Read this please (from the D&C)....
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi's woes are starting to weigh heavily on voters.
The Democratic comptroller's lead over Republican foe J. Christopher Callaghan has plummeted 28 percentage points since last week --- after he was accused by the state Ethics Commission of violating state law by failing to reimburse the state for using a staffer to drive his ill wife, according to a poll released this morning. The Marist College poll showed Hevesi, leading Callaghan 50 percent to 38 percent among likely voters. That's down from a 62 percent to 22 percent lead a week earlier.
And the problems may be worse for Hevesi: When respondents were told that state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the leading candidate for governor, on Thursday withdrew his endorsement of Hevesi, Hevesi's lead dropped to 44 percent to 43 percent among registered voters, with 13 percent undecided.
However, 58 percent said Hevesi should not resign while 33 percent said he should. Sixty-one percent said Gov. George Pataki should not ask the state Senate to remove Hevesi while 30 percent said he should. Pataki is expected to do so later today.
"It shows a major erosion over the course of the last week," said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff. "They don't think he should resign and they don't support the beginning of any impeachment process." But with less than two weeks before Election Day, Nov. 7, the issue is "at this pace, the question is whether he can bottom out or not," Miringoff said.
The poll conducted Thursday night questioned 509 likely voters with a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent. The poll included 731 registered voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
OK.... what the heck is WRONG with you people? How much FRAUD must take place before it's OK to ask for someone's resignation? I was watching Top Chef the other night, and this one guy actually TOOK HIMSELF OUT OF THE COMPETITION for not paying for a box of lycee. What could that have cost? $200?! We're talking about fraud on NYS taxpayers of at LEAST $80,000, and likely much more. But how apathetic are NYS voters if they don't think Hevesi should resign? Or that the NYS Senate should proceed with impeachment hearings? If it turns out he defrauded the people of New York hundreds of thousands of dollars while at the same time pronouncing his fiscal responsibility isn't there something WRONG going on here? Doesn't that warrant his resignation? Or at least an investigation? Apparently the people of New York are so accustomed to fraud going on here, and have lowered their mores so much that this doesn't matter to them. Foreshame!
