New York Daily News

Your money, their rout

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City Controller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James and the five borough presidents are shoe-ins for reelection. But their approach to public matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board — which are designed to help ensure competitiv­e elections — are quite different. Stringer has nobly declined to take $592,338; he’ll run on his privately collected $2 million. Bronx BP Ruben Diaz has pocketed $397,054 in tax dollars, adding to his $1.4 million kitty. James and Queens BP Melinda Katz both greedily had the nerve to sign letters to the finance board seeking more than the standard match swearing that their nothing rivals are real threats. It would be funny except that James took $715,783 and Katz $529,838 in tax dollars. For shame. Give it back.

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