House Speaker John Boehner will address the New York Republican delegation tomorrow morning, a jammed-packed breakfast that will also include Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno and former Gov. George Pataki.

Boehner has a vested interest in New York, even if most of his GOP members from New York won’t be in Tampa this week for the convention (Reps. Peter King and Bob Turner are among the few incumbents who are in town from New York, and GOP hopeful Maggie Brooks is also a delegate.

The Ohio Republican traveled across the state this summer for a weekend of fundraising for contested House elections, including Matt Doheny in the North Country, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle in Central New York and Brooks in the Rochester area.

He previously held an event for Rep. Nan Hayworth of the Hudson Valley.

New York is a battleground for control of the House of Representatives, with at least six seats in major contention.

The state’s Congressional districts were redrawn by a federal magistrate, not the state Legislature, taking away the built-in advantage incumbents enjoy from redistricting.

Demographically the state overall has shifted more Democratic, but the upstate region remains heavily Republican, save for pockets of Democratic strongholds in urban areas and college towns.

The Republican Party is banking heavily on those local House seats as a way to rebuild the party in a very blue state overall.

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