Because NYS GOP is an oxymoron.
Upstate needs its own state.
Yep, Pataki RUINED the NYS GOP state committee by installing his own butt boys, Treadwell & now Minerik.
Faso is a conservative republican and Pataki would pass as a liberal democrat, thus they will not support Faso as pataki still controls the GOP statwide organization which is comprised of 70 year olds who are patronage whores and couldn't get Mickey Mouse elected as dog catcher at Disney World.