During the election season, he stated that he was pro-life but that he knew that he could not use his position as governor to overturn it. He stated that he supported the ban on partial-birth abortion, that he was opposed to any public funding of abortion and supported full parental notification and a required waiting period.
The most recent Republican governors of NJ - Whitman and Kean - were total pro-aborts whose only caveat was public funding, which neither of them ever did a thing about.
Was the Catholic vote much of a factor?
It definitely was in Monmouth County. Our parish's RTL group was out in force and we were not alone.
Re #54
Thank you.