Rangel Wins N.Y. Primary; DioGuardi Wins Senate Nod
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New York Democrats nominated U.S. Representative Charles Rangel, the subject of a House ethics investigation, for a 21st term while Republicans chose a former U.S. lawmaker and a businessman to run for the state’s two U.S. Senate seats.
In yesterday’s party primaries, former Representative Joseph DioGuardi, 69, defeated fellow Republicans David Malpass, a former Bear Stearns Cos. chief economist, and Bruce Blakeman, a lawyer, for the right to take on Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Nov. 2 election. The winner will serve the two years remaining in the term won in 2006 by Hillary Clinton, now U.S. secretary of state. DioGuardi, a House member from 1985-89, also is the nominee of New York’s Conservative Party.