Comptroller candidate grilled, then approved, by City Council committee – Chicago Sun-Times

Ald. Jason Ervin, chairman of the Budget Committee and husband of City Treasurer Mellissa Conyear-Ervin, poked at Chasse Rehwinkel’s resume. It’s loaded with policymaking jobs but, Ervin noted, there is no “financial certification” or accounting degree. “I am personally concerned about an individual that doesn’t have a straight-up finance ... background being comptroller because that person is the city’s chief fiscal accounting officer. It’s like the corporation counsel not being a lawyer or the superintendent not being a police officer."