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Libertarians Suggest Hevesi Resign & Neutral Corruption Fighter Replace Comptroller LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF NEW YORK http://www.ny.lp.org/ 516-767-4688 Contact: Richard Cooper, nylibertarian@hotmail.com; John Clifton, gubernatorial candidate www.electclifton.org LIBERTARIANS SUGGEST HEVESI RESIGN & NEUTRAL CORRUPTION FIGHTER REPLACE COMPTROLLER Libertarian Party State Chair Richard Cooper calls for resignation of State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and his replacement by Libertarian candidate John Cain of Congers in Rockland County. Cooper asks about Republican and Democratic candidates for the powerful finance position, “How can one of them watch them? I read that Hevesi has not audited Spitzer’s office. Libertarian John Cain offers a neutral viewpoint between the...

--snip-- He is also a conservative on nonfiscal matters, whose political views would put him at odds with many New Yorkers. In interviews and in this week’s debate, he has been extremely unimpressive, hardly the man whom voters would normally want to hire as the state’s chief fiscal officer and sole trustee of New York’s $140 billion pension fund. But one of the main jobs of the comptroller is to make sure people who handle taxpayers’ money understand the very clear line between their personal expenditures and the public treasury. There is no way Mr. Hevesi can fulfill that vital...

Looking out your window this morning, don't be surprised to find not one, but two pigs flying, in tidy formation. As we noted here, on yesterday's 'Today' show, Matt Lauer eschewed the Rush-bashing bandwagon that developed in response to El Rushbo's remarks about the Michael J. Fox ad. As Matt put it: "if Michael Fox goes out there politically and puts himself into the fray, he has to expect to be, you know, taken to account."If that was enough for Hell's equivalent of Al Roker to issue a frost warning, an editorial in this morning's NY Times is enough to...

ALBANY, Oct. 26 — Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic nominee for governor, withdrew his support from the embattled state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, on Thursday, and made it clear that he expected the State Senate to consider removing the comptroller from office for using a state employee to chauffeur his wife. Gov. George E. Pataki, meanwhile, was returning early from a trip to Hungary to deal with the Hevesi situation. His aides said he would decide by Friday whether to call on the Senate to consider removing Mr. Hevesi; in the meantime, they considered selecting several well-known former prosecutors...

ITHACA, NY— Despite state reports that New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi violated ethics laws, at least one newspaper says that democrats who support him are being “impartial.”In the Thursday (October 26, 2006) Ithaca Journal, staff writer Michelle King reported that local politicans were split on Hevesi’s actions, stating “Republicans are calling for an immediate resignation from Hevesi while Democrats are impartial, noting more information is needed.”Earlier this week, the New York State Ethics Panel reported that “Hevesi broke the law by using a government worker to chauffeur his wife around for more than three years - then lied and cheated...

On Tuesday morning, Chris Callaghan got something he had been asking for since July. State Comptroller Alan Hevesi agreed to debate Callaghan right away. But Hevesi's Republican challenger, largely unknown until Monday morning, suddenly was too busy. His schedule was packed and he had a fundraiser Tuesday night. Instead, the two will debate tonight. Things started looking up for Callaghan, a 59-year-old, bow-tie-wearing government accountant, on Monday. That's when the state Ethics Commission accused Hevesi of breaking the law by using a state employee to drive around his ailing wife. Within a half-hour of the report's release, the state Republican...

Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Tuesday called for embattled state Comptroller Alan Hevesi to resign, saying his failure to reimburse the state for the use of a staffer as his wife's driver represents "a serious breach of the public trust." In a scathing report Monday, the state Ethics Commission said Hevesi, a Queens Democrat, broke the law by failing to pay for the driver despite a 2003 advisory opinion from the commission that he should. The commission faulted him for not tracking the employee's time and noted that Hevesi had assigned another state driver for his wife even before...

The state Ethics Commission concluded Monday that state Comptroller Alan Hevesi "knowingly and intentionally" violated the public trust by using public employees to chauffeur his wife. more at url

J. Christopher Callaghan, the Republican candidate for New York State comptroller, has a secret friend. “I don’t know his name,” Mr. Callaghan said in an interview. But one thing is clear: For some reason, he said, the person clearly despises his opponent, the incumbent, Alan G. Hevesi, a Democrat. It was this secret friend who whispered rumors to Mr. Callaghan that Mr. Hevesi’s wife was being driven around by a state employee at taxpayer expense. When Mr. Callaghan made the charges public last week, his long-shot candidacy was given new life, and Mr. Hevesi was forced to apologize. The comptroller...

Republican candidate for governor John Faso tells News 8 Democratic State Comptoller Alan Hevesi is a criminal and he should resign. Faso made those comments in an interview here at Channel 8 Friday. He says Hevesi is getting away with a crime and his Democratic opponent for governor, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, is doing nothing about it. Earlier this week Hevesi agreed to reimburse the state $82,000 after is was revealed he used a state employee as his wife's chauffeur for the last three years. "And I'm appalled the comptroller of the state of New York has admitted now he...

As soon as I heard about the Democrat official who APOLOGIZED for suggesting that Bush be SHOT between the eyes, I KNEW the DUmmies would urge this same official NOT to apologize. I was not disappointed in my DUmmie Ants since one can NOT underestimate their lunacy as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes." So let us now watch the FUll Moon DUmmies rabid howling in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, watching his DUmmie Ants once again plunging into the depths of depravity, is...

N.Y.'s Hevesi Apologizes for Bush Remark By ADAM GOLDMAN NEW YORK (AP) State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a ``beyond dumb'' remark about a fellow Democrat ``putting a bullet between the president's eyes.'' Hevesi hastily called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement. In the videotaped speech, Hevesi describes Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., as, ``the man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it.'' At the news conference, a contrite Hevesi said...

Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 2:35 pm EDT June 1, 2006 NEW YORK -- New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes." Hevesi hastily called a press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth during a speech at the Queens College commencement. The comptroller said he was trying to convey the strength and courage of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York,

State Comptroller Alan Hevesi apologized for a remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes." Did he cross the line? Yes, very much so. Maybe a little. Nah, he was just joking. I'm not sure.

NEW YORK--New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi is in hot water for making remarks about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes" a day after promising that fellow democrats would “murder” republicans.According to WNBC, Hevesi, a democrat, was speaking at the Queens College commencement at the time of the remarks, along with U.S. Senator Charles “Chuck” Schumer.A member of the audience, blogging at Free Republic, reports that Hevesi, referring to Schumer, said the Senator would "put a bullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it." There were a fair number of gasps…It slightly seemed that he...

I was at the Queens College Commencement this morning, and I saw the whole thing occur. I also called up the Post and spoke to a reporter immediately afterwards -- so it's possible that I helped trigger this. The context was this. There were lots of Democrat politicians there: Schumer, Hevesi, Jay Hershenson (CUNY Vice Chancellor), and Helen Marshall (Queens Borough President). Schumer spoke first, and they were all patting each other on the back, saying how great they all were and how important it was that graduates vote in the future. A few other not-so-subtle digs on Bush and...

SACRAMENTO — Soon after taking office in January 2003, state Controller Steve Westly began helping three venture capital firms land multimillion-dollar investments from California's giant pension system, according to public records including e-mails and officials' calendars. Westly, now running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, received campaign donations from individuals associated with each of the funds, campaign finance records show. At any given time, hundreds of fund managers are angling for CalPERS investments. Westly is one of 13 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System board, and as the state's chief financial officer, one of the most influential. The funds...

...Sinclair bent under enormous political pressure, but notably a kind we haven't seen wielded before to silence the media. We aren't referring to the raft of Democratic complaints filed with official agencies.... A double team by trial lawyers and government officials threatening shareholder suits.... William Lerach, a Democratic funder ... announced plans this week to sue Sinclair because by running the documentary it was creating controversy that cost it advertising revenue.... Media Matters, a liberal media agit-prop outfit, announced it was underwriting another shareholder suit and demanded that Sinclair provide equal time to those with opposing views. (It apparently escaped...

By law, Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi controls the state pension system. ALBANY - New York's retirement fund for government employees will recognize same-sex marriages solemnized in Canada for the purposes of retirement benefits, just as it does for heterosexual marriages, the state comptroller has concluded. The decision by Alan G. Hevesi, the sole trustee of the pension system that represents nearly 1 million state and local government workers and retirees, could provide both a symbolic and legal opening to legalize same-sex marriages in New York, supporters and critics both agreed Wednesday. Though some advocates described the pension decision as...

(Albany-AP) -- The state's arcane election law has caused an important civil suit. Republican-Conservative comptroller candidate John Faso is suing to keep a minor party from switching Democrats on its state comptroller's line in the November ballot. Thousands of votes could potentially be added to the totals of the leading candidates in New York. The state allows major-party nominees to count votes they receive on minor-party line toward overall general election totals. A state Supreme Court judge will hear the suit tomorrow and determine whether Democratic candidate Alan Hevesi gains the Working Families Party line. The party had endorsed Bill...