Giuliani Notes: New York Moves Presidential Primary to February 5, 2008
Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, right, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Benjamin Baer, chairman of the U.S Parole Commission, pose in undercover clothes in this July 9, 1986 file photo, after D’Amato bought what he later told a news conference were vials of crack on a New York City street. D’Amato, dressed in a fatigue cap and Eisenhower jacket, made the buy with an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Long before he became mayor of New York or the Republican front-runner for the presidency, Giuliani made a name for himself as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Manhattan. During a nearly seven-year stretch ending in 1989, Giuliani steered dozens of high-profile cases to completion, garnering more than 4,000 convictions.
AP: New York moves its primary up to Feb. 5
Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed a bill Monday moving New York’s presidential primary to Feb. 5 — a change that could benefit the Democratic and Republican front-runners, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, both New Yorkers.
Nearly a dozen other states, including California and New Jersey, have already moved their primaries or caucuses to Feb. 5 or are about to do so. About a dozen more are considering such moves, setting the stage for what is quickly becoming known as “Super-Duper Tuesday” just 22 days after the leadoff Iowa caucuses.
“Moving the primary date to February, we will help secure New York’s large and diverse population an influential voice in selecting the 2008 presidential nominees,” said Spitzer.
Democrat Spitzer’s move is expected to mean a big early haul of national convention delegates for Clinton, a New York senator, and for Giuliani, a former New York City mayor. The two New Yorkers, respectively, lead national polls for the Democratic and Republican nominations.
New York had been scheduled to hold its primary on March 4 until Giuliani allies began pressing for the earlier date. The Clinton camp quickly gave its blessing to the move which won overwhelming approval from New York’s Republican-led state Senate and Democratic-controlled Assembly last month.
“It’s certainly good for both candidates from New York,” said former state GOP Chairman William Powers, a co-chairman of Giuliani’s New York campaign.
And good for Californians who are weary of being the funding machine for Presidential primary campaigns decided in small states like New Hampshire and Iowa.
Now, the money raised in California will stay in California with candidates ACTUALLY campaigning here.
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