State GOP Boss: Don’t Forget Us, McCain
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State GOP Chairman Joseph Mondello held a meeting of county chairmen today in Albany that he described as a pep rally to get the party energized for the fall elections.
In addition to trying to find strong candidates for state Senate races and upstate congressional seats, Mondello said he recently had a one-on-one meeting with Republican presidential candidate John McCain urging him that he can win New York—despite the 5-to-3 Democratic enrollment edge in the state.
“We should not just walk away from New York, that New York is a state that he could carry,” Mondello said he told McCain.
McCain told him, “he has no intention to walk away from New York. ”
A Quinnipiac poll last month found Hillary Clinton tops McCain 50 – 40 percent in New York, while Barack Obama is ahead 49 – 38 percent.
Ed Cox, McCain’s New York chairman, spoke to the roughly 50 county chairs in attendance, as did Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
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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. 
