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William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an
American attorney, businessman, and
Republican politician who served as the
68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997 and the
Libertarian Party's nominee for
Vice President of the United States in the
2016 election, sharing the ticket with
Gary
Johnson. He is formally running to seek the
Republican nomination for
President of the United States in
2020.
A
Harvard and
Oxford graduate, Weld began his career as legal counsel to the
United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and, later, the
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He
focused on a series of high-profile
public corruption cases. He resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and
associated investigations of
Attorney General
Edwin
Meese.
In
1990, Weld was elected
Governor of Massachusetts and reelected by the largest margin in
Massachusetts history in
the 1994 election. In
1996, he was the Republican nominee for the
United States Senate, losing to Democratic incumbent
John Kerry.
He resigned as governor in 1997 to focus on his nomination by President
Bill
Clinton to serve as
United States Ambassador to Mexico, but because of opposition by the
social conservative
Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman
Jesse
Helms, he was denied a hearing before the Foreign Relations committee and
withdrew his nomination.
In recent years, Weld has become involved in presidential politics. In 2016, he
left the Republican Party to become the Libertarian Party
running mate of former
Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson. Johnson and Weld were the first
presidential ticket since
1948 to consist of two state governors. They jointly received nearly 4.5
million popular votes, the best showing ever for a Libertarian ticket, and the
best for any third party since
1996. After returning to the Republican Party in 2019, Weld announced on
April 15 that he will challenge President
Donald
Trump in the
2020 Republican primaries.
In 1993 he supported adoption of a gun control bill in Massachusetts that
included limits on gun purchases under age 21, as well as prohibiting certain
types of weapons, which was not ultimately passed.[30]
He has since renounced this proposal.[31]
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Weld is
pro-choice and helped to introduce legislation to make it easier for women
to access abortion procedures.[32]
As Governor, he supported
gay and lesbian rights. In 1992, he signed an executive order to recognize
domestic partnership rights for same-sex couples.[33]
In 1993, he signed into law legislation protecting the rights of gay and lesbian
students.[34]
He also said he would recognize same-sex marriages that might be performed out
of state following a
court decision in Hawaii.[35][36]
During his term, he launched a successful effort to privatize many state's human
services, laying off thousands of state employees.[37][38]
He also worked to expand
Medicaid
access by requesting more federal funding and, then, allowing more residents to
qualify for the plan to both solve budget problems and increase access to health
care in the state.[39]
After cutting state spending year-over-year for his first two years, the
Republican Party lost its ability to sustain a veto in the legislature due to
losses in the
Massachusetts State Senate, forcing Weld to make greater concessions to
Democratic legislators.[40]
In
1994, Weld won reelection with 71% of the vote in the most one-sided
gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts electoral history.[citation
needed] Weld carried all but five towns in the whole state,
even carrying Boston.[citation
needed] Following his landslide victory, Weld briefly
considered running for the presidency in 1996.[citation
needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Weld
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February 15: How Much
Trouble Could Bill Weld Cause Trump In The 2020 GOP Primary?
In all likelihood, President Trump would crush any Republican who tries to
primary him. An incumbent president has not lost a bid for renomination since
Chester A. Arthur at the GOP convention in 1884 — meaning that it’s never
happened in the modern era of presidential primaries. And Trump enjoys a
higher approval rating among members of his own party even than recent
presidents who cruised to renomination, like Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. (In
a recent Fox
News poll, 87 percent of Republicans approved of his job performance.)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-bill-weld-could-shake-up-the-2020-republican-primary/
April 17:
Bill Weld, the Republican former governor of Massachusetts
who is mounting a primary challenge to President Donald Trump, insisted
Wednesday he is running to win his party’s presidential nomination, not just
weaken Trump.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/17/bill-weld-donald-trump-2020-election-1278950
April 17:
Bill Weld’s Presidential Run: Finally, a Republican Tells the
Truth About Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/bill-welds-2020-run-finally-a-republican-tells-the-truth-about-trump
May 10:
GOP Presidential Candidate Bill Weld: "Trump Looks Like He'd
Rather Be A King"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/10/gop_presidential_candidate_bill_weld_trump_looks_like_hed_rather_be_a_king.html
May 13:
William Weld says Trump's inaction on deficit, climate change
will hurt millennials the most
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/443357-bill-weld-says-trumps-inaction-on-deficit-climate-will-weigh-on-millennials
May 13:
GOP Trump challenger counting on like-minded Republicans in
New Hampshire
Near the end of his first visit to the Upper Valley as a 2020 candidate for
president on Saturday, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld estimated that he’d
shaken the hands of some 240 people at three diners in Lebanon earlier in the
day.
“I didn’t meet a single person who didn’t express disdain and dismay about
Donald Trump,” Weld recalled during an afternoon forum at Hartford High School
on Saturday.
The 73-year-old is counting on enough like-minded Republicans — and Democrats —
to show up for next winter’s New Hampshire primary to boost his challenge to the
incumbent president.
https://vtdigger.org/2019/05/13/gop-trump-challenger-counting-like-minded-republicans-new-hampshire/
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