{"id":187441,"date":"2026-04-06T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187441\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:07","slug":"race-for-new-york-comptroller-could-be-competitive-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187441\/","title":{"rendered":"Race for New York comptroller could be competitive one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Goyle, a New York City entrepreneur and attorney, says his campaign for New York state comptroller has collected and filed more than enough petition signatures to secure his name on the Democratic primary ballot, his campaign announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2025\/11\/13\/raj-goyle-challenging-tom-dinapoli-for-n-y--state-comptroller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goyle is challenging longtime incumbent Tom DiNapoli<\/a> for the position of the state\u2019s top fiscal watchdog. His campaign said he has filed more than 31,500 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers from every part of this state put their name on this petition, and we don\u2019t take that lightly,\u201d Goyle said in a statement. \u201cThey want a comptroller who is willing to use every ounce of the strength of this office to fight for working families through investing in childcare, affordable housing, and giving our retirees the best returns on their pensions. As comptroller, I will also lead historic divestments from Palantir, foreign bonds that lead to war crimes abroad, and dirty fossil fuels. The time is now for new leadership and a bold vision and I will bring this energy to the comptroller\u2019s office on Day 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Harvard Law School, Goyle worked with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as well as the\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union. He co-founded a legal defense company that he later sold.\u00a0He served as a Democratic state legislator in Kansas and founded Phone Free New York, which helped secure passage of the state\u2019s bell-to-bell ban on cellphones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goyle launched a campaign last year to challenge DiNapoli, who is currently the longest serving non-congressional statewide officeholder, having been comptroller since 2007. He was nominated by state Democrats for another term at their convention in February.<\/p>\n<p>Goyle is the second DiNapoli challenger to announce he has the signatures to appear on the Democratic ballot.\u00a0Drew Warshaw, a former assistant secretary to Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is also running for the nomination and his campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/drew-warshaw-says-he-has-enough-signatures-to-be-on-democratic-primary-ballot-for-n-y--state-comptroller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said on Friday he had the required signatures.<\/a> Should signatures from the candidates be verified, it would be New York\u2019s first competitive Democratic primary for comptroller in quite some time. The victor will face Republican nominee Joseph Hernandez, a biotech entrepreneur and Cuban American immigrant in November.<\/p>\n<p>Primary elections in New York will be on Tuesday, June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raj Goyle, a New York City entrepreneur and attorney, says his campaign for New York state comptroller has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,257,38490,270,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-187441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-decision-2026","12":"tag-luke-parsnow","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-new-york-state","18":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-state-news","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}