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Lazio Video: Delegate Numbers

Rick Lazio’s campaign manager does some recalibration of the Times Union tally of weighted votes for Republican nomination for governor among county chairmen, showing Rick Lazio leading Steve Levy 51.5 to 31.5 percent.

Campaign Manager Kevin Fullington says, basically, delegates in each county are up for grabs, and that they’ll poach voters from Levy’s column. Read More

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Queens Flips From Lazio to Levy

The Queens County Republican Organization tossed aside their earlier endorsement of Rick Lazio and announced they will support Steve Levy for governor.

It’s an important pickup for Levy. He needs just over 50 percent of the weighted vote of the Republican State Party committee members to get on the ballot, and, according to the Read More

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Courting Erie

Steve Levy announced he’s hired a campaign coordinator specifically “for Erie County,” where Republican chairman Jim Domagalski has not committed to any of the gubernatorial candidates so far.

The county is also home to Carl Paladino.

Rick Lazio, who has been campaigning for more than a year, hasn’t managed to lock down Domagalski, who Read More

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Paladino on Levy: ‘Pretty Boy’

After testifying at the Charter Revision Commission meeting last night in Manhattan, Carl Paladino told reporters that he wanted term limits of state lawmakers, and didn’t like that Michael Bloomberg extended term limits last year.

“You have a mayor and he went through a process and he changed the process. I wouldn’t have voted for Read More