EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Businessman, investor and restructuring expert Harry Wilson is jumping into this year\u2019s race for New York governor and is immediately putting $12 million of his own money behind his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.<\/p>\n“Rising crime, out of control taxes, skyrocketing cost of living, closed schools, corrupt politicians – New York needs a turnaround,” Wilson said Tuesday as he announced his candidacy, in a statement shared first nationally with Fox News.<\/p>\n
And Wilson took aim at Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, the clear front-runner for this year\u2019s Democratic nomination, who was sworn in last August as New York\u2019s first female governor, and her predecessor, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace amide multiple scandals.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ll repeal the Cuomo\/Hochul tax increases, tackle the high cost of living, end cashless bail, fire rogue district attorneys who don\u2019t enforce the law, and clean up the corruption in Albany,” Wilson pledged. “And if the politicians don\u2019t like it, they won\u2019t get paid.” <\/p>\n
Hochul, who entered the new year with an enormous $21 million campaign war chest, officially received the Democratic Party of New York\u2019s nomination last weekend. But the governor may still face competition from Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City public advocate Jumaane Williams, who are working to get their names on the June primary ballot.<\/p>\n
Wilson\u2019s jumping into a GOP nomination race that\u2019s being dominated by Rep. Lee Zeldin, an attorney and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and a four-term lawmaker who represents the state\u2019s 1st Congressional District in the eastern half of Long Island.<\/p>\n
Zeldin, a staunch ally of former President Trump, ended 2021 with $5.6 million in his campaign coffers. Also running for their party\u2019s nomination are Rob Astorino, the former Westchester County executive and 2014 GOP gubernatorial nominee, and Andrew Giuliani, who served in Trump\u2019s administration and is the son of former New York City mayor and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n
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\n Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., attends a press conference on Capitol Hill, on May 20, 2021, in Washington.
\n (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\nAs he enters the gubernatorial race, Wilson said he\u2019s launching a massive $12 million ad blitz starting statewide on Wednesday, and he\u2019s immediately hitting the campaign trail, with stops in 10 cities across New York over the next three days.<\/p>\n
And he plans to attend the New York State Republican Party convention, which kicks off at the beginning of next week in Nassau County. Thanks to the slew of county and local party endorsements Zeldin\u2019s landed since launching his campaign 10 months ago, the congressman is poised to be the GOP\u2019s official pick for governor. That means Wilson will need to get his name on the primary ballot through the petition process.<\/p>\n
“This is our last, best chance to turn around New York,” Wilson stressed. <\/p>\n
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\n New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Annex in the Brooklyn borough of New York Jan. 20, 2022.\u00a0
\n (Paul Frangipane\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\nAnd Wilson, who spent years turning around failing organizations and businesses, said “we will do whatever it takes to save this state. The career politicians and insiders have run the state into the ground, but it\u2019s not too late to turn it around. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve spent my life doing, and, for the sake of 20 million New Yorkers, this is the most important turnaround yet.”<\/p>\n
This is Wilson\u2019s second Republican statewide run in New York. In 2010, he came close to defeating Democratic incumbent comptroller Tom DiNapoli, losing by less than three points in the heavily blue state. He also mulled but decided against running for governor in 2018, when Cuomo was re-elected to a third term.<\/p>\n
Wilson was raised in a working-class family in Johnstown, New York. His father, a son of Greek immigrants, was a bartender. His mother, who immigrated from Greece, worked in a sewing factory. <\/p>\n
“To pay for college, cleaned toilets in the dorms, bartender, whatever it took to get the job done,” Wilson says in a video launching his campaign.<\/p>\n
He eventually earned an MBA from Harvard University.<\/p>\n
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\n Businessman, investor and restructuring expert Harry Wilson on Tuesday Feb. 22, 2022, jumped into the race for New York governor and is immediately putting $12 million of his own money behind his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
\n (Harry Wilson campaign)<\/span><\/p>\nWilson worked for Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs before becoming a partner at Silver Point Capital. He later founded his own advisory firm and last year was named CEO of Genesis HealthCare.<\/p>\n
He also served as a senior Treasury Department adviser during former President Obama\u2019s administration. In 2009, he was a key member of the team that oversaw the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler after they were bailed out by the government. <\/p>\n
He was later appointed by Obama as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, an independent federal agency that oversees insuring benefits under private defined benefit pension plans and for allowing individuals to search for lost pensions. <\/p>\n
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