New Yorkers are getting squeezed from every direction — like energy bills, rent prices, junk fees, and medical debt. I’m running to use the Comptroller’s power to put money back in your pocket. That means:

• Auditing utility rate hikes
• Leveraging our nearly $300 billion pension fund investments and subpoena power to investigate utility companies that gouge consumers
• Acting in concert with pension funds in states like Illinois and California to crack down on corporations preying on consumers with click-to-cancel traps, hidden fees, and predatory medical billing. 
• Defend and Protect New Yorkers Against Impending Medicaid Cuts: I will follow the money independently and protect people from the worst of what’s coming by identifying potential impacts, leveraging pension shareholder power to demand provider accountability, and auditing Medicaid care plans to recover every dollar we can. Trump is coming after New Yorkers. As Comptroller, I’ll fight back.

Every dollar on your bill, every fee you’re charged, every debt you’re carrying — that’s where I will be fighting for you.

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. If the state pension had simply matched the performance of other major funds, it would be worth tens of billions more today.

As Comptroller, I will use best-in-class investment strategies to identify proactive investments and maximize returns for New York pension holders, including investing more here in New York. This includes the disinvestment of the New York pension from all foreign bonds.

It’s the Comptroller’s basic fiduciary duty to avoid risky foreign bonds with mediocre returns, but the incumbent continues to play political favoritism. At the very least, public pension funds should not and will not be used to fund human rights violations and war crimes abroad.

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.

Meanwhile, five of the state’s major utilities increased their profits by 63% over the past decade for a combined $3.17 billion in 2024. Profits for Con Edison alone, the state’s largest private utility, went from $1.13 billion in 2015 to $1.89 billion in 2024.

The Comptroller has the power to audit these decisions — to follow every dollar from rate cases to consumer bills — but the current Comptroller has been asleep at the wheel.

As Comptroller, I’ll audit utilities and the Public Service Commission, use our nearly $300 billion pension fund to force transparency, and push for a Ratepayer Rebate & Clawback. 

‘ll also push for an AI Data-Center Fair-Share Fee so tech companies driving up grid demand pay their share instead of passing costs on to working families. If utilities raise your bill, someone needs to hold them accountable.

Climate change isn’t just an environmental crisis; it’s a financial one. The Comptroller controls nearly $300 billion in pension investments, yet the incumbent continues to invest money into fossil fuel companies that are destroying our planet and increasingly becoming stranded assets. This is detrimental to the climate and to retirees. The incumbent reneged on his promise to divest from fossil fuels.

As Comptroller, I’ll fully divest from fossil fuels and redirect those billions into clean energy, renewable infrastructure, and climate solutions that create good-paying jobs right here in New York. Major pension funds worldwide are divesting because fossil fuel investments carry massive long-term risk as the world transitions to clean energy — it’s time New York’s pension fund reflected our values and protected our future, not subsidized companies.

Republicans weaponize their financial offices to push their agenda. It’s time Democrats did the same to protect consumers, hold corporations accountable, and fight back

As Comptroller, I will demand transparency from every fund manager and organize blue-state pension funds to enable change that benefits consumers.