Posted on 06/25/2005 10:06:04 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
New York Senate hopeful Ed Cox blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton on Saturday, saying that she's failed to win New York's fair share of federal homeland security dollars in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and hasn't kept her promise to improve the state's economy.
"New York is the number one target for terrorists," Cox told WABC Radio host Monica Crowley. "It is terrible that Wyoming should get $18 per capita of homeland security funds while New York gets only $2.50 (per capita)."
Cox said New York was shortchanging itself by sending two Democratic Senators to Washington, arguing that Wyoming is more successful because "they happen to have two Republican Senators."
As a Republican, Cox said, he'll be able to go to a White House and Congress controlled by the GOP and succeed where Hillary has failed. "I'll be able to deliver for New York and she cannot do that."
Cox also slammed Clinton for her record on the economy.
"She promised in upstate New York in her 2000 campaign that she would deliver 200,000 jobs," Cox told Crowley. "And she had a complicated, big government, unworkable plan to do that. And in fact, she hasn't delivered."
"Newspapers upstate are now asking," Cox said, "'Mrs. Clinton, where are those 200,000 jobs you promised us?'"
Though Cox's challenge to Clinton represents something of a political David and Goliath match-up, the New York lawyer and Nixon son-in-law told Crowley: "I will match my record of experience and accomplishments against Mrs. Clinton's any day as far as substance is concerned."
"Forget the celebrity and the glitz and all that," Cox said, before chronicling his work in the fields of education and the environment - and as a budget cutter in the Reagan administration.
Cox also hit what promises to be a sensitive issue for Mrs. Clinton: Her refusal to pledge to serve out her full term if reelected.
"New Yorkers resent the fact that she's just using New York as a stepping stone to run for president," he told Crowley.
Memo to Cox: Be sure to remind the voters how her husband pardoned 16 FALN terrorists who killed New Yorkers. All to garner Hispanic votes for Hillary.
"Smack! bang POW!" Think Hillary is smoking yet?
Yeah! and don't forget the Yankees having been losing ever since she declared herself "a lifelong Yankee fan"!
Cox is a Republican.
Does Ed know how many people live in Wyoming? LOL
This sounds great. How many times have you heard another politician say things like this about hillary?
I have a feeling her reelection to the sinate in 06 will be a very destructive affair. And I hope it will destruct her and any chance she has of running for P in 08.
Theres a few dems I can live with as P. Hellery, kerry and gore are not one of them. Why wont the dems run someone "halfway" decent.
EEEEEEK!
I was thinking of Koch, the dim ex mayor of NY.
Good on him anyway...thanks.
New York Population, 2003 estimate 19,190,115
figured grabbed from census bureau here
Play book - selective memory loss.
If it weren't so darn cold in the winter, It would look inviting.
"As a Republican, Cox said, he'll be able to go to a White House and Congress controlled by the GOP and succeed where Hillary has failed"
Another John Thune RINO in the making.
I have never been to Wyoming but, have seen pictures and it looks beautiful :D
Hilary will look all disapoointed and say she's sad it's come to this, politicizing 9-11.
Interesting, didn't Hildebeast play a roll in bringing down Nixon?
In Wyoming.
So now we have a Republican starting his campaign complaining that the incumbant isn't bringing home enough pork. So this is what the GOP has sunk to?
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