Vote November 8Th Candidates for President and Vice-President of the U.S
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A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, November 3, 2016 Page 5 Vote November 8th Candidates for President and Vice-President of the U.S. Letters to the Editor Who Would Want to Run for President of the U.S. Today? Anyone with the requisite constitu- ever roundly blamed for losing. And tional qualifications may run for Presi- the winner? dent of the United States, but who President Cleveland, “Sometimes would want to do so today? I wake at night in the White House The candidate’s personal and fam- and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not ily life, if the candidate still has one, all a dream.” More at times like a is an open book. nightmare! Groundless unfavorable allegations Truman, upon learning that Presi- Hillary Clinton (D), President Tim Kaine (D), Vice-President Donald Trump (R), President Mike Pence (R), Vice-President and scuttlebutt trail the candidate. dent Roosevelt had died, “I felt like Hillary Rodham Clinton was born Tim Kaine serves as the junior Donald Trump was born in 1946 in Michael Richard Pence was born Hundreds of millions of dollars are the moon, the stars, and all the planes on October 26, 1947, in Chicago. She United States Senator from Virginia. Queens, New York City, the fourth of on June 7, 1959, in Columbus, Ind. needed to mount a viable campaign had fallen on me.” was raised in Park Ridge, Ill., a Chi- He was elected to the Senate in 2012. five children of Frederick C. and Mary He is one of six children of Nancy and that can last for years. President Polk, “The Presidency is cago suburb. She was the eldest Born in St. Paul, Minn., Mr. Kaine MacLeod Trump. Frederick Trump Edward Pence, a U.S. Army veteran The candidate must please a fickle no bed of roses.” daughter of Hugh Rodham, a fabric grew up in Overland Park, Kan., was a builder and real estate devel- who operated a series of gas stations. public and pundits and commentators. Presidents considerably age in of- store owner, and Dorothy Emma graduated from the University of oper who specialized in constructing After graduating with a B.A. in Like the unlikable. fice. No wonder! Howell Rodham, and has two younger Missouri, and earned a law degree and operating middle income apart- history in 1981, he moved to India- Fear the next poll numbers lest A President must work with an often brothers, Hugh Jr. (born in 1950) and from Harvard Law School before ments in the Queens, Staten Island napolis in 1983 to attend the Indiana people conclude all is lost even be- recalcitrant Congress, an immovable Anthony (born in 1954). entering private practice and becom- and Brooklyn sections of New York. University McKinney School of Law, fore the voters have voted! Federal bureaucracy, and an impatient She earned her law degree from ing a lecturer at the University of Donald Trump went to the New earning his J.D. in 1986. Meet constantly with staff. public thinking a President can always Yale University and married fellow Richmond School of Law. York Military Academy at age 13. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress Have enormous stamina, including order things to happen. And all the time law school graduate Bill Clinton in He was first elected to public office During the summers, he worked for in 1988 and 1990, losing both times strong vocal chords. not run afoul of the Supreme Court. 1975. She later served as first lady of in 1994, when he won a seat on the his father’s company at the construc- to Democrat Phil Sharp. Mr. Pence Inhabit nondescript hotels and eat President Taft, “It seems to be the Arkansas when Mr. Clinton was gov- Richmond, Virginia city council. He tion sites. He entered Fordham Uni- revived his political career by run- rubber chicken dinners. profession of a President simply to ernor and served as first lady during was then elected mayor of Richmond in versity and then transferred to the ning for Congress again in 2000, this Travel many thousands of miles. hear other people talk.” the Bill Clinton Presidency from 1993 1998, serving in that position until be- Wharton School of Finance at the time winning a seat. Mr. Pence was Be personable to the nth degree. Truman, “…the principal power to 2001, and then as a U.S. senator ing elected lieutenant governor of Vir- University of Pennsylvania, from elected Indiana governor in 2012. Speak like Churchill. that the President has is to bring people from 2001 to 2009. In early 2007, she ginia in 2001. He was elected governor which he graduated in 1968 with a For Congress, NJ-7th Make no mistakes and have perfect in and try to persuade them to do what announced her plans to run for the in 2005, serving from 2006 to 2010. He degree in economics. Westfield, Cranford, Mountainside knowledge of the country’s problems they ought to do without persuasion.” presidency but conceded the 2008 was chairman of the Democratic Na- After college, he joined the Trump and world affairs or suffer harsh pub- LBJ, “A President’s hardest task is Democratic nomination to Barack tional Committee from 2009 to 2011. Organization. In 1971, Mr. Trump lic criticism. not to do what is right, but to know Obama. After winning the national moved to Manhattan and became in- Require intense security! what is right.” election, President Obama appointed volved in large building projects. Would Washington and Lincoln President George W. Bush, “The Mrs. Clinton secretary of state. She Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) He was married to Ivana Zelnickova Congress — 12th District have run under these circumstances, toughest decision a president makes served from 2009 until 2013. Winklmayr, a New York fashion let alone won? is anytime you send men and women Bonnie Watson Coleman is serving model, from 1977 to 1992. They have her first term in Congress. Prior to her The losing candidate will be for- into combat because you know the three children: Ivanka, Donald Jr. and consequences.” For Congress, NJ-12 election as Representative for New Erik. He was married to Marla Maples Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, Steven J. Uccio (R) President Jefferson, “No man will Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Plainfield from 1993 to 1999 and they have a Congress, 12th District ever bring out of the presidency the Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) she served eight consecutive terms in daughter, Tiffany. He and Melania the New Jersey General Assembly. Steven J. Uccio was born in 1986 in reputation which carried him into it. Steven Uccio (R) Trump, who he married in 2005, have Staten Island, N.Y. His family moved The honeymoon would be as short in She is the daughter of state legislator a son, Barron. John S. Watson. to Millstone Township, N.J. in 2001. that case as in any other, and its mo- The multi-billion-dollar developer He graduated from Allentown High ments of ecstasy would be ransomed by Her election to the House of Repre- joined NBC’s “The Apprentice” in sentatives makes her the first Afri- School in 2004 and later Brookdale years of torment and hatred.” 2004, where contestants competed for Community College in 2007, earning President Van Buren, “As to the Presi- can-American woman to represent a job with the Trump Organization. Rep. Leonard Lance (R) New Jersey in Congress. an associate’s degree in criminal jus- dency, the happiest two days of my life Rep. Watson Coleman graduated tice. He currently works at a whole- were those of my entrance upon the from Thomas Edison State College. saler that distributes meat and cheese office and my surrender of it.” She is a member of Alpha Kappa in New York City. Truman, “The White House is the Alpha Sorority, Inc. and an honorary In 2010 he was married to his wife, finest prison in the world.” member of the Girl Scouts of America. Jirawan, a Thai national, and moved Adlai E. Stevenson, upon being de- She also is a Deaconess at the Shiloh to East Windsor that year. In 2014 feated for President by General Baptist Church in Trenton. they welcomed their only son, Tenzin, Eisenhower, quipped, “A funny thing The Congresswoman and her hus- and continue to live there today. happened to me on the way to the band, William, reside in Ewing Town- Mr. Uccio ran for state legislator in White House.” Perhaps it was a bless- ship and have three sons and two 2013 and for Mercer County Free- ing in disguise! grandchildren. holder in 2014 under the Libertarian And so the public rightly should ask, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) Party banner. He later switched to the what would motivate someone to run Republican Party. In 2015, he ran for President! 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