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Title: Pataki confirms run for 2016 GOP presidential nomination
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Fox News
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... 6-gop-presidential-nomination/
Published: May 28, 2015
Author: FoxNews.com
Post Date: 2015-05-28 07:57:10 by Hondo68
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FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, former Gov., N.Y., George Pataki speaks in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) Former New York Gov. George Pataki confirmed in a video early Thursday that he would seek the 2016 Republican nomination for president. The three-and-a-half-minute video posted to his campaign website featured an anti-big government message, "Washington has grown too big, too powerful, too expensive, and too intrusive," and highlighted Pataki's role as governor of New York following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "We have always understood that we have a common background and a common destiny, and when we stand together, we can accomplish anything," Pataki says in the video. "I saw that on the streets of New York in the days and weeks after September 11." Pataki is the eighth Republican candidate to announce his run for the White House, and does so one day after former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum launched his second presidential campaign. Pataki was scheduled to speak Thursday in Exeter, N.H., which served as the state capital during the Revolutionary War and claims to be the birthplace of the Republican Party. Pataki, 69, has worked as a lawyer and opened a consulting firm since leaving office in 2006. He's been a frequent visitor to the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire over the years, and has made more than half a dozen trips to New Hampshire this year alone as he explored a 2016 campaign. His earlier efforts never resulted in a full-fledged campaign, however. Clearly a longshot in the GOP field, Pataki has cited his electoral success in a heavily Democratic state — he knocked off liberal icon Mario Cuomo to become governor in 1994 — and ability to work with Democrats as among his strengths. But he's spent recent months promoting his conservative credentials. In an earlier trip to New Hampshire, he campaigned against President Barack Obama's health care law, criticized Obama's executive order to offer protections against deportation to millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, and said the nation can't afford another Democratic president. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Poster Comment: Another spoiler for a Jeb Bush/Marco Rubio nomination (losers). What is it now, like two dozen GOP candidates? The GOPe is desperate to get Hillary elected. They want her at the helm of the Titanic when it goes down.
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#5. To: hondo68, tomder55 (#0)
The GOP died about a decade ago in NY. How he thinks he will make it TO the first caucus is beyond me.
#6. To: redleghunter (#5)
Hillary is financing his run?
We're still a two-party state, though. The Marxists and the Communists.
ok ;I'll set the bar low . Pataki's the best Republican Governor from New York in my lifetime. I welcome as many of the 'No Labels' types into the race a possible so they can sufficiently split the 'moderate' vote. My one concern is that many of the Republican primaries are so called 'Open Primaries' where anyone can cast a vote regardless of party affiliation . I think it is from that process that we end up getting marshmallow nominees.
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Replies to Comment # 5. How he thinks he will make it TO the first caucus is beyond me.
#7. To: redleghunter (#5)
The GOP died about a decade ago in NY.
#10. To: redleghunter (#5)
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