Comptroller candidate John Liu is leading in the “poles,” which is not a good place to be.
Liu’s campaign was slapped with 587 summonses by the Sanitation Department for plastering the city’s utility poles with his campaign posters.
Each summons carries a $75 fine, so the Queens councilman owes $44,025.
Three other candidates, all Democrats like Liu, received more than 200: Leithland Tulloch (287), a council hopeful in Brooklyn; Marcus Crespo (226), who won a Bronx Assembly seat in June; and Cleofis Sarete (219), a council contender in Washington Heights.