NY Daily News
The
race for public advocate is already the most expensive special election
in New York City’s history — and candidates are just getting started.
More than $4 million has been spent by candidates vying for the open seat, according to the latest data available from the New York City Campaign Finance Board. That figure is expected to skyrocket between now and the Feb. 26 election as the remaining candidates have some $2 million in their combined war chests.
Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) outspent all other candidates through Feb. 11, the latest date covered in the CFB’s most recent reporting period. The campaign has doled out more than $767,000 on the race, including $280,000 in TV ad placements.
This is a lot of cash for a position that has no real power, except as a stepping stone for higher office for the last two public advocates, being our dumb mayor and new state attorney general.
Williams could do lot more with the position he currently has. Being an official advocate for the public who voted for him
1 comment:
Letitia James - should have had to give up this post when she ran for another office. This way the tax payers didn't need to spend this money. She got her cake and we're eating the bill.
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