McCain Files Delegate List in New York
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- December
- 27
New York supporters of John McCain’s presidential candidacy filed a list of 174 delegates at the state Board of Elections office in Albany who are backing the Arizona Republican.
The list includes Phil Boyle, a state assemblyman from Long Island; former U.S. Rep. Amo Houghton from Corning; and state Assemblyman Dan Burling of Wyoming County.
Others include former state Comptroller candidate Chris Callaghan; and John Fleming, executive assistant to Yonker’s Mayor Phil Amicone.
“They are part of a grassroots team of men and women volunteers who believe that John McCain’s courageous service, experienced leadership and bold ideas uniquely qualify him to lead America in these perilous times,” said Ed Cox, McCain’s New York chairman, son-in-law of the late President Nixon and a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York.
The Board of Elections said McCain is the first GOP candidate to file a list of delegates. The board is supposed to receive all the candidates’ delegates by year’s end to verify their voting status.
However, Republicans have a winner-take-all system in New York primaries, so voters will vote for the candidate, not delegates.
Democrats, meanwhile, vote for the candidate and then delegates to send to the party’s convention in mid-2008.
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