For state comptroller, we endorse Alan Hevesi.
He ran for state comptroller in 1998 and briefly considered a bid for New York mayor.
The two men running for state comptroller were the most aggressive in their choices of outfits.
In September, Herbert London, the G.O.P. candidate for state comptroller, announced he could not support Pataki.
Ms. Giske worked for Ms. Bellamy on two subsequent, and unsuccessful, campaigns for state comptroller.
John J. Faso, the Republican who ran for state comptroller in 2002, was there.
"We don't write the laws," said David Neustadt, a spokesman for State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.
In the election for state comptroller, the question may come down to this: which do voters dislike more, Albany or Wall Street?
A rare bright spot for the party, financially speaking, is the candidacy of Harry Wilson, a former hedge fund manager running for state comptroller.
The harshest personal attacks came from the campaign of Michael Jarjura, the mayor of Waterbury, who was seeking the Democratic nomination for state comptroller.
Several weeks earlier, Hevesi, the incumbent candidate for state comptroller, had admitted to using a state employee as his wife's chauffeur.
