Not that there were many doubts, but Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino said, for sure, this morning, that he’ll finance his own campaign to take away new GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio’s spot on the GOP line:<\/p>\n
\nNEW YORK (AP) _ Republican Carl Paladino is mounting a
\nmultimillion dollar campaign to oust Rick Lazio as the GOP’s
\ndesignee to run for governor in New York.
\nThe Buffalo developer says he’ll use $10 million of his own
\nmoney in an effort to collect enough petition signatures to force a costly Sept. 14 primary, a contest Lazio’s campaign can’t easily
\nafford.
\nPaladino will use statewide tours and a continuing advertising
\ncampaign to argue that Lazio is unqualified for the job, and that
\nDemocratic nominee Andrew Cuomo is part of a corrupt Albany crowd.
\nLazio decisively beat Paladino at the GOP convention Wednesday,
\ndenying him even the 25 percent of delegates needed to
\nautomatically force a primary.
\nLazio, a former congressman from Long Island, had no immediate
\ncomment Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n