Hernandez Demands Emergency Audit as Noncitizens Found Mistakenly Registered to Vote in New Jersey
NEW YORK, NY — Republican and Conservative nominee for New York State Comptroller Joseph Hernandez today demanded that Comptroller Tom DiNapoli immediately launch a statewide forensic audit of New York’s voter registration system after New Jersey admitted that approximately 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote through its motor vehicle system because of a government error. […]
Kathy Hochul’s AI Ban Is a Gift to China
The defining geopolitical competition of the 21st century will not be fought primarily with aircraft carriers, tanks, or nuclear weapons. It will be fought with artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electricity, and data centers. The nation that leads AI will shape the global economy, military capability, scientific discovery, productivity, and technological innovation for decades to come. This […]
Buffalo Credit Outlook Turns Negative as Hernandez Demands Accountability for Two Decades of Fiscal Mismanagement
BUFFALO, NY — Joseph Hernandez, Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller, today said Moody’s decision to drop the City of Buffalo’s credit outlook from “stable” to “negative” is the latest proof that fiscal mismanagement is spreading across New York, and that Albany’s watchdogs are asleep while it happens. This week, the credit ratings and […]
Hernandez Slams DiNapoli for Decade-Long Failure to Stop Adult Day Care Fraud
FLUSHING, NY — Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller Joseph Hernandez today blasted Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for failing to address massive oversight gaps in New York’s social adult day care system, despite his own office warning more than a decade ago that the state could not properly track the programs, their operators, or the […]
Hernandez Demands Answers from Democrats in Albany as Federal Data Exposes New York’s Inflated Student Test Scores
ALBANY, NY — Joseph Hernandez, Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller, pledged that on his first day in office he will open a full investigation of the Department of Education to uncover the waste, fraud, and corruption that is leaving New York’s students with one of the most expensive educations with the lowest results. […]
DiNapoli Let Another $2.5 Million in Medicaid Fraud Walk Out the Door
ALBANY, NY — Joseph Hernandez, Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller, responded today to the arrest and indictment of Long Island businessman, Nduka Lewis Ekpenyong, who allegedly stole more than $2.5 million from New York’s Medicaid program. Nduka Lewis Ekpenyong has been charged for using his Brooklyn medical supply company, Duke Medical Inc., to […]
The Quiet Government Takeover of American Healthcare
Americans believe in helping the vulnerable. Medicaid and Medicare were created to ensure seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income families receive the care they need. Those programs are absolutely worth protecting. But what should concern every taxpayer is the steady expansion of government control over healthcare through incremental policies that move America toward a government-dominated […]
Hernandez Releases Statement Reacting to 19-Year Incumbent DiNapoli Winning the Democrat Primary for NYS Comptroller
ALBANY, NY — Joseph Hernandez, Republican and Conservative candidate for New York State Comptroller, released a statement on incumbent Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s win of the Democrat primary: “New York’s Democrats nominated a man to be their candidate for State Comptroller that most New Yorkers don’t even know. A Siena poll in March found that 65% […]
Is the DSA America’s Enemy of the State?
How the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) grew from a fringe club into a 100,000-member force. And why its own platform, its foreign ties, and a murder in Washington have made it a target of federal scrutiny For most of its history, the Democratic Socialists of America was an afterthought—a few thousand aging leftists meeting […]
Hernandez Blasts DiNapoli for Lack of Oversight Over Brooklyn Medicaid Scandal
NEW YORK, NY — Joseph Hernandez, Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller, commented on the federal indictment of eight people accused of stealing $38 million from New York’s Medicaid program through two Brooklyn adult day care centers. He pledged to build a dedicated Fraud Strike Task Force inside the Comptroller’s office and demanded to […]