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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (696629)	8/14/2005 9:58:47 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

Former Democrat Seeks GOP Nomination for N.Y. Governor New York Secretary of State Randy Daniels, a former Democrat, wants to become the state Republican Party's first black nominee for governor - and the next George Pataki. Daniels hasn't yet formally announced his candidacy, but he's "all but raised his hand for such a bid," the New York Times reports. And now that Pataki has decided not to seek re-election, Daniels "is the default 2006 GOP front-runner - no one else is in the race yet," according to newyorkmetro.com. Daniels, a former CBS News foreign correspondent, has already hired campaign consultants and a staff, set up a campaign office and raised money. His staff includes former Pataki campaign manager Robert Ryan, former Pataki fundraiser Patrick Donohue, researcher Gary Maloney - who delved into Bill Clinton's draft-dodging past - and pollster John McLaughlin, who worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign. Many state Republicans are less than thrilled about Daniels' candidacy, citing a lack of name recognition and doubts that he could beat Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic front-runner. "It would be hard for an unknown to beat Spitzer," pollster John Zogby declared. But Daniels responds that party officials laughed at the little-known Pataki's hopes in 1994, adding that the time is ripe for a black Republican candidate. "The party leadership wants an upstater who'll pump the GOP's traditional suburban and upstate base," said Daniels, 53. "But New York's changed. Upstate's losing population, and middle-class minorities are turning the suburbs Democratic." Daniels was appointed secretary of state by Pataki in 2001, after calling himself a "Pataki Democrat," and switched party affiliation the following year.