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URBAN WARFARE (ROBERT A. GEORGE, March 9, 2003, NY Post)

IS there a future for the Republican Party in New York City? Jay Golub and Robert Hornak think so.

At a recent fund-raiser, Golub and Hornak officially unveiled the Urban Republican platform - five principles and reform ideas that they hope will
inspire forward-thinking GOPers to run for City Council seats. [...]

Thus, the Urban Republican Platform and its five "Statutes of Liberty":

* Place Parents Before Bureaucrats: Empower individual schools, parents and students, with particular emphasis on giving parents the ability to choose the school best suited to their child's needs.

* Place People Before Government: Implement both tax and spending cuts to "fundamentally change how government views the taxpayers."

* Remain Vigilant in the Fight Against Crime: Continue the downward crime trend of the last few years.

* Abolish Barriers to the Creation of New, Affordable Housing: Streamline the process of, and eliminate the barriers to, building new housing, and encourage new construction with a guarantee that rents on these buildings will not be regulated by government bureaucrats.

* Fight for Good, Responsible and Responsive Government: Reform how the city is run.

It's not exactly poetry is it? But empowering the urban poor--through school choice; housing vouchers; medical savings accounts; and privatized Social Security--is a platform Republicans should push hard, for the good of the beneficiaries, if not the Party. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 10, 2003 8:14 AM