Pataki Positions



George Pataki at a Chesire County Republican Committee dinner in Keene, NH.  2/3/15
George Pataki at a Chesire County Republican Committee dinner in Keene, NH. 2/3/15

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
  • George Pataki listens to a question during a town hall meeting at Keene State College.  2/3/15
    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