{"id":17442,"date":"2014-09-09T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:27:44","slug":"north-country-assemblyman-accused-of-political-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/09\/09\/north-country-assemblyman-accused-of-political-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country Assemblyman accused of political espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"William<\/a>

William Barclay (R-Pulaski)<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s something you don’t hear every day.\u00a0 In the high stakes game of New York politics, North Country Assemblyman William Barclay faces a claim that he took part in a scheme to place an electronic tracking device on another state Assembly member’s car.\u00a0 The report first surfaced in the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the article, Barclay — chair of the Republican Party’s statewide Assembly Campaign Committee — took part in a decision to hire a private investigator to track a Democratic lawmaker from Suffolk County.\u00a0 The P-I reportedly put an electronic tracker on the car of Assemblyman Edward Hennessey.\u00a0 This from the Daily News:<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said it reminded him of Watergate, the gold standard for political dirty tricks.\u00a0 “Any citizen should have the right to traverse wherever they want without being tracked by a GPS device,” Silver said. “The public should be shocked and outraged by it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The newspaper reports that Republicans were hoping to determine whether Hennessey actually lived within his district.\u00a0\u00a0 It appears that the practice of placing a tracking device on someone else’s car is actually legal.\u00a0 Barclay, who represents the 120th Assembly district, including a chunk of Fulton and Jefferson counties<\/a>, hasn’t commented on the report.<\/p>\n

Rochester Assemblyman Joseph Morelle has called on Barclay to apologize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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