OUR TOWN write-up on "Raising the Titanic"

The GOP Debates Itself
by Edward-Isaac Dovere

This week's issue of Our Town features the New York Young Republican sponsered event, "Raising the Titanic: Can the NY GOP be salvaged?"

[Deroy] Murdock began with remarks chargin that [Governor] Pataki lacks charisma, competence and character. He likened the governor to a vending machine for handing out profitable political patronage and called the lack of construction at the World Trade Center site "a monument to his incompetence."

[Former Public Advocate candidate] Jay Golub called for Republican candidates and elected officials to stand more firmly behind lowering taxes, promoting school vouchers, barring gay marriage and opposing abortion rights, arguing that a majority of like-minded New Yorkers exists to support them.

...He added, "If Republicans don't have the strength to make these arguments in New York, there's frankly not a reason for them to exist at all."

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