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RUDY GIULIANI got Lame GOP invite. New York's best-known Republican will skip next week's state GOP nominating convention because of what party officials claim was a "scheduling" conflict.....Giuliani was only indirectly invited to the major GOP event by a party functionary---and was never directly asked to attend by either state GOP chairman Stephen Minarik or by Gov. Pataki......"It doesn't sound like Pataki was especially interested in having him there," said a longtime GOP activist...... GOP officials insisted that Giuliani....wouldn't be at next week's convention - because he'd be out of town. But his spokeswoman told The Post that the former...