The New York State Comptroller has been profiting from the very unions he defends on a near-daily basis, according to a report by the New York Daily News.
Eight of Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s ten biggest campaign donors are unions, a sector that DiNapoli has vocally defended from reform, the report states.
The Daily News breaks down the numbers:
Of the $5.34 million [Thomas] DiNapoli has raised since taking office in 2007, labor has chipped in $1.4 million, or 26% of his total haul, according to an analysis done for the Daily News by the New York Public Interest Research Group.
That percentage is three times more than the 8.5% average that labor donations made up in the fund-raising for all state candidates since 2006, the NYPIRG review found.