Rick Lazio, former U.S. representative from Long Island, is a new partner in the law firm of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, LLP. He will head the firm’s first New York office. Lazio will focus on affordable housing ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio on Monday withdrew from the race for New York's governor, a decision that helps the chances of the tea party candidate who beat Lazio in the Republican primary.

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ALBANY (AP) — New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is still the runaway favorite to become the next governor, but that doesn’t mean voters are pleased with him or his campaign so far.

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ALBANY — Republican Rick Lazio’s statewide TV ad now airing frames a major question in the campaign for governor: Is it worse to have been a Wall Street lobbyist making more than $1 million, like Lazio; or to have been a public official collecting millions in campaign donations ...

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ALBANY — Despite a guy in a chicken suit following him, Republican candidate for governor Rick Lazio is refusing to debate Carl Paladino before the GOP primary. Paladino says that makes Lazio a chicken ...

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ALBANY — An influential Republican-Conservative leader endorsed GOP designee Rick Lazio over tea party-aligned challenger Carl Paladino on Tuesday in the race for the Republican nomination for governor.

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ALBANY — Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino has forced a Republican primary against Rick Lazio in the race for governor, challenging the party leaders’ choice to take on Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

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ALBANY (AP) — Republican Rick Lazio reported Friday that he has raised more than $3 million in his campaign for governor against Democrat Andrew Cuomo and possible GOP primary challenger Carl Paladino.

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ALBANY (AP) — Buffalo developer Carl Paladino has filed petitions in his effort to force a Sept. 14 Republican primary against Rick Lazio.

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NEW YORK CITY — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio on Tuesday called on his Democratic rival, Andrew Cuomo, to investigate the development of a $100 million mosque being planned near ground zero.

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NEW YORK CITY (AP) — New York’s Republican Party has chosen former Rep. Rick Lazio as its candidate for New York governor.

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ALBANY — With Gov. David A. Paterson out of the way, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s path to the governor’s mansion once occupied by his father has become much clearer, eliminating ...

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