Also: Democrats duke it out for Attorney General.
Mike Sawicz, event director of the Carl Paladino gubernatorial campaign, tapes up posters for a rally at Oneida Shores Park in Brewerton on Sunday afternoon. About a dozen people waited tonight at Oneida Shores Park for Paladino to show up for a rally. By 6 p.m., an hour after the rally was to start, Paladino had not arrived. A campaign official said he was running late, but on his way. A recent poll shows Paladino and Rick Lazio in a dead heat in the GOP race for governor.From New York Daily News:
A hopeful Rick Lazio said he has nothing to fear when voters cast ballots on Tuesday - even as polls show his Republican rival for the gubernatorial nomination breathing down his neck. ... "Sure, it's getting close, but I've done so much in the public and private sectors that I'm not worried about this election," Lazio said Sunday. ...
Lazio had a wide lead after emerging as his party's handpicked candidate from its convention last spring, but he has since lost ground to Carl Paladino, a deep-pocketed Buffalo developer who's run an insurgent challenge with the support of right-wing Tea Party groups.
A Siena College poll over the weekend showed the two candidates in a dead heat.
» Read the full story: GOP governor hopeful Rick Lazio is 'very confident' - but big lead against Carl Paladino is gone [New York Daily News]
» Siena poll has Lazio, Paladino tied [Politico]
» Paladino sends garbage-scented mailers that say Albany stinks [The New York Times]
Meanwhile, the five Democratic candidates for Attorney General are making their last appeals to voters:
» In Attorney General Race, Democrats Make Final Pitch [The New York Times]
» Mud flies between Attorney General rivals [New York Post]