McCain Camp Files Delegate List
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- December
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New York supporters of John McCain’s presidential candidacy filed a list of 174 delegates at the state Board of Elections office in Albany who are backing the Arizona Republican.
The list includes Phil Boyle, a state assemblyman from Long Island; former U.S. Rep. Amo Houghton from Corning; and state Assemblyman Dan Burling of Wyoming County.
Others include former state Comptroller candidate Chris Callaghan; and John Fleming, executive assistant to Yonker’s Mayor Phil Amicone.
“They are part of a grassroots team of men and women volunteers who believe that John McCain’s courageous service, experienced leadership and bold ideas uniquely qualify him to lead America in these perilous times,” said Ed Cox, McCain’s New York chairman, son-in-law of the late President Nixon and a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York.
The Board of Elections said McCain is the first GOP candidate to file a list of delegates. The board is supposed to receive all the candidates’ delegates by year’s end to verify their voting status.
However, Republicans have a winner-take-all system in New York primaries, so voters will vote for the candidate, not delegates.
Democrats, meanwhile, vote for the candidate and then delegates to send to the party’s convention in mid-2008.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
RE: Rudy and the Early States
Rudy would not even be in this GOP race, if many of the States did not move up their primary dates.
Rudy is sending troops to NH to prevent a complete embarrassment of him losing in the early states and the press stories which will follow. Polls indicate this. Many weeks lie between the next set of States to vote in a primary.
That being said;
The ONLY way for Rudy can win this thing is to continue “Splitting” of the votes of the Conservative Candidates such as Mitt, Thompson, Huckabee, McCain and Thompson. (Rudy sneaks in)
If Rudy should win this GOP race…
The GOP Social Conservatives will sit home by the millions and hand this election to Clinton.
This has happened before in history and gave the Republican Party Ronald Reagan the following term as the end of the road came to the “Rockafeller Republicans”
Staten island “Team Concept” (Guy Molinari) & many in State GOP…..CLEARLY has no clue of politics in other Social Conservative States.
In fact two GOP Operatives have stated this concern to me just about a week ago.
On another matter, Two GOP camps I have contact with report changes in their polls in just the last week or so. (Actual both sides Dem & GOP show changes) and so I concur with recent reports of the recent Clinton decline and the further decline of Rudy support in the early states.
That said, RTL’s, ACU & 2A’s are working their butts off and continue the rally cry and threat to the GOP to somehow and someway remove the field and crown ONE Conservative where all can rally behind for remaining State primaries.
Jim Kelly – NY Conservative Campaigns