1. John Chun Yah Liu is an American politician in New York City.
21 Facts About John Liu
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John Liu previously served as the 43rd New York City Comptroller from 2010 to 2013, and as a member of the New York City Council from 2002 to 2009, representing the 20th district in northeast Queens.
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John Liu was the first Asian American New York City Council member and Comptroller, and one of the first two Asian American New York State Senators, as well as the first elected to legislative or citywide office in New York.
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John Liu was a candidate in the 2013 New York City mayoral election.
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Chun John Liu was born in Taiwan, and moved to the United States at age five.
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John Liu's father, Chang Liu, was an MBA student and bank teller.
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John Liu attended PS 20 in Queens, and Hunter College High School.
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John Liu graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1985, doing community organizing and volunteer work in his spare time.
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John Liu worked as a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as president of the North Flushing Civic Association before his election to the City Council.
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John Liu was elected to the New York City Council in 2001, representing northeast Queens in the 20th district as its first Asian American member.
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In March 2009, John Liu announced that he was running for the post of New York City Comptroller.
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John Liu spearheaded Checkbook 2.0, the initiative to upgrade the city's current online transparency system.
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John Liu is a leader of the Asian Political Leadership Fund, a federally designated 527 fund whose purpose is to promote political leadership from within the Asian American community.
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John Liu ran as a candidate for Mayor of New York City in the 2013 election, losing in fourth place in the Democratic Party's primary election.
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John Liu's supporters disagreed with the decision, saying they had legitimately donated funds to Liu's campaign, and were being denied their rights.
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John Liu was never accused of any wrongdoing in connection with his staffers.
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John Liu criticized Avella for joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of senate Democrats that allied themselves with the Senate Republican Conference, creating a coalition that controlled the Senate.
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John Liu was initially supported by the Working Families Party, by the Queens County Democratic Party and by several unions, but these organizations largely dropped their support of John Liu when Jeff Klein, leader of the IDC, announced that its members would rejoin the mainline Democratic Conference after the 2014 elections.
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In 2014, John Liu rejoined Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he has taught public finance.
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John Liu initially stated he had no plans to run for office after his 2014 loss to Avella and declined offers to do so, but was inspired after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset victory over incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley in the June 2018 Congressional primary elections.
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John Liu was then convinced to run for state senate by activists looking to defeat former IDC members.