Posted on 09/27/2010 9:57:11 AM PDT by Lauren BaRecall
NEW YORK – Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio on Monday withdrew from the race for governor, a decision that helps the tea party candidate who beat Lazio in the Republican primary.
Lazio told The Associated Press that he wants to continue to influence the race and bring a workable job-creation program into a contest he says has devolved into name-calling between Republican Carl Paladino and Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Yes! I’m one of them!
Mike Long wanted Lazio.
This is interesting - a recap of the entire election cycle so far. Link takes you directly to the Conservatives section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2010#Conservative
If you ever decide to escape the pressure, come on down to Texas. This former NYer still cherishes her memories of life in NY, but LOVES life in Texas.
If you ever decide to escape the pressure, come on down to Texas. This former NYer still cherishes her memories of life in NY, but LOVES life in Texas.
‘I wonder what was up earlier that they wouldn’t endorse him?’
They wanted (and expected) that Lazio would be the Republican nominee. The Conservative Party usually endorses GOP candidates for Governor and Presidential Elector.
Not necessarily. Paladino will likely run as a fusion candidate who will get Republican votes, Conservative votes, and Taxpayers Party vote, (as he is fact is the creator of that line, designed for his own use for his Tea Party base.)If the Conservative party doesn’t get 50,000 votes, it will disappear as a Party. I’m not sure about the technicalities of this , but if ALL THREE lines are presented on a ballot with Paladino;s name attached to all of them, it matters not how many in what proportion on each line, and he’d SURELY get more than 50K on the Conservative Party line. This is a favor he could do to Mike Long, chairman of the NY Conservative Party, to help him keep his party alive, even though with a Paladino win, there might not be much need for them. OTOH, Lazio has said he wants to remain active and have input going forward , so I suppose there MIGHT be room for the Conservative Party after all, just in a capacity for something that participates in and through a winning Repub/ Conserv/ Taxpayer’s Administration (Paladino’s), but has given up running in elections. After Paladino’s win, the Conservative Party may in fact be resurrected depending on how it wields whatever power and influence it has left, and how well Paladino might be able to work with them.
“in a state where Donkeys outnumber Elephants 2-1 ?”
When registered voter turnout comes in well under 50% in a non-prez election year, it’s all about who GOTV!
Advantage Tea Parties and the Rs.
Just saw video of Lazio on Fox.
Lazio said that Cuomo couldn’t fix NY period, however, Lazio also doubted that Palladino could do the job either.
So much for supporting the Republican Rick! Why didn’t he just come right out and support Palladino?
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This may just be a microcosm of what's happening nationwide in the Tea Parties...there's a pretty large swath that may not even ID themselves as part of the Tea Parties, but they sympathize and will probably vote with them.
Hopefully soon more and more of those kind of people will be able to openly identify themselves with the TP movement.
He can always switch parties like that douchebag Spectre.
Thanks for that info.
I will program my TV to record Hannity at midnight.
I’d like to hear the way he said it.
I am involved here in NY in a congressional campaign
for the 17th district, and have met and talked with Paladino months ago and liked him.
He has a good chance of winning, and this is something I instinctively feel from a pretty deep immersion here as I watch the Republican Establishment just doing what it always does, as if controlled by robots. It’s getting too late for them to read the writing on the wall, but I know some of these people, and ,and my feeling is that within a week, they’ll be issuing statements backing Paladino. There will be no future for them anymore in this state, with their hit-and-miss record in winning primaries and elections, with Cuomo as Governor, but there will be with Paladino as Governor. They are tentative,finger-in-the-wind, afraid to go out on a limb, as the Republican Establishment everywhere has been, but in a thousand small ways, all that is changing day by day.
I don’t think there’ll be any future for them to join Karl Rove’s current GOP project either, which is as foolish, counterproductive, and benighted an ‘initative’ as I have ever seen. I think even Rove will give up on it before Nov.2, when he looks around as sees what scant company he’ll have to lord it over.
No, it’s just irritation over how he seemed to defer to H. Clinton repeatedly, much as another New Yorker, Jack French Kemp, kept doing with Algore in 1996 “debate”.
Why can’t the Conservatives give their line to Paladino since their candidate dropped out and early voting hasn’t begun? They just had their primary on the 14th.
They still need to take care of the different Lt. Governor candidates running with Paladino.
Thanks>
Anything I can do to help!
I also just saw your excellent vanity post citing the NYT article, and forwarded it to friends within our campaign.
We here in the lower reaches of NY are in such an interesting position, with a contested primary in the 17th, that I’ll have to post it here on FR sometime in my capacity of an unofficial historian on internecine squabbling among people all after the same goal but who get sidetracked into being locked in wasteful mortal combat with one another, on the road to getting there.
(That was a bad sentence, but I have no time to correct it)
If you want a bigger smile on your face, read all my posts here, as I’ve got thousands of them. You know how to do the search,no?
Gosh, what a compliment! Thank you. :-) I hope my post can help the cause in some way.
Lifelong NYCer here, but I’ve always gotten a kick out of people in these here parts refering to Croton as being “upstate.” One good thing, out of many, about these Paladino threads has been the way that conservatives from all over the state are unifying, and posters from other states can see that there *is* an authentically conservative population in NY.
And as far as searching goes, if it exists, I can find it. :-)
One more thing - it’s not internecine if the battle is between a RINO and a conservative. RINOs are very much on the enemy side of the ledger, the same as Dems. And, IMO, we won’t win back anything unless we see them that way.
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