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Tom Golisano, the Democrat? High-ranking state Democrats have apparently approached the billionaire CEO of Paychex Inc. and three-time gubernatorial candidate about seeking the party’s nomination for governor in 2006, his top political advisers said. And Golisano seems interested, realizing that being a third-party candidate likely won’t win him the governor’s mansion. He spent a record $74 million of his own money last year as the Independence Party candidate and finished a distant third behind Republican Gov. George Pataki and Democrat Carl McCall. “There have been a lot of high-level people in the party that have suggested that to him, and...

<p>ALBANY — Billionaire B. Thomas Golisano spent more than $73.9 million on his losing third-party bid for governor, topping the non-presidential spending record set just last year by Michael Bloomberg in winning the New York City mayor’s race, according to campaign records filed Monday.</p>

Golisano's special announcement is that he is staying in the race ..... developing ....

<p>JUST two weeks to Election Day, Rochester billionaire Thomas Golisano has transformed Upstate into "Golisano Country" with an audaciously expensive media campaign and a tough anti-Pataki message widely seen as right on the mark.</p> <p>It's a breathtaking transformation for a region that George Pataki set on fire in 1994 with a stark set of conservative proposals that produced the massive voter turnout that enabled him to defeat then-Gov. Mario Cuomo.</p>

Statewide Poll Shows Pataki with Comfortable Lead 10/23/2002 5:00 PM (AP) A statewide poll released today has Governor Pataki leading Democratic challenger H. Carl McCall 44 percent to 25 percent in the gubernatorial race. The poll from Siena College-New York Report shows Independence Party candidate B. Thomas Golisano at 12 percent. An October fifth poll from the group had Pataki leading McCall, 43 percent to 26 percent, with Golisano at 11 percent. The telephone poll of 1,210 registered voters was conducted October 16th and 17th and has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Other...

New York, Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Daniel Mahony, a formercandidate for New York State lieutenant governor, was charged withelections law violations for allegedly voting twice in the 2000and 2001 general elections, the Manhattan District Attorney'soffice said in a press release.     Mahony was the running mate of gubernatorial candidate ThomasGolisano in the Conservative Party primary until newspaperspublished reports of voting irregularities. Mahony registered tovote under two names and two Manhattan addresses, prosecutorssaid.     ''The investigation revealed that in two consecutive generalelections -- Nov. 7, 2000 and Nov. 6, 2001 -- both 'Daniel F.Mahony' and 'Dan Mahoney' actually voted,'' Manhattan DistrictAttorney Robert...

<p>SYRACUSE -- George Pataki's ethics came under attack Sunday as Democratic challenger H. Carl McCall and billionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano sought to link the Republican governor to scandals involving his administration. McCall, the state comptroller, started the fireworks when he charged that Pataki's idea of economic development "is to provide contracts to relatives," a reference to an architect, who is a relative by marriage of the governor's wife, getting a lucrative State University of New York contract.</p>

NEW YORK -- Gov. George Pataki leads Democratic challenger H. Carl McCall by 11 points _ 39 percent to 28 percent _ among likely voters, according to a statewide poll. Independence Party candidate B. Thomas Golisano has 16 percent of the vote, with 15 percent undecided, according to The New York Times poll published on the newspaper's Web site Thursday. When undecided voters who lean toward one candidate or another are included, Pataki leads McCall, 42 percent to 31 percent, with Golisano at 17 percent and 8 percent undecided.

Pataki widens double-digit lead in poll Latest Quinnipiac survey has gap growing between governor and Democratic challenger McCall By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Last updated: 9:45 a.m., Wednesday, October 16, 2002 ALBANY -- Republican Gov. George Pataki's double-digit lead over Democratic challenger H. Carl McCall has widened over the past three weeks, a statewide independent poll reported today. The poll, from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, had the two-term governor leading the state comptroller, 47 percent to 31 percent, among likely voters, including those leaning toward a candidate. The Independence Party candidate, billionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano, was at 18...

Poll: McCall ranks third upstate By: James Franco October 10, 2002 ALBANY - Gubernatorial candidate H. Carl McCall has slipped into third place upstate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Siena College Research Institute and The New York Report. The same poll shows Gov. George E. Pataki with a 17 percent lead statewide over McCall, 43.2 percent to 26.1 percent; and a 32 percent lead over Independence Party candidate Tom Golisano, who came in with 11.3 percent. But, perhaps most disturbing to the McCall campaign is his 16.3 percent showing in upstate. Particularly when it is compared to...

Poll: Pataki lead unchanged Albany-- McCall unable to cut into double-digit gap month before election By ELIZABETH BENJAMIN, Capitol bureau First published: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 A statewide poll released Tuesday found Democratic gubernatorial hopeful H. Carl McCall has failed for three weeks to budge Republican Gov. George Pataki's double-digit lead. With just over one month to Election Day, Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion found Pataki leading McCall by 16 points -- 48-32 -- among likely voters, with Independence candidate B. Thomas Golisano receiving 9 percent of the vote. Nine percent of the 463 likely voters questioned said they...

Pataki tops Mccall 46 – 35 among likely voters; Golisano takes equal bite out of both candidates Republican Gov. George Pataki holds a 46 – 35 percent lead over State Comptroller H. Carl McCall among New York State likely voters, with 14 percent for Independence Party candidate Thomas Golisano, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This is the first look at likely voters, including those leaning towards a candidate, considered a more accurate measure than registered voters in the final weeks of a campaign. Among New York State registered voters, Gov. Pataki tops McCall 47 – 30 percent...

Thomas Golisano, the billionaire third party challenger in the governor’s race, wants to eliminate one of New York State’s most familiar institutions: the toll booth. Mr. Golisano, who is running for governor on the Independence Party line, said New York should consider removing tolls on its roads, bridges and tunnels. “By taking away toll booths,” Mr. Golisano told The New York Sun, “we would save a tremendous amount of taxpayer’s dollars by not having the infrastructure to collect all these tolls, and plus we could make people’s lives much more pleasant.” Mr. Golisano’s position at the intersection of tax-cutting and...

Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano wants to be a real player in the best little gubernatorial election big money can buy.He's already contributed big time to the pot. A vicious primary fight with the Pataki crowd over who would be the nominee on both the Independence and Conservative party lines in November's general election cost Golisano approximately $33 million out of his own pocket. Apparently, getting just one of those minor party lines, the Independence, was enough to consider it money well spent. Buoyed, cheered, enthused, Golisano could spend $40 million, $50 million, $100 million -- whatever it takes --...

Tom Golisano appeared to defeat Gov. George E. Pataki in the Independence Party primary for governor yesterday, a serious setback to Mr. Pataki in his bid for a third term. In the Democratic camp, H. Carl McCall won his party's nomination to run for governor in November. With nearly all precincts reporting early this morning, Mr. Golisano had 52.5 percent of the vote, to 47.5 percent for Mr. Pataki, a lead of just 900 votes. As many as 2,000 absentee ballots remained uncounted, many of them from New York City, where the governor ran strongest. Near 1 a.m., Adam Stoll,...

<p>August 26, 2002 -- ALBANY - Carl McCall's running mate for lieutenant governor, Dennis Mehiel, admitted yesterday that he fathered two out-of-wedlock children, with two different women, while married to his first wife.</p> <p>The bombshell revelation - prompted by Mehiel's knowledge that The Post was about to break the story - came two weeks before Mehiel and McCall face separate Democratic primary elections against Charles King and Andrew Cuomo.</p>

Multimillionaire businessman Tom Golisano has launched his long-awaited $50 million campaign for governor of New York. Golisano, the founder of Paychex, has run twice before as a Perot-style candidate. He is currently running in a primary contesting the Independent Party's official endorsement of New York Republican Gov. George Pataki. New Yorkers are being treated to endless commercials introducing Golisano. But some question his real agenda. One of Golisano's top advisers is Roger Stone, a close friend of and consultant to Donald Trump. Trump strongly opposes Pataki - based not on his record, which has been solid, but on the fact...

<p>A Conservative Party candidate for lieutenant governor appears to have broken the law by voting twice in the most recent mayoral and presidential elections, records obtained by The Post reveal.</p> <p>The candidate, Daniel Mahony, was registered to vote from two different addresses in Manhattan - and then may have cast ballots at two different polling places.</p>