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Announcement of Reverend Billy Talen for Mayor of NYC
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 05, 2009 01:08pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, March 1, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Today I am launching a campaign for Mayor of New York City. Our campaign will be devoted to nourishing and strengthening our common wealth, our city's heritage, our lovely parks, roads, streets, neighborhoods, and the people who live in them. This city once belonged to us, and it will once again.
It's time for all of us to rise up and reclaim our wonderful city from Starbucks and the other awful chain stores, from real estate speculators and the predators on Wall Street. Together, we'll give New York back to the people who love it.
I believe that the current mayor considers New York City a corporation. This is a natural tendency for a Wall Street guy. Parks, libraries and schools, for instance, are viewed as not worthy of public support -- they must be privatized to pay their own way. This creates a snowball effect, in which our public commons is sold off to the highest bidder. The roadways are a disaster, certainly this is true in the neglected boroughs, but roads are a burden to this mayor, not an asset, and so they are ignored.
Frivolous but money-making arrests, parking tickets, park rentals, and development corporation scams like the take-over of Carnegie Hall Towers (and eviction of 85 year old artists) and the cutting down of old trees in Union Square by mysterious semi-public agencies... not to mention the Olympics, Yankee Stadium and Atlantic Yards boondoggles engineered by wealthy associates -- these are the kind of distortions that come from the corporatizing of civic life. |
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