I heard a bit on Fred Dicker's show that somebody wants to run who will use millions of his own money, and he sounds truly conservative. Darn, I can't remember the name, but I think he's Italian.
The guy Dicker talked about was Carl Paladino from Buffalo. It was a good show. Until Skelos showed up.
Lazio can't win. He couldn't even beat carpetbagger Clinton. The first priority should be to broom out all the horrible DEMS.
Levy is a good option because he could win on Long Island where Paladino is an unknown. Paladino should think about running for Senate against Paterson's Kirsten G.
Again I still don't know enough about any of these guys. I also believe that cuomo will waltz into the seat. He has the 'special interest group' connections and will get their support. Down state will carry cuomo to the governer's.
So I guess the reps can play their political games...cause it ain't gonna matter. IMO
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
There are many reasons that Steve Levy's brief foray into the Republican Party failed, and everyone has looked at Ed Cox's role, but Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf sees a larger issue at play.
"Republicans like their own," Sheinlopf said, citing the party-switching that has tanked other candidacies, like Arlen Specter, this year. "They don't want to feel like they're prostitutes...and Ed Cox is a white-shoe Republcan in a party that has shfited all the way out of Manhattan into the suburbs and into the right, so he was punished as well. And the lesson is a national one."
There were also a few other local factors at play - Cox's newbie chairmanship that relied on loyalty from county leaders who he hadn't made allies of, his overestimation that the Giuliani/Pataki faction of the GOP died when he beat their candidate for the chairmanship last fall, he reportedly told Republicans privately that cash-strapped Rick Lazio would drop out after the Levy juggernaut began, and on and on.
But Levy himself bears some of the blame.
On paper, he was great - a suburban chief executive in a swing county who had carried multiple ballot lines in his last election and had branded himself as a budget buster with independent-voter appeal.
But he always seemed to have a foot in each race - the governor's race and his possible re-election bid next year if that whole statewide thing didn't work out. He skipped key events like the Salute to Israel Parade and never even put out a statement about the attempted terror-bombing in Times Square.
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Lazio can't win. He couldn't even beat carpetbagger Clinton. The first priority should be to broom out all the horrible DEMS. 
