Lazio Picks Up Orange County GOP Nod
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- October
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Among the potential Republican candidates for governor next year, Erie County Executive Chris Collins is looking to regroup after comparing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to Adolf Hitler and an Antichrist, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani won’t say whether he will run until after next week’s election.
In the meantime, GOP candidate Rick Lazio is out picking up endorsements. After getting the endorsement in his home Suffolk County, the former congressman today announced the backing of Orange County Republican Chairman Bill DeProspo.
Here’s DeProspo’s statement:
“I am supporting Rick Lazio for Governor of New York because I believe he is the right candidate with the new ideas to turn New York state around. We need a candidate for Governor with a record of accomplishment and Rick Lazio is that candidate.
As a Congressman, he oversaw some of the most sweeping federal housing reforms in our lifetime, and helped author the first balanced budget in a generation. His proposal for a hard property tax cap will help ease the burden on working families here in Orange County and his plan to grow jobs is what the New York needs. Most importantly, New York desperately needs new leadership, and that’s why I’m supporting the one candidate who has promised to bring sweeping change to our Government. I wholeheartedly offer him my endorsement.”
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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. 
