As Comptroller,  Brad rang the warning bell immediately after the election in "Protecting New York City" and has remained constant in protecting reproductive freedoms – urging major pharmacy chains like Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson to begin dispensing the abortion medication mifepristone.

Brad is a longtime champion for women’s health care – an issue on which he’s learned most from his wife, Meg Barnette, who served as General Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York for a decade. Brad will ensure that NYC remains a haven for reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion care, regardless of health insurance or income.

As Comptroller, Brad established a new lobbying disclosure dashboard to publicly release meetings that he and his senior staff have with lobbyists. He has run all of his campaigns with public matching funds and added voluntary restrictions–like not taking donations from developers, which he first did in advance of the Gowanus Rezoning–in order to avoid potential conflicts.

Brad has used the tools of the Comptroller’s office to root out corruption and waste in City government, uncovering millions of taxpayer dollars squandered on the City’s DocGo contract and securing its cancellation, identifying a quarter billion dollars missing from the NYC Ferry’s books which drove the City to change its fares, and finding millions more wasted on Adams’ no-bid staffing contracts. He has consistently called for common-sense steps to root out corruption in the City’s procurement.