Thomas DiNapoli
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Thomas P. DiNapoli (born February 10, 1954) was a state assemblyman in New York who was appointed as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007. He was formally the Chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. DiNapoli is a Democrat from Long Island. He is a resident of the Village of Great Neck Plaza.
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[edit] Early career
DiNapoli has been active in politics since he was a teenager, when he ran for and won as a representative to the Mineola Board of Education. DiNapoli at 18 was the youngest person in state history to win a school board seat. After studies at Hofstra University, he worked for New York Telephone before he was elected to the New York State Assembly to represent the 16th District in Northwest Nassau County in 1986. He had previously worked for Assemblywoman May Newburger, whom he succeeded. DiNapoli waslater elected Chairman of the Nassau County Democratic Committee. In 2001, he lost the Democratic nomination for Nassau County Executive to Glen Cove Mayor Thomas Suozzi, who won the seat. In 2006, DiNapoli was a candidate for lieutenant governor but dropped out of the race after State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the party's frontrunner for governor choose Senate Minority Leader David Paterson as his running for lieutenant governor.
[edit] State Comptroller
DiNapoli applied to be State Comptroller to replace Alan Hevesi, who resigned in December 2006. He was interviewed by a panel of two former State Comptrollers, a former New York City Comptroller and a group of legislators on January 24, 2007, receiving praise from both Republican and Democrats alike. [1]. DiNapoli was not amongst the three finalists deemed qualified by the review panel. On February 7, 2007, in a joint session of the New York State Legislature, DiNapoli was elected as New York State Comptroller, succeeding Alan Hevesi by a vote of 150 to 56. [2]
In lieu of a transition committee, DiNapoli established a commission to review the comptroller's office. The commission was headed by former Mayor of New York Ed Koch and financial expert Frank Zarb. Also included in this commission are Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, Chancellor of Syracuse Nancy Cantor, and New York City Comptroller William Thompson. [3]
In March 2007, as one of DiNapoli's first public statements as comptroller, he criticized Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposed budget stating that the levels of spending were at an "unsustainable rate." DiNapoli states that the rate proposed by Spitzer's budget, there would be a $13 billion deficit in three years' time. [4]
[edit] External links
- New York State Office of the State Comptroller official state site
- New York State Democratic Committee - Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli biography
- The New York Times - Times Topics: Thomas P. DiNapoli collected news stories and commentary
- Letter Written To The New York Times In Response To An Article About New York's Small, Freshwater Wetlands
| Preceded by Tom Sanzillo |
Comptroller of New York February 7, 2007 – Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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AK: Bill Corbus (R)* |
HI: Georgina K. Kawamura (R) |
ME: David Lemoine (D) |
NJ: Bradley Abelow (D) |
SD: Vern Larson (R) |
| *No treasurer in this state; closest equivalent listed | ||||
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