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
That 'ol claim by wussy Republicans of being a fiscal conservative but a social moderate is so disingenuous and bogus as to make me ill.
It is (was) used by Schwartznegger and my (former) Congress critter Jim Greenwood (R-8) Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
If you think about it, you can't have a fiscal conservative ANYTHING if you enact the moderate/liberal social policy like fully funding aids and homosexuality, welfare and entitlement increasing support, carte blanch teacher pay, abortion on demand for any reason whatsoever, etc.
In fact it is precisely those "moderate" social policies which have ballooned budgets over the years, and yet the so called Republicans are too scared to do what they must.
As an example, she points to a state Senate primary election in Florida, where anti-abortion Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry is challenging the incumbent, Sen. James King Jr., a Jacksonville Republican, after the two went toe-to-toe over Terry Schiavo last year.
As Senate president, King stopped Florida Gov. Jeb Bush from enacting legislation that would have required reinsertion of a feeding tube rather than allowing Schiavo, who spent years in a persistent vegetative state, to die. Randall Terry became a vocal proponent of keeping Schiavo alive by any means necessary.
King can expect a check from Whitman's PAC. "He's being challenged because the right disagrees with him on one issue," she said.