Weld For NY Governor

[BamaLefty]

Spitzer would roll him like a joint!

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld said Friday he plans to seek the Republican nomination for governor of his native New York in 2006.

If he wins the race to replace incumbent George Pataki he would be only the second person in U.S. history to be governor of two states. Pataki has announced he would not seek a fourth term next year and is considered a potential candidate for president in 2008.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/19/weld.nygovernor.ap/index.html

[childslibrarian]

1. He was a horrible governor

I was there....

[BamaLefty]

2. Let Me Ask

How did he run a competitive race against Kerry?

[TayTay]

4. He was a very popular Gov.

He cut taxes and he was Gov during the economic recovery. But he simpley wasn't serious enough or focused enough to take Kerry's seat. The perception was that Weld was on a lark, trying a new thing because he was bored with being Gov. Kerry was 'The Senator' and never gave the perception that he wanted to be anything other than a serious, focused advocate for MA in the Senate. Something beat nothing, in this case.

[TayTay]

3. Boston Globe Editorial from 8/21/05 (Funny)

GLOBE EDITORIAL
The Weld we know
August 20, 2005

THE FIRST thing New Yorkers ought to know about Bill Weld is that he is built for speed, not for endurance. He is at his best in the heat of a challenging political campaign: focused, brilliant, iconoclastic. If he succeeds in his bid for the Republican nomination for governor of New York, a debate between him and the brainy Democrat Eliot Spitzer would be worth paying real money to see. Weld will give New York a thrilling ride of new ideas, quirky expressions, and grand gestures for as long as it takes to win. Then it will come time to govern, and he will start nodding off.

Seemingly everyone in Massachusetts remembers the televised interview that anchorwoman Natalie Jacobson conducted with Weld's Democratic opponent in 1990, John Silber. When asked to name his greatest weakness, Silber obliged with a demonstration: a snappish, intemperate mini-meltdown that torpedoed his candidacy.

Few in Massachusetts, however, recall Jacobson's parallel interview with Weld. When asked the same question about his own weaknesses, Weld genially offered ''laziness."

A mind as sharp as Weld's can be a dangerous thing when bored, and Weld is easily bored with mundanities. He has a weakness for spectacle: destroying a toll booth with a sledgehammer; diving fully clothed into the Charles River. He likes his amusements: boar-hunting in private reserves; attending Grateful Dead concerts. He always made time for a squash game, often arriving at afternoon press conferences with his signature red hair still wet from the postgame shower.

when not thus engaged, a restive Weld can develop cocktail party eyes: always looking around for the next diversion. He drew a bead on John Kerry's Senate seat shortly after his reelection campaign (which didn't challenge him enough; see above). When he lost that race, the Republican started brashly campaigning for an ambassador's post in the Clinton administration. He lost that chance not just because he supported medicinal marijuana, as some claim, but because he insulted the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Jesse Helms, accusing him of ideological extortion. No less a model of diplomacy than Trent Lott, then Senate majority leader, opined that Weld ruined his chances at the ambassadorship when he ''shot his foot off" with Helms.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/08/20/the_weld_we_know/

[DinahMoeHum]

5. BTW, what baseball team does he root for?

If he says Yankees or Mets, he's a panderer.

If he says Red Sox, run his ass outta town.


:evilgrin:

[BamaLefty]

6. If He Says Red Sox,

Vote for him! ROFL- Just kidding.

But Go Bo Sox for real!