NY Republicans are struggling for cash.

[rusty charly]

A six-month stretch of political fund-raising will end tomorrow for New York candidates, and the results, by all accounts, will be stark: Republicans are struggling, and in some cases competing with one another for cash.

The race for governor should yield a particularly sharp contrast, according to advisers to the two leading candidates. The Democrat, Eliot Spitzer, has about $15 million on hand, his allies say, and that is after spending $10 million on advertising already. The Republican, John Faso, is expected to report having $2 million to $3 million, and he has not advertised since an introductory television spot in February.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/nyregion/10repubs.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

But help is on the way for Mr. Faso: Gov. George E. Pataki and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani will hold fund-raising events for him, advisers to Mr. Faso say. And William F. Weld, a former rival of Mr. Faso's in the race, has also asked his top donors to help Mr. Faso.

Yet it is unclear whether any of this will stop Mr. Spitzer, who is well ahead of his Democratic opponent, Thomas R. Suozzi, in both fund-raising and opinion polls and who leads Mr. Faso by 50 percentage points in polls. Mr. Suozzi, the Nassau county executive, is expected to report having $1.5 million to $2 million on hand.

[jshafted]

1. 2 Simple Reasons for this:

1) As discussed in the Article, the Democrats in NY have the only viable candidates in this year's election,

2) Steve Minarik came up from Monroe County to rescue the state Republican party, because the GOP had done so well in Rochester, but Minarik, is, was, and will always be a petty little autocrat, who short-sightedly overlooked the power of the Conservative Party in his success in Monroe County, again and again