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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Will Weld Wield Governor Bid?

AUGUST 21, 2005 --

William F. Weld, once governor of Massachusetts, was reported in The New York Times, August 19, to be plannning to seek the New York governorship this year.

LPR can imagine television quipsters
suggest that Howard Dean, once governor of Vermont, run on the Democratic ticket, against the Republican Weld.

The Times reported that presidential aide Karl Rove and former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, encouraged Weld who was said by the Times report New Yorkers liked
"moderate, tax-cutting Republican leaders," and that he was prompted to run by "personal motivation."

The likely Democratic gubernatorial candidate in New York is Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has made a name for himself going after Wall Street
greedsters.

LPR would hope, of course, that if Mr. Weld does run for governor, he will follow the counsel of Federalist No. 57 rather than the advice of higth-paid political
consultants.

On August 15, LPR attended an evening of reminiscences about the Great Flood of 1955 (see accompanying story).

For LPR, the people in attendance that evening, held in the Winsted's Elks Lodge, have more common sense, more publicly minded spirit than, for example, the entire political establishment in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Driving back to New York City, August 16, LPR heard a radio report that the White House says it can do nothing about the zooming price of oil. Does this mean that the White House economic policy is now based on "tough compassion"?

Or perhaps just brutal free enterprise. Finally, of course, the media has been taking note of the oil story, but only to pass on what we already know: the price at the pump keeps going higher.

LPR has yet to hear of probes into the price hikes that are hurting all other than those raking in receipts from the hugely higher prices.

Perhaps William F. Weld would have a chance to be New York's next governor if he stood with the people, as Federalist 57 advised leaders to do, speaking out against the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few" -- working for the common good, questioning banks would wouild impoverish credit card holders with interest rates that are befitting loan sharks, and, indeed, suggesting that municipal budget deficits ought not be filled with fines extracted from vulnerable motorists.

That Gov. Weld should prove to be a conservative ought be no issue -- the populist streak in America goes back to the Founding Fathers.

If there is a Lonely Pamphleteer Review clickster within six degrees of Mr. Weld, please try to get this to his attention.

The economy is likely not as good as Washington would have it -- if the performance of the stock market is an accurate barometer. The establishment seems to prefer penalty carrying regulations for free enterprise.

The zooming price of oil suggests to LPR a loss of respect for the administration -- and the country. And credit card interest rates and New York City parking fines reveal a mindset of hammering ordinary citizens.

A Weld candidacy showing that in New York leaders stand with the people to avoid tyranny, as Federalist 57 advised, would do much to revitalize the legacy of liberty given us by the Founding generation.

Governor Weld -- let the Founding
generation be your political consultants in your next political campaign. If we cannot accept, cannot trust, their advice, what has become of the American commitment to liberty, equality, opportunity, fair play?