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Four PEF picks win mid-term races
PEF opens Nov. ’06 election endorsements with Hevesi
By SHERRY HALBROOK
Alan Hevesi is the first candidate for the November 7, 2006, general election to
win PEF’s endorsement.
The PEF Executive Board, at its quarterly meeting in March, voted to support
Hevesi, a Democrat, in his campaign to win a second term as state comptroller.
Hevesi, who accepted an invitation to visit the meeting on its second day, asked
the board members for their support, and was happily surprised to learn they had
acted the previous day to endorse him.
PEF President Roger Benson said the union endorsed Hevesi because he has “proven
to be a true partner with PEF.”
“Comptroller Hevesi stands with us on PEF’s Go Public campaign, as we continue
to pursue greater accountability of state government. He also stands with us on
defined-benefit pensions,” Benson said.
The endorsement was recommended by the PEF Political Action Committee. The
statewide PAC will make more endorsement recommendations to the board when it
meets in June.
Four of the five candidates PEF endorsed in February special elections to fill
mid-term vacancies in the state Legislature won their races in February — Thomas
McKevitt, R-Nassau County, won in the 17th Assembly District; Alan Maisel,
D-Brooklyn, in the 59th AD; Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, in the 67th AD; and
Sylvia Friedman, D-Manhattan, in the 74th AD. PEF had also endorsed Ernie
Mattace, D-Suffolk County, who lost his bid to represent the 8th AD.
Although these mid-term vacancies were just filled, all of the state Assembly
and Senate seats will be subject to election in November, as well as all
congressional seats, one of New York’s two U.S. Senate seats, and the statewide
offices of governor, comptroller and attorney general.
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