Republicans Had GPS Secretly Placed On Democratic Assemblyman’s Car

[Galraedia]

They were trying to prove that he didn’t live in the Long Island district he represents.

In what many say is an alarming first, a private eye hired by Assembly Republicans placed a GPS device on a Long Island assemblyman’s car for two months in an unsuccessful effort to prove the pol didn’t live in his district.

According to court transcripts, investigator Adam Rosenblatt said he was hired in March by attorney James Walsh, repping the Assembly Republican Campaign Committee, to find out where Assemblyman Edward Hennessey (D-Suffolk) actually lives. Walsh that same month was paid $3,000 by the GOP campaign committee.

Rosenblatt testified about his actions at a hearing last month in which Republicans unsuccessfully sought to bounce Hennessey, who is seeking reelection, from the race.

Read more: http://www.alan.com/2014/09/07/republicans-had-gps-secretly-placed-on-democratic-assemblymans-car/

[valerief]

1. Is it legal in NY to put a GPS device on someone's car? nt

[dorkzilla]

8. According to a report on WNYC today, its perfectly legal. nt

[Jerry442]

14. Cool. I can't wait to put tracking devices on GOPers cars...

...with a little <koff> cement to make sure they don't fall off.

[whistler162]

18. Well Ed Cox, some Presidents son-in-law,

said it was legal!

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/nixon_son-in-law_ed_cox_on_the_difference_between_watergate_and_todays_opponent.html#incart_river

[stevenleser]

2. Due to NY laws regarding state elections (not US Congress/US Senate) these kinds of challenges

are one of the first steps in a lot of races. I had a friend bounced from a Suffolk race because as an attorney, she spent one of the prior 7 years living in pennsylvania while she worked on a case. She never changed her residency, but the appellate judges in NY were mostly Republicans who upheld the challenge to her residency.

Some states make it too easy for carpetbaggers, NY makes it too easy for folks looking to bounce you from the race to accuse you of not living where you do.

[NightWatcher]

3. "Alarming first", yeah right.

I was a PI and this kind of thing happened all the time.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Is someone going to jail for invasion of privacy?

[Man from Pickens]

10. hold that thought

Keith Alexander is coming to the rescue

[ReRe]

5. K&R for EXPOSURE!

Thanks for the link, Galraedia!

[Duval]

6. I'm so glad this

has come to light!! Thanks for the post, Galraedia.

[whereisjustice]

7. More evidence that Government spying is absolutely unacceptable in civilized society

who here believes the Govt. won't use their powers for political purposes like stifling dissent from the underclass or interfering in investigations of corruption?

Only fools think this behavior is an exception.

[Man from Pickens]

11. I suspect it goes much further than that

up to things like blackmailing judges, representatives, and even leaders of other nations

these surveillance systems are clearly NOT for intelligence gathering, or we wouldn't be so surprised when things happen around the globe as we routinely appear to be

they are there to intimidate and blackmail and control

I don't like being subject to it and I don't like being forced to pay for it and I don't like being lied to about it by the people we have paid to do it.

[whereisjustice]

19. [phone]

[whistler162]

12. More evidence people don't read before posting

This was done for the "Assembly Republican Campaign Committee" by a lawyer, who hired a PI, that the committee hired. While some of the members of this committee maybe members of the government the committee isn't part of the government.

http://www.nyracc.com/

[cstanleytech]

13. To be honest it happens to most people from time to time. Even I have done it. nt

[whereisjustice]

16. FFS, I read the damn post. What makes you think there is an indivisible line of separation

between the behavior of politicians and those who stuff them into office?

[Omaha Steve]

9. WTF?

K&R!

[Anansi1171]

15. Truly TRULY sick and Facist!

That it is legal to place a GPS or any tracking device on any one's vehicle is In -effin- sane!!

In New York or anywhere. These arent leaflets and fliers left on a windshield.

Cant wait for the Tea Party Brown Shirts to start tracking actual voters.

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. And how many Republican leaders don't live in the districts they represent?

GPS trackers on GOP autos

[DFW]

20. Not surprising, and at least it beats sabotaging private campaign planes n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

21. Was he tracked by Google, which has the backing of ALEC?