Posted on 02/13/2006 12:26:39 PM PST by neverdem
Facing a long-shot bid for the nomination of a small but influential right-wing political party, William Weld told The New York Sun yesterday that he was a more conservative governor than George Pataki and would be if elected governor of New York.
"Certainly what we did in Massachusetts is more conservative than what has happened in New York," he said. While New York residents pay the highest combined local and state income taxes in the nation, he said that during his six-year tenure as governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s, the state shed its reputation as "Taxachusetts" and restrained Medicaid spending.
"I think you could make the case on education, on spending, on taxes, on fees, on crime, and on welfare that I'm as conservative as any governor," he said.
For Mr. Weld, a lot is riding on his ability to get on the Conservative Party line in November, and his prospects are looking grim. The chairman of the party, Michael Long, said yesterday that it would be "very difficult" for Mr. Weld to get the nomination, saying in an interview, "I don't necessarily see that happening." The party, which wants to preserve its line on the ballot by getting 50,000 votes for its candidate, endorsed Mr. Pataki for governor in 1994, 1998, and 2002.
Conservative leaders from counties that have the highest number of registered voters in the party are backing John Faso, a former minority leader of the state Assembly who was narrowly defeated in the 2002 comptroller's race.
This is shaping up as a make or break week for Mr. Faso to secure the Conservative Party's nomination, political backing that is seen as crucial in checking the aspirations of Mr. Weld, who leads the Republican pack in campaign donations and has support from the chairman of the...
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I don't much care for Pataki, but that leftist CFR goon Weld is a poor choice for anything.
That's clever! William Weld was a disaster in Mass.
Well, there is certainly plenty of room on Pataki's right.
So can he still be left of Bloomberg?
Florida, here I come.
When I was at Harvard, I spent freshman year in Weld Hall, a brick Victorian monstrosity built in Harvard Yard in the 19th century with a donation from the Weld family. Weld is a typical scion of the Boston Brahmins, mainly living off his ancestors' money, and with very little else to recommend him other than blue blood.
Thanks, but no thanks.
It was published in our paper this weekend at a stop in Binghamton that Weld said "I was BORN to be Governor!"
Game, set, match.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Silver spoon.
Gore was born to be president, too. His daddy said so.
Sometimes I think that Hillary is to Pataki's right.
"Well, there is certainly plenty of room on Pataki's right."
Was pretty certain that Trotsky was to Patakis right.
New York is about to descend into a dark age of one-party rule.
Not too likely.
Weld is an alcholic dipsh-t carpetbagger, but there is PLENTY of room on Pataki's right.
Think????
In 1995 Pataki eliminated the sales tax on Marshmallows, since then there isn't one thing that Pataki falls to the right of Hillary.
Did you hear about how Bill Weld is trying to get the Conservative Party gubernatorial nomination? The guy's more socially liberal than Spitzer and he still has the gall to claim to be a "conservative"!
Running to Pataki's right is not that difficult. I voted for Golisano in 2002 just because he was slightly to Pataki's right ie a moderate Democrat.
If the Conservative Party were to make William Weld their nominee, they would lose much of their following, and rightly so.
William Weld shortchanged the country in 1994 when he refused to run against Senator Ted Kennedy even though he surely would have won.
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