Posted on 01/01/2006 5:39:34 AM PST by sittnick
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Donald Trump is considering running for governor, a leading Republican said Friday. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday suggested that a big-name candidate could be flirting with entering the 2006 contest. On Friday, he confirmed to News Channel 10 in Albany that he had been referring to Trump.
Bruno told the station he had spoken to the real estate developer and TV personality about a possible run.
Trump's office in New York had no immediate comment. State GOP Executive Director Ryan Moses said neither he nor state party Chairman Stephen Minarik have had discussions with Trump about running.
Said Frank MacKay, state chairman of the Independence Party: "(Trump) is a formidable candidate for anything he decides to run for. We would love to see him run for president of the United States in 2008 as a third-party candidate. I'd do what I could to help give him a strong base here in New York and everywhere else in the country."
Trump flirted with a run for president on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. He has given money to Republicans and Democrats in state races.
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It is hard for me to believe that Perot getting 19% of the popular vote while running on a "conservative", reduce the deficit platform, did not cost Bush the race. Bush may not have deserved to win based on his poor candidacy and position changes, but Perot taking voters who were predominantly white males gave him no shot to beat even the hapless Clinton.
I also think Perot's true intentions to bring down Bush and the Republicans (if there was any doubt) showed later during the 1994-95 Contract With America fight. The Republican Congress put its neck out fighting for the bulk of Perot's platform against the Clinton's and the media. The Republicans begged Perot to speak out in favor of what were essentially his own positions, and he repeatedly refused and even subtly knocked the Republicans actions. I think his behavior during this time (and his running again in 1996), took away all doubts of Perot's intentions of wanting to elect Bill Clinton.
His casino biz went through bankruptcy. That is only 20% of his holdings. His real estate is obscenely profitable. Also, please provide links which prove Trump is "anti-gun". Tobacco is totally irrelevant. And Spitzer has tried to shut down Christian crisis pregnancy clinics for dissuading women from abortion. No other A.G. in the nation tried to do that, so you can't possible argue Trump would be worse.
http://www.issues2000.org/Donald_Trump.htm
from the horse......
This doesn't prove your point too well. Hardly a left-winger on guns. Frankly sounds to the right of any other NY Republican I can think of, which is sad. But hardly enough to disqualify.
better to have a democrat in office to elicit gridlock with Bruno and some real conservatives upstate in the senate then a RINO like Pataki who SCREWED NY Gun Owners and of course the republican senate backed their guy.
At least when we had Cuomo (and I choke on my own words here...Cuomo was and is a traitor and a Communist) there was NO gun laws put into effect. The State Senate vetoed all his crap.
RINO's are the DEATH of the Republican party in NY and everywhere else.
And isn't he a supporter on the wrong side of the Kelo issue?
"NYS could do a LOT worse (e.g., any Democrat and most NY Republicans)."
The point is to let the D states vote in these walking disasters. Once it becomes apparent that they can't help maintain the standard of living in their state, then it's an opportunity for a conservative Republican to win a blue state gubernatorial election.
It worked for Reagan, on the national level. Imagine how things would have turned out if the party chose a "moderate" republican for '80 on the basis that he'd be less worse than the Dem? That standard is not good enough, not any more.
"Dont we have enough RINO's here in NY?"
B-b-b-b-b-ut he's the only chance for keeping a Democrat out of the governor's mansion!
"Thanks I never heard this. One more reason to wary of this hyperactive lunatic. Elliott Spitzer came from a very rich family."
Going back to Vaquero's point about gridlock - wouldn't Spitzer as Governor guarantee partisan Republican opposition to such moves, and perhaps some problems with Dems as well?
A pro-abortion RINO pretty much wraps up the issue. There can be no roll backs in that case.
"I don't recall a single RINO calling for the arrest of Mark Felt."
Too bad he would have no power to actually put Felt in jail. It's easy to just throw the sentiment out there, with out taking the steps to make it happen, and to deal with the monstrous backlash that would be sure to follow.
"It is hard for me to believe that Perot getting 19% of the popular vote while running on a 'conservative', reduce the deficit platform, did not cost Bush the race. Bush may not have deserved to win based on his poor candidacy and position changes, but Perot taking voters who were predominantly white males gave him no shot to beat even the hapless Clinton."
Consider the upside of Bush41 losing that election. It pretty much cemented the idea in Republican heads that you DON'T raise income taxes. Much of Bush43's support last year came because of his previous tax cuts, and that alone.
If Bush41 had raised taxes AND still squeaked by, then the lesson to the party establishment would be that they could GET AWAY WITH IT, from then on.
There needs to be consequences for bad GOP behavior.
NYS has had a GOP governor for 12 years. Nice strategy, inappropriate case.
Elliot Spitzer is Huey Long, without the charm, wit, or self-restraint.
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