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With his resounding victory as the next City Comptroller (76% of the vote to Republican candidate Joseph Mendola's 19%), City Councilman John Liu is the first Asian-American elected to citywide office. Liu, who was born in Taiwan and immigrated to NYC at age 5, said last night, "The significance of my victory tonight is not lost on me … indeed, this is an historic night for New York City and a milestone for Asian Americans across the nation. ’m truly humbled.” Supporters were excited, with one telling WCBS 2, "He is also an immigrant like me, is not American-born like me, so it's very exciting," and another invoking President Obama's historic win last year, "I see a parallel, for him to make history."
New Comptroller Is First Asian Elected To Citywide Office
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cool, maybe he can give the comptroller's office a pulse.
"A historic..." darn it!
Congratulations John Liu!
What the he'll is a comptroller?
Don't you play Nintendo?
a robot.
What percent of the votes were on the Working Family line is what I wanna know!
do we get an egg roll with that?
comptroller was the position that almost-mayor Thompson had, Liu should now become a thorn in Bloombergs side or just sign the checks, we just have to wait and see.
first thing, audit the dept of education.
and, their contractors, and the major capital projects and anything you can get your hands on them.
including test scores and overcrowding in schools.
Congratulations Mr. Liu.
and audit every contract that went out through no bids,
making sure the city gets all the Fed money it's allowed to because didn't the mayor rejected some funds to the poor? this is like rejecting stimulus money.
I'm surprised our friend ftc2 isn't weighing in on this.