Is Giuliani Plotting To Take Over State GOP?
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On the heels of a report today that Rudy Giuliani may be pushing his top advisor to be the next head of the state GOP, some Republicans see the move as a plot by Giuliani to help pay off his $3 million presidential campaign debt.
“He’d have a platform from which to be able to do that much more easily,” one Republican source said of the possibility of his top aide Anthony Carbonetti becoming state GOP chairman.
Giuliani is about $3 million in the hole after his failed presidential bid, and he’s been telling Republicans that he’ll only do fund raisers for them if they help him pay off his debt, according to a source.
The potential Giuliani move comes as other Republicans leaders are looking to Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-Clarence, Erie County, to take over for current GOP chairman Joseph Mondello.
Reynolds met recently with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue, but another Republican source said Reynolds wouldn’t take the job.
“He’s not doing it,” the source said.
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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. 
