I have to just put this out there and ask it flatly. Would you really want a person controlling the checkbook of New York who has admitted to or been caught doing the following: stealing money—from first New York City, and now New York State—to hire a government employee to drive around his wife; using state employees to perform tasks pertaining to his campaign for re-election or losing the names, home addresses, and Social Security numbers of nearly 1,500 employees of the State? I wouldn’t, but we have that now in our incumbent comptroller, Alan Hevesi.
First, the man stole your hard earned tax dollars to hire a driver for his wife. Not only that, he had done this in the past as comptroller of New York City, with the exact same person. He is currently being investigated by the Albany County District Attorney for this issue and, on October 23, the State Ethics Commission deemed his actions in violation of state law. The Commission reported that Hevesi never intended to pay back the state, had in fact hired two drivers, had used a state-owned car, and did not keep complete records regarding the hours worked by the employee he hired to drive around his wife. Pretty bad bookkeeping for the man in charge of the state’s books.
Secondly, he has been violating election law by using his employees to perform re-election tasks. One person tape-recorded his opponent, Chris Callaghan, while on the clock using state equipment. Hevesi’s media advisor follows him to campaign events, commonly while on the clock. The list goes on from there.
The final point pretty much speaks for itself: Since mid-June, employment data has been missing for nearly 1,500 employees of the State. From the time the data was reported missing, it took a full two weeks before the people were contacted about their sensitive, personal data being missing. Hevesi’s office still has not found the data. This just shows that not only is he crooked, he’s not even that good at his job.
So, what we have is a lying, manipulative, stealing, and all around bad comptroller. I wouldn’t trust this man to be in charge of the books at my local gas station, let alone that of my state. Would you? I’m voting for Chris Callaghan for comptroller and I suggest you do too, unless you really want four more years of lies and theft.
