Cox Gets 2 County Chairman Endorsements

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Vowing to “capture the Republican and Conservative nominations county by county,” Edward Cox announced yesterday endorsements from two GOP chairmen in his bid for the 2006 Senate nomination to take on Democratic incumbent, Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Mr. Cox, a son-in-law of President Nixon, is trying to blunt the drive by the Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine Pirro, for the GOP nod.


Mrs. Pirro, who announced her candidacy August 8, had been urged to enter the Senate race by 46 of the state’s 62 county chairmen, including Monroe County chairman, Stephen Minarik, who also is the state party chairman.


Mr. Cox has said Mrs. Pirro, who has supported abortion and gay rights, is too liberal to win needed Conservative Party backing. No Republican running statewide has won in New York since 1974 without the Conservative Party endorsement.

“In my judgment, Ed has the ideas, values, and ability to mount the most aggressive challenge to Senator Clinton,” the chairman of the Livingston County GOP, Lowell Conrad, said in a statement distributed by the Cox campaign.


“We are part of a political party that has a strong ideology. I have come to learn that Ed Cox firmly believes in that ideology,” added the Wayne County GOP chairman, Dan Olson.


Livingston County is just south of Rochester, where Mr. Minarik lives, while Wayne County is just to the east.


“Jeanine’s support is wide and deep, and we look forward to defeating Hillary in November 2006,” said a Pirro campaign spokesman Michael McKeon, when asked about the Cox endorsements.


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