My run for City Council is the culmination of my life long commitment. Our community needs a role model, I am that role model: I was raised by a single mother on welfare, lived in a foster home, attended our public schools, graduated from Harvard Law School, and returned to my community. Today I teach our children, defend our cab drivers, our tenants, our immigrants, and our senior citizens. We need someone who can effectively FIGHT for ALL of US IN OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY.


MY PRIORITIES ARE:

EDUCATION: Reform and rationalize aid formulas to provide equitable educational experiences to our children.

HOUSING: Maintain rent control and stabilization programs. Reform the tax code to punish “absentee landlords” and return abandoned property to the active housing market.

RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY: Prevent anti-immigrant legislation and discrimination; prevent cuts to local programs such as Home Attendant services, local hospitals, libraries, community centers. Expand AIDS and cultural diversity programs.

IMPROVE TRAIN SERVICE: Eliminate the preposterous MTA practice of skipping YOUR stop on the 1/9 train ONLY above 137th Street.

NYC MINIMUM WAGE: Require large corporations taking millions of city funds to hire their employees at a living wage.

TICKET QUOTA SYSTEM: Stop the unjust ticket quota system that penalizes our hard working drivers.

TAXES: Eliminate the unincorporated business tax paid by the small business-owners of our bodegas, salons, multiservices, restaurants.

ENVIRONMENT: Encourage innovative public and private partnerships to improve our environment.