Democrats outnumber Republicans 6 to 1 in NYC. So GOP candidates here have to lean left to have a shot at being elected. I have no problem with Lhota because I know he’ll fight to keep stop and frisk and keep the city safe!
New York Post reports he’s not your average Republican candidate for mayor.
Joe Lhota calls himself a “new brand of Republican” — in favor of “fiscal discipline” but progressive on social issues: He’s pro-choice on abortion, is fine with same-sex marriage, and is in favor of legalizing marijuana.Asked when he last smoked pot, he said, “It’s been 40 years. It’s so long ago I can’t remember. I probably had a full head of hair.”But Lhota does recall holding libertarian views when he was just 10 years old.“In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on,” he recalled.Lhota is not anti-government — after all, he served as a deputy mayor and also ran the MTA.But, he says, “it’s not the role of government to tell us what to do and what not to do. There’s nothing more offensive to Americans — or New Yorkers in particular.”With two weeks to go before New Yorkers pick two mayoral nominees, Lhota is the Republican front-runner but has been pushed out of the spotlight by a more colorful cast of Democrats.So here’s a Lhota primer:He was born in The Bronx 58 years ago, grew up on Long Island, and was the first member of his family to go to college — attending Georgetown.He’s the son of an NYPD lieutenant and grandson of an FDNY firefighter and taxi driver. He lives in a Brooklyn Heights co-op with his wife, Tamra, a GOP fund-raiser.He reads Tom Clancy, Dan Brown and Ian Fleming novels and loves “The Godfather.”More here
Lhota is head and shoulders above the Democrat jokers running for mayor!
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