Posted on 08/10/2005 6:13:35 AM PDT by stuckinNY-NJ
For Immediate Release Contact: Christian Winthrop
August 9, 2005 Spencer for Senate
(917)992-3517
LIBERAL PIRRO = LIBERAL HILLARY
Media Anointed NY Senate Candidate, Jeanine Pirro,
Aligned with Senator Clinton on Most Issues
Yonkers, NY – “How the hell are you a Republican?” asked Geraldine Ferraro of Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro (New York Times, May 9, 1999) who announced yesterday that she will run for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senator for New York.
Good question. When compared to Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Pirro’s record doesn’t look much different:
ISSUE Gun Control Abortion rights Jeanine Pirro Favors Favors Hillary Clinton Favors Favors
Affirmative Action Gay Rights Jeanine Pirro Supports Supports Hillary Clinton Supports Supports
"'Jeanine Pirro is 100 percent pro-choice and has a tremendous record to run on. Jeanine's success as Westchester D.A. gives her the experience to be a great Attorney General,'" said Kelli Conlin, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, in an e-mailed statement. (New York Observer, June 6, 2005). Mrs. Pirro (R) is currently being featured by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) in an ad bashing President George W. Bush on abortion.
"She is a pro-choice woman who even backs Medicaid funding for abortion and a supporter of gun control, affirmative action and gay civil unions." (The Hill, Dick Morris, June 22, 2005)
"Partial-birth abortion and gay marriage are deal breakers for us,” says Mike Long, Chairman of the New York Conservative Party. “And without us, I don't think she can win for the Senate. No Republican has won statewide without our endorsement since 1974" (New York Times, 8/9).
Former Yonkers Mayor, John Spencer, the only conservative candidate running for the GOP nomination, asked, “Why would the Republican Party support someone aligned with the Democrat candidate on nearly every issue? New Yorkers need and deserve a clear choice and that is NOT Ms. Pirro.”
For more information, or to schedule an interview with John Spencer, please call Christian Winthrop at (917)992-3517.
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Hillary-Pirro PING.
Who cares? At least she isn't offensive to the eyes, nose and ears as Hillary is...
Heck, it's just like in 2000. Rick Lazio ain't normally my kind of politician, but I drove five hours each way to help out his campaign one Saturday.
There are issues here larger than this. And I know many will accuse of "selling out" should you support Pirro over Hillary but there is a fact overlooked by many. It is a direction to move towards in this pathetic state where politicians are ALL liberal for the most part. I know of some who are truly conservatives and serve the causes of the right much better,. While Pirro may not do this in full she will do so in part , and in the mean time whether she wins or loses she will take a lot of energy out of Hillary and her campaign coffiers.
I want Hillary defeated so she is finished. She may still run for Prez, but the baggage of having lost or even barely won her own state will hurt her.
If a Hillary clone, who will caucus with the GOP, is what it takes to defeat Hillary in New York and hopefully derail her Presidential aspirations, then I'm all for her! Hell, I'd be thrilled if a Democrat could take her out in a Senate Primary.
The idea is not that we support Pirro, but that we are trying to stop Hillary in her tracks. A defeat in a Senatorial race in NY, unlikely as it is, would stop her Presidential ambitions. Pirro herself is only a means to an end. We either stop the beast now, or let her mutate on to the national stage. In any event, the odds of Hitlery losing in NY are minuscule.
if she knocks hillary down a peg i am all for her
NY is a lost cause if we can get a Rino instead of a Commie named Hildebeast i am all for her
Dear stuckinNY-NJ
If you think that Mrs. Pirro represents a significant threat to win the White House in 2008, and bring along Bill Clinton for the ride, then I agree with you.
sitetest
Pirro announced yesterday that she would have been the 15th member of McCain's Gang of 14. See my other posts on NYS politics. Becuase NYS allows for candidates to be endorsed by more then one political party, Republicans NEED to be cross endorsed by the Conservative Party of NY. NO GOPer has won statewide without the Conservative Party support. Pirro will never get it.
Look we're talking NY not South Carolina.
And she'd still be head and shoulders over Illary.
Pirro oozes charisma.....why is it that the moderate republicans are far more charismatic than the ideologues?
The Hildabeast must be defeated even by a liberal, if that's what it takes, because of the threat she poses to becoming President.
Whatever, whoever it takes, even someone to the left of her if necessary. This isn't very complicated.
Pirro can be Hillary. Spencer cannot.
This is a matter of beating Hillary, and anyone would be better than her.
Dear stuckinNY-NJ,
"Pirro announced yesterday that she would have been the 15th member of McCain's Gang of 14."
In that currently the seat is held by far-left Hitlery, who will vote to maintain a filibuster if commanded by the Dammocrap party's politburo, this represents an improvement from the status quo.
sitetest
Pirro can beat Hillary, I meant to say.
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