NEW YORK: Happy Birthday.The New York Conservative Party celebrated its 40th anniversary at a resplendent party in the City at which the Vice President the United States and the Governor of New York were among the grandee gran·dee n. 1. a. A nobleman of the highest rank in Spain or Portugal. b. Used as the title for such a nobleman. 2. A person of eminence or high rank. guests. The Party -- the arithmetic speaks for itself -- was founded in the drear drear adj. Dreary. Adj. 1. drear - causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a political year of 1962, by (R.I.P.) two young lawyers, J. Daniel Mahoney John Daniel Mahoney (September 7, 1931 - October 23, 1996) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mahoney attended St. Bonaventure University and Columbia Law School and then practiced as a lawyer in New York City for three decades. and Kieran O'Doherty. The idea was to breathe life into the Republican Party of New York, at the time a servile instrument of Nelson Rockefeller (governor) and Jacob Javits (senator). The new party thought to give political life to New Yorkers who resisted the call of statism stat·ism n. The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy. stat  ist adj. as an answer to everything, and who yearned for good education, resented
the rise of crime, and unequivocally opposed Soviet foreign policy. The
Party soon displaced the Liberal Party in votes garnered, enlivened (and
amused) New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. by fielding our Editor-at-large for mayor in l965, and then hit a home run by electing James L. Buckley James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) was a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State. Buckley served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. to the Senate, the first U.S. Senate victory for a third party since Bob LaFollette's win as a Progressive in 1920. Mike Long is the long-term, engaging chairman of the party, but enthusiasm flirts with promiscuity in the matter of George Pataki, the Republican governor who courts the endorsement of the Conservative Party. Gov. Pataki is a liberal on all political matters. He is in favor of more gun control, more spending, more deference to labor unions. He would oppose abortion only if it threatened the population of gays and lesbians. The party should find an alternative. One possibility is Phil McConkey, a businessman, graduate of the Naval Academy, and registered member of the Conservative Party. We wish him every success in contending for the endorsement of the Conservative Party, which has done so much historically for the survival of a political alternative for New Yorkers. |
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