whatever they say to do,
do the opposite.
"That's a complete misconception," said Marie Tasy of New Jersey Right to Life. Tasy contends the majority of Republicans oppose abortion and considers Whitman's views too liberal.
"These people are crybabies. You can tell by the title of her book: It's like that song, 'It's My Party, and I'll Cry If I Want To,'" Tasy said. "They can't win elections without the base of the party, and the base of the party is pro-life and conservative."
Ginty Calls on Kean to Disavow Whitman Endorsement
Whitman’s Poor Fiscal Record in New Jersey Damaged the State Republican Party
Whitman’s Radical Pro-Abortion Agenda Disillusioned Major Portions of the Republican Base
Ridgewood - Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Ginty today called on his primary opponent, state senator Thomas Kean, to disavow the endorsement of Kean and his campaign by former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman’s comments appeared in the April 17 edition of the Newark Star Ledger.
Ginty said that Whitman, the state’s governor between 1994 and 2001, “racked up a miserable record of exploding state debt, ballooning state spending, and waste, fraud and abuse tied to the EZ-Pass project and auto inspection system. She effectively laid the groundwork for a series of statewide losses for the Republican Party in later years, as the Republican base in the state became increasingly disillusioned.”
“If Tom Kean views Christie Whitman as a model of fiscal rectitude, folks ought to hold on tight to their wallets,” said Ginty. State debt under Whitman, who strangely persists in referring to herself as a “fiscal conservative” when there is no evidence to support the designation, skyrocketed from about $6 billion to over $17 billion, much of the debt caused by pension and retirement giveaways to public employees from Whitman and her friends in the state legislature.
The most egregious part of Whitman’s meager legacy remains her veto in 1997 of a state law designed to outlaw the brutal practice of partial birth abortion. Against the wishes of the then Republican majority in the state legislature, Whitman exhibited her militant “pro-abortion at all costs” ideology by vetoing the attempt to make illegal the unnecessary and diabolical procedure in which a late –term baby’s skull is punctured and its brain vacuumed out prior to removal of the rest of the body from the womb.
Ginty said, “If Tom Kean wants to reach out to the vast majority of Republicans who support the ban on partial birth abortion, he will immediately make it clear that he will, demand that Christie Whitman disavow her 1997 veto of the ban on partial birth abortion in New Jersey before she makes additional comments or public appearances on his behalf leading up to the June 6 Republican U.S. Senate primary.” Paid for by Ginty for Senate
What is you take antiguv?
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'new civility' .. aka New Majority
Lib Lite
How about some good old fashioned CONSERVATISM?? and forget the "moderation". We need hard action and fighting leadership...no, I have not been drinking...
Let's face it, liberal kooks like Hagel, Spector, Collins, etc., have made a horse's ass out of the republican senate. It is their liberal cop outs that have unnerved people.
Headline should read Whitman Pushes GOP Liberalism, Support for RINOs.
Thanks Christie -- for summing up what the Republican Party IS ALREADY DOING! They've drifted so far LEFT, there is NO room for conservatism in the Republican Party anymore, save a select group of Congressmen/women.
It was Conservatism and a clear picture of what was to be done that propelled to GOP to victory in '94 not to downplay what a bunch a Liberal crap the RATS had to offer.
I remember being so proud of Whitman when she knocked off Florio. I was working in Trenton at the time (actually, Mercer County) and I remember listening to John and Ken on the radio every day and following the whole "Hands Across New Jersey" demonstration to protest Florio's massive tax hikes. Those were great times for New Jersey, and you got the impression there was hope for the place (LOL, so much for that notion!).
Whitman's two terms as governor came and went, but it seems that all that happened was that New Jersey's infamous education mafia was able to tighten its grip on the state to the point where the place is now utterly hopeless. What a shame. Oh well....
It certainly comes as no surprise that Whitman has now turned out to be a disgrace to her former party and an enemy of the nation.
Governor Christine Whitman (R-NJ)
In 1994 Whitman became an overnight national cause celebre when she carried her anti-tax message to an improbable, victory over liberal, pro-tax incumbent Jim Florio. She delivered the 30 percent income tax cut on schedule and without running up big deficits. The Whitman tax cut was an unmitigated success: the economy rebounded nicely and the tax cut critics were confounded when the budget remained balanced. It’s a wonderful success story; if only that was the end of the story!
Since the middle of her first term, Whitman has reversed fiscal course. After barely winning re-election, Whitman has supported a seemingly endless barrage of new taxes: a 40 cent a pack increase in cigarette taxes, a 67 percent increase in the gas tax (that even the Democrats in the legislature wouldn't support), a $3-a-day increase in the car rental fee, an increase in motor vehicle fees, and loads of new debt-financed spending. The budget has exploded under Whitman recently (in 1998 it rose by 8.3 percent) and she has irritated fiscal conservatives in the state for her support for new bond initiatives, her refusal to help push school choice for parents, and her lost interest in tax cutting in a state with a still highly uncompetitive tax system. Whitman started strong but has moved further to the left every year and appears to govern as a tax slayer only as a last resort.
Whitman, Heading for EPA, Leaves Fiscal Mess
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/25/222843.shtml
N.J. bypasses voters on rail funding
http://www.southjerseynews.com/lightrail/m042301b.htm
What A Bunch Of Phonies!
http://www.oceancountypolitics.com/inhouse/2004/07_10_04_State_Bonds_Hypocrisy.html
Some people will NEVER learn...
This is the same thing she was saying before the elections of 2000 and 2004. She is of the Republican ilk that thinks all of the GOP's problems should be laid at the feet of the radical right wing Moral Majority Republicans. At least, that's what she's been reading in all the 'acceptable' publications. ;o)
Push the CONSERVATIVE agenda. Conservatism will win almost all the time.
The Congressional Republicans are more worried about getting face time on TV, getting invited to the most exclusive DC parties, then the true conservative agenda.
Whenever someone claims to be "a fiscal conservative, but..."...watch your wallet.
If she was a strong supporter of tax cuts and less government, I would be happy to excuse my disagreement with her on "social issues". The problem is that was have seen time and time again that "moderate" Republicans are really just democrats.