NO ILLUSIONS FOR NEW HEAD OF ALBANY GOP.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer

ALBANY -- When it takes two months for anyone to notice you've just taken over an entire political party, you know you've got an uphill battle.

As the city's newest GOP chairman, Bernie Hillengas understands he has his work cut out for him.

``It seems daunting,'' Hillengas said Friday as he took stock of his situation: no war chest, almost no committeemen, few apparent candidates and that pesky 13-to-1 Democratic enrollment edge.

Hillengas, 35, an assistant counsel with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, was appointed in June by Albany County Republican Chairman George Scaringe to take …