Showing posts with label George Pataki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Pataki. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Walker Mocks Obama Plan To Fight Climate Change

By AP, Aug 01, 2015

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- The Republican Party's jam-packed presidential class faced off Monday night in New Hampshire, where more than a dozen White House hopefuls aim to warm up for the first full-fledged debate of the primary season.

Here's The Latest from the forum at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

8:55 p.m.

Monday night's forum for the Republican candidates for president in New Hampshire has wrapped up.

One of the last candidates to speak was former New York Gov. George Pataki, who says his three terms leading the typically Democratic state show he can unite people.

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Paul Takes Heat On Patriot Act, Isis Stances 

Rand Paul (Credit: Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)
By Associated Press, May 31, 2015

Republican presidential hopeful George Pataki says GOP rival Rand Paul is putting the nation at risk for political purposes with his legislative tactics stalling the extension of the Patriot Act.

Pataki was New York governor in 2001 when the 9/11 terrorists struck. He says Paul's maneuvers in the Senate can only suspend parts of the anti-terrorism act for several days, not block them permanently, so letting those provisions expire has no value even for people who oppose them. He says Paul is "putting Americans at risk for a political reason."

The National Security Agency stands to lose legal authority to collect and search domestic phone records for connections to international terrorists unless senators find a way Sunday to avoid a lapse. Paul and other civil liberties advocates argue surveillance programs authorized by the NSA have not produced significant results in protecting Americans from terrorism.


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