Bloomberg set to endorse GOP candidate for comptroller

Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, is scheduled to be endorsed Monday by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the campaign announced yesterday.

Wilson, a retired hedge-fund manager from Scarsdale, is challenging incumbent Democrat Thomas DiNapoli of Great Neck.

The Bloomberg endorsement, slated for 1 p.m. at City Hall Park, is widely seen as a boost for Wilson in his first bid for elective office. DiNapoli is also running on the Working Families Party line, while Wilson has been cross-endorsed by the Independence and Conservative parties. Both candidates have thus locked up places on the general-election ballot Nov. 2; neither is engaged in Tuesday's primaries.

- James T. Madore in Albany