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January 5, 2010

Even in G.O.P., Lazio's Bid for Governor Is Hard Sell

New York Times, New York Times

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Rick A. Lazio is on a tear: ripping into corruption and cowardice in Albany, blasting state leaders’ addiction to spending and taxes, warning that New York is on the verge of losing a generation of job seekers to economic decline.

The former congressman Rick A. Lazio announced his candidacy as a Republican for governor of New York in September.

Rick A. Lazio, right, with Bob Davis, former Erie County Republican chairman, in Buffalo last month on a swing upstate.

“It breaks my heart,” Mr. Lazio, the former Long Island congressman, tells a few dozen Republicans here in the Finger Lakes. “People are fed up, they’re disgusted, they’re disillusioned, and they’re scared.”

Now comes the ask. “It...

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