Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino announced his running mate in his bid to become New York governor in a Tuesday video on his website, robastorino.com.
Christopher Moss, sheriff of Chemung County and a vocal critic of Gov. Andrew Cuomo”™s gun control law called the SAFE Act, will share the ticket, Astorino said.
“I wanted an Albany outsider as a running mate to help me clean up this state and move it back into the winning column, and I got one,” he said.
The announcement came just one day ahead of the state Republican Party’s nominating convention, which will be held at the Westchester Hilton in Rye Brook Wednesday and Thursday.
Party leaders said that at the convention they will also support John Cahill, who was an aide to former Gov. George Pataki, to run for attorney general against incumbent Eric T. Schneiderman. Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci will receive the nod to run against incumbent state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
State Democrats will hold their nominating convention on Long Island next week. Cuomo will need to find a new lieutenant governor candidate prior to the convention, after current Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy said he wouldn”™t seek re-election this year.
