Harry Wilson is out with a fundraising email entitled “Back To School” that cites two tabloid stories that question Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s financial acumen.
In the first, The Post tries to revive a pop quiz that they sprung on DiNapoli three days after he was named to the office by his Assembly colleagues. The reporter asked the Comptroller again what an inverted yield curve was–for the record, it’s a term for economic condiditions that can herald a recession–and he declined to answer.
Last week, The Daily News took a go at DiNapoli, asking him if his office picks managers for the bond business through a competitive process or from a list of prequalified companies.
“We look at it on a case-by-case basis,” DiNapoli told the DN’s Adam Lisberg “So, uh, the last one, we can check and get back to you,” who added, “In fact, a state rule requires bond managers to be picked competitively..”
Writes Wilson campaign manager Chapin D. Fay, “Clearly, Albany Tom DiNapoli has learned nothing about the state’s finances over the past 3 and one half years. This is unacceptable. The stakes for New Yorkers are simply too high and the job is simply too important to let someone with no prior fiscal expertise continue flubbing his way through it.”
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