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Nine years after running a bruising Senate race against now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Republican Congressman Rick Lazio has formed a campaign committee with his eyes on the governor's mansion.

On Friday, Lazio sent a letter to two people who could be potential opponents next year, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor David Paterson.

In the letter, Lazio commends the two for solutions they've proposed to end the New York State Senate deadlock. But on NY1 political program "Road to City Hall," Lazio said the governor is partly to blame for the chaos at the capitol.

"Do you see what going on in Albany, where the people's work is not getting done?" he said. "It's criminal, it's criminal. And the governor has some responsibility for this. I think, given my background, the kind of people that I feel like I can attract to state government. We could do the job, we could get the job done for New Yorkers, whether you're Republican or Democrat, downstate or upstate."

In 2000, Lazio lost a hard-fought Senate race to Hillary Clinton.

He has worked in the private sector since then, most recently at J.P. Morgan Chase.