Thank You!
Posted by Team Wilson - Thu, November 04, 2010 at 02:22 PM
Eva and I want to thank all of you for your inspiring and enthusiastic support throughout this campaign. I have been so moved by your enormous dedication and hard work, not to mention the hundreds of thoughtful emails I have received since the outcome of the race became clear. I want to leave you with several important thoughts:
- We ended our campaign with the same dignity with which we tried to conduct ourselves throughout the race. As soon as it became clear that the absentee ballots would not be enough to put me over the top, I reached out to Comptroller DiNapoli to congratulate him and conceded the race. While it was highly disappointing to not have earned the opportunity to put our state back on track as the new Comptroller, I wanted to end our efforts in the right way.
- While we came up short, I think we accomplished a lot, collectively, to further our twin goals of addressing New York State's massive fiscal problems and to advance this dialogue in a nonpartisan way. We received national attention and universal accolades throughout New York, and I believe we created a new level of awareness of our problems - an awareness that I hope will drive serious solutions. We should all be proud of our contributions to this effort.
- Our work is just beginning. While I will spend a great deal of time in the coming weeks with Eva and the girls, I will also be considering how to best advance the agenda we laid out in the campaign. This is not an end, but a new beginning. I look forward to having your support as we build on the great work we did over the last nine months