1. What is the most important issue in Council District 9 you would address if elected?

Protecting our homes and preserving our communities is essential to good urban planning. Overdevelopment is driving people from their homes, displacing small businesses and destroying the cultural diversity of neighborhoods. We need responsible development that will build neighborhoods where people can afford to live and raise their families. We must build more affordable housing that reflects the median income of the neighborhood, and we must enact tenant-friendly rent laws to keep New Yorkers in their homes. We must eliminate luxury decontrol, enact Home Rule, and fully fund rent subsidies and legal services for low-income tenants, and we must hold developers accountable to Community Board zoning plans and community oversight.

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

I will fight for quality public education, smaller class sizes, more afterschool programs and better teacher pay. I will fight for affordable health care, living wage jobs, career training opportunities, and protection of our civil liberties.

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

I have the skills, the experience, and the independence to effectively serve the entire district. For fifteen years, I have worked passionately to preserve and protect our community. I served in Assembly Member Sullivan’s office for nine years, working on legislation, budgets, community issues, and individual problems. I organized the Friends of CUNY to defend remediation and protect the university from budget cuts. I mobilized the community to stop the West Side Stadium, to fight chain stores threatening our small businesses, to force Columbia to comply with the Community Board plans as they expand, and to prevent the privatization of Social Security. I will continue this work every day on City Council if elected.

(Reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)

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