In most cases, the Conservative Party's strategy is to endorse the same candidate as the Republicans, but to withhold their support from candidates they decide to be too liberal.
BUCKLEY, James Lane (1923-) Biographical Information (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001026), Congressional biography, the Conservative Party's former U.S. Senator.
Book review (http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2185/is_4_13/ai_86505632) of Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party by George Marlin.
In 1970, James Buckley, brother of William, was elected to the U.S. Senate as a ConservativeParty candidate; however, in 1976, he ran for reelection as a candidate of the Republican and ConservativeParties, losing to Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In the 2004 U.S. Senate election, the ConservativeParty endorsed Marilyn O'Grady to oppose Republican candidate Howard Mills and incumbent Democratic Senator Charles Schumer.
For example, the ConservativeParty withheld its support from Republican Rudy Giuliani's fusion campaigns for NewYork City mayor in 1989, 1993 and 1997; its lack of support in 1989 was one important factor in Giuliani losing that year.
Parties that previously had ballot access -- the Liberals, Greens and Right to Lifers -- are now too weak to overcome the state's arcane ballot access laws and the major-party lawyers to even get a whiff of being on the ballot here in Suffolk.
My announcement is this: A newstateparty is forming affiliated with the national American Reform Party, and it will run independent and reform-minded candidates in Suffolk County (and hopefully elsewhere) in 2005 and statewide candidates in 2006, hoping to get the minimum number of votes needed to attain official ballot status.
NewYorkState is one of the worst in the country in this regard.
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