The city comptroller is at once New York's most important and least understood office.
It's important because the comptroller oversees audits of city agencies as well as the city's $140 billion in pension funds. It's not well understood because most of the comptroller's work is done behind the scenes, where the billions in pension dollars gives him significant leverage over decisions by both the private and public sectors.
Earlier this year, The Post helped fend off a grave threat to the city's future when we supported Scott Stringer over Eliot Spitzer in the Democratic primary. We made that choice primarily because Stringer has none of the pathologies that made the prospect of a Comptroller Spitzer so menacing. For that worthy goal — keeping Spitzer safely out of power — we were glad to support a conventional liberal such as Stringer.
Today The Post endorses his Republican rival, John Burnett, in the general election. Like Stringer when we supported him, Burnett today finds himself down in the polls. But on principle, he is the superior candidate.
In this race, he's emphasized all the right things — primarily, his fiduciary obligations to taxpayers and pensioners who depend on him to get good value for their money. He also has the right financial experience for the job. On top of it all, Burnett has a personal story — that of an African-American who rose from the projects to make it on Wall Street — that is itself a message of hope about what hard work and good values can accomplish.
We'd like to see more New York Republican candidates in the Burnett mold — and better support from the party when they run. So we urge New Yorkers who care about this city's future to pull the lever for John Burnett on Election Day.
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