Rick Lazio

Almost Half of Judge Candidates Unqualified to Run, Says NY Bar

​Nearly half the candidates running for city judgeships in this year's general election on November 2 are unqualified to run, the New York City Bar Association said yesterday. Of the 34 candidates running in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, 15 are unqualified by the Bar's reckoning ... More >>

Rick Lazio Drops Out of Governor's Race; Andrew Cuomo vs. Carl Paladino Is On

Lazio​Rick Lazio is dropping out of the governor's race, he announced today. He'll also withdraw from the Conservative Party. This follows his significant loss to Carl Paladino in the primaries, and sets the stage for a battle royale between Andrew Cuomo and Paladino. To the pain!

Rick Lazio Supporters Wonder What the Hell Happened

​By Samantha Cook "I feel very comfortable about where we are," Rick Lazio told voters during a meet and greet session at New York Penn Station just hours before upstart Carl Paladino destroyed him in the Republican gubernatorial primary, winning 64 percent of the vote compared to Lazio's 36 ... More >>

Rick Lazio Gets the Big Campaign Bucks from JPMorgan

By Nicole Maffeo and Gavin Aronsen Just how far has Republican Rick Lazio strayed from 270 Park Avenue in his campaign for governor? That's the address of JPMorgan Chase, where Lazio actively served as managing director until announcing his gubernatorial bid last year. (For details on his performa ... More >>

Carl Paladino Sounds Off on Gubernatorial Rival Rick Lazio's Chummy Corporate Past

By Adam Schwartzman Carl Paladino, real estate mogul and Rick Lazio's main competition for the Republican nomination in the upcoming gubernatorial election, was not surprised at Wayne Barrett's recent and painfully explicit exposé of Lazio's corporate past. He relayed some of his thoughts in ... More >>

Inside Rick Lazio's Biggest Wall Street Deal—The Chummy E-Mails

Diverting nearly a billion in retiree benefits into subprime risk? Oh, just watch him work the e-mail.

This Week in the Voice: Subprime Candidate - Inside Rick Lazio's Biggest Wall Street Deals

​In 2007, current New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio was a JPMorgan Chase executive, one who sent emails like all the other JPMorgan executives. The difference, though? Some of Lazio's emails -- which the Village Voice has now obtained and published -- show the details of just how inv ... More >>

Rick Lazio Running For Governor Next Year?

Rick Lazio spokesman Kevin Fullington has been giving us video lessons for the last couple of days about the size of the state's deficit, tossing a $40 billion number around to scare and befuddle. One number he definitely didn't get right, even as he stood before a chalkboard, is the year his candi ... More >>

It's Rick Lazio for the GOP As Wild-Eyed Radical Republicans Take a Beating

​Today was Day Two of the state Republican Party convention and the hot and heavy action on the delegate floor came early and often. These were rock-solid Republicans filling the big ballroom at the Sheraton Towers in midtown, but for all their rhetoric, they could just as easily have been an ... More >>

When Rick Lazio Loved Andy Cuomo

By Scott Greenberg Speaking earlier this month about Andrew Cuomo's 1997-2000 tenure at HUD, gubernatorial rival Rick Lazio blasted him: "He was the head of an agency that was the worst-rated agency in the federal government, which is really saying something." That's the exact opposite of what Laz ... More >>

Rick Lazio: Memo Shows Intent to Demonize Immigrants For Votes

​By Scott Greenberg and Alana Horowitz Hillary Clinton ran an ad in 2000 that accused Rick Lazio as being the "wolf that passes for Little Red Riding Hood" in a wrangle over Latino votes. Turns out she was right. The Voice uncovered an internal memo from gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio' ... More >>

Rick Lazio's History of Fearmongering with 'Misinformation' on Health-Care Reform. We Dig Up a Memo.

Lazio needed health care in 2000 when he fell and busted his lip in front of everyone on the first day of his futile Senate campaign. See Jon Stewart's clip.By Scott Greenberg Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's "Stop Obamacare" campaign sounds suspiciously like one of his fearmongering strategies ... More >>

People's Champion? Rick Lazio Is a Wall Street Creature

His fingerprints are all over the recent economic collapse

Lazio - Levy Battle Over Secret Tapes, Thanks to Voice

​Not that this story ranks anywhere on the new Gawk-O-Meter by which all things Web are now measured, but we still take small satisfaction that a few lines in a Voice story this week prompted live grenades to be tossed back and forth between the two leading contenders for the Republican nomina ... More >>

Rick Lazio, Embattled GOP Candidate for Governor, Gets Unofficial Conservative Party Nod

Levy and Lazio​Long Island Republican Rick Lazio, who faces primary challenges from the left and right for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, got a boost today when he won the endorsement of the Executive Committee of Mike Long's Conservative Party in Brooklyn. Since its founding, the Co ... More >>

Eric Cantor, Dan Senor Host Fundraiser for Tea Party Candidate in NY-1

​Via Elizabeth Benjamin in the Daily News, House Minority Whip (and Republican Rebranding specialist) Eric Cantor will be a special guest tonight at a fundraiser for self-funding millionaire Suffolk County House candidate Randy Altschuler. On the host committee: Bush loyalist, Iraq Coalition a ... More >>

Rick Lazio 7 Points Ahead of Soon-to-Be-Ex-Governor Paterson: Poll

Governor Paterson launched his election campaign this weekend in a whirlwind tour of Rochester, West Seneca, and Manhattan. Thus buoyed, he told Arnold Schwarzenegger in D.C. today that "I'm the Teflon Governor." You know the poor man can't get away with that kind of good cheer without something ba ... More >>

David Paterson Announces for Governor, Loses Rick Lazio's Support

​Incumbent Governor David Paterson is portraying himself as outsider candidate for Governor, and to some extent that's true. He famously doesn't have Obama's support, reportedly doesn't have the support of state Democrats, and most certainly doesn't have the support of the local press. Still, ... More >>

Rick Lazio Shows Bill Belichick Fear in Governor's Race

Lazio has much to lose if Paterson doesn't give Cuomo a good fight​Rick Lazio had Bill Belichick-like palpitations this week. The GOP gubernatorial candidate rushed to the defense of incumbent Democratic governor David Paterson twice, issuing statements railing about the New York ... More >>

Rick Lazio Denounces Andrew Cuomo for Not Actively Running Against Him

​Presumed (because unopposed at the moment) Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio has found a winning campaign strategy: Don't attack the Governor, attack the man everyone thinks is going to shove the Governor aside for this year's race, Andrew Cuomo. And don't attack him on issues -- ... More >>

Rick Lazio Calls for Constitutional Convention, One House to Rule Them All

Remember the flurry of interest this summer in a New York state constitutional convention from politicians and voters? The voters may be climbing down from the threat, but Rick Lazio is still ready to capitalize on it in his race for governor. The man best known for losing to Hillary Clinton in h ... More >>

George Pataki for Senate?

George Pataki has met with the head of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee and is apparently considering a run for the Senate. Maybe those weak poll numbers for Kirsten Gillibrand have encouraged him. The free-spending former governor once had presidential ambitions, but those were dif ... More >>

Rick Lazio for Governor?

You may remember Rick Lazio, who as a boyish Republican congressman ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate and disastrously invaded her space in a debate. Having since leaving the house enriched himself at JPMorgan Chase, Lazio is said by the Times to be considering a run for the Governor's office. ... More >>

Amnesty Threat

Housing Authority Asks Residents to Fess Up and Pay

Stiffed by a Stiff

Waiting for That Check From Lazio. And Waiting. And Waiting.

Dead Man Losing

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Rick Lazio

Campaign Classics

Tales From the Trail About Green, Zogby, Powers, and Zuckerman

Lazio's Campaign Manager Works Miracle: Three Defeats in One Year

Megabuck Salary and Powerhouse Reputation Can't Buffer Candidates From Loss

Hillary Clinton, Because Muscle Matters

The Senate

Tales of Rick

A Son of the Suburbs' Trail to the Senate

National GOP Abandons New York and Lazio; Chief Strategist Goes MIA

Where's the Republican's Expensive Hired Gun When He Needs Him? Michigan.

The Post's Predictable Pollster

Surges and Soft Money

Born to Be Mild

The Young Rick Lazio: Soul of an Old Machine

Nation

Hollywood Babble On

Easy, Senators! There’s enough money for everybody.

In 'Voluntary' Servitude

Tenants Vow to Boycott Lazio's Law

Many Happy Returns

Lazio Took a Smart Pill, His Tax Records Show

Don't Say Kaddish For Larry Kadish

To This Top GOP Donor, Soft Money Is the Name of the Game

Lazio Makes Industry Waves

2000 Campaign Could Affect Radio Access

Quick & Dirty

The Hidden Treasures Behind Lazio's Stock Deal

Loyal to a Vault

Lazio Breaks the Bank at His Neighborhood EAB Branch

Letters

Making Money Like Crazy

Out With the Poor, in With the Rich . . . and Into Lazio’s Coffers

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In the Land of Milk and Money

Lazio Has Made Mortgages Pay Off Big Time for His Campaign

Home Breaker: Doing Community Disservice

Lazio’s Housing Bill Was So Bad It Made D'Amato Seem Reasonable

Bias Ban in the Balance

Will Lazio Burn State Hate Crimes Bill's 'Chance in Hell'?

Lazio to CBS: I'm No Pansy

The Candidate Makes an Antigay Remark and Nobody Notices

Ricky Rich

Lazio Knows Where to Get the Big Bucks

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