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Will New York comptroller candidates use the job to run

SHARE: New York City comptroller candidate and Assembly Member David Weprin wants to get his fellow candidates to pledge they won’t use the office as a steppingstone to run for mayor – the way the position has been used for decades. But not everyone is happy with Weprin’s ploy, given his track record of running for the next higher office himself. In the office’s recent history, virtually all New York City comptrollers have tried to use the seat as a springboard to Gracie Mansion. Only former comptroller Abraham Beame was successful in becoming mayor. City Comptroller Scott Stringer is a leading contender in the Democratic mayoral primary. His predecessor, state Sen. John Liu, ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 2013. Liu’s predecessor, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, lost by 4 percentage points to Michael Bloomberg in 2009. Thompson’s predecessor, former Comptroller Alan Hevesi, also unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2001.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces $98 6 Billion Recovery Budget

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday released a $98.6 billion executive budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year, relying on new federal funds to massively increase spending aimed at spurring the city’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The mayor’s “recovery budget” invests deeply in New Yorkers, he said at his budget presentation from City Hall, with resources going towards fair student funding, summer youth programs, early childhood education, job creation, gun violence prevention, mental health services, nonprofit community groups, small businesses, and more. The executive budget reflects a $6.3 billion increase in spending compared with the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal released in January, when the administration was uncertain about the level of federal stimulus that would be delivered by the federal government and prepared for the worst-case scenario. But the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act approved by President Biden and the Democratic Congress in Ma

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