comptroller
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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
They include state assembly member Claire Valdez, former city comptroller Brad Lander and community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
On Tuesday, Israel's state comptroller released a scathing report accusing successive governments of neglecting domestic weapons production and failing to maintain critical raw material reserves.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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
Such midyear budget adjustments by the board, common in years when revenue was lower than expected, have “enabled countless governors, comptrollers and treasurers to actively manage the state’s finances,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
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 Shakespeare, William
