Local Races: Would-be D.A.s Debate Plaxico, Comptroller Vols Dish, Buscemi Speaks
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Having no televised forum in which to air their differences, Comptroller candidates John Liu and Donald Weprin mixed it up outside a West 72nd Street subway entrance -- or rather their volunteers did, insulting each other's champions ("Doesn't he look like a used car salesman?" a Liu supporter said of Weprin) while the candidates hugged and Liu proposed they wrestle for the office.
In the Public Advocate's race, Bill de Blasio received the only endorsement that matters, that of Steve Buscemi.




























