New York Daily News: Family at heart of Melinda Katz's controller campaign
The Huffington Post: We Must Say "No" to Death Bonds
New York Daily News: Controller candidate Melinda Katz says she'd take 10% pay cut
New York Daily News: Sing-a-long with Melinda Katz: Controller candidate takes her musical act to Brooklyn and we have video
Gay City News: Melinda Katz Prefers Winning to Fighting
Press Release: STATEMENT FROM MELINDA KATZ ON THE NEW YORK CITY PENSION FUNDS
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ CALLS ON CITY TO IMPLEMENT FINANCIAL SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT AGAINST FUTURE LIABILITES
New York Daily News: Hudson collision shows city needs private insurance, City Councilwoman Melinda Katz says
Press Release: FOUR MORE UNIONS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
The Daily Politics: Air Katz: 'I Told Him He Could Stick It'
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ BEGINS AIRING TELEVISION ADS IN CAMPAIGN FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Bond Buyer: N.Y.C. Comptroller Candidate Urges Rating Reform Coalition
Our Town: Decision ‘09: Primary Profiles
Press Release: FIRE OFFICERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
Queens Chronicle: Katz: City needs ‘war-time’ comptroller
Press Release: LOCAL 46 METALLIC LATHERS UNION AND REINFORCING IRONWORKERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
STATEMENT FROM FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH, ENDORSING CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BILL DE BLASIO FOR PUBLIC ADVOCATE & CITY COUNCIL MEMBER MELINDA KATZ FOR CITY COMPTROLLER
Press Release: STATEMENT FROM COUNCILWOMAN MELINDA KATZ ON ENDORSEMENT FROM MAYOR ED KOCH
WNYC: Meet the Candidates: Melinda Katz for Comptroller
WNYC News Blog: Teamsters Endorse Melinda Katz as Comptroller
Press Release: Statement from Councilwoman Melinda Katz ON STATE COMPTROLLER DINAPOLI’s DIVESTMENT OF PENSION FUND INVESTMENTS
Press Release: TEAMSTERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
Press Release: DIAZ JR. AND VALLONE SR. ENDORSE COUNCILWOMAN MELINDA KATZ FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Huffington Post: My Conversation with Geraldine Ferraro
Press Release: Statement From Councilwoman Melinda Katz On Budget
Press Release: Melinda Katz Strongly Encourages S.E.C. To Adopt Rules Democratizing Corporate Governance
The New York Times: City Council Endorses Sales Tax Increase
Letter to Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro
The Daily Politics: Wright Goes His Own Way On Comptroller Race
The New York Observer: A Queens Girl at Home With the Old Boys
Letter to Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro Regarding the "Uptick Rule"
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ ENDORSED BY BRONX DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Huffington Post: Mother's Day Thoughts from a Political Mom
PolitickerNY: The Katz Coalition
Press Release: CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS VOICE THEIR SUPPORT FOR MELINDA KATZ’ CAMPAIGN FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
Press Release: Melinda Katz Honors Legacies of Pioneering Women
Press Release: New Era Democrats Endorse Melinda Katz For NYC Comptroller
City Hall News: Conflicting Accounts
Press Release: Councilwoman Melinda Katz Kicks Off Historic Campaign For NYC Comptroller
Press Release: Emily’s List Endorses Councilwoman Melinda Katz For NYC Comptroller
EMILY's List Endorsement
Gotham Gazette: Katz on the Role of Comptroller
The New York Times: Credit Card Holders, Squeezed Twice by the Banks
Press Release: Councilwoman Melinda R. Katz Calls On Federal Government To Protect New York While Taking Action On Wall Street Bonuses
The Huffington Post: We Must Say "No" to Death Bonds
New York Daily News: Controller candidate Melinda Katz says she'd take 10% pay cut
New York Daily News: Sing-a-long with Melinda Katz: Controller candidate takes her musical act to Brooklyn and we have video
Gay City News: Melinda Katz Prefers Winning to Fighting
Press Release: STATEMENT FROM MELINDA KATZ ON THE NEW YORK CITY PENSION FUNDS
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ CALLS ON CITY TO IMPLEMENT FINANCIAL SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT AGAINST FUTURE LIABILITES
New York Daily News: Hudson collision shows city needs private insurance, City Councilwoman Melinda Katz says
Press Release: FOUR MORE UNIONS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
The Daily Politics: Air Katz: 'I Told Him He Could Stick It'
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ BEGINS AIRING TELEVISION ADS IN CAMPAIGN FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Bond Buyer: N.Y.C. Comptroller Candidate Urges Rating Reform Coalition
Our Town: Decision ‘09: Primary Profiles
Press Release: FIRE OFFICERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
Queens Chronicle: Katz: City needs ‘war-time’ comptroller
Press Release: LOCAL 46 METALLIC LATHERS UNION AND REINFORCING IRONWORKERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
STATEMENT FROM FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH, ENDORSING CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BILL DE BLASIO FOR PUBLIC ADVOCATE & CITY COUNCIL MEMBER MELINDA KATZ FOR CITY COMPTROLLER
Press Release: STATEMENT FROM COUNCILWOMAN MELINDA KATZ ON ENDORSEMENT FROM MAYOR ED KOCH
WNYC: Meet the Candidates: Melinda Katz for Comptroller
WNYC News Blog: Teamsters Endorse Melinda Katz as Comptroller
Press Release: Statement from Councilwoman Melinda Katz ON STATE COMPTROLLER DINAPOLI’s DIVESTMENT OF PENSION FUND INVESTMENTS
Press Release: TEAMSTERS ENDORSE KATZ FOR COMPTROLLER
Press Release: DIAZ JR. AND VALLONE SR. ENDORSE COUNCILWOMAN MELINDA KATZ FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Huffington Post: My Conversation with Geraldine Ferraro
Press Release: Statement From Councilwoman Melinda Katz On Budget
Press Release: Melinda Katz Strongly Encourages S.E.C. To Adopt Rules Democratizing Corporate Governance
The New York Times: City Council Endorses Sales Tax Increase
Letter to Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro
The Daily Politics: Wright Goes His Own Way On Comptroller Race
The New York Observer: A Queens Girl at Home With the Old Boys
Letter to Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro Regarding the "Uptick Rule"
Press Release: MELINDA KATZ ENDORSED BY BRONX DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
The Huffington Post: Mother's Day Thoughts from a Political Mom
PolitickerNY: The Katz Coalition
Press Release: CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS VOICE THEIR SUPPORT FOR MELINDA KATZ’ CAMPAIGN FOR NYC COMPTROLLER
Press Release: Melinda Katz Honors Legacies of Pioneering Women
Press Release: New Era Democrats Endorse Melinda Katz For NYC Comptroller
City Hall News: Conflicting Accounts
Press Release: Councilwoman Melinda Katz Kicks Off Historic Campaign For NYC Comptroller
Press Release: Emily’s List Endorses Councilwoman Melinda Katz For NYC Comptroller
EMILY's List Endorsement
Gotham Gazette: Katz on the Role of Comptroller
The New York Times: Credit Card Holders, Squeezed Twice by the Banks
Press Release: Councilwoman Melinda R. Katz Calls On Federal Government To Protect New York While Taking Action On Wall Street Bonuses
New York Daily News: Family at heart of Melinda Katz's controller campaign
September 13, 2009
BY Erin Einhorn
While most candidates grab the microphone when they walk into a senior center and tell the crowd why they're running for office, Melinda Katz takes a different approach.
She sings - belting out "God Bless America" or, if she's with a Jewish audience, the Israeli national anthem.
"This was a first," said Etty Friedman, who directs the Haber House senior center where Katz serenaded residents last week.
"They were excited because this is a song that they associate with America."
The controller hopeful's TV ads also take a personal tone, touting her story as the only girl among three boys raised by a single father after their mother died in a car wreck.
They tell of her work in Albany as a 28-year-old Assemblywoman who told an HMO lobbyist to "stick it" when he tried to block a bill letting women seek OB-GYN care without a referral.
And, as she travels the city, she makes copious references to the toddler son she conceived as a single mom and to raising him in her childhood home in Forest Hills.
"That's what people want to know about," Katz said. "They want to know who you are ...
"I am a woman who went through three years or two and half years of fertility treatments, who knows what it's like to have a passion to have a child, who has now balanced work and motherhood in the same way every other parent does in the city, and so I think it's a product of who I am."
The result: Voters mostly want to talk about her - not her plans for city pension funds.
"How is your father?" asked an older woman in a diner who only knew Katz from her ads. (He died in 1987.)
Others ask if she's single - yes - and if they can set her up with their sons.
"She's very pretty. I hope she wins," said Erika Dumain, 87, after meeting Katz in a senior center.
Katz could insist on explaining why she thinks her four years as a corporate lawyer, five years as an Assemblywoman and eight years negotiating with developers as the Council's Land Use chairwoman make her qualified to be the city's top financial official.
Or, she could spend time defending herself from critics who charge she became too cozy with those developers, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from them while considering their zoning deals.
But personal matters are also the issues, she said.
"What I bring to the office is a different dynamic and that's the passions that I have," Katz said. "The things that I care about are making a better city for my son and other kids."
September 13, 2009
BY Erin Einhorn
While most candidates grab the microphone when they walk into a senior center and tell the crowd why they're running for office, Melinda Katz takes a different approach.
She sings - belting out "God Bless America" or, if she's with a Jewish audience, the Israeli national anthem.
"This was a first," said Etty Friedman, who directs the Haber House senior center where Katz serenaded residents last week.
"They were excited because this is a song that they associate with America."
The controller hopeful's TV ads also take a personal tone, touting her story as the only girl among three boys raised by a single father after their mother died in a car wreck.
They tell of her work in Albany as a 28-year-old Assemblywoman who told an HMO lobbyist to "stick it" when he tried to block a bill letting women seek OB-GYN care without a referral.
And, as she travels the city, she makes copious references to the toddler son she conceived as a single mom and to raising him in her childhood home in Forest Hills.
"That's what people want to know about," Katz said. "They want to know who you are ...
"I am a woman who went through three years or two and half years of fertility treatments, who knows what it's like to have a passion to have a child, who has now balanced work and motherhood in the same way every other parent does in the city, and so I think it's a product of who I am."
The result: Voters mostly want to talk about her - not her plans for city pension funds.
"How is your father?" asked an older woman in a diner who only knew Katz from her ads. (He died in 1987.)
Others ask if she's single - yes - and if they can set her up with their sons.
"She's very pretty. I hope she wins," said Erika Dumain, 87, after meeting Katz in a senior center.
Katz could insist on explaining why she thinks her four years as a corporate lawyer, five years as an Assemblywoman and eight years negotiating with developers as the Council's Land Use chairwoman make her qualified to be the city's top financial official.
Or, she could spend time defending herself from critics who charge she became too cozy with those developers, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from them while considering their zoning deals.
But personal matters are also the issues, she said.
"What I bring to the office is a different dynamic and that's the passions that I have," Katz said. "The things that I care about are making a better city for my son and other kids."
