Giuliani and McCain, who are also leaders and who could, under certain circumstances, be nominated and elected.
Pataki is a boob and a loser, and the only way he could be either nominated OR elected is after an all-out nuclear exchange had reduced the voting population to Libby and the population of an insane asylum.
If NYS doesn't want him, why the heck would he think the nation should??
I had no idea that Pataki had aides.
Yeah, I thought he kept making an a** of himself without any help.
Now, let's recount the reasons why Pataki's candidacy is a loser:
Back in 2/17 the headline read "Political Donations Pour Through Gap in New York Laws" (party paid for Pataki personal maid). The increasing use of party housekeeping committees was highlighted this year by the disclosure that the state Republican Party's housekeeping committee pays the salary of a full-time assistant for the state's first lady, Libby Pataki.
Snort----Republican donors never figured their bucks would subsidize a maid for the gov's wife.
Then news reports said Pataki's wife begged politcoes to buy her new kid's book claiming "The Pataki's need the money" even though it's been reported elsewhere that Mrs. Pataki was paid more than $339,000 in 2003.....for her work "as a vaguely defined consultant to businesses and charities." Most of her "clients" are linked to friends and political supporters of Gov Pataki, and some of those friends also have interests before the state.
The Village Voice and The New York Times have reported extensively on the Patakis’ main source of wealth, the good will of an old college friend, Richard Hayden. Hayden arranged an ---ahem---consulting job for Mrs. Pataki with a family medical-devices business and has involved her as a partner in lucrative land deals. As if the word does not get around that the governor's wife is involved in land deals.....All those hard-to-get EPA and county and municipal planning board approvals better come through....or else.
Guess that's how the Patakis managed to build a huge house in Garrison when he was a lowly local legislator making a nothing salary.
Oh, not to forget----both the Patakis are abortion worshippers.
And let's please not forget that Libby Patatki---the one with the maid----is also doing the insider deals for the gov. Libby's lobbying and being in on land deals as a token partner when she knows nothing about the business, is a little nauseating.
She's obviously included b/c her husband is governor. Pataki's got his wife hustling for the day when he leaves office and becomes a nobody. At least the Pataki's can live in the lap of luxury while Pataki ponders how being a pro-abortion RINO short-circuited his laughable ambition to be president.
Pataki is a boob and a loser, and the only way he could be either nominated OR elected is after an all-out nuclear exchange had reduced the voting population to Libby and the population of an insane asylum.
Campaign Slogan; “Hillary... in our time!”
He'll be out of it by New Hampshire.
;)
Just another dehorned Rhino...
Just another dehorned Rhino...
Both have a very good chance in 2008. And this isn't going to be an election to lose, given what the alternative is likely to be.
I bet the asylum voters would be able to figure out a butterfly ballot!
Pataki has as much chance in the red states as does the hildabeast.
How can this moron think he has any chance? He really isn't liked too much even in N.Y. Much less anywhere else.
The John Edwards of the Republican Party.
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