Jun 09, 2010
Harry challenged Tom DiNapoli to a debate yesterday, and this countdown will serve as a reminder of how long our unelected comptroller has had to respond to that challenge: to debate Harry in every major media market in New York.
Make your own Countdown Clocks
Jun 08, 2010
Today, Harry challenged unelected comptroller Tom DiNapoli to debate him in every statewide media market in New York.
The voters deserve to know why Albany is not fairly representing their interests, and DiNapoli should give his account of why he's been unable to put serious effort into fulfilling his role as the state's chief fiscal watchdog.
Jun 07, 2010
From our press release earlier today:
New York--June 7...New York State Comptroller candidate Harry J. Wilson, a businessman and nationally-recognized restructuring expert, today announced that he will be the candidate of the Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties in November. Mr. Wilson, a first-time candidate for public office, is the only statewide candidate running with the support of those three party organizations.
Mr. Wilson, 38, and a married father of four, received the formal nomination of the New York State Independence Party on Saturday at its convention in Albany. He was nominated by the Conservative Party at its convention in New York City on May 28th and by the Republican Party-by unanimous acclamation - on Tuesday June 1st at its convention, also held in New York City.
"I am running for New York State Comptroller to help save New York from going over the cliff financially, and I am enormously grateful to the Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties for standing behind me in that effort," Mr. Wilson said. "New York has all the right assets for a robust economy, but our state government is smothering them under a blanket of taxes, spending and debt. New York taxpayers and job-producing businesses have been pushed to the edge for too long. They need a proactive state comptroller with the skills to begin turning this state around."
Mr. Wilson, 38, a graduate of Harvard University and the Harvard Business School, was the first person in his immediate family to go to college. After many successful years at four highly distinguished firms, Mr. Wilson was selected to serve on the President's Auto Task Force in 2009 - the group responsible for the overhaul of General Motors and Chrysler. He was the only Republican to serve in its leadership team. Mr. Wilson, who was born and raised in Johnstown, NY (Fulton County), is the son and grandson of working class Greek immigrants. He currently lives in Westchester County with his wife, Eva, and their four children.
Jun 04, 2010
On Saturday, unelected comptroller Tom DiNapoli will likely be handed the nomination of New York's tainted Working Families Party at their convention.
The WFP, which is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office for multiple allegations of illegalities, is widely seen as the driving force behind the policies that are driving New York State to fiscal insolvency.
The ACORN-inspired WFP unabashedly supports higher spending, higher taxes, and higher borrowing in New York State, despite pleas from struggling taxpayers for relief.
So what will DiNapoli do? Andrew Cuomo did the right thing in rejecting this endorsement, and New York voters should hope that for the sake of our state, Tom DiNapoli will do the same.
Jun 03, 2010
From LoHud.com comes an article today about how Tom DiNapoli is playing with the numbers on the New York State pension fund:
Republican comptroller candidate Harry Wilson is taking an opposing view of Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s announcement earlier this week that the state pension fund grew by nearly 26 percent in the past fiscal year.
Wilson, who won the GOP nomination unanimously on Tuesday, said the $133 billion fund is actually down for the past three years, after a 26.3 percent drop in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Wilson said DiNapoli has estimated an 8 percent return in the fund each year, but the fund has fallen short of those projections by $40 billion.“
DiNapoli is digging a hole not for himself, but for the State of New York and all of us taxpayers who are on the hook to bail out our pension fund when it can no longer afford to cover promised benefits to its more than one million retirees and beneficiaries,” Wilson said in a press release.
The fund’s losses has coincided with the declines on Wall Street in recent years, but benefited from the recent uptick in the stock market.
Wilson charged that DiNapoli has assumed more risk in the state’s portfolio “than is prudent.”
Jun 02, 2010
Here's a sampling of a few of the many stories yesterday and today about Harry's nomination for New York State Comptroller:
The Associated Press reports on Harry's nomination.
Harry is quoted on Tom DiNapoli by the Suffolk County Republican.
Room Eight passes along our press release.
Newsday cites Harry's commitment to getting rid of unnecessary spending.
Jun 01, 2010
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Jun 01, 2010
Here's what Harry has to say about how vital the coming election will be for New York:
"The choices that will be made over the next four years will be difficult, and it's critically important to the progression of our state. And that's why I think it's incredibly important we get the right people in place," said Wilson. "Certainly all the parties -- Republicans, Democrats and Conservatives -- have faced contentious primary processes before. ... And I think the (GOP) has shown an ability to unify around the standard-bearer after that -- but certainly the sooner and more quickly that gets done, the easier it is to do."
