"Meanwhile, George Pataki is running strong. Speaking without notes he delivered thunderous approval of his record, stressing such music for the ear of his audience as
Obviously this is a very old article,
hugely reduced welfare rolls, reduction in crime,
Well that is just like the Clintons who claimed the same thing, Taking credit for something he had nothing to do with.
95% of al crime in the state is in NYC so crime reduction was all Rudy.
Welfare rolls dropped throughout the country in the 1990's and New York was only 41st in % of welfare recipients dropped. Pataki has never personally cut welfare rolls in fact he has just added more and more programs or shifted them to other programs (Like these) and claimed a reduction in rolls.
and a forthcoming billion-dollar tax reduction."
Forth coming!!! Yeah right, Besides the marshmellows Pataki has raised taxes on everything!!
So I guess you're position would be that Buckley is lying and that Hillary would do those same things!
No he is reporting on what Pataki said not what he has done,
I would like to see a link to this article you quote, You seem to have a way of taking things out of context.
Buckely is NO fan of Pataki.
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".....At least that summarizes the first minute or so of Buckley's remarks. After that, Buckley dropped the historiography in favor of an extended needling of the party's likely nominee for governor--incumbent George Pataki--next to whom he'd been seated for most of the evening. On and on Buckley droned, reaching back to Pataki's refusal, while an undergrad at Yale, to endorse a Buckley-sponsored resolution against civil rights at the university's political union, fast-forwarding to the governor's promiscuous spending habits, and culminating with National Review's recent observation that "the only abortion law George Pataki would ever oppose was one that threatened the rights of gays and lesbians."