The Democrats might already be thinking about Alan Hevesi's replacement but I will always remember him this way: smiling, jovial, ambling through the lobby of the Buffalo Hyatt amidst the crowd at the 2006 state Democratic convention. "No one knows I'm running for reelection," he joked, pleased that his low-on-the-radar status would help him coast easily to victory. He had that confident, elder statesman way about him.
Now Hevesi is avoiding reporters at his Forest Hills home and since he was persona non grata at the Democrats' election night celebration they've resorted to using an old photo from the May convention.
Errol A. Cockfield, Jr.