{"id":10984,"date":"2014-11-25T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2014-11-25T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:39:16","slug":"more-on-the-election-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10984","title":{"rendered":"More on the election fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew eventually more details would come out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… In September 2013, more than a year before Cuomo<\/a> was up for reelection, Tishman Speyer President and Co-CEO Rob Speyer<\/a> summoned a select group to discuss the 2014 election: State Republican Chairman Ed Cox<\/a>, Republican Senate Conference Leader Dean Skelos,<\/a> then\u2013state GOP Executive Director Michael Lawler<\/a> and Republican Senate Counsel Robert Mujica<\/a> … The governor had asked him to call this meeting, Speyer explained, because like them, Cuomo wanted to keep the State Senate<\/a> in Republican hands.\u00a0 If the party ran a candidate who could potentially beat Cuomo in 2014, however, the governor would spend $40 million to defeat that candidate and Senate Republicans.\u00a0 Skelos responded first: The person they were considering was Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino<\/a>, he said.\u00a0 At this point, Astorino had not yet won re-election in Westchester.\u00a0 \u201cWell, that is the one candidate you can\u2019t run,\u201d said Speyer … After a heated back-and-forth, the meeting ended with no agreement …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That means the agreement came later after more was put on the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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