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Zachary Iscol
Zachary Iscol (Democratic Party) ran for election for New York City Comptroller. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 22, 2021.
Iscol also ran for election for Mayor of New York. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on June 22, 2021.
Biography
Iscol graduated from Cornell. He served in the United States Marines. Iscol founded the nonprofit Headstrong Project, focused on free mental healthcare. He also founded Hirepurpose, which he described as "a tech and hiring platform that has helped countless veterans and Gold Star families find employment," and Task & Purpose, which he described as "an outlet dedicated to investigating issues in military and veteran communities from sexual harassment in the ranks to V.A. shortcomings in New York City." During the COVID-19 pandemic, Iscol served as deputy director of Javits Medical Center.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2021)
General election
General election for New York City Comptroller
Brad Lander defeated Daby Carreras, Paul Rodriguez, and John Tabacco in the general election for New York City Comptroller on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad Lander (D) | 69.6 | 752,710 |
 | Daby Carreras (R / Save Our City Party) | 23.1 | 249,460 | |
 | Paul Rodriguez (Conservative Party)  | 5.5 | 59,251 | |
| John Tabacco (L / Independent Party) | 1.7 | 18,802 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 1,935 | ||
| Total votes: 1,082,158 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Comptroller
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Brad Lander in round 10 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 868,087 |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chris McNickle (D)
- Helen Rosenthal (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Daby Carreras advanced from the Republican primary for New York City Comptroller.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Tabacco (R)
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Paul Rodriguez advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York City Comptroller.
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Zachary Iscol did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Iscol’s campaign website stated the following themes.
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BRINGING NEW YORK CITY BACK FROM COVID-19 As New York City’s Comptroller, my number one priority will be using the office to lead our economic recovery from Covid. And as Comptroller, I will ensure that every penny is spent on serving the people who live in New York City and not wasted through bureaucratic failures or throwing money at ineffective ideas. Covid did not create the unequal and unacceptable conditions we face in New York City. Rather, the pandemic exacerbated and illuminated the waste and mismanagement that disproportionately impact marginalized communities and the local economy. As Comptroller I will view Covid recovery through that lens and focus on long term, holistic improvements to support everyone in New York City. Traditionally, the Comptroller is the city’s watchdog. They provide oversight of city agencies, auditing their finances and performance, serve as the fiduciary of the city’s five pension funds, settle claims on behalf of the city, and review city contracts. The job requires the highest levels of integrity to ensure tax dollars are spent effectively and ensure we keep our promise to the city’s pensioners, retirees, and workforce. It requires a leader who won’t let policymakers off the hook when they fail to deliver, obfuscate what’s really happening in our city, or strike backroom political deals. In addition to these critically important responsibilities, I will leverage the position of Comptroller to help lead the city’s economic recovery to get New Yorkers back on their feet, to address disparity and serve our most vulnerable by leveraging resources from the public and private sector, and ensure the city is never again caught unprepared when we need to mobilize. We need to bring back hundreds of thousands of jobs, spur investment in businesses and the arts, implement effective COVID-19 testing and vaccination plans, close the growing achievement gap in education and catch our kids up on over a year’s loss of learning. Economic Recovery: Our city’s economic recovery is of paramount importance. Over half a million people have lost their jobs, we’ve lost a third of our small businesses and nearly half of our restaurants are at risk of shutting their doors. Broadway remains dark. The cascading effects are wide-spread and devastating. From the loss of tax revenue needed to maintain essential services to struggling families to mental health, we need to get our economy going again. As comptroller, I will leverage the resources and powers of the office to make this happen. 1. Anyone who wants to do business with New York, whether as a fund manager or as a city contractor, I will require a one-page memo detailing their commitment to our city.If you’ve moved your office out of the city, if you’re not hiring New Yorkers, if you aren’t helping our communities recover through philanthropy or volunteerism, you won’t do business with us. 2. By leveraging Economically Targeted Investments through the pension funds, we will make a billion commitment to seed at least one dozen $500 million social impact funds to invest in New York City.These funds will each have a specific area of focus, including small businesses and restaurants, Broadway, arts and culture, microfinance, affordable housing, and bringing new industries, and more importantly – jobs, to New York City. 3. We will lead a red-tape cutting commission that will reduce the regulatory burden for starting and operating businesses in New York City, in addition to making it easier to start one. There are over 6,000 rules and regulations, 250 business related licenses and permits, and 15 separate agencies that govern small businesses. 4. We will establish a $20 billion Social Impact Bond program to retrofit 50,000 city-owned buildings in order to reduce energy costs and emissions and bring them into code with Local Law 97. Estimates hold that this will create up to 150,000 jobs in addition to making New York City a leader in developing new technologies for fighting climate change. 5. To fill New York City’s budget gap, we will eliminate waste in agency budgets and ensure federal stimulus dollars achieve maximum impact. The city is facing hard choices to fill the budget gap and reduce spending at a time when New Yorkers need more support than ever. The full scope of the pandemic’s impact on New York City’s economy is not yet known, and lost tax revenue will continue to squeeze the budget for years to come. Fixing What’s Broken My experience leading through crises taught me that the only way to get to the other side is diagnosing the problems and implementing solutions. I will bring critical thinking and discipline to New York City Government to address the most urgent issues facing New Yorkers, including reviving the economy, job creation, public safety, criminal justice, learning loss and the achievement gap, homelessness, housing, unemployment, and mental health. During a time of fiscal constraints, it will be even more important that the city does more with less and leverage partnerships with the public and private sectors. Performing financial and effectiveness audits of New York City agencies is among the most important and powerful roles of the Comptroller to make the city more equitable, safe, and whole. For example, despite the Department of Homeless Service’s $3.2 billion budget, homelessness in New York City has ballooned to the highest levels since the Great Depression with approximately one every one hundred people living in shelters or on the streets. We have a moral obligation to right these wrongs and a financial incentive to make better investments in New York City. Strategies such as eviction prevention funds that help people stay in their homes are both more humane and more cost-effective. To pinpoint failures and identify solutions, my office will immediately dig in to:
Preparedness New York City must create a complete and actionable pandemic preparedness plan to ensure city services are uninterrupted, testing and vaccination programs are ready to be deployed, and medical supplies, food, and regulations are at the ready. Delays during the onset of the pandemic caused by infighting and confusion at City Hall caused more deaths. More than 21,000 New Yorkers died of Covid by May of last year. Estimates suggest fewer than 4,300 would have lost their lives had lockdown orders been put in place even one week earlier in March. Throughout the pandemic, our political leaders have failed to protect us and fight the virus.
Focusing on preparedness is not limited to the pandemic. As Comptroller, I will make sure we are never caught unprepared by the perils of climate change, a terrorist attack, or public health crisis.[2] |
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| —Zach Iscol's campaign website (2021)[3] | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Zach Iscol's 2021 campaign website, "Meet Zach," accessed May 31, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Zach Iscol's 2021 campaign website, "Priorities," accessed June 15, 2021
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