Liu's Million
With much less chatter and attention than some other citywide elected officials, Queens Councilman John Liu has raised $1,002,771 for an undetermined race, according to recent figures filed with the city's Campaign Finance Board.
Liu seems to have capitalized to spectacular effect on his status as the first Asian-American elected to the council, drawing heavily from Asian-American New Yorkers for his total.
Other notable filings include Councilman David Weprin's $817,136 for the city comptroller's race, Councilman Eric Gioia's $726,618 for an undisclosed race, and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's $163,965.
UPDATE: The CFB updated some paperwork which puts Weprin's contributions now at $978,011.
-- Azi Paybarah
Come on Liu is running against Gloria for Betsey
Liu is running for Comptroller or BP.
What about Mayor?
Eric is running for Public Advocate;
Liu is running for Comptroller; and
Betsy is running for Mayor...ugh, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Liu is running for a seat on The View!
Why would he go for Advocate first? I think he should run for Mayor.
Looks like you'd better beam yourself back up, Scotty, to the bridge on the good ship MBPO Re-Elect. By the way, NYCWonk, you can practice on bananas to cure that gag reflex... in case Betsy gets any traction in a multi-candidate sausagefest!
can it be congress or state senate or is it def a city race?
Chris Quinn is the one female who can (and will) break-out in a mayoral field of wannabe alpha males.
At the end of the day, Chris Quinn will not be elected Mayor. No way people in the outer boroughs are going to vote for a lesbian. Maybe she convinced CMs to vote for her, but they're not proud of it. (At least not in front of their constituents).
BESIDES that, no one has any idea who she was. No one had any idea who Gifford was or Peter Vallone despite their service in the Council.
But Betsy won't run for Mayor.
Remember how she promised the Times Editorial Board she had no higher aspirations just before these wise folk gave her their endorsement and burdented the citizens with this lady who lunches very well.
gioia's best bet is to fundraise like hell and go for public advocate unless maloney kicks the bucket or retires in the next two years. i'd be really interested to see if gifford and gioia would go head to head for that seat if it became available and where people who would support who. now that would be a race.
Could someone honestly tell me what Betsy has done in the past 5 years besides screw up the roll call and agenda at Council stateds?
John Liu should run for Mayor so that he can lose and go off to non-profit land (and give us a break on the freekin press releases.)
3:01 - Gioia has no choice but to run citywide. Gioia running for Maloney's seat would be like trying to put a square peg in a round hole - the votes would not be there for him outside his district and his self-involved, do-gooder pitch would fall flat with UES voters, who make up most of the primary voters and would prefer to go with one of their own such as Krueger, Miller, Moskowitz or Bing.
Gioia for Maloney's seat? OVER BING'S DEAD BODY!
BING IT ON.
Liu is running for comptroller against Weprin and Stringer so far. With that kind of money in the coffers he looks rather formidable.
anonymousnyc
You can't raise for a city race and then convert those funds to a federal race, isn't that the case? If so, I presume that Eric is running for a city or possibly state race.
As for Liu, I think he would make a great comptroller. He has an exacting eye for detail, it seems.