Posted on 04/24/2009 7:01:25 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The state’s top ethics panel is reviewing a request from three government watchdog groups to investigate the Paterson administration’s leaks of confidential information provided by Caroline Kennedy when she was seeking appointment to the United States Senate.
The ethics panel, the Commission on Public Integrity, is reviewing the request and has not decided whether to undertake an inquiry, its spokesman said on Thursday.
Such an investigation could complicate Gov. David A. Paterson’s bid to be elected in his own right next year, as it would remind voters of an embarrassing blunder and enmesh him and his top aides in a protracted inquiry.
Ms. Kennedy withdrew her candidacy just after midnight on Jan. 22 at the end of a chaotic selection process by the governor, who ultimately chose Representative Kirsten E. Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The groups calling for the investigation are the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause New York, and Citizens Union. They argue in an eight-page letter, obtained by The New York Times, that the commission needs to determine whether the Paterson administration violated state laws by leaking confidential information about Ms. Kennedy as part of a political strategy aimed at deflecting blame for her withdrawal.
Various sections of the Public Officers Law bar a state official from disclosing “confidential information acquired by him in the course of his official duties” or from releasing “confidential information which he has gained by reason of his official position.” The groups’ letter cites potential violations of five sections of the Public Officers Law. It also cites potential violations of the Freedom of Information Law and the Personal Privacy Protection Law, both of which include protections against “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
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Paterson is on drugs if he thinks he will be reelected in 2010. He wont even survive the primary.
I love it when when two self appreciating losers go at it. What’s not like about these two hiking their legs on one another.
“We only investigate evil republicans.”
Get her some Depends if she is leaking.
The Kennedy’s are determined to destroy Paterson.
They will also make sure that Cuomo never gets near the governor’s job.
The Kennedy enemies list is alive and well.
This is like trying to choose who to root for between Hitler and Stalin.
Maybe I'm being a little partisan, but I would like to have seen this prefaced with a plain "we've done nothing wrong" as well. As it is, it looks a little legalistic to me -- "we took a lot of time figuring out how to get around the Public Officers Law".
Uncle Teddy’s Mafia to the rescue.
...and not for nothing....but ‘conservative’ Dhimmicrat Gillibrand, has morphed into the progressive, marxist, anti-gun b!tch we all knew she would...and she takes direct orders for Putzhead Schummer.
Wonder if Mayor Bloomers missed his chance to be governor.
The elitist prig never will be president.
Can’t we have some Kennedy pictures? I love looking at her. She’s a study on what not to do, how not to live.
Laughable.
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