Bad news for Ed Cox:

New York Republicans have chosen former Congressman Rick Lazio as their candidate for governor. The party endorsed the Long Islander on Wednesday at its convention in New York City.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy sought to force a GOP primary, but lost his chance. Levy is a Democrat who wants to run as a Republican. He needed more than 50 percent of the votes in a second ballot at the party’s convention, but mustered just less than 43 percent.
Lazio served in Congress from 1993 to 2001 and lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate election in 2000.