Ny Conservatives like GOP VP pick
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 New Yorkers will not be shocked to learn that the state Conservative Party isn’t worried about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign-policy experience.
“Sen. McCain chose a woman who has shown reform can be achieved in government and has proven so by slashing pork-barrel spending,’’ said state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long about the GOP pick for the vice presidential nomination.
Palin, 44, elected governor in 2006, “has a proven record conservatives can be proud of,’’ Long 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. 
