
Here’s a recap of positions that former Governor George Pataki expressed during a recent New Hampshire campaign swing:
- for reducing the federal workforce by 15%
- for instant online disclosure of campaign contributions (despite a history of avoiding disclosure)
- against super PACs (despite having his own)
- for immediate forceful military action against ISIS
- against “nation building”
- against “spending a trillion dollars trying to … create a democracy in a place where none has existed”
- against the Rev. Al Sharpton
- against Bill de Blasio
- for Congressional Republicans presenting an alternative to Obamacare
- for New Hampshire retail politics
- against campaigning via pollster-written TV ads
- for pronouncing New Hampshire beautiful
- against pronouncing New Hampshire the most beautiful place in America
- for the Patriots winning the Super Bowl
- for the Jets, Bills and the AFC
- for optimism
- against the sense of uncertainty and doubt about the future created by Obama
- against Obama’s free community college plan
- for forgiving student loans of SUNY science grads (when he was governor)
- for the federal government being the servant of the people
- against the federal government being the master of the people
- for a ban on former members of Congress being lobbyists
- against a “permanent class of political people and lobbyists and lawyers who profit off large government”
- for working at a major law firm that proudly touts its lobbying practice
- for rewriting/shortening the U.S. tax code
- for term limits on the U.S. Congress
- for term limits on the NYS legislature
- against a full time NYS legislature
- against “top-down” control in the NYS legislature
- for suspending congressional pay so long as a budget is not passed
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George Pataki listens to a question during a town hall meeting at Keene State College. 2/3/15 - for science
- for vaccinations
- against government picking winners and losers
- for giving $1 billion+ of taxpayer money to a specific company (while governor)
- for government funding “basic R&D” on “how we can produce cleaner & more efficient energy … and transportation”
- for fracking and increased use of natural gas
- against high college tuition
- against high federal student loan interest rates
- against inequality
- for increased manufacturing in the U.S.
- for action against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine
- for growing industrial hemp (considering it for his own farm)
- for family farms
- against diplomatic relations with Cuba
- against Common Core
- for charter schools
- for the “rule of law”
- against a federal constitutional convention