The Issues
FIGHT
utility rate hikes
New Yorkers are drowning in energy bills — with 1.3 million households behind two months or more on payment, owing nearly $2 billion — yet Con Edison and National Grid keep filing for rate hikes that the Public Service Commission quietly and repeatedly approves.
DIVEST FROM
fossil fuels
Climate change isn't just an environmental crisis; it's a financial one.
DIVEST FROM
foreign bonds
The current Comptroller has underperformed the market and the NYC pension fund for years, wasting billions on excessive Wall Street fees for cookie-cutter approaches and investing in opaque foreign bonds.
INVEST IN
affordable housing
The incumbent has invested in Florida condos and Chicago real estate while New Yorkers face a historic housing crisis, and parents struggle with child care costs. That's backwards.
As your next Comptroller, I will use every ounce of power in this office -- every dollar, every day -- to make your life and your family's life better. Some politicians have forgotten what power is for. Power is for you, so let's take it and use it.
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Raj is a former legislator, ACLU attorney, entrepreneur, and reformer who has spent his life taking on entrenched systems and winning.
In statehouses, courthouses, and the startup trenches, Raj has seen how those in power keep us in the dark about how our money is used and spent by the government and Wall Street, and he has spent his career fighting back against those broken systems and broken markets to protect working people.
Growing up as a brown kid in 1980s Kansas, Raj was inspired by FDR, JFK, and LBJ -- leaders who amassed political power to use it to better people's lives and transform communities. As your Comptroller, Raj will fight to make the Democratic Party rise again.
Why the Comptroller?
The New York State Comptroller is one of the most powerful state offices in America, but the establishment wants you to think it's powerless. It's not.
The Comptroller controls pension funds worth nearly $300 billion and audits over $250 billion in state spending. It influences housing, healthcare, utility costs, and just about every facet of working New Yorkers' lives.
And yet, for 20 years, that power has been squandered by an incumbent who refuses to utilize the office to fight for working people. The Comptroller protects our public pension fund dollars, provides oversight for New Yorkers' hard-earned dollars, and has the power to hold corporations and public offices accountable. As New York falls under attack by the Trump Administration, our state needs an advocate and fighter in the Comptroller's office, not just an accountant and bean counter.
