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Outspent Stringer Gets By With a Little Help From Union Friends

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/16/13

“Some people said we couldn’t do this,” Scott Stringer told his supporters in the Manhattan club Slate moments after Eliot Spitzer had called to congratulate him on winning their fiercely-contested race for the Democratic nomination for City Comptroller. “We didn’t have the resources, we didn’t have the money.

“But,” he continued, “we had ideas. Sometimes the guy without the resources but with a lot of heart can win the election.”

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