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...Monday, Christine Todd Whitman slashed taxes in New Jersey. On Tuesday, as the first Governor asked to give the official rebuttal to a State of the Union address, she started cutting into Bill Clinton. From a partisan point of view, she did not disappoint, starting with an off-the-cuff jab at the 81- minute speech. ``I am not going to ask for equal time,'' she joshed. But long after Clinton's speech, pundits and political operatives were still mulling over Whitman. Might this be the G.O.P.'s 1996 vice-presidential candidate...
...completely unknown. Then in 1990 she came close to taking the Senate seat of the very popular Bill Bradley. In November 1993, running on a promise to cut state taxes 30%, she defeated incumbent Jim Florio. In a year's time, G.O.P. candidates were describing themselves as ``Christie Whitman Republicans,'' and wore that label to victory. Shortly before his death last year, Richard Nixon--a Jersey resident--mused that she was just the kind of candidate who could help the party's national ticket. A star was born...
...Whitman is enjoying approval ratings that often move north of 60%, in large part because of her canny ability to build coalitions and deal head on with crises, always with a patrician air. Though her time in public office has been relatively short--she first won election in 1982 as a county commissioner--her political education is of the highest class. Her father Webster Todd, a building contractor whose projects included Rockefeller Center, was influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman...
...that is not what the populist, even radical, national party wants. Whitman pleased conservatives in Tuesday's rebuttal by repeating the canard that Clinton was responsible for the biggest tax hike in history. (Right answer: Ronald Reagan in 1982.) But her other positions make conservatives balk. For one, she is pro-choice. She also does not believe sexual orientation on its own should bar a person from a job--even in the military. And while Whitman backs such ``Contract with America'' standards as the balanced-budget amendment, she may just back away from their consequences. Billions of dollars in federal...
...last fall. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democratic Senator who was in a bitter race with Republican and frequent Grant guest Chuck Haytaian, ran ads stating that "Grant calls blacks savages, and called Martin Luther King a scumbag." A tri-state ruckus ensued, with New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Whitman declaring she would no longer appear on Grant's show and citizens calling for the host's scalp and other body parts. But all the heat didn't hurt him. Whitman was soon back on the show. Grant achieved his highest ratings in a quarter-century. And WABC now proclaims...