1. Civic Responsibility
One of Whitman's popular bumper stickers were entitled "Had enough? Vote Republican." While Whitman made the tax hike a prime argument, she made it clear that she was running against Bill Bradley, not Jim Florio. Whitman said "New Jersey taxes are an issue, because Bill Bradley refuses to talk about them, and that doesn't show any leadership," (The Record, 1990). By choosing to remain silent on the issue that was most likely uppermost on voters" minds, Bradley was playing into voters" feelings that incumbent politicians were too detached from ordinary citizens" concerns.
Picking up on the national discontent with incumbents, Whitman proposed a 12 year limit on the terms of representatives and senators. Her opponent, Bill Bradley, would begin his 13th year on Capitol Hill. Naturally, he was against the idea. Let the people decide how long to keep a politician in office, he says (The New York Times, 1990).
Whitman favored some constitutional devices that have worked well for the State. For instance, in response to Senator Bradley's inquiries of how Whitman proposed to balance the federal budget, she said the federal Constitution should include a balanced-budget amendment. The President, like the New Jersey Governor, should be able to veto portions of the bill without rejecting the whole thing (Weissman, 1996). Bradley dismissed the proposal, saying that it would prevent New Jersey from getting mass-transit grants. Whitman was quick to point out that under that, if the only way a state could get a piece of pork is to swap with other states, the budget will inevitably swell with noisome projects (The New York Times, 1990). Whitman did decline to spell out how she would find enough additional savings to achieve a balanced budget that year, or how she would meet the five-year, $500 billion deficit reduction goal that Congress and the Whitehouse set (The New York Times, 1990.
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