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In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
 In These Times 25/24
Schundler's term as mayor in Jersey City was marked by successes that won him broad support among his constituency.
Schundler's success in Jersey City advocating simple concepts—such as suggesting that parents know best how to care for their children, and giving government employees more control over their health care through medical savings accounts—buoyed his brand of compassionate conservatism on the national scene.
Schundler's practical, no-nonsense approach to concrete issues is gaining the interest not only of conservatives, but of many other voters.
www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/24/mcdon2524.html   (949 words)

  
 RLC Candidate Bret Schundler
Bret Schundler, the first Republican Mayor of Jersey City since World War I, was taught by his parents that he had an obligation to use his talents in service to others.
Bret - the grandson and son of immigrants - was born the youngest of nine children in Morristown, New Jersey.
Bret has been reelected twice - with 69 and 59 percent of the vote - achieving the greatest winning margin for a mayoral candidate in the history of the city, and becoming the city's longest-serving Mayor in more than half a century.
www.republicanliberty.org /candid/njg_shundler.htm   (624 words)

  
 Mayor Bret Schundler
Schundler spoke on the integration of faith and politics to a large audience in the Library Atrium.
Nationally, Schundler is known as a leader in the fight for parental choice in education and as a defender of religious liberty.
Schundler is currently considering a bid in the 2001 New Jersey gubernatorial race.
www.regent.edu /news/mayor.html   (419 words)

  
 Blind Justice Column, by Andre Traversa
Because Bret Schundler is a rising star in the Republican party and represents a new kind of conservative, one who was able to build a coalition of fls, Hispanics and other minorities in a city that is only 6 percent Republican, and was able to do so without compromising any of his conservative principles.
Schundler, who was re-elected twice as mayor of Jersey City, once in 1993 and again in 1997, garnered 68 percent of the vote in a city that is 25 percent fl, 40 percent Hispanic, and 10 percent Asian, even though Jesse Jackson traveled there to oppose him.
Schundler was in Israel at the time, meeting with Jewish leaders, which is both ironic and appropriate.
www.888webtoday.com /traversa4.html   (799 words)

  
 Bret Schundler: Not your typical politician-2/22/01-S. Adubato
Schundler is a highly educated guy who succeeded on Wall Street and decided he wanted to be the mayor of the decidedly working class ethnically diverse urban community of Jersey City.
Now, Bret Schundler has the audacity to take on the State Republican organization and challenge acting Governor and Senate President Don DiFrancesco for his parties nomination to be the state's Chief Executive.
The conventional wisdom says that Schundler is supposed to see the handwriting on the wall and drop out of this race "for the good of the party" as well as for his own political future.
www.caucusnj.org /adubato/2001/01-0222.asp   (788 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Report Reveals Schundler's Right-Wing Ties
Recent campaign ads for Bret Schundler have sought to redefine the gubernatorial candidate as a moderate and non-confrontational leader who, in the words of one ad, will "focus on working together" to solve problems.
The PFAW report, Bret Schundler and the Radical Right: A Closer Look at the Candidate and His Agenda, examines these allies and how their agendas mirror Schundler's positions.
Schundler has addressed students at the Virginia Beach, Va., law school founded by Robertson and activists at a conference of the Christian Coalition, a group started by Robertson.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1881   (388 words)

  
 President George Bush Endorses Bret Schundler for Governor of New Jersey in 2001
Bret is running for Governor to lower taxes, improve education, and ensure that the American dream is available to every willing citizen.
I urge you to cast your vote for Bret Schundler for governor of New Jersey on Tuesday November 6.
Bret will be a leader and Governor that all of New Jersey can be proud of, and he will be a valued partner to my administration.
www.njfaq.com /bret2001/presidentbush2001.shtml   (243 words)

  
 Bret Schundler's Big Win [Free Republic]
Underdog Schundler spent the intense weeks of the 2000 election season increasing his name ID by actively working for candidates on the November ballot, focusing much of his energy in support of U.S. Rep. Bob Franks' ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for the U.S. Senate and George W. Bush's campaign for the presidency.
Schundler called for DiFrancesco to leave the race, and rumors began to circulate that party leaders in Trenton were privately asking the acting governor to do the same thing.
Schundler explained his issue positions on every piece, even those that were designed to visually grab the reader or to attack Franks.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b7b35002ad4.htm   (6733 words)

  
 A Conservative Triumph in New Jersey -- 06/27/2001
Bret Schundler, the conservative Republican mayor of Democrat-dominated Jersey City, made history in Tuesday's GOP primary by becoming the Republican Party's gubernatorial nominee.
Schundler, a pro-life, pro-school voucher, and pro-tax cutting fiscal conservative, soundly defeated moderate Republican candidate Bob Franks, a former U.S. congressman.
Schundler spokesman Bill Pascoe said Wednesday will be a full day for the conservative nominee, and his first order of business will be to unite the party."Bret will be on the phone all day Wednesday.
www.cnsnews.com /Politics/archive/200106/POL20010627c.html   (960 words)

  
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (11/04/01)
Schundler in the early stages of this campaign was his courage and ability to stand up to big government and special interest groups.
Schundler was re-elected mayor of Jersey City with 69 percent of the vote.
Schundler was such a good mayor (only in his mind) did the state take over Jersey City's finances, and why did Mr.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/440117.shtml   (883 words)

  
 Deroy Murdock on Bret Schundler on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Schundler's campaign manager, Bill Pascoe, notes that "Christie Whitman was 12 down the Sunday before the election" in 1993.
A $1 million dollar campaign coordinated among Schundler's camp, the Republican National Committee and the state GOP is on air, with another million-dollar independent RNC expenditure to follow.
Schundler added that while McGreevey is spending millions of dollars attacking him on TV, the Schundler campaign is sending Republicans a positive message via direct mail.
www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock110101.shtml   (631 words)

  
 The Daily Princetonian - Republican candidate Bret Schundler discusses proposed education reform
Schundler's come-from-behind victory in the Republican primary against former Rep. and Senate candidate Bob Franks attracted national media attention and placed him in a race against frontrunner Democrat Woodbridge mayor Jim McGreevey.
High-achievement students, Schundler said, would remain in their school system while students who were not as successful would move to charter schools.
Schundler said that his campaign would focus in on McGreevey's history of raising taxes in light of the current economic malaise.
www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2001/10/10/news/3542.shtml   (738 words)

  
 Bret Schundler's candidacy vs Steve Lonegan for Governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Everyone makes mistakes and most people learn from them.  Not Bret Schundler.  His reaction to his 2001 defeat was to move even farther away from conservatives.
Schundler’s bland campaign is generating no enthusiasm.  His fundraising is at a level just 20 percent of his showing four years ago.  His campaign is a shell of the 2001 effort. 
Bret is going to be running for Governor in New Jersey next year.
www.theconservativevoice.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=979   (655 words)

  
 The Trentonian - News - 11/30/2004 - Schundler throws hat in ring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
JERSEY CITY (AP) -- Bret Schundler, who won the Republican primary for governor in 2001 but lost the general election, will try again in 2005, stressing tax cuts and controls on government spending.
Schundler, who lost to former Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevey, is the second prominent Republican to announce he will seek his party’s gubernatorial nomination in as many weeks.
Schundler welcomed many of the people in the room as old friends, including Democrats and Republicans from his early days in Jersey City.
www.trentonian.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13458896&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6   (609 words)

  
 JerseyGOP.com: Columns --> Bill Roberts
That Bret Schundler was going to hand Bob Franks his head in the primaries.
Now that Bret is the GOP nominee, the candidate who will finally end Jim McGreevy's never ending campaign for governor, it is time for the "party machine" to fess up and come clean.
I believe we in the grassroots who made this happen for Bret need to go to the county organizations as it seems some changes are needed to be made.
www.jerseygop.com /roberts_19.html   (817 words)

  
 Bret Schundler on Abortion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Schundler says parents should be told when their children seek birth control or treatment for drug addiction.
Schundler made friends in the anti-abortion movement by attending rallies against an abortion clinic in Montclair, an activist says.
Schundler says he believes government should stay out of people’s lives, but sees no conflict with his support for a larger government role in the abortion issue.
www.issues2000.org /Governor/Bret_Schundler_Abortion.htm   (308 words)

  
 Campaigns & Elections: Bret Schundler's Big Win   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At the event, Schundler didn't dwell on his bid for governor, but he made sure to send a message to the establishment of the state party.
Schundler was thinking outside the box of conventional political wisdom and was about to run an innovative campaign aimed at upending his own party's establishment or, as Schundler's supporters would call it, "the machine."
Underdog Schundler spent the intense weeks of the 2000 election season increasing his name ID by actively working for candidates on the November ballot, focusing much of his energy in support of U.S. Rep. Bob Franks' ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for the US.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_6_22/ai_77713226   (1430 words)

  
 Republican   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bret Schundler carried the Fifth Congressional District by a solid 8-point margin, 54% to 46% over Jim McGreevey in the November 6th general election for Governor.
Bret Schundler won in ALL of the counties within the Fifth Congressional District.
In Bergen County, Bret Schundler WON 52 to 48 in the northern portion of Bergen County, within the Fifth Congressional District.
www.garrettforcongress.com /html/republican.html   (220 words)

  
 In Second Bid for Governor, Longer Odds to Overcome - New York Times
Schundler's combativeness, along with his ability to fire up his followers, is the major reason he defied the state's Republican establishment in 2001 to seize the party's nomination for governor.
Schundler's role as Jersey City mayor helped him raise a substantial amount of money, which he invested in identifying, maintaining and mobilizing an enthusiastic core of conservative supporters.
Schundler's reputation as a reformer came in handy when Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco was forced to withdraw from the Republican primary because of questions about business deals.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/04/nyregion/metrocampaigns/04schundler.html?ex=1275537600&en=2c2d12c0650417bc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (824 words)

  
 GOPUSA - Opinion
The state GOP believed that Bret Schundler, a proven conservative Republican mayor elected in Jersey City, a Democratic stronghold, "lacked the name recognition and geographic base." Translation -- Schundler is a conservative.
Schundler is a Northeast Republican who believes that abortion is wrong, school choice is a viable option, Americans have a right to own weapons, marriage is only between a man and a woman, and that less government is far better than more taxes.
The grassroots victory for Bret Schundler is a major defeat for the New Jersey GOP.
www.gopusa.com /commentary/guest/2001/km_071901p.shtml   (752 words)

  
 Bret Schundler will be in Brigantine this upcoming Wednesday, July 30, 2003 ~ HarryHurley.com ~ 07/26/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Republican nominee for Governor in the last election, Bret Schundler will be in Brigantine this upcoming Wednesday, July 30, 2003.
It is an understatement to confirm that there has been a great deal of discussion about the potential for a Schundler candidacy for Governor in 2005.
Schundler is gathering a great deal of momentum...
4dw.net /bunting/8th/9th/072603BSchundler.html   (118 words)

  
 Bret Schundler for Governor of New Jersey 2001 Campaign Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mayor Schundler's wide support is a result of his deeply held belief that power belongs in the hands of the people and not politicians...
Schundler's administration is a sign that urban liberalism, in which government itself is the dominant interest group, constantly and successfully lobbying itself for "compassion" toward itself, is...
Schundler triumphed in a city where only 6 percent of the population is registered Republican, where no Republican had won since 1917.
www.njfaq.com /bret2001/news/praise.shtml   (591 words)

  
 Bret Schundler vs. Bob Franks - James Campion's sober study of 2001 NJ Republican primary.
Schundler, a staunch social and fiscal conservative, won despite the party's history of centrist candidates and wild stories in the Bergen Record of spinning a 1969 apple red Mustang convertible in tire-screeching doughnuts and holding up traffic for nearly twenty minutes on Route 59 in Spring Valley, New York a Sunday ago.
Schundler hardly had to talk and the debate was his.
Schundler believes in financial responsibility, but he could taste victory a week before the election when the two men appeared on Gabe Pressman's Sunday morning television show out of New York.
www.jamescampion.com /cheknjgov.html   (954 words)

  
 Courier News Online - In second try, Schundler targets taxes
In fact, Schundler won the Jersey City mayor's office twice -- in a city where now nearly 30 percent of residents are fl, just as many are Hispanic, and 17 percent are Asian, a city where Democrats ran City Hall, consistently if not always constructively, since World War I. And he won by big margins.
Schundler seized the Republican nomination in 2001 as a maverick challenging the party hierarchy -- but the establishment never embraced him, and Schundler lost by a sizable margin in November.
Schundler keeps a motorboat on the Jersey City waterfront, and he speaks lovingly of evening boat rides with his family, amid the pace of the port, the laugh of the gulls and the glow of Manhattan.
www.c-n.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050604/NEWS/506040307   (802 words)

  
 Bret Schundler on Tax Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Schundler [first won] in 1991 riding public anger over Gov. Jim Florio’s tax increases to veto-proof margins in the Assembly and Senate.
Schundler emphasized bread-and- butter issues like cutting taxes and ending parkway tolls, and casting many issues as matters of morality rather than practicality.
Bret Schundler will index New Jersey’s income tax rates, so inflation does not does not automatically push taxpayers into higher tax brackets.
www.issues2000.org /Governor/Bret_Schundler_Tax_Reform.htm   (491 words)

  
 Bret Schundler, closet liberal
Schundler's inherent liberalism was obscured until now by his stance on abortion.
In the 2001 campaign, Schundler told a newspaper reporter how his father used to tell the Schundler kids how "our calling was to solve the problems of the world." Fine.
The best that can be said of Schundler's plan is that it's no worse than Doug Forrester's plan or John Murphy's or that of any of the other candidates who go out of their way to avoid confronting the court.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1398869/posts   (1302 words)

  
 What's the Truth?-6/13/01-S. Adubato
A few examples; Schundler's campaign material charges, "Liberal Bob Franks voted with Jim Florio 90% of the time." This is a reference to Bob Franks' days in the State Assembly when Jim Florio was governor.
I'm not sure what criteria Bret Schundler is using to define the word 'liberal,' but Bob Franks is no liberal.
Both Schundler and Franks are attempting to connect with hardcore conservative Republicans who are likely to vote in the June 26th primary.
www.caucusnj.org /adubato/2001/01-0613.asp   (785 words)

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