Posted at cpnys.org:
With no budget in sight it is time to revist the Conservative Party Plan to Halt the Demise of NYS
According to wikipedia: The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party active in the state of New York. It is not part of any nationwide party, nor is it affiliated with the American Conservative Party, which it predates by over 40 years.
The Conservative Party of New York State was founded in 1962 by a group including J. Daniel Mahoney, Charles E. Rice, and Charles Edison, out of frustration with the perceived liberalism of the state’s Republican Party. A key consideration was New York’s fusion voting, almost unique among US states, allowing candidates to accumulate separate votes from more than one party. This was being used by the Liberal Party of New York to encourage Republican and Democratic candidates to compete for left-leaning support.
The Conservative Party founders hoped to balance the Liberal Party’s influence. An early supporter was National Review founder William F. Buckley, who served as the party’s candidate for mayor of New York City in 1965. In 1970, William’s brother James Buckley was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Conservative Party candidate; in 1976, he ran for reelection as a candidate of the Republican and Conservative Parties, losing to Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In the 2004 U.S. Senate election, the Conservative Party endorsed Marilyn O’Grady to oppose Republican candidate Howard Mills and incumbent Democratic Senator Charles Schumer.
The Conservative Party of New York State has often been aligned with Catholic voters and candidates.
Rather than nominating its own candidates, the Conservative Party usually endorses the same candidates as the Republican Party and campaigns against the Democratic candidates. It withholds this support from the Republicans if it deems them too liberal.
Schumer is a lock anyway. With those cool glasses and his easy listening voice… he’s practically a sex symbol!
Endorse Lazio and watch it all go up in smoke.