Former U.S. congressional candidate Adem Bunkeddeko announced Tuesday he is running for New York state comptroller in 2026, adding yet another Democrat to the field challenging longtime incumbent Tom DiNapoli.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor too long, the Comptroller\u2019s office has been on the sidelines \u2013 and New Yorkers have paid the price,\u201d Bunkeddeko said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s time for change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bunkeddeko, from Brooklyn, released a video on YouTube saying his priorities include auditing the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, expanding state housing access vouchers and using clean energy, manufacturing and infrastructure investment to help upstate\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
Bunkeddeko previously ran for Congress, challenging Rep. Yvette Clarke in New York’s 9th\u00a0Congressional District in 2018 and 2020, narrowly losing to her the first time and finishing a distant second in a five-way race two years later.<\/p>\n
He joins Drew\u00a0Warshaw<\/a>, a former assistant secretary to Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and\u00a0Raj Goyle,<\/a>\u00a0an entrepreneur and attorney, as the Democrats challenging DiNapoli. Biotech entrepreneur and Cuban American immigrant Joseph Hernandez<\/a> is seeking the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n DiNapoli is currently the longest serving non-congressional statewide officeholder, having been comptroller since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. congressional candidate Adem Bunkeddeko announced Tuesday he is running for New York state comptroller in 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,17547,17544,17549,25256,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-420062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","11":"tag-capital-region","12":"tag-central-ny","13":"tag-luke-parsnow","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115651388760677741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}