Sentences with phrase «runs for comptroller so»

«No one runs for comptroller so he can spend his life in the comptroller's office,» he said.

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And last but not least, some not - so - fabulous news for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he was perhaps mulling another comeback attempt — maybe a run at state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli?

So far I've heard Matt Walter (who departed the state GOP to run Rick Lazio's campaign after a pre-primary shake - up and never returned), Chapin Fay (campaign manager for state comptroller hopeful Harry Wilson), Free Enterprise Fund Executive Director E. O'Brien Murray and (here's a new one) John Rogers, who's currently managing the campaign of Bob Cohen in the yet - undecided 37th SD race where Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer is currently leading by 504 votes.

Lynch ran Liu's first successful campaign for comptroller — putting together a so - called «rainbow coalition» similiar to the one he engineered for Dinkins, and remained a supporter even as many abandoned Liu during his fundraising scandal.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

ALBANY — A Democrat who is a financial consultant said he is running for state comptroller as a Republican against three - term incumbent Thomas DiNapoli so that he could wield the untapped «superpower» of the job and reign in Albany's spending and corruption.

Cuomo has done DiNapoli no favors so far this election cycle, making it clear he will not be endorsing the comptroller even though he is the only Democrat running for his statewide office.

One thing is certain: Cuomo is doing no favors for DiNapoli by negotiating this deal with Hevesi so close to the general election, which is the first time the former assemblyman has run statewide since being placed in the comptroller's office by his legislative colleagues in February 2007 after Hevesi's first guilty felony plea in Chauffeurgate.

Republicans had hoped Harry Wilson, a businessman from Westchester County and the party's 2010 nominee for comptroller, would run, but he decline to do so.

So it's possible John Liu knew nothing about alleged violations of fund - raising law during his successful 2009 run for city comptroller.

Jackson has raised about $ 280,000 so far for his bid to succeed current Borough President Scott Stringer, who is leaving the post to run for comptroller.

She and Fisher have said Antonacci is acting outside his duties as comptroller and courting media attention in order to elevate his name so he can run for a higher office.