New Yorkers paying historic price to replace Bill de Blasio as mayor

The city Campaign Finance Board doled out more than $10 million in public matching funds to six Democratic mayoral candidates Thursday — with the largest award of $3.7 million given to Andrew Yang.

That brings the total shelled out so far by the CFB to a record shattering $21.9 million in taxpayer matching funds to the mayoral candidates running in the Democratic primary thus far. That’s more than double the $10.4 million parceled out to five candidates for the entire 2013 election — the primaries and the general election. The CFB only spent $5.9 million in 2017, when Mayor Bill de Blasio easily won re-election to a second term.