NEW YORK -- New York City has elected its first Asian-American to citywide office.
Democrat John Liu (LOO) easily defeated Republican challenger Joe Mendola in Tuesday's election for comptroller. Liu had 77 percent of the vote with 24 percent of precincts reporting.
Liu's family emigrated from Taiwan when he was a child.
He has served on the City Council since 2002, representing parts of Queens. He also was the first Asian-American on the council.
Mendola is a lawyer who has not held public office.
The comptroller audits city agencies and oversees the municipal pension system.
In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
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Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently
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