Drew Warshaw wants to ‘cut out the Wall Street middlemen’ managing state pensions

Tom DiNapoli has never faced a primary challenge in the nearly two decades he has served as state comptroller. He didn’t even need to win an election to become comptroller; the state Legislature appointed him when his predecessor resigned. But that changed in May, when Drew Warshaw, an affordable housing nonprofit executive, announced that he would take on DiNapoli in next year’s Democratic primary.

Since then, one other candidate has announced their campaign for the position, and another has filed to run. But Warshaw has set out an ambitious agenda on how he would take a different approach to the role. His campaign is two-fold: He is working to introduce himself and his policy ideas to the electorate, and he is also trying to educate voters about the powers of the comptroller – that othe