Why I Won’t Vote for Corey Johnson for Mayor…
Councilman Justin Brannan wrote an article in The Daily News about property taxes. It was pretty good.
Brannan is a little more hopeful for reform than we are. We’ve been waiting a long time for the property taxes to be adjusted. He wrote: “If the mayor is serious about defeating inequality, and ending the tale of two cities, he will use every bit of political capital he has left to push ahead. Fix a broken system. Bring fairness where there is currently anything but. Finally deliver some to so many hardworking New Yorkers.”
Vicki Been said property tax reform won’t come during de Blasio’s administration. (See here) Been headed the property tax commission that de Blasio and Corey Johnson formed. She switched jobs in the Spring so she knows the property tax commission didn’t do much. She was very bold in her speech. Then she recanted her statement (because she must have been yelled at by her boss). When I read her words, I thought: How can she say this when she still works for the city? She can’t!
Johnson should be able to cut the red tape on this. Yet, it seems he has stifled outspoken Councilmen like Brannan and Borelli.
Did Corey Johnson reply or say anything to Brannan? Nope. Johnson should have stepped up and helped when you saw the Mayor wasn’t going to do anything. Everyone waited for Corey Johnson’s property tax commission to come through and 15 months later, nothing happened.
Hugs,
marlene
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