DioGuardi validators make final push

Blakeman, with Blakeman signs. (Jimmy VIelkind / Times Union)

NEW YORK — On the docket today for Republicans: the selection of a challenger against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

David Malpass, Joe DioGuardi and Bruce Blakeman are all vying for the job, and while Blakeman has secured the endorsements of many party leaders, DioGuardi got a major boost last week when he was nominated by the Conservative Party.

He released this letter to delegates — signed by the chairs of the Westchester, Bronx and Schenectady County Republican parties — urging support for his candidacy.

Dear Delegate,

Republicans have a real opportunity to take back the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand, and we believe that only Joe DioGuardi can make this happen. Here are the reasons why:

A May 11 Marist poll showed that if a Republican primary were held today, 31 percent of voters would cast their ballots for Joe, while his opponents would receive 13 and 12 percent, respectively.
Joe DioGuardi is the official nominee of the Conservative Party.
Joe has the inside track on the Independence Party.
No one can win the “blue” State of New York without securing all three lines, and Joe DioGuardi is the only candidate who can bring all three lines together.
Unlike Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and most current and former Members of Congress, Joe DioGuardi is a Certified Public Accountant and an expert in government accounting. Joe has the experience and commitment to restore fiscal responsibility to the U.S. government and to create the conditions for job growth. Every poll in New York and across the nation shows that these are the issues that Americans want their legislators to address.

Without the united support of the Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties, our vote will be split, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has a proven record of irresponsible spending, will march to victory in November.

We all know that the NY State Republican Party is divided, and that New Yorkers are watching and waiting to see if our fractured party will come together. We hope that you will not succumb to those who are trying to divide our party for their own purposes. A primary would be a dysfunctional and costly outcome of this convention. A primary would remove this Senate race from the national stage and marginalize the New York State Republican Party for years to come. A primary would insure that Kirsten Gillibrand returns to Capitol Hill. As a GOP delegate, you can make a difference. Please cast your vote on Thursday, June 3, for Joe DioGuardi.

Joseph “Jay” Savino
Bronx County Chair & Region 2 Vice Chair
Douglas Colety
Westchester County Chair & Region 3 Vice Chair
Thomas Buchanan
Schenectady County Chair

  1. chumley says:

    This convention must finally do something right and unite behind Joe DioGuardi. Senator and Comptroller are waiting to be taken back.

    The letter omits one major credential-his daughter.

  2. Lando Griffin says:

    As I posted yesterday, COx shold pull a real game-changer: Draft Betsy Mccaughey to run for Senate. She can beat Gillibrand and would be a true challenger to Schumer and the Obama agenda in Washington. In fact, she would be the only (hopeful) candidate qualified to lead the repealing of Obamacare.
    As far as support for her candidacy, especially against the Dems’ weakest link in NY, if the reception she receved at the COnservative COnvention, yesterday’s Republican COnvention breakfast and various tea party events, McCaughey is the right choice.
    Show some guts, Mr. Cox, and go for the win.

  3. Bumi says:

    Can’t see why anyone wants to run vs. Schumer or Gillibrand. Truly psychotic.

  4. Stephen says:

    With the Conservative Party backing Joe DioGuardi, the GOP should follow suit and nominate Joe today! DioGuardi has the passion and sending a CPA to the Senate is what New York and Washington needs.

  5. Nassau Nell says:

    If Joe’s daughter works the delegates, he might pull it out….

  6. devtob says:

    Lando — serial liar Betsey McCaughey would have zero chance of beating Gillibrand.

    Because nobody trusts her or likes her.

  7. Lando Griffin says:

    The only people who have called McCaughey a “serial liar” are politicians and their left-talk lackeys who are trying to protect an egenda. If McCaughey is a “serial liar” as you put it and you believe the POLITICIANS who “deny, deny, deny” are altruistic, then asnwer these questions for me:

    1. Why is it that Obama’s union buddies took something that McCaughey found in the second ObamaCare bill (the 40% excise tax on certian health care plans) and fight with the administration and Congress until they got a special exemption? Yes, dev — it was McCAUGHEY’s research that prompted this.

    2. Why is it that there was no real response (aside from the customary name-calling) to her revealing of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s plan for health care rationing when he was put in charge of the Obamacare potential decision-making panel?

    3. Why is it that Pelosi, Reid and Obama had to hide ALL of the third ObamaCare bill from the public from scrutiny before passing it with backdoor deals and soon-to-be-broken “executive orders?” (the answer is easy: because McCaughey would once again expose the TRUTH)

    4. Why is is that a Health care bill was laden with expensive PC policy (loads of money for “Social justice” programs, etc) — with a relatively small fraction of the overall bill devising an actual plan to cover Americans (and not all of them as promised)?

    5. …and why is it that the only people who call McCaughey a “liar” are those who are either never read the bill or are trying to cover up what is in it?

    All of this is in the healthcare law (and/or previous bills). McCahughey may not beb popular with the 30% Left-side base in NY, but they would never vote for anyone to the right of Mario Cuomo anyway. Factor in actual independents who are true intelligent skeptics of the current federal leadership’s motives (as we all should be when bill content is hidden from the public) and McCaughey would likely defeat Gillibrand quite handily — especially if the two get into a debate (the chronic upspeak will destroy the woman in lieu of a Senator).

  8. Lando Griffin says:

    and I should have checked my typos – I should have typed “agenda” right in the first paragraph…

  9. I attended the convention yesterday. I hope it was D’Amato’s last gasp of control over statewide elections. Malpass or DioGuardi should have won.

    Blakeman’s vanity posters (he had to use his face because he had no other credentials) were creepy. That alone should have cost him the nomination!

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