DiNapoli gearing up for 2010
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat, is gearing up his campaign for 2010. He announced today that Gov. David Paterson is hosting “An Evening in Support of New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli” at the storied Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue. It is DiNapoli 2010’s first major fund-raising event in New York City and second major fund-raiser. Cocktails will cost between $500 and $1,500 (to write or raise), and the dinner is for those who contribute or raise $5,000 or more.
This will be DiNapoli’s first election campaign. A former state Assemblyman from Long Island, he was named by his colleagues (and against the wishes of then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer) to replace disgraced Comptroller Alan Hevesi in 2007. Hevesi, also a Democrat, was re-elected in 2006, but he pleaded guilty to defrauding the government and resigned. He had used state employees to chauffeur his wife and help her with errands and chores.
DiNapoli has hired the Benenson Strategy Group to conduct polling and research for his campaign. The group’s clients include now-President-elect Barack Obama, U.S. senators and representatives, international labor unions, Fortune 500 companies and others.
DiNapoli had $312,054 in his campaign coffers as of October. His 32-day pre-general campaign-finance report said he had raised $351,269 that period and had spent $142,386. DiNapoli said he has imposed a $10,000 per contributor per election limit on campaign contributions.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
