Ed Cox

Michael Bloomberg made a hefty contribution towards Arnold Schwarzenegger's effort to get legislative redistricting in California.

But some other notable New Yorkers have opened up their wallets and given to another Schwarzenegger venture: his campaign committee. That's according to a financial report posted yesterday for Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Dream Team:  read more »

According to the polls, John McCain is either ahead of Giuliani in New York or pretty close to it.

But the McCain campaign's New York chairman, Ed Cox says there's no need to wait for February 5.

“The nomination is over. He’s got the nomination,” Cox told me when I saw him last night at a Martin Luther King celebration event in Manhattan, hosted by the Congress for Racial Equality. “He fits New York to a tee.”

What about Michael Bloomberg?

“If John McCain gets the nomination, I would predict that Bloomberg would not run because McCain occupies so much of the space that Bloomberg would want to take up,” Cox told me.

Ed Cox, the son-in-law of Richard Nixon who abandoned a bid for the 2006 Republican nomination for Senate against Hillary Clinton, is now the chairman of John McCain’s New York campaign. [The official announcement should be going out shortly.]

He and the New York national campaign’s executive director, Chris Cox (Ed's son), will be in Albany today filing with the state Board of Elections to show they have a slate of 174 delegates.

The list includes Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Teddy Roosevelt IV, former Chairman of the League of Conservation Voters, David Rosado, former New York State Senator, Chris Callaghan, former Saratoga County Treasurer and former candidate for New York State Comptroller and John Whitehead, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs and former United States Deputy Secretary of State.
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