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Un-comptrol yourself, rival tells Liu

A fellow mayoral candidate yesterday called on embattled City Comptroller John Liu to resign as the scandal around his 2013 campaign intensifies.

“I do not know if the charges against Comptroller John Liu’s campaign associates are true, or whether the comptroller will be implicated in the US attorney’s ongoing investigation, but the bottom line is that the comptroller’s credibility has been so severely undermined that he can no longer do his job effectively,” said Tom Allon, a Manhattan publisher of a local newspaper chain.

Liu, the first Asian-American elected to citywide office, won the comptroller’s seat in a hyper-competitive Democratic primary in 2009 and was widely expected to run for mayor next year until his legal troubles recently engulfed his campaign.

Allon is the only 2013 candidate to call for Liu’s ouster. The other candidates and likely-to-runs have remained silent, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, former City Comptroller Bill Thompson, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Liu, who attended St. Patrick’s Day parades on Staten Island and in Queens yesterday, has given vague statements about his political future since his 25-year-old campaign treasurer Jenny Hou, was arrested last week on charges of aiding illegal fund-raising through “straw donors.”