George E. Pataki
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George E. Pataki Pataki
George E. Pataki instituted a policy barring his appointees and commissioners from raising political donations and rebuked his hand-picked insurance superintendent, Howard D. Mills, for raising $15,000 last year. Mr. Pataki who appointed Mr. Mills to the insurance post after Mr. Mills tried unsuccessfully to unseat Senator Charles E. Schumer in 2004 said at a news conference here on Tuesday that he thought the renewed fund-raising was inappropriate, ''and we've made that plain to him. He said that they didn't believe that people in appointive office commissioners or others working for the state -- should be in a position of raising political funds, period.