Golisano Jaws With Elections Commissioner
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Our Gannett television affiliate in Buffalo, WGRZ, has a five-minute video of Tom Golisano getting into an heated exchange Friday with Erie County Republican Elections Commissioner Ralph Mohr.
Golisano held a news conference outside the Board of Elections office to denounce claims by Mohr that Golisano’s PAC, Responsible New York, has been coordinating campaign efforts with other political committees run by Golisano ally Steve Pigeon.
Mohr has called on Golisano testify under oath about what he knows of Pigeon’s committees, but Golisano fired back Friday that Mohr and Democratic Commissioner Dennis Ward have overstepped their bounds and called on Governor Paterson to remove them from office and said they should be disbarred.
Then Golisano headed upstairs to confront Mohr, saying toward the end of the video that “You’re guilty. You got a due process and we got a due process. We are going after you.”
“You’re not going to intimidate this Board of Elections from stopping to investigate crimes that are committed against the people of this county,” Mohr responded.
Golisano shot back, “You do your things. We’ll do ours.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
