GOP leader: Cox would reconsider Senate race if Pirro quits

Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, will consider resuming his campaign for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if Jeanine Pirro quits the race, a top party leader said Friday.

Cox, considered Pirro's main competition for the Senate nomination, halted his campaign in October on the day that Republican Gov. George Pataki endorsed Pirro's candidacy. But, in recent days, a host of party leaders have called on the Westchester County district attorney to end her struggling campaign and run instead for state attorney general. Pirro has refused to heed that advice.

Onondaga County GOP Chairman Robert Smith said Friday he has kept in touch with Cox since October.

"What he has said to me, and which I am sure he will do, is that, depending upon the circumstances - and when the time comes, if it comes - he is seriously going to look at it and make a decision," the Syracuse-area party leader said.


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"Onondaga County GOP Chairman Robert Smith said Friday he has kept in touch with Cox since October."
Guess somebody had to.

LOL!