New York Republicans spent years being rejected by Harry Wilson, who repeatedly demurred a run for governor to focus on his family and career. In February, he finally changed his mind. Now the state GOP is the one rejecting him.
— to reform corruption in Albany, plans to lower taxes and plans to keep better track of where tax money goes.
“And then on our [Republican] side, there’s just kind of this dogma around overturning everything, which I generally agree with, but it’s been without thinking through: ‘What are the underlying problems people are trying to address?’” It happened in the early 1990s, he said, when he saw that abortion rates had hardly declined after more than a decade of anti-abortion rights administrations in the White House under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
“And so is the path to have this endless legal battle between two implacable sides and not make any progress?” he asked. “Or is the better answer is to try and provide alternatives that reduce the number of abortions and set the legal battle aside? Within reason, obviously. So I basically came to the view that it was better to do the latter.”Businessperson Harry Wilson speaks to reporters at the 2022 NYGOP Convention on March 1, 2022, in Garden City, N.Y.