Conservative Party May Endorse Republican Pirro
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The head of New York’s Conservative Party opened the door yesterday for a possible endorsement of Republican Jeanine Pirro if she can prove her mettle in the coming months as the strongest candidate to challenge Senator Clinton’s 2006 reelection bid.
But the state Conservative Party chairman, Michael Long, said the former Massachusetts governor, Bill Weld, a Republican now running for governor of his native New York, has “a much more difficult mountain to climb” to gain the politically important party’s backing.
No Republican running for statewide office in New York has won without Conservative Party backing in more than 30 years.
