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lew Jersey Republican State Committee
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
10 West State Street
PAID
'renton, New Jersey 08618
N.J. Republican
State Committee
NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE
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FOR SALE
HIGHWAY FOR SALE
Contact: Jim Florio, Realtor
We Don't Need Gimmicks.
We Need Leadership.
One More Reason to Vote
Republican this November.
Paid by the New Jersey Republican State Committee.
New Highway Listing:
4 Miles of I-95
GREAT LOCATION!
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Nestled on the New Jersey
side of the George Wash-
ington Bridge, Governor Jim
Florio offers this once in a
lifetime deal.
Asking Price:
$400 million
Creative Financing.
Remember last summer? That's when Governor Jim Florio and his Democrat
legislators, Larry Weiss and Thomas Deverin, raised our taxes close to $3 billion.
That was the summer they increased sales taxes, increased taxes on single people and
families, increased taxes on beer, alcohol and tobacco, and new taxes on telephone calls,
paper goods and even toilet paper.
Selling a four-me stretch OI 1-99 for $400 million to the New Jersey Turnpike
Authority-that's what's next!
Imagine. All the tax increases weren't enough. Now, Florio is forcing one state agency to
sell a road to another state agency. All because Florio and his Democrat legislators can't
control their spending habits.
They call it creative. We call it outrageous.
Poor Credit Rating.
Last summer it was $3 billion in taxes. This summer they want to sell a road for
$400 million. Experts say it could ruin our state's credit rating.
Thanks to Florio, Weiss and Deverin, New Jersey's credit rating could drop.
And that could mean even higher taxes for all of us.
That's because no one thinks Florio's highway sale gimmick will work-especially
New Jersey taxpayers.
Who knows, maybe Jim Florio even has a bridge he'll try and sell us.
STOP
The Florio-Weiss-Deverin
Highway Sale.
Let's Get Real-Before We Go Broke.
GovernorsClub REPUBLICAN
May 6, 1991
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20050
Dear Mr. President:
Recent polling results definitively show public dissatisfaction
with the tax and spend policies of Governor Jim Florio and his
Democratic Administration and Legislature. Interestingly,
negative opinion has changed from a feeling of distrust to a
perception of incompetence.
It is essential that Republican control of both the Assembly and
Senate be gained in this year's legislative elections. If we
fail in this mission there will be created a perception that the
New Jersey voters are satisfied with the tax and spend income
redistribution policies of the Democrats. The publicity of such
a mood would not bode well for our Congressional and Presidential
elections of 1992.
Therefore, as Chairman of the N.J. Republican Governor's Club -
the premier fund raising vehicle of the Republican Party in New
Jersey - I am requesting your assistance.
Each year, shortly following Labor Day, we hold the prestigious
Republican Governor's Ball which is our major source of funds for
the Party and, this year, the Legislative elections.
Your presence at this year's Ball would assure its success and
greatly enhance our opportunities in November. Further, if you
could attend I would like to honor the the Republican Governor's
Club founder and prominent supporter, our mutual friend Larry
Bathgate, who has always given so freely and generously of his
own time, enthusiasm and resources.
If you are able to respond favorably to this request I will work
out all necessary details with your staff.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Respectfully,
B. Joseph A. Sullivan
Chairman
JAS:ac
312 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08618 (609) 394-0661
*16 NEW JERSEY: DEMS SEEK TO COUNTER GOP's CRITICISM
The NJ Dem Party "began airing a radio commercial that
denounces [GOPers] for launching an advertising campaign
critical" of Gov. Jim Florio's (D) homestead rebate program (see
HOTLINE 7/31) (Joe Donnelly, Bergen RECORD, 8/7). The checks are
"crucially important" to both parties, "and their fortunes" in
the upcoming 11/91 elections. For Dems, "the checks are the
latest attempt to turn voter opinion around. " GOPers, "however,
fear that the delivery of these rebate checks might help Florio's
approval ratings rebound" like it did in '77 for then-Gov.
Brendan Byrne (D). GOP consultant Steve Salmore: "These checks
are very critical for [Dems]. And [GOPers] are very nervous.
I don't think these checks will have a major impact -- but I do
think Florio will win back some of his coalition (Lisa Kruse,
Asbury Park PRESS, 8/7). The Dem ad "features a Maplewood woman
who received a $500 rebate check praising the program and an
announcer charging that [GOPers] oppose it. " $500 recipient Mary
Romano: "We got a check for $500. It may not mean much to
political fat cats, but it means a lot to my family." NJ Dem
Exec. Dir. Steve DeMicco said the ad is "intended to remind
[residents] that the rebate checks are being provided amid a
national recession and that [GOPers] opposed them" (Tom Hester,
Newark STAR-LEDGER, 8/7). Responding to inquiries about Mrs.
Romano, DeMicco admitted she was a Dem county committeewoman but
said: "I don't think it matters whether she's a [Dem or GOPer].
When she speaks (in the ad) of how much the rebate check means to
her. The point is the $500 rebate to her was meaningful to her
and she was willing to say that" (Dave Neese, TRENTONIAN, 8/7).
Administration of George Bash, 1991 / June 3
d to pub-
the Baltic States to reclaim their independ-
waivers will promote freedom of emigration
ral Regis-
ence.
in these three countries and ensure their
George Bush
continued eligibility for official credit pro-
grams such as those of the Export-Import
(e Bush
The White House,
Bank and Commodity Credit Corporation.
June 3, 1991.
The waviers are also required for the exten-
ral Regis-
sion of most-favored-nation trade status.
Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas
The President's report to the Congress
S. Foley, Speaker of the House of Represent-
describes the dramatic surge toward de-
atives, and Dan Quayle, President of the
mocracy in Czechoslovakia and the com-
Senate.
plete freedom of emigration its citizens now
enjoy. Czechoslovakia has benefited from
S on
most-favored-nation trade status since No-
Bulgaria,
vember 1990. Bulgaria and Mongolia have
Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater
also made impressive progress toward de-
on Trade With the Soviet Union
mocratization and free emigration. We an-
ticipate according MFN status to both coun-
June 3, 1991
tries pending ratification by the respective
S referred
The President submitted to the Congress
legislatures of the bilateral commercial
Trade Act
his recommendation to extend the waiver
agreements signed in April 1991.
2432(d)(1))
her exten-
authority granted under the Jackson-Vanik
sections (a)
amendment (Section 402) to the 1974 Trade
Ict. These
Act. In doing so, the President has deter-
his waiver
mined that extension of the authority and
Remarks to the National Federation of
eriod.
of the waiver for the Soviet Union granted
Independent Business
in December 1990 will promote the objec-
ments my
tives of the agreement-free emigration.
June 3; 1991
tion of the
The President made this decision in view
y promote
of the fact that the Soviet Government has
Thank you very, very much for that wel-
so include
come. Listen, I should be the one clapping
ion of the
substantially reduced barriers to emigration
for Soviet citizens. Numbers of Soviets emi-
to thank you all for the fantastic support
lic of Bul-
that NFIB has given to this administration
grating rose from 2,000 in 1986 to. over
ral Repub-
as we work towards common goals.
370,000 in 1990. The administration be-
Mongolian
lieves that this positive trend will continue.
First, let me thank John Sloan not just for
y promote
the introduction but for the leadership he
e attached
The President's action will permit the
Soviet Union to remain eligible for export
has given to these sound business principles.
ns for rec-
credit guarantee programs of the Commodi-
I'm also very pleased that with us here-
waiver au-
ty Credit Corporation of the Department of
with John and me here on this platform is-
1 that con-
Agriculture and of the Export-Import Bank.
Pat Saiki. She has joined our team in the
y in effect
The waiver is for 1 year.
administration, having been a key member
Czech and
of it when she was in the Congress, and she
riet Union,
already has brought new energy to the
public will
SBA: And we're very proud of her. And I
ves of sec-
know you will enjoy working with her.
respect to
Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater
Let me warn you ahead of time, I gave
eople's Re-
on Trade With Bulgaria,
four commencement addresses last week.
therefor is
Czechoslovakia, and Mongolia
And if I lapse into saying things like, "Your
June 3, 1991
future lies ahead of you,"-[laughter]-or
:he waiver
"You're at a crossroads in your life," you'll
ill apply to
The President submitted to the Congress
know exactly why. [Laughter]
This in no
his recommendation to extend the waiver
Actually, my favorite commencement line
;. policy of
authority granted under the Jackson-Vanik
of all comes from that great philosopher,
corporation
amendment (Section 402) to the 1974 Trade
Woody Allen. [Laughter] That's right,
a into the
Act, as well as the separate waivers for Bul-
Woody Allen. He once told a graduating
he right of
garia, Czechoslovakia, and Mongolia. These
class, "Mankind is at a crossroads. Down
707
June 3 / Administration of George Bush, 1991
one path is despair and utter hopelessness.
reform. And it won't just reduce the cost of
Down the other, total destruction." [Laugh-
capital, it will encourage investors to risk
ter] Then he goes on and finishes, "Let's
money on new businesses, therefore ex-
hope your generation has the wisdom to
panding job opportunities for all Americans,
choose correctly." [Laughter]
including small businesses. It also will en-
Well, this is one place I don't have to
courage people to sell assets such as real
worry about that. You offer something
estate that they won't sell now because the
other than hopelessness and destruction and
taxes are too high.
despair. You create opportunity and hope.
This administration also is determined to
You've played a leading role-and I don't
put a lid on the growth of Federal spend-
say this just in passing, I mean it-you've
ing. Last year's controversial budget agree-
played a leading role in helping this admin-
ment-the largest deficit reduction pro-
istration advance the cause of free markets
gram in history-imposed real, long-term
and economic growth. And thanks for help-
caps on spending. You now see Members of
ing us win some important victories in the
Congress trying to retreat from the spirit of
Congress; victories in pushing back this
that agreement, urging us to raise taxes so
endless flow of mandated programs, man-
dated parental leave now, and helping us in
they can buy political. pork. No way. Con-
pushing for parental choice in child care, a
gress must keep its word. Congress must
wonderful step forward for our country that
keep its word. And if it doesn't, I will veto
strengthens the family of the United States.
spending bills that violate the caps and vio-
And thanks for helping us persuade Con-
late our budget accord.
gress to preserve a crucial device for secur-
Our growth package also includes a com-
ing free and fair international trade, the
prehensive set of long-overdue banking re-
Fast Track procedures.
forms. These reforms are designed to bring
And now, we need your help in securing
our banking system up to date and to make
civil rights legislation that ensures the most
banks, large and small, stronger and better
basic civil right of all: the right of all people
able to serve their customers. The business
to pursue their dreams without fear of dis-
community, particularly yours-the small
crimination or fear of unfair lawsuits.
business community-needs strong banks
In that regard, I notice some of the but-
that can provide much needed financing for
tons out there. I like the buttons. And I
jobs and for economic growth.
don't know anybody who disagrees with
This administration believes in free and
that sentiment, as a matter of fact. You've
fair trade. In an age of international eco-
got mine, as a matter of fact.
nomic competition, we cannot afford-
Calvin Coolidge once told a gathering of
simply cannot afford to shield ourselves
newspaper editors that "the chief business
from competition or to lose the vast bene-
of the American people is business." And
fits that free and fair trade will produce.
that much-maligned quote contains an im-
We will use the Fast Track procedures to
portant truth. We are an enterprising
pursue three vital trade agreements: the
people, and our economy thrives because
Uruguay round of the GATT talks, the
people with ideas establish businesses like
North American free trade agreement, and
yours. They risk money. They risk comforts.
the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative.
They risk failure. And they achieve great-
These agreements would open the world to
ness.
American products and would create fantas-
The Government can help advance the
tic opportunities for American businesses.
cause of economic freedom in three ways.
We also want to create a work force that
First, it can promote it. It can create an
can propel America into the 21st century,
environment that enables entrepreneurs to
to make that 100 years the next American
flourish, especially the men and women
century. Our America 2000 Strategy for
who run small businesses. Our economic
Education lays out a series of bold chal-
growth package offers a series of positive
lenges: to create better and more accounta-
inducements to growth. We want to bring
ble schools that parents can choose, to rein-
down the tax on capital gains. That reform
vent the American school by developing a
won't just reduce the cost of capital but to
new generation of American schools, to
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Administration of George Bush, 1991 / June 3
turn our land into a nation of students and,
encourage people to resolve disputes with
in the process, me into a computer genius.
doctors instead of hauling everyone in-
[Laughter] But no one's too old to learn.
volved off to court. Too many of our medi-
That's part of our fundamental thesis. And
cal dollars go to pay off lawyers-with all
to create communities where learning can
respect to you guys out there. Our medical
happen.
money ought to pay for healing, not suing.
I understand the vital importance of a
And thirdly, this administration will fight
well-educated work force to the small busi-
legislative proposals that threaten small
ness sector in particular. You depend on
business, that threaten the heart and soul of
schools to educate our kids. You don't have
our economic system. We will resist man-
the resources to provide remedial educa-
dated benefits programs. You know them
tion. You depend on schools to provide sen-
sible measures of educational achievement.
all too well, Washington's one-size-fits-all so-
lutions to problems that come in all sizes
That's one of the reasons we are developing
a series of voluntary national achievement
and shapes.
tests.
We will also oppose striker replacement
I'll be talking today to groups-when I
legislation. The bills in Congress, believe
leave here, I'll go over to speak to one of
me, could have catastrophic consequences
them-to groups that are helping us devel-
for small businesses, regardless of whether
op sound educational goals and measure-
they have union representation. As you
ments. And you can be sure that I'll stress
know, small business creates most of our
that their business will give a big boost to
jobs in this country. A survey published just
America's businesses.
last week showed that firms with 100 or
But it's not enough just to encourage
fewer employees generate 58 percent-58
growth. Government's second role must be
percent of our new jobs.
to remove some of the obstacles that it has
And finally-and this is timely-we will
created. Regulations cost the economy at
fight for a civil rights bill that pursues the
least $185 billion-that's billion dollars-last
cause of civil rights, the cause of equal op-
year. That's $1,700 for every taxpayer. The
portunity. Our civil rights package-and
Government generated 5.3 billion hours'
you haven't read anything about it because
worth of paperwork during the same
the debate is being dominated by the
period. I think that we can all agree we
Democrats that control the Congress-takes
don't need this much paperwork and regu-
dead aim at those who discriminate unfair-
lation. You've seen the volumes of regula-
ly. But it also encourages people to work
tion. Maybe the Surgeon General can
together, rather than employing quotas or
help-[laughter-make them put a warn-
other devices; encourages them to work in
ing label on the Federal Register. Do not
the name of equality, instead of inviting
attempt to lift this unless your last name's
people to squabble and to feud.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. [Laughter]
You know, let me talk from the heart
The Vice President's Council on Com-
here. I have been accused of playing elec-
petitiveness has zeroed in now on regula-
tion politics with this issue. And very frank-
tions that turn would-be Edisons into paper-
ly, it's the other way around, and it has
pushers. It helps weigh the costs and the
been for some time. My opponents won't
benefits of regulation so that when the gov-
even consider my civil rights bill. They
ernment issues rules it will produce more
keep changing theirs to attract different
benefits than red tape.
blocks of voters. Their obvious move to con-
Health care costs also have become a
vert the bill into a "women's issue" is just
major factor for many businesses. Although
plain, pure politics-a politics of selective
some people think it makes sense to estab-
inclusion and exclusion. Our bill would
lish our own brand of federally mandated
properly protect women's rights-every-
national medical care, I disagree, strongly.
one's rights.
And we have offered reforms to hold down
The beltway interest groups and their
medical costs without reducing the amount
spokespersons want to make me accept or
of available medical care. Some encourage
veto a quota bill. And the fact is we have
people to take care of themselves. Others
tried to compromise, but not to accept
709
June 3 / Administration of George Bush, 1991
quotas. And at one point last year, we had
to John Sloan, president and chief executive
yet to
an agreement that would bring all sides to-
officer of the National Federation of Inde-
at ris.
gether. But the beltway interest groups re-
pendent Business, and Patricia F. Saiki, Ad-
An
fused. They wanted a political win. They
ministrator of the Small Business Adminis-
ed to
wanted to grind me into the political dirt.
tration.
you'll
And we have a good record on civil
No na
rights. And we had a good history of fair
do in
play. And I want a fair, strong antidiscrimi-
cation
nation bill that will guarantee worker's
Remarks to the National Education
begur
rights, women's rights, workplace rights,
but will not create quotas. And P.S.-P.S.-
Goals Panel
I ha
[laughter]-I want a bill that will help all
June 3, 1991
Minne
working men and women and not one that
their
will produce a bonanza for avaricious law-
Well, thank you very much, Governor
methc
yers. And now you know my position.
Romer. And what I really wanted to do is to
great
If you listen to these talk shows you
come over and join my colleagues from the
wouldn't even know we have a civil rights
Department of Education-particularly our
The
bill up there. [Laughter] You see the same
Secretary-in thanking this busy and distin-
me en
ones, hey? [Laughter]
guished group of Governors who are taking
san-F
the lead on our educational reform.
issue to
Today, you have my word: Whatever hap-
pens to this bill-and I feel this in my
Roy, at the outset, thank you, sir, as chair-
a coup
heart-I will continue to work for racial
man. And let me say, we are enthused over
Nation
harmony and fair play and against discrimi-
your concept of this interim council-very
togethe
much so-and delighted that you and Car-
educati
nation in the workplace.
We want to build a society of shared
roll are willing to undertake that commit-
Jeffers
ment.
Goverr
hopes and helping hands, a society in which
all benefit from growth and prosperity. We
I'm pleased to be here with the National
place il
want to make this kind of society-a good
Education Goals Panel as you tackle tough
they d
society-the hallmark of our administration.
work on behalf of the entire country. And
rests no
In closing, let me say that this administra-
all of us feel that you're doing a great job.
lenge t
tion will not waver in its devotion to free
And I want especially to thank the Gover-
concret
enterprise. All of us here know that no ex-
nors who spent so much of the past year
We r
perience can match the scary thrill of strik-
traveling-as Roy said-around the country
of toug
ing out and starting a business. Nothing
and traveling to Washington to deal with
bigger
better tests your mettle. And as we prepare
this challenging assignment. We all owe a
reachin
to launch ourselves into the next American
great debt to Governor Romer and to his
civic le:
century, we must do the three things I've
colleagues for their important work on this
six nati
outlined today: We must encourage enter-
panel. And so, thank you all very, very
2000. T
prise, sweep away unnecessary barriers to
much.
but let
growth, and fend off attempts to place
You know, there are only a few moments
school;
chains on entrepreneurs.
in our lives when we are called upon to join
ment an
We want a free society, a just society, a
a crusade, and I honestly believe this is one
premacy
fair society. But we also want a society
of them. We have a crisis in American edu-
ing; and
brightened by growth and hope. And you
cation, and we've simply got to do some-
know, each in your own way, in your own
thing about it.
And tl
communities, you promote that dream
I just came from a meeting with the Na-
develope
every day. And we will encourage you
tional Federation of Independent Business-
exciting
every single step of the way.
es-NFIB. And I talked to them about eco-
tional re
Thank you. May God bless you all. And
nomic growth-something we can't achieve
2000. An
may God bless the United States of Amer-
without an educated, motivated work force.
American
ica. Thank you very much.
Education is vital to everything we are and
icans to
everything we can become. But look at the
ine accou
Note: The President spoke at 1:04 p.m. in
facts. Eight years ago, the National Commis-
new gent
the Regency Ballroom at the Capitol Hill
sion on Excellence in Education published
out to ti
Hyatt Regency. In his remarks, he referred
its powerful indictment of our schools. And
nation of
710
Apr. 9 / Administration of George Bush, 1991
should be finally decreed. But I think we're
pleasure to, as Bob says, talk to a group that
going to win it.
stands for success-a group that admits only
Ambassador Brock. So do I.
medium-sized companies that thrive in the
Q. Mr. President, can Iraq be persuaded
marketplace. But I've got to tell you, I feel
to accept the refugees—
a little funny being here. After all, I'm the
The President. It doesn't have anything to
CEO now of an outfit that's lost money for
do with Fast Track. I want to talk about
33 of the last 35 years. [Laughter]
Fast Track today, and we'll have no more
But in keeping with today's theme—
press conferences today because as I men-
charting economic growth in the nineties—
tioned to an earlier group we've had four in
I'd like to talk about our administration's
the last 3 days, and that's unfair to the
plan for generating more American success
press. [Laughter] Maybe four in the last 4
stories like your own. Our recent success in
days-something like that.
the Gulf has renewed Americans' belief in
themselves. In just the past couple of
Note: The President spoke at 1:21 p.m. in
months, consumer confidence has soared.
the Cabinet Room at the White House. In
And the stock market, of course, has been
his remarks, he referred to William E.
climbing toward that 3,000 mark. Most
Brock and Robert S. Strauss, former U.S.
economists predict that the recession soon
Trade Representatives; Dan Rostenkowski,
will give way to a new cycle of growth.
chairman of the House Ways and Means
And, incidentally, we agree with that assess-
Committee; George J. Mitchell, Senate
ment, inside.
Democratic leader; and Thomas S. Foley,
But we can't rest on our laurels. There's
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
an entire world of competition out there.
The administration's economic growth
package is designed to let people like you
do what you do best-create jobs, create
Remarks at a Meeting of the American
new opportunities, create wealth.
Business Conference
Let's start with an issue that we all have
April 9, 1991
to address in the next month. And I think
Bob just talked about it; Jim has been par-
Thank you very, very much. And, Bob,
ticipating in a meeting with me in the Cabi-
thank you, sir, for that introduction and for
net Room at the White House about it-I'm
letting this distinguished group use this
talking about the issue of free and fair
meeting room today. It's always a pleasure
trade. As you know, I have asked Congress
to be back here. Let me also salute the
to extend the Fast Track trade authority.
ABC's leader, Jim Jones. What a job he's
Fast Track, in my view, is another term
doing. But I remember his effectiveness in
for good faith. It guarantees that Congress
the leadership role in the Congress, and I'm
will accept or reject the very same agree-
glad that those energies that he has are
ments that our negotiators and their coun-
being used and shared by all of you. We
terparts have worked out. And this doesn't
have many distinguished visitors with us
weaken the Congress' power to review
today, and I won't single them out. I was
agreements; it simply prevents 11th-hour
told that Bill Seidman and Richard Breedon
changes that would force negotiators from
were here. But as I look around, unless
all countries to start over-to start from
they're basking way back in anonymity
scratch.
somewhere, they may not have made it.
Our trading partners consider Fast Track
But in any event, I'm delighted to see
a vital test of our reliability. And if we do
this group. Great to talk to the American
not retain the Fast Track process, we jeop-
Business Conference. We did a little home-
ardize three critical foreign trade initia-
work on this, and I've been here four times
tives: the Uruguay round of trade talks, the
in recent years. And then, of course, we're
North American free trade agreement, and
privileged to have two of your own with us
the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative.
in the administration, Bob Mosbacher and
Americans understand the benefits of
Arthur Levitt. And it's an honor and a
free trade. In the last 4 years, exports from
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Administration of George Bush, 1991 / Apr. 9
the United States have increased 55 per-
talent, our retirees; when communities fight
cent, more than twice the rate of import
harder to rip down barriers that prevent
growth. And export business has grown
effective teaching-barriers such as crimes
more rapidly than the rest of our economy.
and drugs and community indifference.
This trade boom has helped everyone in-
And we also want to encourage entrepre-
volved. A North American free trade agree-
neurship in education. We will support re-
ment would place us in the largest integrat-
search into the best teaching methods and
ed market on Earth: 360 million people, $6
techniques. We want to help workers im-
trillion of annual output. It would also give
prove their knowledge and skills. Your Vital
our neighbors access to the technologies
Link program offers a great way to achieve
and products that they need to improve
this goal. And we want to ensure that the
their standards of living, further clean their
American people are the best educated,
environments, and create a true community
best motivated in the entire world.
of nations on our continent.
We also believe strongly in promoting
Our economic proposals also sweep away
trade. I have asked Bob Mosbacher to lead
obstacles to free enterprise. What we're
a governmentwide effort to help small- and
trying to do-we're trying to unleash the
medium-sized companies sell their goods
power of American imagination.
and services abroad. I know you support
Your organization understands, I'd say
free trade, which is why I want to help you
better than most, that runaway government
in persuading Congress to extend the Fast
spending steals opportunity from private
Track process. Without it, we will surrender
citizens. Last year's budget agreement-
our chance to shape the emerging world
controversial though it was-placed real
economy. Without it, we risk setting off the
and stringent caps on congressional spend-
kind of protectionist warfare that helped
ing. If Congress wants to spend money now,
produce the Great Depression. And with it,
more money on certain programs, it'll have
American workers and businesses will be
to make the hard choices. It'll have to raise
able to demonstrate their strength in a new
taxes or take the money from other pro-
and vibrant world market.
grams.
Let me say that we are approaching this
This year, for the first time in years, Fed-
Fast Track process on the Hill in a totally
eral spending will actually increase less rap-
nonpartisan manner. The Democratic lead-
idly than the inflation. And I can promise
ers, several of the key Democratic leaders,
you that if Congress sends me these spend-
are as enthusiastic about this Fast Track au-
ing bills that break this budget, I will send
thority granting as I am. And we're ap-
them back, with a veto message.
proaching it strictly because we believe that
But there's lots more to do. We in gov-
it is best for the United States of America.
ernment must do more. As vice president, I
And I also know that it's good for our trad-
headed the Task Force on Regulatory
ing partners as well.
Relief. And as President, I remain commit-
This brings me, then, to a second part of
ted to weeding out regulations that prevent
our growth package: creating an educated,
people from creating jobs and opportuni-
innovative work force. Our budget empha-
ties. I see some know what over-regulation
sizes the importance of building an America
means. [Laughter] But we're going to con-
that is ready to take its place in an emerg-
tinue to do this, and we must. Last year
ing world economy. It stresses the absolute
regulations-here's why-last year regula-
necessity of an educated nation. We want to
tions cost the economy at least $185 billion,
reinvent the American school, to create a
or $1,700 for every taxpayer. The Govern-
nation of students, to make sure that educa-
ment generated more than 5.3 billion hours
tion offers opportunity to everyone.
of paperwork last year. And that's enough
Our education strategy starts with some
to keep 2 million people busy doing nothing
very obvious truths: that schools succeed
but filling out forms.
when teachers teach; when parents support
Our Council on Competitiveness, as
the schools; when schools accept help from
chaired by Vice President Quayle, attacks
people with skills-local businesses, commu-
the scourge of unnecessary regulation. We
nity colleges, that huge pool of untapped
want to let people turn their attention to
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Apr. 9 / Administration of George Bush, 1991
the more important and rewarding work of
dream. And similarly, we should foster inno-
building a prosperous future. We've fol-
vation wherever we can.
lowed the same approach in looking at our
Our budget advocates increased Federal
Tax Code. We want a tax system that re-
support for R&D, for research and develop-
wards enterprise. I have repeatedly asked
ment, in basic and applied science. It also
the United States Congress to cut our high
encourages private-sector innovation by ex-
capital gains tax. And I can't think of any
tending the research and experimentation
issue that's been more badly misrepresent-
tax credit. Our administration understands
ed than this one. Our critics say that a cap-
the power of knowledge, and we want the
ital gains cut helps only the rich. And in my
Tax Code to reward people who turn their
view, they are dead wrong.
big dreams into revolutionary new goods
Here are the facts on it. More than a
and services.
quarter of all families who file capital gains
And finally, this administration believes
have annual incomes of less than $20,000 a
in protecting workers' earnings and savings.
year. More than three-quarters of all fami-
Our banking reform proposals-they try to
lies who declared make less than Members
modernize the laws that affect our banking
of Congress. A capital gains cut isn't a sop
system. Let's face it: 1930's regulations and
to the rich. It rewards people who turn
restrictions don't cut it in the 1990's.
good ideas into goods and services-goods
To pick just one example, under our cur-
and services that people need.
rent laws, a California bank can open a
When taxes on entrepreneurship are
branch in Birmingham, England, but not in
high, investors have no incentive to risk
Birmingham, Alabama. Think of the bank-
money on untried businesses and entrepre-
ing system as an irrigation network for the
neurs. Before Congress cut the capital gains
economy. When it works properly, it nour-
rate in 1978, the pool for start-up businesses
ishes the seeds of economic growth. And
had virtually dried up. And after the cut,
when it doesn't, companies like the ones
we experienced an investment boom. Be-
represented here can wither and die. Our
tween 1978 and 1986, the number of initial
reform package tries in a very comprehen-
public offerings increased nearly 1600 per-
sive way to make our banking system more
cent, from 45 to 719. The amount of invest-
competitive, up to date, safe and sound.
ment seed money increased nearly a hun-
We also believe in protecting retirees
dredfold, from $250 million to $22.5 billion.
from undue hardship. Eight years ago, Con-
Capital gains payments to the Federal Gov-
gress adopted measures to guarantee the
ernment quadrupled. This is what happens
short-term solvency and long-term stability
when you reduce the cost of capital.
of the Social Security system. Congress
We must encourage savings and discour-
should resist any temptation to undermine
age debt. And for the past 4 years we've
that stability by permitting raids on the
taxed capital gains like any other form of
trust fund balances. We need to honor our
income. And at the same time, we have
promises to the workers and retirees. I
encouraged people to take on debt. Not sur-
know we've got a fight on this one. But I
prisingly, people have borrowed more and
believe we're going to prevail.
invested less. Home equity lines of credit
I know I have covered a lot of ground,
offer a perfect example. These devices,
touching on a lot of different issues here,
which let homeowners borrow against their
but I wanted to make a point. Our growth
increased home values, have nearly tripled
package addresses the challenges posed by
in volume since tax reform.
a new, exciting, rapidly changing world.
No other major industrial power taxes
Our themes: We want to promote growth.
capital gains at nearly the rate we do. Ger-
We want to create jobs for all Americans.
many and Japan enjoy much higher savings
We want to unleash the power of American
and investment rates in part because they
imagination. We want to ignite people's am-
don't punish successful investment.
bitions, rather than inciting their fears.
My point is simple: Taxes on growth are
Many people call the 20th century the
taxes on the American dream. We should
American century. Well, we shouldn't be
clear away obstacles to the American
content with that. The stunning collapse of
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Administration of George Bush, 1991 / Apr. 10
amunism in 1989 was no accident.
a friend of education, Governor Caperton,
ring the 1980's, the Communist world
who you met earlier.
med that no wall, no barrier can fend off
I'm told that a former Member of Con-
verful ideas. It saw our prosperity and
gress, Harley Staggers, is here. I'm not fo-
vitality. It saw that our way is better.
cusing too well from up here, but if he-
e prosperity of the 1980's, which began
they're pointing out here. But anyway-
h tax cuts and progrowth policies in the
way back over there. But Harley, nice to
ited States, transformed the entire world.
see you, sir-a man that served his State
r challenge now is to shape the revolu-
with great distinction. I want to single out
n that we started to make the 21st centu-
Commissioner Benedict and Superintend-
the next American Century.
ent Marockie; John Quam, the director of
And so, I ask your help in that quest.
the National Teacher of the Year Program;
gether, with business working coopera-
and of course, your own principal-and now
ely with government, we cannot fail.
that I feel a part of this school, our own
Thank you all very much for coming to
principal-Gary Kidwell.
ashington. And may God bless our great
Let me say that I'm especially pleased, on
untry.
this whole broad national education front,
to be side-by-side with Lamar Alexander-a
ote: The President spoke at 2:07 p.m. in
former Governor, a man that is committed,
e Great Hall at the Department of Com-
a former head of a great university system,
erce. In his remarks, he referred to Secre-
now our Secretary of Education-a man
ry of Commerce Robert A. Mosbacher; L.
who has made it his mission, his sacred mis-
illiam Seidman, Chairman of the Federal
sion, to join with the teachers of this school
eposit Insurance Corporation; Richard
and others all across this country to make
reedon, Chairman of the Securities and
America's schools second to none. And very
change Commission; and Arthur Levitt,
soon, back in Washington, we are going to
ominated to be a member of the Defense
unveil our National Education Strategy. It's
ase Closure and Realignment Commission
a long-term strategy to make America all
nd former chairman of the American
that it can be-to spark a nationwide move-
tock Exchange.
ment that touches every school and every
student in America.
But today I want to focus on the fact that,
in the end, everything we try to do in edu-
lemarks at the Presentation Ceremony
cation comes down to teaching and learn-
or the National Teacher of the Year
ing, to each teacher and each student in our
Award in Slanesville, West Virginia
classrooms. There's no better way to make
April 10, 1991
that point than to come here to honor
someone Slanesville knows so well, the 1991
The President. Well, please be seated.
National Teacher of the Year, Rae Ellen
Kids, it's great to be with you. And you
McKee.
ught to be very happy that I'm here be-
You know, the last time I went to a
:ause you don't have to be in school work-
school, it was just a few miles away from
ng hard, you see. [Laughter] To all those
the White House, and I had a third-grade
who handled the arrangements for a com-
kid, a boy ask me to prove that I was the
plex visit like this, let me at the very begin-
President. [Laughter] I finally showed him
ning express my sincere thanks to you, and
my American Express card. [Laughter] And
we promise to leave right on time so things
this time I came prepared, though. I
can get back to normal in this beautiful part
brought the Secretary of Education so there
of our country.
can be no doubt. And then I flew down
I want to thank Secretary Alexander for
here on Marine One. And third, when
his remarks, for his kind words. Thank all of
we're done here, just to prove it, I'm going
you for this West Virginia welcome. It's
to take Mrs. McKee back up to the White
good to see the Governor of this State here,
House with me.
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TO:
Lynn Lawson F.I. of POTUS
Office of Political Affairs
FROM:
DO Sullivan and Bill Pallatucci
DATE:
August 29, 1991
RE:
NEW JERSEY POLITICAL UPDATE
The following is a New Jersey political overview in
relation to the President's planned September visit to New
Jersey.
STATE POLITICAL BACKGROUND
1991 is a major election year in New Jersey where the entire
state legislature is up for election. The current conventional
wisdom states that the Republican Party will easily win a
majority of seats in the General Assembly (lower house), while
the contest for the State Senate will be much closer.
Currently, polling conducted by a number of candidates indicates
that Governor Jim Florio remains extremely unpopular because of
his 1990 tax increase of $2.8 billion. The Florio tax package of
income, sales, gasoline and telecommunications tax hikes are
keeping the Governor's approval rating no higher than 25 to 30%.
Obviously, this is in stark contrast to a President with approval
ratings in the high 60 to 70% range.
The Florio Administration continually attempts to change the
focus of the campaign to issues of education, health care,
environmental enforcement and government reorganization, but
continues to demonstrate ineptness in administration.
The point of the President's visit and remarks should be to keep
the heat on Governor Florio. Jim Florio's policies of taxing and
spending have only made New Jersey's economy worse. By contrast,
President Bush believes in less government, not more.
Republicans view taxes as a last resort, not as the first answer
to every problem.
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General Assembly
The Democrats currently control the lower house by a margin of 43
to 37 seats. Redistricting of state legislative district lines
has shifted seats south and west to areas where Republican voters
are the majority.
a
State Committee Chairman Bob Franks and Assembly Minority Leader
Chuck Haytaian are leading the effort to recapture a majority.
State Senate
The Senate will be a tough fight for control. The Democrats now
have an edge of 23 to 17 seats. They are well financed and
appear to have the better campaign at this point.
Senate Minority Leader John Dorsey heads the campaign.
Other Factors
The Republicans have an excellent crop of minority and women
candidates running for a variety of seats. African-Americans
like John Smith and 10 others are running for the State Assembly.
For the first time, Republicans have more women and minorities
running that the Democrats.
JAS:ac
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 26, 1991
SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
TO:
KATHERINE L. SUPER
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULING
THROUGH:
RONALD C. KAUFMAN
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
POLITICAL AFFAIRS
FROM:
DAVID M. CARNEY
V
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS
REQUEST:
Presidential travel to the State of New
Jersey in support of Republican State
Assembly and State Senate candidates.
PURPOSE:
To secure a Republican majority in the New
Jersey State Assembly and Senate.
BACKGROUND:
New Jersey is one of five states in the
country whose entire legislative body will
face reelection in 1991. Many traditionally
Democrat seats are viewed as vulnerable due
to the vast unpopularity of Governor Florio
and Democrat legislators. Governor Florio's
tax increase package has resulted in voter
dissatisfaction of tremendous proportions.
The 1990 elections in New Jersey yielded many
Republican gains. A record number of local
and county offices, two contested legislative
races and a 49 percent loss to U.S. Senator
Bill Bradley resulted. A State Senate seat
was won despite the Republican candidate
being outspent by a two-to-one margin. An
Assembly seat was won in a district that has
not elected a Republican to the Assembly in
over 15 years. These recent gains, coupled
with voter rejection of Governor Florio's
policies, point to great potential for
successful Republican efforts.
DATE:
September or October, 1991.
LOCATION:
New Jersey, in a city convenient to the
President's schedule.
New Jersey Schedule Proposal
Page Two
PARTICIPANTS:
The President.
New Jersey Republican Party.
Supporters of the New Jersey Republican
Party.
OUTLINE OF EVENT:
Photo opportunity with high dollar donors.
Mix and mingle, delivering brief remarks, to
low dollar donors.
REMARKS
REQUIRED:
Talking points to be provided by the Office
of Political Affairs.
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open press.
RECOMMENDED BY:
David M. Carney
NJGOP
State Party 1 gov duberent
NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
= -PaTus Ball
$1.8M 151. possible gross
Asscmblyman Bob Franks
Chairman
March 7, 1991
The Honorable George Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
New Jersey is one of only frur Beliche five states in the country with
legislative races in 1991. Republicans have an historic
opportunity to win majorities in both the State Assembly and
Senate as Democrat incumbents have come under fire for
approving Governor Jim Florio's record breaking tax increase of
1990.
I want to invite you to share in the historic
opportunities of the New Jersey Republican Party this year.
Specifically, I would be honored to have you participate
in events sponsored by the New Jersey Republican State
Committee in the coming months to benefit our candidates for
State Senate and General Assembly.
The Republican Party won an historic victory in New Jersey
Last November. Indeed the GOP won a record number of new local
and county offices, swept both contested legislative races in
November, and the seemingly invincible Bill Bradley won
re-election to the U.S. Senate by a scant margin of 51% to 49%.
As you may also know, both the entire State Senate and
General Assembly will be on the ballot this November. As a
result of Jim Florio and the Democrats hugely unpopular record
tax hikes, Republican opportunities to capture control of both
houses of the New Jersey legislature have never been greater.
Given the magnitude of the opportunities and the
importance of New Jersey as one of only two states with
legislative elections in 1991, I hope our Party can count on
your assistance in this all-important year.
Your presence as Special Guest at fund-raising events and
your ability to focus public attention on policy issues
310 West State Street, Trenton. New Jersey 08618 0 (609) 989-7300 0 Telefax: (609) 989-8685
March 7, 1991
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important to our legislative candidates will be absolutely
critical to our efforts this year.
State Committee staff will be contacting you in the weeks
ahead to confirm your ability to help in this regard and begin
to identify convenient scheduling opportunities for you to come
into New Jersey.
On behalf of all New Jersey Republicans, thank you for
your generous assistance in helping the GOP restore good
government to the people of New Jersey.
Sincerely
Bob Assemblyman Bob Franks
Republican State Chairman
BF:pjm
P.S. Your help will be vital to our efforts! I hope we can
count on your support and cooperation.
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New Jersey
New Jersey
and Delaware valleys. General George Washington spent one-quar-
extended across New Jersey, it would cut the state practically in
ter of his time as commander-in-chief shuttling back and forth
half. But the state supported the Union cause in the Civil War with
across the state; the victories he won at Trenton, Princeton, and
$23 million and 80,000 troops, including the first uniformed sol-
Monmouth were critical to the American cause. The Continental
diers sent to Washington, DC.
Army also spent two winters at Morristown in cold and suffering
In the postwar era, New Jersey opened its doors to further
worse than any they experienced at Valley Forge.
development-shipbuilding in Camden, silk processing in Pater-
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the New Jersey
son, oil products in Bayonne. The state's lenient attitude toward
delegation, led by William Paterson, spoke for the smaller states
incorporation encouraged trusts and monopolies to form there.
when it proposed a one-chamber legislature with equal representa-
Muckraker Lincoln Steffens derided the state as "The Mother of
tion for each state. The so-called New Jersey Plan was defeated, but
Trusts," and reformers managed to elect Woodrow Wilson gover-
in the end, each small state did receive a vote in the U.S. Senate
nor in 1910. Wilson saw the state as "the fighting center of the most
equal to that of each large one. On December 18, 1787, New Jersey
important social questions of our time," and he managed to pass
became the third state to ratify the new Constitution.
laws restraining monopolies before he became president in 1913.
After the war, New Jersey turned its attention to industry and
The laws, however, were repealed and diluted soon after he left the
transportation. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton founded Paterson, a
governorship.
planned industrial community on the Great Falls of the Passaic
Although New Jersey remains in the shadow of New York City
River; three years later Hamilton's Society for Establishing Useful
and Philadelphia, it has made important contributions to the na-
Manufactures opened a calico factory there. Meanwhile, leather
tion's cultural life. In colonial times, it was the only colony to have
industry was developing at Newark, pottery at Trenton, and bank-
two institutions of higher learning-at Princeton and New Bruns-
ing and insurance became established in the state. New Jersey's
wick. Early writers included the Quaker preacher John Woolman
growth was aided by some inventive minds. The genial inventor
(1720-1772), the revolutionary pamphleteer, poet, and journalist
Seth Boyden of Newark devised methods for producing both pat-
Philip Freneau, and Thomas Paine, who wrote "These are the
ent leather and malleable iron. By 1810 New Jersey was the third-
times that try men's souls" in Newark. When he went to France
largest iron producer in the country.
after the Revolution, Paine so missed his home that he wrote: "I
The genius of another native, John Stevens, helped make the
would rather see my horse, Button, eating the grass of Borden-
state a leader in transportation. In 1804, Stevens's twin-propeller
town, than see all the show and pomp of Europe." Walt Whitman,
steamboat, Little Juliana, began making trips between Hoboken and
who died in 1892, lived the last twenty years of his life in Camden.
New York City, and in 1825 he built the first American-made
More recently, William Carlos Williams wrote poetry and practiced
"steam waggon," which ran on a circular track around his Hoboken
medicine in Rutherford, New Jersey, until he died in 1963.
estate, all to prove that railroads were feasible. When Stevens's
The fourth-smallest state in the Union, New Jersey is richly
inventive son, Robert, obtained the charter for the Camden and
endowed with destinations of historic interest. Most of the state's
Amboy Railroad to strengthen the link between New York City and
Revolutionary War sites, including a large number of places where
Philadelphia, he imported an English locomotive, the John Bull,
George Washington supposedly slept, are found in the so-called M
the first engine to have a cowcatcher. In 1831, with Robert Stevens
counties-Middlesex, Mercer, Monmouth, and Morris. But historic
at the throttle, the line opened. The line came to dominate the
sites are everywhere throughout its 7,468 square miles.
state's political and economic life, and New Jersey was sometimes
The one sure way not to find them, however, is to stay on the
disparagingly called "the state of the Camden and Amboy."
New Jersey Turnpike or one of the many other major highways
New Jersey found itself on both sides of the slavery issue as the
that crisscross the state. Travelers can't see much from these roads
Civil War approached. Slavery had existed since colonial times on
except the industrial sprawl and overdevelopment that give so
the farms of southern Jersey, as it had in New York. Even today life
many outsiders a false impression of New Jersey. But visitors who
in the area has a southern cast-if the Mason-Dixon Line were
leave the beaten track to seek out the state's rich history will surely
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NEW JERSEY'S PRESIDENT'S GALA
SEPTEMBER 24, 1991
HEAD TABLE
FIRST TIER
(From Left to Right Looking at the Dias)
Host Committee Chairman
Host Committee Chairman
cliff Sobel, Event Finance Chairman
The Honorable Nicholas Brady, Secretary of the Treasury
The Honorable Chuck Haytaian, Assembly Minority Leader
Mrs. Barbara Bush
The Honorable Bob Franks, Republican State Chairman
Podium
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, President, Drew University
The Honorable John Dorsey, Senate Minority Leader
The Honorable Michael Castle, Governor of Delaware
Joseph A "Bo" Sullivan, 1988 Bush/Quayle Chairman
Host Committee Chairman
Host Committee Chairman
Host Committee Vice Chairman
Priest (TBD)
Second Tier
(From Left to Right Looking at the Dias)
Virginia Littell, Treasurer, NJ Repubican State Committee
The Honorable Dick Zimmer, CD 12
The Honorable Christopher Smith, CD 4
The Honorable Marge Roukema, CD 5
Jose Sosa, Assembly Candidate -- LD 7
Ed Tiller, Senate Candidate -- LD 17
Harriet Derman, Assembly Candidate -- LD 18
The Honorable Jack Sinagra, Mayor of East Brunswick
Senate Candidate -- LD 18
Jeff Warsh, Assembly Candidate -- LD 18
Dorcas O'Neil, Assembly Candidate -- LD 27
Randy Corman, Senate Candidate -- LD 19
Barbara Wright, Assembly Candidate -- LD 14
The Honorable Dean Gallo, CD 11
The Honorable Matthew Rinaldo, CD 7
The Honorable Sam Thompson, Middlesex County Chairman
TOTAL
0
as
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMER PRICES-MAJOR
INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES
Industrial production (1987 = 100; seasonally adjusted)
Consumer prices (1982-84=100; NSA)
Period
United
United
United
Canada
Japan
France
States
Germany
Italy
Kingdom
States
Canada
Japan
France
United
Germany
Italy
Kingdom
1982
81.9
76.5
82.9
97.3
90.3
91.8
86.3
96.5
94.9
1983
98.0
91.7
97.0
87.7
95.4
84.9
81.5
85.5
96.5
90.9
88.8
89.5
99.6
100.4
1984
99.9
100.3
100.3
100.8
99.8
92.8
91.4
93.4
97.1
93.5
91.8
89.6
103.9
104.8
1985
102.1
108.0
102.7
111.5
104.8
94.4
96.5
96.8
97.2
97.7
92.9
94.5
107.6
108.9
1986
104.2
114.3
104.9
121.1
111.1
95.3
95.7
96.6
98.0
99.6
96.2
96.8
109.6
113.4
1987
104.9
117.2
104.7
128.5
114.9
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
113.6
118.4
1988
105.0
121.1
104.9
134.4
119.7
105.4
105.0
109.3
104.7
103.9
105.9
103.6
118.3
123.2
1989
105.7
124.4
106.3
141.1
125.6
108.1
105.1
115.7
108.9
108.7
109.2
104.0
124.0
P
129.3
1990
108.1
128.9
109.2
150.4
135.4
109.2
101.6
121.3
110.2
114.6
109.2
103.3
130.7
135.5
111.4
133.2
112.1
159.6
148.2
1990:
May
109.4
102.8
121.0
109.3
113.4
107.7
104.6
129.2
June
134.6
111.6
132.3
111.8
158.0
148.3
110.1
102.7
121.1
109.4
113.7
107.9
'107.2
129.9
135.1
July
111.0
132.6
111.9
158.7
148.9
110.4
103.1
123.2
111.6
115.2
109.7
'103.6
130.4
135.8
Aug
110.9
132.9
111.9
159.3
149.0
110.5
102.0
123.7
111.6
116.5
109.7
'102.3
131.6
135.8
Sept
111.4
133.7
112.2
160.3
150.5
110.6
100.4
122.4
109.8
117.3
110.8
'102.1
132.7
Oct
136.3
112.4
134.4
112.6
161.2
151.9
109.9
100.2
125.3
110.1
117.0
107.5
'102.2
133.5
Nov
137.4
113.9
135.2
113.4
162.6
153.1
108.3
98.6
124.6
108.0
116.6
106.8
'100.5
133.8
Dec
138.2
113.5
135.0
113.2
163.6
152.7
107.2
97.2
123.7
106.0
116.2
109.6
'99.9
133.8
138.1
113.2
134.9
113.3
164.2
152.6
1991:
Jan
106.6
97.5
125.4
'110.1
119.1
108.6
'99.4
134.6
Feb
141.7
114.1
135.5
114.0
165.4
153.0
105.7
'96.7
125.1
109.1
118.3
108.4
'101.1
134.8
Mar
141.7
113.8
135.7
114.3
167.0
153.8
105.0
'96.2
123.0
106.1
118.4
108.2
101.1
135.0
142.3
Apr
114.3
135.8
114.2
167.4
154.4
105.5
'97.5
123.3
'109.9
117.7
'103.3
98.7
135.2
May
142.3
114.8
136.3
114.7
168.2
156.4
'106.4
98.5
'126.0
109.3
'116.9
104.6
98.3
135.6
June
143.0
115.4
136.6
115.2
168.8
156.9
'107.1
123.0
119.9
101.2
136.0
July P
143.7
114.9
136.9
115.8
169.7
157.6
107.6
136.2
143.8
116.8
157.2
1 Data relate to all urban consumers.
Source: National sources as reported by Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis
and International Trade Administration, Trade Information and Analysis).
U.S. MERCHANDISE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
[Billions of dollars; monthly data seasonally adjusted]
Merchandise exports (f.a.s. value) 1
General merchandise imports (customs value) 3
Trade balance
Principal end-use commodity category
Principal end-use commodity category
General
Indus-
Auto-
Con-
Period
Cap-
motive
Indus-
Auto-
Con-
mer-
Foods,
trial
sumer
Foods
trial
Cap-
motive
sumer
chandise
Exports
Exports
Total 2
feeds,
ital
vehi-
sup-
goods
goods
Total
ital
(non-
feeds,
vehi-
sup-
goods
imports
(f.a.s) less
(f.a.s)
and
plies
cles,
Other 2
and
bever-
plies
goods
cles,
(non-
food)
Other
(c.i.f.
imports
less
and
except
parts,
(customs
imports
bever-
and
except
parts,
food)
value)
materi-
auto-
and
ages
except
auto-
and
motive
except
value)
(c.i.f.)
en-
auto-
ages
materi-
als
als
motive
en-
auto-
gines
motive
gines
motive
1982
216.4
31.3
61.7
72.7
15.7
14.3
20.7
1983
244.0
17.1
112.0
35.4
33.3
39.7
205.6
6.5
30.9
254.9
-27.5
56.7
-38.4
67.2
16.8
13.4
20.5
1984
258.0
18.2
107.0
40.9
40.8
44.9
224.0
6.3
31.5
269.9
-52.4
61.7
-64.2
72.0
20.6
13.3
24.0
1985
4 330.7
21.0
123.7
59.8
53.5
⁵ 218.8
60.0
7.8
24.0
346.4
-106.7
58.5
-122.4
73.9
22.9
12.6
27.3
336.5
1986
21.9
113.9
65.1
66.8
227.2
68.3
9.4
22.3
352.5
57.3
-117.7
-133.6
75.8
21.7
14.2
35.9
1987
365.4
24.4
101.3
71.8
78.2
79.4
254.1
10.4
24.3
382.3
66.7
138.3
-155.1
86.2
24.6
17.7
34.6
1988
406.2
24.8
111.0
84.5
85.2
88.7
322.4
12.1
32.3
85.1
424.4
-152.1
-170.3
109.2
29.3
23.1
43.4
1989
441.0
24.8
118.3
101.4
87.7
95.9
12.8
363.8
37.2
459.5
99.3
-118.5
138.8
-137.1
34.8
36.4
17.2
473.2
1990
25.1
132.3
113.3
86.1
102.9
393.6
13.6
35.1
493.2
104.4
152.7
-109.4
-129.4
37.4
43.3
20.7
495.3
26.6
143.2
116.4
87.3
105.7
16.1
517.0
-101.7
-123.4 -
1990: June
33.8
3.3
8.4
13.4
3.3
3.9
1.6
40.2
July
2.2
10.9
9.6
7.4
8.6
32.2
2.8
1.4
41.9
8.1
12.7
-6.3
-8.1
3.1
3.7
1.8
41.4
2.2
Aug
11.1
10.0
7.6
9.1
32.5
2.9
1.3
8.7
43.3
12.6
-9.2
-11.1
3.1
3.5
1.6
41.9
2.1
Sept
12.2
9.7
7.7
32.2
8.9
2.7
1.3
8.8
43.7
12.6
-9.4
-11.2
2.9
3.5
1.7
41.3
Oct
2.2
12.4
9.4
7.2
8.6
34.6
1.6
2.6
9.9
43.1
13.1
-9.1
3.4
-10.8
3.9
1.8
44.5
Nov
2.2
13.5
10.3
7.7
33.6
9.4
2.9
1.4
9.5
46.4
12.4
-9.9
3.2
-11.7
3.7
1.9
43.1
Dec
2.1
13.4
10.0
7.1
33.6
9.0
2.6
9.2
1.5
13.2
45.0
-9.5
2.8
3.8
-11.4
1.9
39.9
2.2
11.6
9.8
6.6
8.3
1.3
41.6
-6.3
-8.0
1991: Jan
34.1
2.7
9.5
13.0
3.1
3.9
1.9
41.5
Feb
2.2
12.2
9.9
7.3
33.6
8.6
3.1
9.7
1.3
12.4
43.4
2.6
-7.4
-9.2
3.9
1.9
39.1
Mar
2.1
10.8
9.9
6.7
34.0
8.5
3.0
8.9
1.2
13.5
40.9
2.9
-5.5
-7.3
3.8
1.9
38.1
2.1
Apr
10.1
9.9
6.6
35.6
8.0
2.9
9.2
1.3
14.4
3.4
39.8
3.8
-4.1
-5.8
1.9
40.1
May
2.4
11.0
10.4
6.7
35.3
8.5
3.0
9.4
1.3
13.7
42.0
3.5
-4.5
3.8
-6.4
2.0
40.1
June
2.3
11.3
10.1
6.5
34.8
2.8
8.4
8.6
1.5
14.4
3.5
41.8
-4.8
3.7
-6.6
1.9
38.9
2.3
10.5
9.8
6.6
8.1
1.5
40.5
-4.0
-5.7
2 1 Includes Department of Defense Military Assistance Program grant-aid shipments.
Includes undocumented exports to Canada through 1988.
5 Total exports are on a revised statistical month basis; end-use categories are on a statistical
3 Total arrivals of imported goods other than intransit shipments.
month basis.
4 Total includes revisions not reflected in detail.
NOTE.-Data shown include trade of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
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NJGOP
a : :
NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
Assemblyman Bob Franks
Chairman
May 2, 1991
The Honorable George Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I wanted to update you on recent events in New Jersey, and
affirm our invitation to you to visit New Jersey this fall.
Last month, Vice President Quayle joined us for the "Honor
America Gala" to launch the Republican campaign season in New
Jersey. Over seven hundred activists and contributors were on hand
to welcome him and support the Party. The success of the event is
a tribute to your administration, and it demonstrates that New
Jersey Republicans are united and prepared to assume leadership in
the state legislature.
Democrats currently have a four seat majority in both the
State Senate and Assembly, and prospects for substantial Republican
gains in both houses are excellent. The strength of voter anger at
Governor Florio's record $3 billion tax hike and the favorable
resolution of re-districting for Republican state legislative
candidates have set the stage for a Republican landslide.
A visit by you to New Jersey this year would help us to
overcome the Democrats funding advantage and bring enormous earned
media political dividends as well.
I do hope that you will be able to visit us in September of
this year for a fund raising event.
Thank you for your continued consideration.
Sincerely,
Bob Franks
Assemblyman Bob Franks
Republican State Committee
310 West State Street. Trenton. New Jersey 08618
(609) 989-7300
Telefax: (609) 989-8685
obd friend Bo Sollivan
900 .
Chen. Bob Franks
Chuck Hangtain
Grant / Simon
September 17, 1991
John Dorsey
A: NJGOP Draft two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW JERSEY GOP FUNDRAISER
EAST BRUNSWICK RAMADA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1991
6:30 P.M.
Gov.
Gov. Kean will
[Acknowledgements]
Brady, Custle
intro
((I'm here today because I know a lot of money's been spent,
and that there's been a lot of media attention on both sides
...
and I think we all agree the stakes are high. // But hey, enough
about Liz Taylor's wedding. // ))
I've come here today for the same reason many of you have -
- because the Republican Party of New Jersey is attracting people
from far and wide. The Republican Party has grass roots appeal.
The Republican Party defines the mainstream in this state. And
come this fall, the Republican Party will win the State Assembly
and State Senate back for New Jersey. ///
The Democrats are rattled. The New Jersey G.O.P. has the
best candidates -- in fact, more women and minorities are running
for office as Republicans than as Democrats. Not surprisingly,
we face our best chance in 18 years of capturing both Houses.
Four more seats in each House will put us over the top. We'll
run on the Republican Record -- and that leaves the other Party
running scared. //
Look at last year's elections. In 1990, Republicans won a
record number of new local and county officies, and swept both
contested legislative races. New Jersey voters sent a message to
the Democrats in the U.S. Senate race, and helped us take back an
2
assembly seat that hadn't gone G.O.P. in 15 years. The switch is
on -- to the Republican Party -- because when the fight is fair
and on the issues, Republicans win. ///
Let me say a few words about the "fairness" issue. The
other party talks about "fairness" -- until the time comes to
draw those district lines. Democrats have called it "their
contribution to modern art" --- we call it "gerrymandering."
We'll fight for fair representation all the way -- with three of
the best in the business on our side -- our State GOP chairman,
Bob Franks // and our Minority Leader in the Assembly, Chuck
TYE
Haytaian [Heh-TAY-en] // and of course, our Minority Leader in
the State Senate John Dorsey. // We'll fight for fairness
because we Republicans don't need gerrymandering. We can put the
Democrats out of business on the issues every time.
We stand for free markets and free people
for a strong
national defense and the power of democracy. We believe in
measuring success not by dollars spent and red tape created --
but by lives enriched and families strengthened. We're working
to build a better America -- by allowing choice in child care,
reforming our schools, safeguarding our environment and -- most
importantly -- fueling a strong economic recovery.
//
But in order to achieve excellence at home and
competitiveness abroad, we need more men and women of courage and
conviction. In the House, in the Senate, and right here in the
Statehouse, // we need more Republicans. //
3
We don't need taxes -- we need leadership. We don't need
fiscal gimmicks -- we need a state government that will live
within its means. Working people don't need any more of the tax-
and-spend liberal nightmare. The people of New Jersey don't need
another 3 billion dollar tax increase. /// The people of New
Jersey need less spending and more Republicans in Trenton. ///
((I'm reminded of a story nearly a thousand years old, about
the people of a medieval town who began a tax revolt against
their leaders. They gained attention when one of the women rode
through town naked on her horse
And while I haven't seen Lady
Godiva around New Jersey lately /// I've heard that since the
Democrats raised taxes here, people are losing their shirts.) )
I read that some Democrats say that once the voters see the
"benefits" of their record-breaking tax increase, they'll
appreciate it. Well, the voters are seeing the so-called
"benefits" alright -- dying businesses, home foreclosures,
families moving away. The people see Election Day coming, too,
and believe me, they are seeing red.
Well, let's welcome New Jersey back to the common-sense
policies of the Republican Party. New Jerseyans understand that
G.O.P. stands for Growth, Opportunity and Prosperity.
Our Administration's economic growth agenda has two prongs:
First, we want to promote growth and opportunity for all
Americans. Our economic growth package is one that creates the
right climate for business to flourish. We want to bring down
the tax on capital gains -- so that investors will risk money on
4
new businesses, new ideas and new jobs. We want to bring down
the deficit -- by holding the line on Congressional spending.
The federal deficit wasn't caused by people not paying enough
taxes, it was caused by Congress spending too much money. //
Republicans also stand for free and fair trade, because we
want to remain a world leader in the global economy, and because
we want to open the world to American products. In the last four
years alone, exports from the U.S. have increased 55 percent,
more than twice the rate of import growth. Right now, our
economy is export-led -- and we want to continue free trade
policies to create growth, opportunity and prosperity for all
Americans.
That's where the second prong of our strategy comes in: we
must cut the red-tape and regulations that are threatening
American businesses. Last year, excessive regulations cost the
economy at least 185 billion dollars. We're doing something
about it -- the Vice President's Council on Competitiveness has
targeted burdensome regulations, ones that strangle productivity
and defy logic. We've got to cut through the tangle of red tape,
and clear a path for growth.
You don't promote growth by taxing working people into the
poorhouse. You don't promote growth by spending beyond your
means. And you don't promote growth by binding the economy with
bundles of red tape. We want to create jobs and opportunity for
all Americans. We want to unleash the power of the American
5
imagination. If you want that -- if you want common sense
government -- vote Republican.
Speaking of Common Sense, most people know the famous words
of Thomas Paine: "These are the times that try men's souls." But
most people don't know that Thomas Paine -- true story -- wrote
those words while in New Jersey, during a revolution fought over
taxation. These times, too, try mens' souls -- and just like
last time, the right side will win this revolution. //
This year the people will send a message to the tax-and-
spend Democrats. This year will make New Jersey history. This
year New Jersey will go Republican. ///
The people of this state deserve a break from high taxes and
low government performance. They deserve leadership, // fairness
11 and common sense. They deserve a Republican State Assembly
and a Republican State Senate. //
Keep up the good fight. Thank you so much for having me
here today. God bless each and every one of you.
# # #
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK, NY
DAILY
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Tom Kean
WEDNESDAY
PRESIDENT, DREW UNIVERSITY
SEP 25 1991
MICHAEL JOHNS
Special Assistant
NEW JERSEY CLIPPING SERVICE
201-408-3209
Fax 201-408-3080
Madison, N.J. 07940-0277
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eloo
Bush Forecasts
P.O. Box 277
G.O.P. Victory
In Trenton Fight
'Common Sense' Theme
of President's Speech
7986
By WAYNE KING
Special to The New York Times
Jersey
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 24 -
President Bush came to New Jersey
tonight and raised $800,000 for Republi-
can legislative candidates, who he pre-
dicted would take control of the State
Legislature in November.
"After talking to Republican leaders
and reading about what is happening in
the state," the President said to about
1,000 Republicans at a fund-raising din-
ner at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel
here, "I believe the Republicans will
take both the Assembly and the Senate
in the fall.'
Although it was a political speech,
the President never mentioned state
tax increases engineered by the Demo-
crats and the Governor, nor did he
mention Gov. Jim Florio by name.
The only reference in his address
was oblique, when Mr. Bush said,
"Frankly, I wish Tom Kean was still
governor of this state.
Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
Florio Goes Unmentioned
President Bush at a Republican fund-raising dinner last night in New Brunswick, N.J. Applauding were
Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, who
Garabed Haytaian, center, the Assembly minority leader, and Gov. Michael N. Castle of Delaware.
sat at the head table and introduced the
President, thanked Mr. Bush for cam-
said that doing so would increase the
unemployment was to "pass the capi-
Democrats that we have no domestic
paigning on his behalf in 1980, but he
national debt.
tal gains differential," an income-tax
agenda," Mr. Bush said, adding that
also did not mention Governor Florio.
The President is reluctant to tap into
revision that would allow greater tax
"our national drug policy is working,"
The President's speech came
against a favorable political back-
the $8 billion Unemployment Trust
deductions for investment income.
and "our crime package is the most
ground, in which Mr. Bush has few
Fund, although many Republicans in
That, he said, would spur industrial and
comprehensive in American history."
Congress favor using the fund for a 10-
research growth that would ultimately
He suggested several times that vot-
problems save a stuttering economy
week extension of benefits for those
lead to job creation.
ing for Republicans would "bring com-
and rising unemployment.
whose payments are running out. Dem-
mon sense back to government" in
Mr. Bush alluded to the jobless when
He also chided Democrats for at-
ocrats want 10 or more weeks.
New Jersey and the nation, a hint that
he said that Democrats wanted to ex-
tacking his domestic program.
tend unemployment benefits. But he
Mr. Bush said the best way to attack
"common sense" could be a Republi-
"I'm a little tired of hearing from
can theme in elections this fall.
Bush sees N.J. tide turning
By David Blomquist
Chief Political Writer
FRONTPAGE
Predicts shift
New Jersey really will appreciate
that GOP stands for growth, op-
EAST BRUNSWICK - A con-
portunity, and prosperity, espe-
fident President Bush said Tues-
back to GOP
cially after the last few years.
day that he believes New Jersey
From my vantage point I
think
has had enough of government by
"New Jerseyans are mainstream
it looks a little shaky for the
Democrats and is going to cast its
voters, and I can tell you Republi-
Democrats," Bush said to hearty
lot with the "common sense" of
cans define the mainstream in this
laughter.
Republicans this fall.
state. believe Republicans will
The $600- to $1,000-a-plate
Speaking at the first state Re-
take back the Assembly and the
fund-raiser at the Ramada Renais-
publican fund-raiser of the season,
Senate in the fall," he said, draw-
sance was expected to raise be-
Bush never mentioned Governor
ing rousing cheers from the 1,000
tween $1 million and $1.1 million,
Florio by name but made it clear in
party supporters in attendance.
said Jeffrey Michaels, state Re-
his 19-minute address that he
"It's time to bring New Jersey
publican Committee executive di-
thinks Florio has taken New Jer-
back to the common-sense policies
rector. The $700,000 profit from
sey down an errant path.
of the Republican Party. I believe
See GOP Page A-12
JOHN DECKER/THE RECORD
President Bush spoke glowingly about former Gov. Thomas H. Kean at a GOP fund-raiser Tuesday evening.
GOP: Bush stumps in N.J.
From Page A-1
Greek cruise liner on how to aban-
the dinner will help finance Re-
I believe
don ship."
publican candidates in key legisla-
He was referring the captain of
Republicans will
the Oceanos, a vessel that sank off
tive races this fall. All 120 seats in
the Assembly and the Senate are
South Africa on Aug. 4. Passen-
take back the
up for election Nov. 5.
gers complained the captain left
"This is an extremely big lift for
Assembly and the
the ship while they remained
our campaign," said Assembly Mi-
aboard; he said he went to super-
Senate in the
nority Leader Chuck Haytaian, R-
vise rescue operations.
Warren. "Without a President
fall.
"
Several hundred college stu-
Bush, it would be very difficult to
dents cheered Bush's motorcade
raise the money we are raising."
after his helicopter landed on the
The Democrats will be in the
President Bush
Douglass College campus of
same ballroom at the same hotel
Rutgers University before the din-
on Thursday for their major fund-
said: "I'm a little tired of hearing
ner.
raiser of the campaign - the Gov-
the Democrats say we have no do-
Meanwhile, a panoply of groups,
ernor's Gala. That's expected to
mestic agenda. It's that their do-
gathered across Route 18 from the
raise $1.5 million for Democratic
mestic agenda is to crush our do-
hotel, protested the president's
legislative candidates.
mestic agenda."
visit. Among them were women's
Bush's visit to New Jersey came
Although he has not officially
groups, members of the anti-tax
at the end of his two-day trip to
announced that he will run for re-
group Hands Across New Jersey,
New York for the opening of the
election, he left little doubt that
and environmentalists unhappy
United Nations session. State Re-
he's raring to go for 1992.
with the president's stand on wet-
publicans paid the cost of his
"If you get the feeling I like my
lands.
transportation and his security
job, you're right. There's never
Bush recently said his adminis-
hile he was in the state.
been a better time to be president
tration would consider changing
In his highly focused political
of the United States. Now, give me
the federal definition of a protect-
eech, the president made no ref-
that kind of philosophical support
ed wetland, potentially clearing
ence to the release of British
in Trenton, and I'll be happier
the way for the development of
hostage Jack Mann or to the Unit-
still."
millions of acres.
ed States' intention to send nearly
The president, accompanied by
Donna Puluka, president of the
100 Patriot missiles and 1,300
his wife, Barbara, and Treasury
New Jersey chapter of the Nation-
troops to Saudi Arabia to ease that
Secretary Nicholas F. Brady, a Far
al Organization for Women, said
nation's worries over growing ten-
Hills resident, was introduced by
the group was there to protest
sions in the Persian Gulf region.
former Gov, Thomas H. Kean as
Bush's "gag rule," under which
Bush checked off - in bullet
diners supped on chicken in char-
federally funded clinics are barred
fashion - a list of what he sees as
donnay sauce.
from discussing the option of
his accomplishments on the do-
Bush's speech was filled with
abortion.
mestic front: making home owner-
nostalgia for the days when Kean
Members of Hands Across New
ship available for the less affluent;
was governor. "Frankly, I wish
Jersey held signs reading, "Bush-
reducing drug abuse; increasing
Tom Kean was still governor of
Florio no more taxes" and "Dump
the access of public buildings to
this state," Bush said.
the incumbents."
the disabled.
In an oblique slap at the Florio
Foreshadowing a likely 1992
administration, the president
RECORD
presidential campaign issue, he
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really does stand for growth
He left immediately after
fund-raiser for the Nov. 5 legis-
By Fred Pieretti
opportunity and prosperity, es-
his speech, and reporters did
lative elections.
Associated Press writer
pecially after the last few
not have an opportunity to
The president, accom-
years, Bush said 'I think it
question him.
panied by his wife Barbara,
EAST BRUNSWICK
looks a little shaky for the Dem
Bush defended his domestic
and Treasury Secretary
Declaring that it's 'time to
ocrats.
policy, calling Democratic leg-
Nicholas Brady, of Far Hills,
bring common-sense govern-
"The Democrats in Trenton
ment back to Trenton," Presi-
islation on unemployment ben-
N.J. was introduced by former
were calling the captain of that
dent Bush told a roaring crowd
efits "garbage. Bush has
Gov. Thomas H. Kean at the
Greek cruise liner on how to
threatened to veto a Senate bill
$600-to $1, 000-a-plate dinner.
of 1,000 Republicans that the
abandon ship," Bush said, ref-
passed yesterday extending
Under Kean, New Jersey
GOP would win majorities in
erring the captain of the
jobless benefits for 20 weeks,
was an 'economic power-
the state Senate and Assembly
Oceanos that sank off South Af
in the November election
instead endorsing a Republi-
house," Bush said The presi-
rica Aug. 4. Passengers com-
dent said with a return to Re-
"New Jerseyans are mains-
plained he left the ship while
can plan offering 10 weeks.
"I'm a little tired of the
publican leadership, the state
tream voters," he said. 'Repub-
they remained aboard; he said
can be revived.
licans define the mainstream
Democrats saying we have no
he did SO to supervise rescue
Bush's visit brings a focus
of this state New Jersey has
operations.
domestic agenda. The problem
to a statewide campaign," said
voted for the Republican nomi-
The president made no di-
is their domestic agenda is to
GOP State Chairman Bob
nee in every presidential elec-
rect reference to the detention
crush our domestic agenda,
Franks
tion starting in 1968.
of 44 U.N. officials in Baghdad
Bush said.
The issues are taxes, taxes
Bush criticized the Demo-
yesterday who are being ac-
The crowd rose several
and taxes."
at-controlled Statehouse and
cused by Iraq of being spies af
times during his 15 minute
Franks said the money
Legislature in New Jersey, and
ter the inspectors copied docu-
speech, which party officials
raised was crucial for the GOP
said their tax policies have dis-
ments they said gave a good
said reaped about $1 million
to remain financially compet-
couraged business investment
picture of Iraq's attempt to de-
for the New Jersey State Re- itive with the well-funded
In New Jersey the GOP
velop nuclear warheads.
publican Committee's major Democrats.
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1,000 Greek Cypriots forced their way into
to resolve the Cyprus dispute.
people to train
the U.N.-controlled buffer zone at Ayios
Finally, I am pleased to inform you that
with Sam Donal
Kassianos, in part by ramming a bus
in June Nelson C. Ledsky was appointed
ter] And as for
through a U.N. fence. The UNFICYP ulti-
Special Cyprus Coordinator. Unlike his
chairman-our
mately was able to contain most of the
predecessor, M. James Wilkinson, who
well, and all y
demonstrators. Before all could be con-
served with distinction in that position since
are with us toda
tained, however, Turkish Cypriot security
1986, Mr. Ledsky will devote all his time to
did to help our
forces arrived on the scene and arrested
Cyprus. Mr. Ledsky is a career Foreign
what I know yo
some 100 persons. Those arrested were
Service Officer whose most recent assign-
Jim Courter is 0
held in custody by Turkish Cypriot authori-
ment was as Special Assistant to the Presi-
Let me again
ties and were released several days later.
dent for National Security Affairs and
am to be with y
The apparent unwillingness of Greek Cypri-
Senior Director for European and Soviet Af-
and I are just
ot police to stop the demonstrators from
fairs at the National Security Council.
for a short peri
entering the buffer zone and the Turkish
back in a State
Mr. Ledsky's appointment underlines our
Cypriot security authorities' arrest of some
continued commitment to the search for a
Prosperity" and
of them were both factors detrimental to
has had a Gove
Cyprus settlement. He met with the Secre-
intercommunal relations and the ongoing
tary General and the leaders of the two
and prosperity.
efforts to reach a settlement on the island.
communities on the margins of their June
phrase: Under
From the outset of the disturbances, the
28-29 meetings in New York. During early
perity have bee
United States worked actively in support of
It's a pleasure
August, Mr. Ledsky consulted key authori-
U.N. efforts to defuse the situation and to
was very kind
ties in Ankara, Athens, Nicosia, and
restore the status quo ante. We urged all
Republican tick
London. He urged that all support fully the
concerned to act with restraint and to re-
didate, its idea
U.N.'s efforts to continue the intercom-
spond to U.N. appeals for the immediate
those of you V
munal talks, and, to that end, he has
release of those detained. We also stressed
who toil so lon
worked directly with the staff of the Secre-
the need for both communities to cooperate
level-the cow
tary General during the first part of Sep-
with the United Nations in preventing the
workers, and e
tember in an effort to reschedule the talks.
entry of unauthorized persons into the
organized, and
Sincerely,
buffer zone.
for Jim come N
In my meetings and conversations with
GEORGE BUSH
I've come to
then-Greek Prime Minister Papandreou,
say thank you 1
Turkish President Evren and Prime Minis-
Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas
tant reason. Ai
ter Ozal, and Cypriot President Vassiliou, I
S. Foley, Speaker of the House of Represent-
party to the es:
have stressed our continued commitment to
atives, and Claiborne Pell, chairman of the
Jersey's electio:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
cial in Americ
support the efforts of the Secretary General
whether New
began 8 years {
thing by return
New Jersey ha
Remarks at a Republican Fundraising Luncheon in East Brunswick,
needs to win tl
New Jersey
whether it rev
that blame eve
September 22, 1989
this election
Jersey continue
Thank you, Governor and Mrs. Kean and
"winnability" of this very, very important
ship which bal
Congressman and Mrs. Courter-soon-to-be
race that's going to be in the national spot-
sound ecology
Governor Courter-and other superb Mem-
light.
Tom Kean shc
bers of the congressional delegation. I hope
I'm delighted to see Bo Sullivan, to whom
the country as
they were introduced. But they're all
I'm indebted for heading my campaign ear-
ship says no t
friends-Dean Gallo and Marge Roukema
lier, and Larry Bathgate, who continues to
tending the p
and Chris Smith, Mattie Rinaldo, Jim
amaze me. He takes on the Nation and
And that's wh
Saxton. Delighted to be with them. We
always never forgets his roots and remem-
what it's going
rode up together on Air Force One, and
bers the State of New Jersey. Bo, tough and
portant, and i
they got me all fired up about Jim and the
strong; Larry, persistent, dedicated-ideal
make a predi
1236
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Sept. 22
oute.
people to train me for going head on head
Jersey will make the right decision, and Jim
o inform you that
with Sam Donaldson [ABC News]. [Laugh-
Courter will be our next Governor. They do
ky was appointed
ter] And as for Kathy Donovan, our new
not want to go back to the past.
nator. Unlike his
chairman-our State chairman, I wish her
And that means a vote for Republicans
Wilkinson, who
well, and all you Republican leaders that
running for the general assembly-we have
that position since
are with us today. Thank you for what you
many of them here today, Republicans who
vote all his time to
did to help our ticket carry this State and
will help ensure fair redistricting in the
a career Foreign
what I know you will do to guarantee that
1990's-and a vote for Republicans running
lost recent assign-
Jim Courter is our next Governor.
at the local and county level as well. It
stant to the Presi-
Let me again tell you, Jim, how pleased I
means a vote for candidates who will take a
urity Affairs and
am to be with you and your family. Barbara
tough approach to the criminal elements,
ean and Soviet Af-
and I are just delighted to be here, albeit
and perhaps most of all, it means a vote for
ity Council.
for a short period of time. It's good to be
the man who can move your State into the
ent underlines our
back in a State whose motto is "Liberty and
coming decades stronger than ever. And of
o the search for a
Prosperity" and which in the last 8 years
course, that is your next Governor, Jim
et with the Secre-
has had a Governor devoted to both liberty
Courter.
eaders of the two
and prosperity. And if I could borrow a
Jim's a long-time-[applause]-he's a
gins of their June
phrase: Under Tom Kean, liberty and pros-
long-time friend, and I wanted to come up
York. During early
perity have been perfect together.
here and on a very personal basis support
ulted key authori-
It's a pleasure to return to this State that
ns, Nicosia, and
was very kind to me in 1988 to salute our
him and the great party that's behind him
and tell you of the high regard that we
Il support fully the
Republican ticket across the board-its can-
didate, its ideas, its visions-and especially
Bushes have for the Courters. I know you
ue the intercom-
those of you whom I recognize out here
wanted to hear a few words from a promi-
hat end, he has
who toil so long and hard at the grassroots
nent national figure who can really fire up
staff of the Secre-
level-the county chairman, the precinct
a crowd and generate some excitement. Un-
first part of Sep-
schedule the talks.
workers, and everybody else. This State is
fortunately, Schwarzenegger had to go back
organized, and that is going to be very good
to Los Angeles, so they sent me. [Laughter]
for Jim come November.
Look, I am delighted, and believe me,
I've come to East Brunswick not just to
too, when I say that the entire Republican
GEORGE BUSH
say thank you but for an even more impor-
ticket can help keep New Jersey proud, as
re sent to Thomas
tant reason. And this reason goes beyond
the banner says. I believe that. How? By
louse of Represent-
party to the essence of this campaign. New
keeping a Republican Governor and a Re-
11, chairman of the
Jersey's elections are among the most cru-
publican general assembly-by keeping
cial in America. This election will decide
New Jersey Republican.
Committee.
whether New Jersey builds on what you
Let me quote one of New Jersey's favor-
began 8 years ago or whether it risks every-
ite adopted sons, the noted philosopher,
thing by returning to the past, and whether
Montclair's Yogi Berra. Once Yogi ruminat-
st Brunswick,
New Jersey has the inspired leadership it
ed, "You observe a lot by just watching."
needs to win the war on drugs and crime or
[Laughter] Well, we've observed a lot by
whether it reverts to failed social policies
watching the New Jersey Republicans over
that blame everyone but the criminal. And
the years, and we've seen you fight-Tom
this election will decide whether New
Kean at the forefront-to clean up our envi-
Jersey continues to have the kind of leader-
ronment, to clean up our schools. We've
y, very important
ship which balances a sound economy and a
seen you fight the scourge of drugs and
the national spot-
sound ecology-and it can be done, and
crime. We've seen you create-what did
Tom Kean shows me that I can do that for
Tom say, three-quarters of a million new
Sullivan, to whom
the country as well-or whether its leader-
jobs in the last 8 years-three-quarters of a
my campaign ear-
ship says no to higher taxes and yes to ex-
million new jobs. And school test scores
who continues to
tending the prosperity of the last 8 years.
going up twice the national rate. And we've
the Nation and
And that's what this election is about; that's
seen you oppose those liberal Democrats
roots and remem-
what it's going to decide. And it's that im-
who cherish new taxes like moths drawn to
sey. Bo, tough and
portant, and it's that clear-cut. And today I
some kind of a candle. [Laughter]
dedicated-ideal
make a prediction: This November, New
And these Republican positions embody
1237
Sept. 22 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
the new New Jersey. Old values-the values
enterprise zones. The new New Jersey, a
begins, through edu
are there, but it's new thinking and will
Republican New Jersey, knows that the dec-
from grade school to
reinforce the progress of the last 8 years-8
ade's tax cuts help make prosperity a reali-
Republicans like
years of enlightened leadership, Republican
ty. For the more money people have to
fight drugs on any
leadership.
spend, the more that they themselves can
facing new problem
And yet Republicans know that a record
do to help create jobs and growth and
ting emphasis wher
is something not to stand upon but to build
progress. And that is the new New Jersey.
the community leve
on. And our party's leadership into the
And the old New Jersey was: If one tax
decide the future of
nineties will reaffirm the renaissance that
didn't work, try another one. And in fact,
a Republican Gove
makes New Jersey's success story worth re-
the old New Jersey reminds me of a story
general assembly, t
telling.
about Mark Twain. In later life, Mark Twain
clude not just a W
First, a word about the environment, for
suffered from arthritis. And whenever the
crusade against all c
here, as elsewhere, Republicans have
papers reported that he'd had another
er laws, giving our 1
helped build the new New Jersey. Republi-
attack, strangers would send him home-
more resources, dec
cans have pushed legislation to ban ocean
made remedies to spur his recovery. Well,
the con artists and t
dumping, made New Jersey a leader in re-
Twain had a standard reply: "Dear sir, I try
And I would lik
cycling, launched the most aggressive toxic
every remedy sent to me. I am now on
Courter elected to
waste cleanup program in America. And I
number 87. Yours is 2,653. I am looking
wants to do in crim
can tell you, as we formulated a new na-
forward to its beneficial results." [Laughter]
the United States I
tional program to strengthen the environ-
Fellow Republicans, all those remedies
on my crime pack
ment, we turned to Governor Tom Kean, to
didn't cause Mark Twain's recovery, and all
guishing there in th
the record in this State, to show us the way.
of months now. It is
the Democrat taxes didn't cause New Jer-
And I am determined to do for this country,
action, just as it is h
with the help of the Congress, what Tom
sey's recovery. The new New Jersey knows
Tom talked abo
Kean has done and is doing, what Jim Cour-
that, and the old New Jersey doesn't know
little. It's a good (
ter will do for the environment in the State
it. And I regret to report to you: Many of
Peace Corps volur
the Democrats in the United States don't-
of New Jersey. We are in this together. And
poor; lawyer; authc
New Jersey has led the way nationally, and
Congress-don't know that either. And I'm
man; moral man; a
I am very, very grateful.
going to have to help teach them that, and
spected by his coll
Next, education-for here, too, Republi-
I'm going to stay with what I told the
you can trust. And
cans have moved forward, not backward. In
American electorate that I'm going to do.
on the environmer
1983 Tom Kean unveiled a great idea
We've touched on the environment and
some. As Congress:
called alternative certification, a concept al-
education and taxes, but nowhere is that
and recover our na
lowing talented Americans to teach in the
division really more clear-the new New
ernor, he's going tc
classroom. Today alternative certification is
Jersey and the old-than in the area of
I believe we ought
a flagship of the Federal plan that we intro-
crime, drugs, and punishment. Republicans
prison, and I know
duced earlier this year. Tom Kean has,
believe that when asked what kind of socie-
education-he's be
indeed, been the "education Governor,"
ty Americans deserve our answer must be a
this concept of alte
and Republicans, led by Jim Courter, can
nation in which people are safe and feel
Or taxes-I've ne
keep academic excellence a New Jersey
safe. And that's why we want to change the
yet to the White H
byword. And we have to have a Governor
rules of the game dramatically-new solu-
taxes. [Laughter]
in this State who is going to continue to
tions for a new New Jersey.
expect he's going t
build on that record of educational excel-
For instance, we are strong advocates of
He wants to cut
lence. It is important to our nation as well
America's first national comprehensive
will be able to spe
as to your State.
strategy to end drug use, which I an-
that he is suppor
I noticed that Jim Courter gently touched
nounced earlier this month. Republicans
gains cut. Let the
on the next subject: taxes. And here the
want tougher enforcement-more prisons,
for the rich. It is
difference between the old and new New
more courts, more prosecutors, and tougher
going to help cre:
Jerseys is especially clear. The new New
sentences. Many like Jim Courter have
that's why I am g
Jersey knows that creating opportunity can
spent ages, years, hours long in the Con-
for it.
help meet the needs of distressed locales
gress demanding them. And you know
And on the 0
from Camden to Paterson. And in particu-
where drug dealers belong. Republicans
record is clear. He
lar, let me salute this State's magnificent
say: in jail. You back more interdiction and
to coordinate law
support-leadership, if you will-for urban
treatment and our plan to stop use before it
volved the milita
1238
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Sept. 22
e new New Jersey, a
begins, through education and prevention,
magnificent record in combating crime. He
ey, knows that the dec-
from grade school to graduate school.
served as the first assistant prosecutor in his
nake prosperity a reali-
Republicans like Jim Courter want to
home county of Warren, and he's seen the
nóney people have to
fight drugs on any and every front, and
drug peddlers and users first-hand. And he
it they themselves can
facing new problems in a new way by put-
knows the terrible toll that's caused by
jobs and growth and
ting emphasis where the crisis is-right at
crime. And that's why he wants mandatory
; the new New Jersey.
the community level. The communities will
time for firearms offenses, and I support
Jersey was: If one tax
decide the future of New Jersey. And with
him in that. No deals-no deals with those
ther one. And in fact,
a Republican Governor and a Republican
criminals that use a gun. And unlike his
reminds me of a story
general assembly, that future will also in-
opponent, he wants to amend New Jersey's
1 later life, Mark Twain
clude not just a war against drugs but a
Constitution so that the death penalty on
tis. And whenever the
crusade against all crime: supporting tough-
the books will be strengthened and en-
at he'd had another
er laws, giving our law enforcement officers
forced and, as he said, become a much
ould send him home-
more resources, declaring open warfare on
clearer deterrent for those that go out and
pur his recovery. Well,
the con artists and the hoods.
kill our police officers and others-and the
d reply: "Dear sir, I try
And I would like to see not only Jim
narcotic traffickers and all of that, those
to me. I am now on
Courter elected to do what he has said he
narcotic traffickers.
is 2,653. I am looking
wants to do in crime but I would like to see
Let me ask you a question. You make the
cial results." [Laughter]
the United States Congress move forward
ns, all those remedies
on my crime package that has been lan-
choice. Do you want a Democratic Gover-
nor and a Democratic general assembly
wain's recovery, and all
guishing there in the Congress for a couple
of months now. It is time in Washington for
who thinks that New Jersey's death penalty
didn't cause New Jer-
action, just as it is here in New Jersey.
law is fine as it is? Or do you want a Repub-
new New Jersey knows
Tom talked about Jim's background a
lican Governor and a Republican general
ew Jersey doesn't know
report to you: Many of
little. It's a good one. It's a caring one-
assembly who says that murderers and drug
e United States don't-
Peace Corps volunteer; legal aid to the
kingpins and cop killers should get exactly
w that either. And I'm
poor; lawyer; author; prosecutor; Congress-
what they deserve? I believe that's what
the people want-that last alternative.
:p teach them that, and
man; moral man; a family man; a man re-
with what I told the
spected by his colleagues-in sum, a man
And so, the failed policies, in sum, of the
that I'm going to do.
you can trust. And look next at his record
1970's just aren't good enough-not for
on the environment. I talked about Tom's
New Jersey, not for the United States of
1 the environment and
some. As Congressman, he's helped renew
America. They're not good enough to tackle
s, but nowhere is that
and recover our national heritage. As Gov-
drugs or crime, or to protect the environ-
e clear-the new New
ernor, he's going to go after those polluters.
ment, or do better as a nation in education.
-than in the area of
I believe we ought to put the polluters in
They're not good enough for our kids be-
unishment. Republicans
prison, and I know Jim agrees with that. Or
cause they won't keep New Jersey proud.
ked what kind of socie-
education-he's been a vocal advocate of
And Tom Kean knows that. And that's
e our answer must be a
this concept of alternative certification.
why he's becoming president of Drew Uni-
ople are safe and feel
Or taxes-I've never had him come down
versity and why he's heading the advisory
we want to change the
yet to the White House and say, please raise
committee of the Points of Light Initiative
Iramatically-new solu-
taxes. [Laughter] Hasn't done it. Don't
Foundation: to bring community service to
Jersey.
expect he's going to do it here in this State.
every corner of America. And I think Jim
are strong advocates of
He wants to cut the taxes so that people
Courter knows that, too. He shares Tom's
tional comprehensive
will be able to spend more. And I'm proud
commitment and my commitment to this
rug use, which I an-
that he is supporting me on this capital
Points of Light concept. From now on in
is month. Republicans
gains cut. Let the Democrats say it's a tax
America, you shouldn't have definition of a
cement-more prisons,
for the rich. It is a tax adjustment that is
successful life that doesn't include one
rosecutors, and tougher
going to help create jobs in America, and
American helping another, service to one's
ke Jim Courter have
that's why I am going to continue to fight
own fellow man.
ours long in the Con-
for it.
Jim knows what's on New Jersey's mind
hem. And you know
And on the opposition to drugs, his
and in its heart. And his goal is to use that
S belong. Republicans
record is clear. He's strongly supported bills
heart to build a better life for all. And I
: more interdiction and
to coordinate law enforcement efforts, in-
guess the sum is: Do you think that we can
lan to stop use before it
volved the military in combating drugs-
achieve the goal? I believe we can, both
1239
Sept. 22 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
here and across our country.
our sleeves, keep New Jersey proud by
whenever you m:
There's a change taking place in America.
keeping it Republican, and together help
somebody somepla
I'm optimistic about this doing something,
our outstanding Jim Courter and a new Re-
Q. They say they
making a real imprint across the country on
publican general assembly preserve and
The President. A
eliminating the scourge of drugs. How can
strengthen the new New Jersey.
came right in front
we do it? First, here-you get down to the
Thank you for what you're doing. Redou-
I don't understand
political level. We can do it through a uni-
ble your efforts. And God bless you all.
body got some adv
fied Republican Party working together to
guy?
support our entire ticket and through the
Note: The President spoke at 1:18 p.m. in
Q. They say the
old values and new thinking embodied in
the Grand Ballroom at the Ramada Renais-
your speech, sir, n
Jim's campaign.
The future versus the past, policies that
sance Hotel. In his opening remarks, he re-
time; that they (
ferred to Bo Sullivan, chairman of the 1988
prophecy in your S
work versus policies that don't, a better
future for our children or one of lost oppor-
New Jersey Bush-Quayle campaign, and
The President.
Lawrence E. Bathgate II, finance chairman
arrested, or buste
tunity-and, yes, there's a lot at stake. And
House. Doesn't m:
let me remind you election day is only 46
of the Republican National Committee. Fol-
lowing his remarks, he traveled to Maine.
got there. It will
days away. So, let's raise our sights, roll up
unfortunately, but
doesn't. We're try
borhoods, includi
free of drugs. And
Informal Exchange With Reporters in Wells, Maine
people want.
September 22, 1989
Q. The question
happened if you
That's the point.
Q. Mr. President, what do you have to say
Q. Said that there is usually no problem
The President.
about the drug bust the DEA [Drug En-
with that there and that they had to bring
sold drugs in frc
forcement Administration] engineered for
the man there in order to buy the material
Q. They say tha
your prop in the drug speech?
from him.
Q. Lafayette ]
The President. I think it was great be-
The President. Yes, but the man went
little marijuana f1
cause it sent a message to the United States
there and sold drugs in front of the White
ing to the Park P
that even across from the White House they
House, didn't he? That was the bottom line.
The President.
can sell drugs. And so, I don't know all the
That's what the man did. And he was ar-
of it is: A man V
details of it, but I think it sends a powerful
rested for it and-I hope he's arrested for
White House. AI
message to the American people. It was a
it-I don't know. See, I can't feel sorry for
him. I'm sorry. 7
legitimate drug bust, and I think to have
this fellow.
dling these insic
that happen in the shadow of the-
Q. I don't think that's what the question
children of this
Q. But was it a legitimate claim, sir? They
is about.
where it is-I'm
had to lure him there. How legitimate was
The President. Well, what is the question
everybody else i
your claim that—
about?
renewed vigor.
The President. Every time that some guy
gets caught selling drugs, he pleads that
Q. I think the question seems to be more
somebody is luring him someplace.
one of were the American people manipu-
Q. The Park Police said they had to bring
lated into thinking a condition existed that
him there, Mr. President.
didn't really?
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criminal element. They say: Somebody is
didn't really? The guy was arrested, or
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setting me up; I shouldn't have been doing
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White House. It didn't exist? It didn't
off. I want to crack down on-that's my
happen?
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answer to the question.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 24, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
BOB SIMON Po
SUBJECT:
N.J.
During Tom Kean's term as governor, from Jan. 1982 to Jan. 1990,
New Jersey gained 556,000 jobs. Since then, New Jersey has lost
62,000 jobs. (Florio blames this on the "Bush recession.")
(Figures from BLS) Note that on Kean's bio, it says he created
750,000 jobs. I can't account for the discrepancy.
Also attached is an bio/accomplishments list from Gov. Kean's
office and the front page of today's NY Post.
See also the article about VP Bush's appearance in Union, NJ for
the GOP on Sept. 23, 1981 -- almost exactly ten years ago. He
later stumped the state with Kean closer to election day.
(Kean's 1981 opponent: Florio)
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THE HONORABLE THOMAS H. KEAN
President, Drew University
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-1990
"Here at Drew we have an opportunity to show the way. Here at Drew we must
to create a community where learning is not confined to the classroom. sexism,
strive dissent from the norm must not only be tolerated but embraced. Here
Here racism or homophobia must be denounced, for their existence denies the very
essence of the university."
With this promise to bring his "politics of inclusion" to the groves of academe, former
New Jersey Governor Tom Kean took office on April 20, 1990 as the 10th president of
Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Kean heads a 2,200-student independent
university comprising a College of Liberal Arts, a Graduate School, and a Theological
School, historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Born April 21, 1935 in New York City, Kean graduated from Princeton in 1957 and
earned a Master's from Columbia University Teachers College in 1964. After teaching high
school history in Massachusetts for several years, be won election to the New Jersey
Assembly in 1967. Thus began a two-decade career in New Jersey politics, including ten
years in the New Jersey Assembly (1968-78) and eight years as Governor. Kean left office
January 16, 1990 after completing his second consecutive term.
Kean, a Republican, captured office in 1981 by a mere 1,700 votes, the smallest
margin of victory ever recorded in a New Jersey governor's race. Four years later, he was
re-elected by almost 800,000 votes, the biggest gubernatorial landslide in state history.
Kean earned 60 percent of the black vote and more than two-thirds of union households.
Throughout his second term, his approval rating -- the percentage of those polled who said
he was doing a good or excellent job - remained near 75 percent.
Governor Kean's record of accomplishment suggests the approval was well-deserved.
He cut five different taxes, invested in high technology, higher education, and tourism,
started a welfare program considered the most ambitious in the nation, and poured billions
of dollars into desperately needed construction of roads and bridges. As a result, businesses
flocked to the state, 750,000 new jobs were created, and the unemployment rate dropped
from 10 percent to below 4 percent.
Meanwhile, he gained national recognition as the "Education Governor" by
promoting nearly 40 reforms to the state's public school system. Under Kean, New Jersey
became the first state to adopt "alternate routes" to teacher certification, under which
talented professionals without education degrees can teach in New Jersey schools. In 1989,
New Jersey became the first to take over urban schools that repeatedly fail students.
Governor Kean also raised teacher salaries and increased standards for students. Scores
on students' basic skills tests, as well as on the SAT, climbed steadily during his tenure.
New Jersey colleges and universities strode toward national prominence with
Governor Kean's leadership. He signed legislation granting autonomy to the state colleges,
releasing them from bureaucratic tangles in Trenton and giving each the freedom to design
programs to serve the unique needs of its students and faculty.
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Under autonomy, the state's colleges have blossomed, aided by Kean's challenge
grants to state, county, and private colleges and universities. The competitive grants required The
program. He offered significant State investment, above normal operating budgets,
each school to clearly define its mission and set bold plans to achieve its goals.
colleges responded with vigorous new approaches in areas like cooperative education,
critical thinking, and global education. These innovations, and the challenge grants program
itself, have drawn nationwide praise.
Besides Education and the Economy, Governor Kean championed a third "E" -- the
Environment. In the Assembly, he authored the bill establishing the State Department of
Environmental Protection. As Governor, he started the nation's first statewide mandatory
recycling program, set aside for preservation record numbers of acres of wetlands and open
space, and started the nation's most ambitious toxic waste cleanup effort, including a
landmark law requiring private industry to certify that land is free of toxic waste before
selling it. He chaired the National Wetlands Policy Forum in 1988 and now sits on the
board of the World Wildlife Fund/Conservation Foundation.
Governor Kean's success did not go unnoticed. He was ranked among the five most
effective governors in a 1986 Newsweek poll of the nation's governors. In January 1988,
U.S. News and World Report called him "clearly the consensus MVP of the GOP."
In 1989, President George Bush recognized Governor Kean's aggressive promotion
of volunteerism by naming him Chairman of the Points of Light Initiative Foundation
Advisory Committee. President Bush also selected Governor Kean to serve on his special
Education Advisory Committee, and in March 1990 sent Kean as his official delegate to the
World Conference on Education For All in Jomtien, Thailand. Kean now serves the Bush
administration as chairman of HUD Secretary Jack Kemp's Advisory Commission on
Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing.
Kean sits on the corporate boards of Bell Atlantic and Beneficial. He is also on the
board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities; the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation; VOLUNTEER, The National Center; and the American
Paralysis Association. Kean co-chairs the American Energy Assurance Council, whose aim
is to achieve a broad consensus among environmentalists, industry, and government on a
national energy strategy. He is also a trustee of Columbia University Teachers College.
Among other honors, Kean was named Man of the Year by the New Jersey NAACP,
received the public service award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith for
promoting Holocaust education in New Jersey, and was recognized by the Japanese-
American Citizens League for personally urging President Reagan to sign legislation
offering redress to Japanese-Americans interned during World War II. He holds honorary
degrees from more than 20 institutions, including Syracuse, Columbia, and Rutgers.
Tom Kean's autobiography, The Politics of Inclusion, was published by The Free
Press in May, 1988.
His wife is the former Deborah Bye of Wilmington, Delaware. They have twin sons,
Tom and Reed, and a daughter, Alexandra. The Keans live in Livingston, New Jersey.
GOVERNOR THOMAS H. KEAN
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Transportation
- Roads - Completion of Routes: 78, 287, 17, 295, 195,
90, 55, 18 and 24: TTF I&II, Gas Tax Dedication, Mass
Transit Investments
2. Education
- College Autonomy - Challenge Grants; Job, Education
and Competitive Bond Act; Tuition Aid Grants
- Alternate Teaching, Principal Certification
- Minimum Teacher Salary
- Literacy - Worksite Literacy
- Science and Technology - NJIT, Rutgers, Stevens, 11
Advanced Technology Centers, Technology Extension
Conters, Innovative Partnorship Program
- School Intervention - HSPT, Operation School Renewal,
10,000 Graduates/10,0 Jobs, Governor Schools
- 11th Grade HSPT
3. Urban Initiatives
- Urban Initiatives - UDC, UE2, LDFF, CRDA, Centralize
State Office in cities
- Camden - Aquarium, Transportation Center, EDA Land
Swap, State Office Building
- Enterprise Zones
- Trenton Corp. - State leases, Capital City Redevelopment
- Newark
4. Environment
- Wetlands Preservation
- Farmland Preservation - Agriculture Retention
- Hazardous Waste, ECRA, Toxic Catastrophic Prevention
- Environmental Trust
Act, Northeast Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact
- Mandatory Recycling
- 14-Point Plan, Coastal Commission
5. Government Efficiency
- Civil Service Reform
- Senior Executive Service
- Motor Vehicles - DMV Reform
- DRPA Agreement with Pennsylvania
- Worth Tax Cuts - Phase out Inheritance tax and Corporate Net
- Veterans Affairs - Elevation to Department status
- State Planning Commission
- GMIP
- Tax Amnesty
- Abolished Department of Energy
6. Economy
- Gold Coast - Infrastructure Financing Study, liberty
State Park, Marathon, Governor's Waterfront Office
- International Trade - Center for International
Business Education, Offices Overseas
- Low Unemployment, Task Force on Employment Policy,
Worksite Literacy Training, Employment and Training
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Commission, GETI
- Economic Recovery
" Foreign Business to New Jersey
- Jersey Fresh
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(- Port Authority - New Jersey Investment, Bank for
Regional Development
- Pride - NJ & YOU Perfect Together
7. Crime
- Drunk Driving Laws
- Drugs - Drug Free School Zones, Blue Print for Drug
Free NJ
- Prison Space - Bond Acts
- Juvenile Programs - Juvenile Justice Reform (1983)
- Mandatory Sentences, Crime Victims Bill of Rights,
Narcotics Task Force
8. Social
- Ethnic Groups
- Women's Appointments
- Minorities - MLK Commission, Authority for Small,
Minority and Women-owned Businesses, Educational
Opportunity Fund, Minority Academic Centers, Set-Aside
Program
- Divestment from South Africa
9. Health & Human Resources
- REACH, Medically Needy, Garden State Health Plan,
Health Start
- Child Care in State Government - Employer Supported
Child Care, Children's Trust Fund, Child Abuse and
Neglect Task Force
- Volunteers, Senior Citizen Volunteer Service Credit
Card Exchange
- Public Guardian and Ombudsman
- Housing - JUMPP, Housing Advocacy, COAH, RCA's, Urban
Housing Partnership, Neighborhood Preservation /
Balanced Housing, Homeless Prevention
- Health Care - DRG's, Health Start, Community Mental
Health, AIDS Education, School-based Youth Services,
Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, Medically Needy, Bond
Issues for hospitals and Institutions
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September 23, 1981, Wednesday, AM cycle
SECTION: Regional News
almost 10 years to the
DISTRIBUTION: New York Metro, New York Metro
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LENGTH: 400 words
BYLINE: By JONATHAN LANDAY
Bush stumped for
DATELINE:
UNION, N.J.
Kean near election
KEYWORD: Campaign
day
BODY:
Vice President George Bush sounded a call for change Wednesday in the
kick-off of the State Republican Committee's efforts to boost the campaign of
its legislative candiates.
Bush visited Kean College to address 1,000 Republicans, marking the
beginning of 'Commitment '81. All 40 Senate seats and 80 Assembly posts -- in
addition to the governor's office -- are up for grabs this year.
Bush said the Nov. 3 elections ''are national. They are not simply a race in
this great state.'
He was flanked by GOP gubernatorial candidate Thomas Kean, federal Labor
Secretary Raymond Donovan, state Republican Chairman Philip Kaltenbacher and
Rep. Matthew Rinaldo, R-N.J.
In addition, most of the GOP legislative candidates joined Bush and state
GOP leaders on the stage.
Bush said Republican victories would ''demonstrate to the nation that the
new ideas WE are suggesting are sound are sensible.
'We are going to reduce the taxes, we are going to reduce regulation and we
are going to reduce spending on a national level and on a state level, he
said.
Bush, referring to the GOP gubernatorial nominee's business tax cut plan,
added that Kean has ''an innovative job-oriented program.'
The vice president said New Jersey needs a change from the policies of the
Democratic-controlled Legislature and governorship. He said Democrats have not
offered constructive economic proposals of their own.
Bush called the state GOP's $1.7 million 'Commitment '81'' drive ''a
commitment to change, a commitment to opportunity, a commitment to jobs.'
The money -- from state and national GOP sources -- is being used for
campaign advertisements and related items to get voters to, as the ads say,
''Vote Republican for a Change.'
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The two-week-old drive is targeted at New Jersey's large block of
independent voters whose support is crucial in the race and who are being
reached through volunteers going door-to-door and making telephone calls.
Before Bush's appearance, Kean also sounded the theme for change, urging
voters not to cling ''to the tired old molds that haven't worked year after year
after year.
Bush was greeted at the college by about 200 students, many of whom carried
posters in support of Kean's rival, Rep. James J. Florio, D-N.J. Other students
carried signs protesting government involvement in E1 Salvador and support for
the apartheid government in South Africa.
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SDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1991 / Partly sunny, high 70s today; rain likely, upper 60s tonight / Details, Page 2
Double trouble
for Donald Trump
SOME
GUYS
HAVE
ALL
THE
FUN!
New York Post: Kevin Cohen
Marla Maples was looking sharp
(right) on Broadway yesterday but
it seems that Donald now has his
eye on model Kim Alley, at left yes-
terday in the East Village: More on
New York Post, Paul Adao
Trump's dilemma on Page 5.
Grant / Simon
September 20, 1991
A: NJGOP Draft four
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW JERSEY GOP FUNDRAISER
EAST BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1991
6:45 P.M.
Thank you, Tom Kean, and Debbie, for welcoming me to New
Jersey. I want to thank Gov. Mike Castle for making the trip up
from Delaware. I'm glad to have our outstanding Treasury
Secretary Nick Brady with me here. I want to salute the
Republican team up here: State Chairman Bob Franks, Senate
Republican Leader John Dorsey and Assembly Republican Leader
Chuck Haytaian [Heh-TYE-en], along with my old friend Bo
Sullivan. And with the Republican Congressional delegation
behind me, New Jersey is well represented in Congress.
((I'm here today because I know a lot of money's been spent,
and that there's been a lot of media attention on both sides
and I think we all agree the stakes are high. // But enough
about the social life of Donald Trump. // ))
I've come here today fresh from two days of meetings at the
United Nations over in New York City. It is mind-boggling to
contemplate the changes that have swept our world in these last
few years -- even in these last few months. In my address to the
General Assembly I tried to provide some context to those
extraordinary developments. Freedom is an idea whose time has
come -- in Eastern Europe, across the great land mass of Asia, in
Africa, and right here in the Americas. Let me tell you, every
person in this room can be proud of the fact that one nation has
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been in the vanguard of this exciting movement toward freedom --
day in and day out, year after year -- and that nation is the
United States of America.
Just last month, when a coup threatened to set back the
cause of reform and democracy in the Soviet Union, the United
States stood firmly on the side of freedom -- against the coup
plotters and with the people of the Soviet Union. After the coup
failed, both Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev called me to say
how fundamentally important it had been to have the support of
the American people.
This is a refrain that Barbara and I hear from our friends
around the world time and again: America has a disproportionate
responsibility to lead. Well, I can assure you, we're going to
continue to lead -- because I believe -- I know -- that's good
for America, and good for the cause of world peace. ///
Tonight I'm here for the same reason many of you are --
because we believe that the Republican Party, here and across our
great country -- is the party of opportunity, the party of
economic growth, and the party of strong, effective leadership at
home and abroad.
I know well the potential of New Jersey Republicans. That's
why I've been campaigning for Republican candidates here for
years. As a matter of fact, I think my first political trip as
Vice President back in 1981 was a State Party fundraiser right up
the parkway at Kean College. [ Exit #140 isn't it? ]
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I like to campaign here because New Jersey Republicans
typify our belief in faith, in family, and in individual
initiative. And that's what New Jersey's voters want in their
leaders. No matter where they live in this diverse state: the
beautiful shore communities down in Ocean County, the bustling
suburbs of Bergen and Essex, or the sprawling open country in
western Jersey -- the counties of Hunterdon or Warren (Chuck
Haytaian's home county), New Jerseyans are mainstream voters.
Well, I can tell you, the Republicans define the mainstream in
this state. And because of that, come this fall, the New Jersey
Assembly and Senate will have Republican majorities.
I've heard about the great job you've done recruiting
candidates -- proof that the New Jersey G.O.P. is forward-looking
and inclusive. In fact, more women and minorities are running
ever before
for office as Republicans than as/Democrats We'll run on the
Republican Record -- and it's a good record -- both here in New
Jersey and nationally as well.
When it comes to leadership New Jersey Republicans are
fortunate -- you've got some of the best -- Bob Franks at Party
headquarters, // Chuck Haytaian [Heh-TYE-en] in the Assently House / / and
John Dorsey in the Senate. //
They know the principles Republicans stand for. We stand
for free markets and free people
...
the power of the individual,
and the potential of innovation. That's at the heart of our
domestic agenda.
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We believe in measuring success by how many lives are
enriched, how many families strengthened (thank goodness for the
family -- everything we do should take the family into account),
and how much faith we have in our future. Those are the building
blocks for a better America, and Republicans won't forget that.
Our domestic agenda begins by an abiding trust in the
American people. It tries to carry that faith forward into the
future. Our housing proposals, for example return housing
residents into homeowners; would emphasize tenant management --
relying on a belief that our public housing citizens mange their
own affairs and contribute to our society.
Our energy package attempts to conserve energy while
encouraging innovation. Our transportation package gives more
power to local authorities, who know their own needs. The
National Drug Strategy (and I believe we are winning the war on
drugs) is all encompassing, with much of the most effective work
being done by the private sector and at the local level -- the
level closest to the people. And our crime package -- the most
comprehensive in American history -- tries to give our streets
and our communities back to the people.
We have had our share of successes on the domestic front
already: child care legislation that puts choice in the hands of
parents where it should be; a Clean Air Act (hailed by
environmentalists and business alike) that uses the power and
innovation of the marketplace to clean our nation's air; an
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Americans with Disabilities Act -- the most far-reaching civil
rights bill in decades.
Our America 2000 Education strategy is generating a crusade
for excellence in education in state after state and community
after community. It's a good record -- and I'm proud of it. //
But in order to achieve excellence at home and abroad, we
need more men and women of courage and conviction. In the House,
in the Senate, and right here in the Statehouse, we need more
Republicans. It's time to bring New Jersey back to the common-
sense policies of the Republican Party. Especially after the last
few years I believe New Jerseyans will appreciate that G.O.P.
really does stand for Growth, Opportunity and Prosperity.
[[ From my vantage point it looks a little shaky for the
Democrats. I heard your legislators were calling the Captain of
that Greek Cruise Liner for advice on how to abandon ship. ]]
Our Administration's economic growth agenda promotes growth
and opportunity for all Americans. Our economic growth package
is one that creates the right climate for business to flourish.
We want to bring down the tax on capital gains -- so that
investors will invest money in new businesses, new ideas and new
jobs. We want to bring down the deficit -- so I am determined to
hold the line on Congressional spending. //
Republicans also stand for free and fair trade, because we
are determined that America will remain a world leader in the
global economy, and because we want to open the world to American
products. In the last four years alone, exports from the U.S.
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have increased 55 percent, more than twice the rate of import
growth. Right now, exports have galvanized our economy -- we can
build on our strengths to create more growth, more opportunity
and more prosperity for all Americans.
One more point: Last year, regulations cost the economy at
least 185 billion dollars. Well, we're doing something about it.
The Vice President's Council on Competitiveness has targeted
burdensome regulations. You know the ones --- they strangle
productivity, defy logic, and don't effectively or efficiently
protect the public interest. It's time we cut through this
tangle of red tape, and cleared a path for growth.
During the Kean Administration, New Jersey was an economic
powerhouse. It can be again. It's time to unleash the power of
the American imagination -- New Jersey's imagination. It's time
to bring back common sense government to Trenton.
Speaking of Common Sense, most people know the famous words
of Thomas Paine: "These are the times that try men's souls." But
most people don't know that Thomas Paine -- true story -- wrote
those words while in New Jersey, during the American revolution.
These times, too, try mens' souls -- and just like last time, you
can make history in New Jersey. This year New Jersey can go
Republican. // The people of this state deserve leadership, and
common sense. They deserve a Republican State Assembly and a
Republican State Senate. //
Keep up the good fight. Thank you so much for having me
here today. God bless each and every one of you.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 24, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR ROGER B. PORTER
FROM:
ANDY MITRUSI
SUBJECT:
NEW JERSEY FUN FACTS FOR THE PRESIDENT
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS MORE YOU WANT ME TO DO.
Per Capita Personal Income
Real
REAL
REAL
NOMINAL
1990
1982
1982
CHANGE
CHANGE
CHANGE
U.S.
$18,691
$11,497
$15,567
20.1%
$3,124
62.6%
N.J.
$24,936
$13,965
$18,909
31.9%
$6,027
78.6%
JOBS:
Total Employment
Percent
Numerical
1990
1982
Change
Change
U.S.
137.153
112.565
21.8%
24.588
N.J.
4.329
3.594
20.5%
0.735
Seasonally Adjusted Total Employment (millions)
Change
Aug91
Jan90
Jan82
82-90
90-91
U.S.
116.416
117.945
99.692
18.3%
-1.3%
N.J.
3.800
3.826
3.270
17.0%
-0.7%
Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate
Change
Aug91
Jan90
Jan82
82-90
90-91
U.S.
6.8%
5.3%
8.6%
-3.3%
1.5%
N.J.
6.3%
4.5%
9.2%
-4.7%
1.8%
Businesses:
establishments
1988
1982
CHANGE
U.S.
6,018,600
4,633,960
:
29.9%
N.J.
212,095
158,637
33.7%
Grant / Simon
September 19, 1991
A: NJGOP Draft three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEW JERSEY GOP FUNDRAISER
EAST BRUNSWICK RAMADA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1991
6:30 P.M.
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[Acknowledgements)]
Debbie Kean
((I'm here today because I know a lot of money's been spent,
and that there's been a lot of media attention on both sides
...
and I think we all agree the stakes are high. // But hey, enough
about Liz Taylor's wedding. // ))
I've come here today for the same reason many of you have -
- because the Republican Party of New Jersey is attracting people
from far and wide. The Republican Party has grass roots appeal.
The Republican Party defines the mainstream in this state. And
come this fall, the Republican Party will win the State Assembly
and State Senate back for New Jersey. ///
New Jersey Democrats should be worried. The New Jersey
Memo
G.O.P. has the best candidates -- in fact, more women and
from
ever
minorities are running for office as Republicans than as
before.
Bullivan.
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Democrats. Not surprisingly, we face our best chance in 18 years
letter
of capturing both Houses. Four more seats in each House will put
from
Bob
Franks
us over the top. We'll run on the Republican Record -- and that
leaves the other Party just plain running. //
letter from
Look at last year's elections. In 1990, Republicans won a
GOP chm.
Bob
record number of new local and county offices, and swept both
Franks contested legislative races. New Jersey voters sent a message to
the Democrats in the U.S. Senate race, and helped us take back an
Scheduling
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assembly seat that hadn't gone G.O.P. in 15 years. The switch is
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on -- to the Republican Party -- because when the fight is fair
and on the issues, Republicans win. ///
Let me say a few words about the "fairness" issue. The
other party talks about "fairness" -- until the time comes to
draw those district lines. Democrats have called it "their
contribution to modern art" -- we call it "gerrymandering."
We'll fight for fair representation all the way with three of
the best in the business on our side -- our State GOP chairman,
Bob Franks // and our Minority Leader in the Assembly, Chuck
Lynn
TYE
Lawson
Haytaian [Heh-TAY-en] // and of course, our Minority Leader in
the State Senate John Dorsey. // We'll fight for fairness
because we Republicans don't need gerrymandering. We've got the
issues on our side. That's what wins in fair elections.
Republicans stand for important principles. We stand for
free markets and free people
...
for a strong national defense
and the power of democracy. We believe in measuring success not
by dollars spent and red tape created -- but by lives enriched
and families strengthened. We're working to build a better
America -- by providing choice in child care, reforming our
schools, safeguarding our environment and -- most importantly --
fueling a strong economic recovery.
//
But in order to achieve excellence at home and
competitiveness abroad, we need more men and women of courage and
conviction. In the House, in the Senate, and right here in the
Statehouse, // we need more Republicans. //
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Don't you think it's time to bring New Jersey back to the
common-sense policies of the Republican Party? // Especially
after the last few years I believe New Jerseyans will appreciate
that G.O.P. really can stand for Growth, Opportunity and
Prosperity.
Our Administration's economic growth agenda promotes growth
and opportunity for all Americans. Our economic growth package
is one that creates the right climate for business to flourish.
We want to bring down the tax on capital gains -- so that
investors will invest money in new businesses, new ideas and new
jobs. We want to bring down the deficit -- by holding the line
on Congressional spending. The federal deficit wasn't caused by
people not paying enough taxes, it was caused by Congress
spending too much money. //
Republicans also stand for free and fair trade, because we
are determined that America will remain a world leader in the
global economy, and because we want to open the world to American
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products. In the last four years alone, exports from the U.S.
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growth. Right now, exports have galvanized our economy -- we can
build on our strengths to create more growth, more opportunity
and more prosperity for all Americans.
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McIntosh
One more point: Last year, excessive regulations cost the
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something about it. The Vice President's Council on
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the ones -- they strangle productivity, defy logic, and don't
effectively or efficiently protect the public interest. It's
time we cut through this tangle of red tape, and cleared a path
for growth.
You don't promote growth by taxing working people into the
poorhouse. You don't promote growth by spending beyond your
means. And you don't promote growth by binding the economy with
bundles of red tape. We want to create jobs and opportunity for
all Americans. We want to unleash the power of the American
imagination. If you want that -- if you want common sense
government -- vote Republican.
Smithsonian
Speaking of Common Sense, most people know the famous words
Guide inca to collanticst
of Thomas Paine: "These are the times that try men's souls." " But
people don't know that Thomas Paine -- true story -- wrote
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those words while in New Jersey, during a revolution fought over
taxation. These times, too, try mens' souls -- and just like
last time, the right side will win this revolution. //
This year the people will send a message to the tax-and-
spend Democrats. This year will make New Jersey history. This
year New Jersey will go Republican. ///
The people of this state deserve leadership, // fairness //
and common sense. They deserve a Republican State Assembly and a
Republican State Senate. //
Keep up the good fight. Thank you so much for having me
here today. God bless each and every one of you.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(New York, New York)
For Immediate Release
September 24, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT NEW JERSEY GOP FUNDRAISER
East Brunswick Ramada
East Brunswick, New Jersey
6:40 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much, Governor Kean and
Deb, for meeting us, welcoming us back to this great state. I do
feel like I've been here many times, and frankly, I wish Tom Kean
were still Governor of this state. (Applause.)
I also want to single out Mike Castle, the Governor of
Delaware, for making the trip up here in support of our candidates in
these important elections that are coming up. Mike was a great
leader in the battle for our education program that I'm going to
mention -- a minute ago, one of the governors that was clearly out
front in that, doing a great job in one of our neighboring states.
And, Mike, thanks for coming all this way. (Applause.)
And I can't tell you what a joy it to have at my side
every day in Washington another son of New Jersey, Nick Brady, our
Secretary of the Treasury, so well-known. (Applause.)
And may I salute our chairman, Bob Franks; our
Republican leader, John Dorsey; the Assembly Republican leader, Chuck
Haytaian; along with my old friend, Bo Sullivan. You've got a good
team working the problem for the fall, and I'm delighted to be with
them. (Applause.)
May I also suggest that you look carefully at the team
behind us, the delegation behind us there -- New Jersey is well-
represented. And I wish all of them well in their quests for the
fall -- and whatever you're running for, good luck. God bless all of
you. (Applause.) Thanks for being here.
Well, I've come here today fresh from -- that means
"immediately from," not necessarily "fresh feeling" -- (laughter) --
from two days of meetings over at the U.N. in New York City. And it
really -- as Tom said, it is mind-boggling to contemplate the changes
that have swept our world in the last few years -- even in the last
few months. In my address to the General Assembly I tried to provide
some context to those extraordinary developments.
Freedom is an idea whose time has come -- in Eastern
Europe, across the great land mass of Asia, in Africa, and right here
in our own hemisphere, right here in the Americas. And let me tell
you, every person in this room can be proud of the fact that one
nation has been in the vanguard of this exciting movement toward
freedom day in and day out, year after year. And that nation is the
United States of America. And we all should be proud of it.
(Applause.)
Just last month when a coup threatened to set back the
cause of freedom and democracy in the Soviet Union, the United States
stood firmly on the side of freedom, against the coup plotters and
with the people of the Soviet Union. And after the coup failed, both
Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev called me to say how
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fundamentally important it had been to have the support of the
American people. We have that strength for the values that people
respect all around the world. (Applause.)
And as Barbara and I travel all around the world, we
hear it time and again: America has a disproportionate
responsibility to lead. And I can assure you we're going to continue
to do that because I believe -- and I know this -- that it's good for
our country, and I think it's good for the cause of world peace.
Tonight I'm here for the same reason many of you are --
because we believe in the potential of the New Jersey Republicans.
(Applause.) I've been campaigning alongside of many of you in this
state for years, and that's why. And as a matter of fact, I think my
first political trip as Vice President back in '81 -- my first one
was a state party fundraiser right up the Parkway at Kean College.
Exit 140, isn't it? Anyway, it's in there somewhere. (Laughter.)
But I like to campaign here because New Jersey Republicans typify our
belief in faith, in family, and in individual initiative. And that's
what New Jersey voters want in their leaders. They're not getting
that now, and that's what these elections are about that are coming
up just in a few weeks from today.
No matter where they live in this diverse state -- the
beautiful shore counties down there, and communities over in Ocean
County; the suburbs of Bergen and Essex -- (applause) -- or the
sprawling, open country in western Jersey -- (applause) -- the
counties of Hunterton or Warren -- (applause) -- I knew we'd get this
crowd on that one. Chuck brought the team along here. (Laughter.)
But New Jerseyians are mainstream voters. And I can tell you the
Republicans define the mainstream in this state. And because of that
I honestly believe, after talking to the political leaders, reading
about the problems of the state -- the quest for innovation, I might
add, that the people in this state want -- I believe that Republicans
will take back the Assembly and the Senate in the fall. (Applause.)
And I've heard about the job that's been done by the
party leadership and the county leaders recruiting candidates. Proof
that the New Jersey GOP is forward-looking and inclusive. And in
fact, more women and minorities are running for office as Republicans
than as Democrats than ever before. And we'll run on the Republican
record and it's a good record, both here in New Jersey and nationally
as well. (Applause.)
You've got good top leaders: Bob Franks at the party
headquarters and Chuck here in the Assembly and John Dorsey in the
Senate. And they know the principles that Republicans stand for. We
stand for free markets and free people, the power of the individual,
the potential of innovation. And that's at the heart of our domestic
agenda. And we believe in measuring success by how many lives we
enrich, how many families we strengthen -- and thank goodness for the
family -- and how much faith we have in our future. And those are
the building blocks for a better America, and Republicans will not
forget that.
Our domestic agenda begins by an abiding trust in the
American people. And it tries to carry that faith forward into the
future. Take, for example, our housing proposals. Turn housing
residents into homeowners -- that's what it's about. Strip them of
the indignity that comes from the hopelessness of living in projects
with no real future. Make homeowners out of them. We believe in
tenant management. We believe our public housing citizens can manage
their own affairs and contribute to our society. And that's the
philosophy.
And I'm a little tired of hearing Democrats say we have
no domestic agenda. The problem is their domestic agenda is to crush
our domestic agenda. They're doing nothing but griping -- (applause)
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-- refusing to consider the new ideas and sending me a bunch of
garbage I will not sign. I'll continue to veto the bad stuff until
we get good bills. (Applause.)
Our energy package attempts to conserve energy while
encouraging innovation. Our transportation package gives more power
to local authorities who know their own needs. And I believe that
we're making headway now, real headway if you look at the latest
polling figures on drug usage -- I believe we're making headway and
winning the war on drugs. And the National Drug Strategy is working.
And thank goodness for the people on the front lines -- the community
groups, the law enforcement people, the private sector -- right there
at the local level, the level closest to the people.
And our crime package is the most comprehensive in
American history. And we're determined to give our streets and our
communities back to the people. But we need more help down there in
Washington to get our crime package through the Congress.
We've had our share of successes on the domestic front.
I take great pride in the fact that we passed child care legislation
that puts choice in the hands of parents, where it should be. A
Clean Air Act, hailed by environmentalists and business alike, that
uses the power and innovation of the marketplace to clean our
nation's air. An Americans With Disabilities Act, the most far-
reaching civil rights bill in decades. And that was all passed with
the leadership of the Republican administration in Washington, D.C.
(Applause.)
And right now in Congress there's some debate on how to
help the unemployed whose benefits have run out. The Democrats want
us to pass a bill and simply not pay for it, push it on over to
future generations. And our approach, the Dole substitute it's
called, helps the unemployed -- they get the extended benefit -- but
pays for the program. And this approach -- their approach adds to an
already humongous deficit, and ours does not. Ours pays as you go
and takes care of those who are in need. And that is the fundamental
difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. (Applause.)
I mentioned Mike Castle and education. I might well
hark back to the leadership Tom Kean gave in education. Everyone in
this state -- everyone in the nation -- knows of his leadership on
education. But our America 2000 Education Strategy is generating a
crusade for excellence in education in state after state, and
community after community. Your own Tom Kean, as I say, chairs what
we call the New American Schools Development Corporation. It's an
innovative part of the America 2000 strategy.
Across-the-board we've got a good record on education.
And if I might be permitted a word of pride, I happen to think the
First Lady is doing a pretty darn good job on volunteer and literacy
as well. (Applause.)
No, we've got a good record I believe. The question is
getting it out, doing it in a way that is going to help these
candidates. I might add -- it's very important -- if we believe in
these local answers we'd better get good people wrestling the
problems in the Assembly. But in order to build a better country, a
better America, we've got to have more conviction and courage in
Congress and in the statehouses, and certainly, as I say, in the
Assembly.
It's time to bring New Jersey back to the common-sense
policies of the Republican Party. And I believe New Jerseyians will
appreciate the GOP really does stand for growth and opportunity and
prosperity, especially after the last few years. From my vantage
point -- I don't want to be prognosticating and be one of these guys
that relies on the latest figures, but I think it looks a little
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shakey for the Democrats. (Laughter and applause.) I heard that
some of the Democrats in Trenton were calling the captain of that
Greek cruise liner for advice on how to abandon ship. (Laughter.)
Our administration's economic growth agenda promotes
growth and opportunity. And it's for all Americans. And our
economic growth package is one that creates a right climate for
business to flourish. We want to bring down the tax on capital gains
so that investors will invest money in new businesses, new ideas, and
new jobs. (Applause.) And even though I think this economy,
sluggish as it's been, is recovering, the best thing to do to create
new jobs would be to pass that capital gains differential. It isn't
a relief bill for the rich, it's a jobs bill. And we ought to get it
passed. (Applause.)
We've been pushing incentives to save. Tying into this
unemployment compensation debate -- we're going to have that on the
floor. We need more R&D, we need more savings incentives like these
IRAS. And that's part of the Republican approach. We want to bring
that deficit down, and so I am determined -- we have caps now on
spending -- and I am determined to enforce those caps and not let the
Democrats who want to spend try to go around the budget agreement
that was worked out last year. (Applause.)
Another area that I take pride in is that we are for
free trade. We're determined that America will remain a world leader
in the global economy, and because we want to open up the world to
American products. In the last four years alone -- some of you may
not realize this -- exports from the United States have increased 55
percent, more than twice the rate of import growth. And right now
exports have galvanized our economy. Though our economy has been
sluggish, it's the exports side that has been very vibrant.
We can build on our strengths to create more growth,
more opportunity, and more prosperity if we have sound and sensible
trade policies.
One more point: Last year, regulations cost the economy
at least $185 billion -- regulations. And we're trying to do
something about that. The Vice President's Council on
Competitiveness has targeted burdensome regulations -- you know the
ones. They strangle productivity; they defy logic and don't
effectively or efficiently protect the public interests. And it's
time we cut through this tangle of red tape and cleared a path for
economic growth. (Applause.)
I know some of you don't like this nostalgia,
particularly given what you're putting up with today. But during the
Kean administration, New Jersey was an economic powerhouse. And it
can be again. It's time to unleash this power of the imagination.
Tom touched on that and worked on that when he was a Governor. And
it's time to do that now. It's time to bring common-sense government
back to Trenton. (Applause.)
And speaking of common sense, most people know Thomas
Paine's famous words: " These are the times that try men's souls."
But most people don't know that Thomas Paine -- true story -- wrote
those words while in New Jersey, during the American Revolution.
Well, these times, let's face it, try men's souls. And once again,
you can make history in New Jersey. It may not have that same
context of a revolution or -- particularly when you compare it to the
changes that are taking place all around the world still -- in
Eastern Europe and, hopefully, in the Middle East and other areas.
But this year you can do something about it. This year this state
can go Republican. And I believe that the people of this state
deserve leadership and common sense. I think that means they deserve
a Republican Assembly and a Republican Senate. (Applause.)
So I came up here tonight to thank our leaders, to wish
these candidates all the best, and to tell you this parenthetically
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-- I looked around the room, and we had a little receiving line
before I walked in here, and I saw so many faces that were very
supportive of me as I ran for President of the United States in 1988.
Probably almost everybody in this room. Maybe we've got a few
converts, I don't know. (Laughter.) But I would simply say this:
If you get the feeling that I like my job, you're right. (Applause.)
There has never been a more exciting time in recent
history to be President of the United States. I'm proud to be there.
I'm grateful for our support. Now give me the kind of philosophical
support in Trenton, and I'll be happier still.
Thank you very, very much. (Applause.)
END
7:00 P.M. EDT
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1985 Almanac State Profile
Morgon Stevent
Republican National Committee
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR
Yr Republican/Democrat
TotVote
RepVote
DemVote
%Rep
&Dem
%0th
81@Kean/Florio
2,316,291
1,145,465+
1,143,788
49.5
49.4
1.2
77 Bateman/Byrne
2,126,264
888,880
1,184,564
41.8
55.7
2.5
73 Sandman/Byrne
2,122,009
676,235
1,414,613
31.9
66.7
1.5
69 Cahill/Meyner
2,366,606
1,411,905*
911,003
59.7
38.5
1.8
65 Dumont Jr./Hughes
2,229,583
915,996
1,279,568
41.1
57.4
1.5
@ 81 Figures from State Board of Canvassers recount 37 (Dec.1,1981). 43
87
16
24
89
ELECTION RESULTS FOR STATE LEGISLATURE
87
41
39
23
85
So
30
85
Yr Ch
#Mem
#Rep
#Dem
#0th
Net
Yr Ch
#Mem
#Rep
#Dem
#0th
Net
83
Sen
( 40)
17
23
0
- 1
83 Hse
( 80)
36
44
0
- 1
81
Sen
( 40)
18
22
0
+ 5
81 Hse
( 80)
37
43
0
+ 1
44
0
79
Sen
( 40)
13
27
0
+ 0
79 Hse
( 80)
36
+ 0
77 Sen ( 40)
13
27
0
+ 0
77 Hse
( 80)
36
44
0
+10
75 Sen ( 40)
13
27
0
+ 3
75 Hse
( 80)
26
54
0
- 5
73 Sen ( 40)
10
29
1
+ 0
73 Hse
( 80)
31
49
0
+17
71 Sen ( 40)
10
29
1
-21
71 Hse
( 80)
14
66
0
-45
69 Sen ( 40)
31
9
0
+ 0
69 Hse
( 80)
59
21
0
+ 1
67 Sen ( 40)
31
9
0
+16
67 Hse
( 80)
58
22
0
+39
89
17
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STATE RANKINGS
Among the fifty states and the District of Columbia, New Jersey ranked:
9 -- in 1984 estimated population, with 7,515,000.
9 -- in 1980 total population, with 7,364,823.
9 -- in 1984 GOP Convention delegates, with 64.
9 -- in 1984 electoral votes, with 16.
9 -- in 1984 registered voters, with 4,072,639.
9 -- in 1984 voting age population, with 5,659,000.
9 -- in 1984 votes cast for highest office, with 3,217,862.
9 -- in 1984 turnout as % of registered voters, with 79.0%.
21 -- in 1984 turnout as % of voting age population, with 56.9%.
9 -- in 1982 registered voters, with 3,681,211.
9 -- in 1982 voting age population, with 5,551,000.
9 -- in 1982 votes cast for highest office, with 2,193,945.
33 -- in 1982 turnout as % of registered voters, with 59.6%.
36 -- in 1982 turnout as % of voting age population, with 39.5%.
6 -- in 1984 Reagan plurality, with +672,307.
27 -- in 1984 Reagan GOP percentage, with 60.5%.
9 -- in 1984 contribution to Reagan vote, with 3.6%.
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