New York Post-June 20, 2000 OFF THE RECORD: MCCALL CARRIES CLINTON'S WATER TALK about your team players! State Comptroller - and gubernatorial aspirant - H. Carl McCall was hard at work on Hillary Rodham Clinton's behalf yesterday - and after what she did to him on Saturday! McCall, ex officio, is solely responsible for the health and well-being of New York's gazillion-dollar public-employee pension funds - though, like all of his predecessors, the comptroller leaves the nuts-and-bolts investing to the highly qualified technicians. Still, nobody doubts Democrat McCall's qualifications for casting a gimlet eye on Rep. Rick Lazio's good fortune in the stock market a little while back. It's the comptroller's motives that are raising eyebrows. Yes, Long Island's entry in the U.S. Senate sweepstakes turned himself a tidy sum (600 percent!) by exercising some stock options in a company owned by political supporters. You know - sort of like when Mrs. Clinton parlayed $1,000 into $100,000 playing the cattle-futures market. Except that what Lazio did was a) apparently perfectly legal, and b) not part of a larger pattern of bogus behavior. But a comptroller can't be too careful. Says McCall in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr.: "[At] minimum there is an appearance of a conflict of interest or other impropriety [which] the public has a right to know [about] ..." Now, Off the Record must have been out to lunch when McCall queried Levitt about Clinton's cattle-futures deal. What? He never did? Wow! What a surprise. Anyway, in the interests of the public's right to know, Mrs. Clinton and the comptroller's arch-rival for their party's 2002 gubernatorial nominee, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, were simultaneously kissing babies behind McCall's back Saturday at the annual Albany County Democratic picnic. New York's former First Son was giving away "Cuomo 2002: Reason to Believe" T-shirts (demonstrating, as did his dad before him, that the Irish don't have a lock on political blarney). Obviously, there's a race in the offing. So why is McCall carrying water for Clinton - whose support for his rival surely will carry over to 2002? (If, of course, she wins herself. Whew, this gets complicated!) Because this year's Senate race is seen around town as a dry run for 2002. Democrats smell blood in the water (so do Republicans; that's why so many of them are acting like Democrats). The object is to get the logistical kinks worked out this year for 2002. Besides, analysts say, a Clinton win this fall would be the second consecutive statewide Democratic victory (Exhibit A being Alfonse D'Amato) - after a series of debilitating, demoralizing losses. Helping Hillary beat Lazio wouldn't energize the troops for 2002 like dumping Rudy Giuliani, but it's better than the first lady losing. So McCall, an overtly political comptroller (see above: Giuliani), lends the prestige of his letterhead to the task. Whether Levitt - whose dad, Arthur Sr., held McCall's job a generation ago - will play the same game remains to be seen. But he got his job via presidential appointment. Just like Andrew Cuomo. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om