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The Race ...

Comptroller

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Election Results ...

General Election Results

William Thompson

Primary Results

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Candidates...

The Incumbent:
William Thompson, Jr.

General Election Challenger(s):
Daniel Fein
Ron Moore
Herbert Ryan

Primary Election Challenger(s):

(Candidate Biographies below)

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Candidate Bios ...

The Incumbent:

William Thompson, Jr. | Dem | WFP |
William Thompson was elected as City Comptroller in 2001. In the past, he has worked as an aide to a congressman, served as deputy borough president, and as a member of the New York City Board of Education. From 1996 to 2001, he president of the Board of Education.

Challenger(s):

Daniel Fein | SOC |
Daniel Fein is a meat packer at the Hunts Point Meat Market in the Bronx and a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 432.

Ron Moore | LBT |
Ron Moore is the president of Marketing Technologies Group.

Herbert Ryan | Con |
Herbert Ryan is an attorney. He is a retired Major General in the New York Guard and was once a Deputy City Clerk.

Campaign Trail ...

Below are the latest Campaign Trail items for the Comptroller race. For the full Campaign Trail archive, go here

Thompson, Gotbaum Win

November 9, 2005
City Comptroller William Thompson and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum both easily won re-election yesterday, as did four incumbent borough presidents. In Manhattan, where C. Virginia Fields could not run again because of term limits, voters chose Democratic Scott Stringer as their new borough president.
(Daily News)

Bill Thompson Wins!!

July 21, 2005
As the massive crowd of pols, activists, and union members crammed on to the steps of City Hall on Wednesday morning, Councilman Robert Jackson revved up the crowd with shouts of "Who's not endorsing Bill Thompson?" The answer was, "Nobody," according to Jackson and his audience, and that seemed about right. "I was unaware of the fact," Ed Koch, the three-term mayor said of Thompson, "that he had no competition." In fact, Thompson (a Democrat who also has the Working Families Party line) does have an opponent— on the Conservative Party line. But with $3.5 million raised, Thompson probably won't have much trouble defeating the intrepid Herbert F. Ryan. And that's OK with Koch. "We don't want him to have any competition," he said, "either now or whenever he runs again." (Village Voice)

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