N.Y. GOP Leaders Tell Pirro to Drop Out (NY Senate race)

[brooklynite]

ALBANY, N.Y. Dec 12, 2005 — New York's Republican Party leaders recommended Monday that Jeanine Pirro abandon her struggling campaign to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and instead run for state attorney general.

State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik said no vote was taken but that was the consensus of the county leaders. Rockland County Chairman Vincent Reda said the support for a Pirro switch was "overwhelming."

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Also, the state's county chairmen voted in favor of having former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld run for governor in his native New York, Minarik said.

Weld and former state Assembly Minority Leader John Faso pressed for the GOP's county chairmen to take the vote.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1397993