GARDEN CITY, New York—The New York state Republican Party nominated Congressman Lee Zeldin for governor and Alison Esposito for lieutenant governor on March 1, the second day of its two-day convention at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island. Zeldin was the first nominee to address the issue of the 4,000 employees of the City of New York who were terminated for not getting vaccinated. “I believe that every single one of them should get their jobs back with back pay,” he said in his acceptance speech. He attacked Democrat-induced problems such as critical race theory (CRT), increased crime due to cashless bail, high taxes, and overregulation, each followed by thunderous applause. Zeldin received the first of many laughs when he said, “You would think between this microphone and the cameras in the back Schumer would have been here by now,” referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democrat the GOP …