comptroller
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Nathan Johnson also unseated state Sen. Don Huffines, a Dallas Republican that cycle; Johnson is now running for attorney general, and Huffines for comptroller.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The state comptroller reported in 2022 that only 57% of New York City high school graduates in the class of 2019 were “college ready.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and comptroller in St John's County, Florida and a Navy Reserve commander, is one such American who believes passionately that the Dream is alive and working.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, Brad Lander, a former NYC comptroller, defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, while democratic socialist Assembly member Claire Valdez won the primary for an open seat representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
She says if I run for mayor she wants to be comptroller, of all things.”
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
Elsewhere in the state, voters are electing county executives and comptrollers, including on Long Island where Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, is running for re-election against the county’s Republican comptroller John Kennedy.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
Come, good Sir Thomas, We shall be late else; which I would not be, For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford, This night to be comptrollers.
From King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare