What is a Comptroller?
One of the most powerful state executive jobs in America
The New York State Comptroller is one of the most powerful state executive jobs in America. It controls a nearly $300 billion pension fund and has constitutional audit power over $250 billion in state spending.
For two decades, that power has been squandered.
I grew up reading about FDR and the New Deal. The Democratic Party I'm proud to be part of once believed in using power to improve people's lives. We built the safety nets that working families depend on. We fought for the people -- and we won.
Now Democrats are at 40-year lows in public trust because people don't know what we stand for or what we can deliver. Nothing makes my blood boil more than wasting political power and money -- and this office is a perfect example of that waste.
As Washington tears down the safety net and authoritarianism continues to rise, I have to ask: for the home of FDR, the home of the New Deal, the home of Seneca Falls, the state that transformed how government looks out for working families -- where are our fighters in statewide government?
This office is a massive weapon that has been inert and inactive.
I'm running because we need a Comptroller who knows how to take power and use it for the people. A watchdog who stands up and fights for those getting crushed hardest by the systems around us.
The choice is clear: a caretaker who squanders power, or a fighter who uses it.
