Rick Lazio is pissed that Steve Levy switched parties and will try for the GOP nomination for Governor. The Conservatives are sticking with Lazio for now. If Lazio had a solid base of support, which he doesn’t, he would have locked up both nominations a long time ago.
Levy met with local Tea Party people. I know one local activist who queried Levy specifically on gun issues. He was later e-mailed an excerpt from an old SAFE newsletter from ’06 regarding Levy’s support of keeping the Suffolk Trap & Skeet Range open.
NewsCopy thinks the RKBA will be a problem for Levy:
“… Tea Party leaders met with Levy last week. Some walked out. Others expressed disappointment over his dodging of issues. His failure to articulate support of Second Amendment rights also will doom him with Conservatives statewide and most of upstate New York north of White Plains …”
Yet another GOP contender has surfaced: Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino who is being backed by moneybags Tom Golisano. He articulates support for the RKBA in this video message at 0:20:
According to PolitickerNY, if Paladino doesn’t get CP backing he will create a Tea Party ballot line.