1. What is the most important issue in the city you would address if elected?

Affordable housing. Before 1980, it was a rule of thumb that one week’s salary equaled one month’s rent. Now, more than one half of rental New Yorkers pay more than one third of their month’s salary for rent. No rent increases should be allowed until landlords open their books. Rent guidelines board tenant representatives must be appointed by the City Council, not by the Mayor. The hundreds of millions of dollars the city had for stadiums should be for affordable housing for households earning less than $75,000 annually.

2. What other important issues would you address if elected?

Enforce the New York State Supreme Court decision that the state release the $10 billion owed to New York City schools.

Emphasize energy conservation and decentralized alternatives to fossil fuels, like neighborhood co-generators, solar cells, and wind and wave turbines. These will replace energy dependence, price gouging, blackouts, and projects to build more dirty power plants – all of which have led to record annual oil company profits at the expense of public health and pocketbooks.

Expand our mass transit system by extending subway lines and adding on light rail and trolleys to provide a clean, energy efficient alternative to auto traffic.

Promote the establishment of food coops in every borough where all employees are adult shoppers who work less than 3 hours a month to enjoy the benefits of cheap, nutritious food and a wonderful cooperative spirit.

3. What makes you the best candidate for this office?

I am a native New Yorker who has lived and been schooled in the city that is my living, my laboratory, my life. I will never sell out to the real estate moguls who have inflicted their mercenary values on the citizenry of this great city.

(Reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)

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