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March 5, 2023

Gounardes Pushed GetAround Car-Sharing on Bay Ridge And Was Silent About His Involvement

If you are looking for parking and can’t find a spot, you need to raise your voice towards Senator Andrew Gounardes. 718-238-6044

Community Board 10 only heard from one Car Sharing Company, GetAround Car Sharing, a California Company that had never done business in New York.

When Doris from CB 10 asked, “Why is there only one car-sharing company presenting? No one answered.

Watch this video:

Andrew Gounardes should have told Community 10 that he was working with GetAround Car Share. #SomethingIsNotRightHere

Gounardes said, “We should be encouraging more car share.” If that were true, then Gounardes would have spoken about car sharing to the community, shared it on his social media or in his newsletters.

Yes, car sharing is good, if the company’s that are car sharing pay for their parking spot. Our streets are not a free parking lots for businesses.

GetAround has put a lot of money into lobbying. (See here) GetAround has lobbied in both NYC and NYS.

Andrew Gounardes drives a car. He can’t be anti-car because his office is in walking distance of his home, yet he doesn’t walk to his office. Gounardes has also never spoken up for the environment or air quality, so something is strange about him presenting for a California car-sharing program, rather than a NY business.

GetAround Car Sharing must not know that Gounardes has accepted money from the The Greater New York Dealers Assocation.

This is a political action committee that represents dealerships in Bay Ridge.

That political action committee boasts about their powerful voice in Albany:

Gounardes also accepted donations from Bay Ridge Automotive:

Community Board 10 also didn’t tell us that there are more cars than were previously mentioned. (I will share that soon and put a link here soon.)

Andrew Gounardes had a responsibility to tell our community of his involvement with GetAround. A government officials should not be representing any individual corporation.

People in Queens have been leaving me messages because they GetAround is taking parking spaces in their community and parking on the sidewalk as well.

They posted this today:

This person wrote about GetAround’s stock going public. See it’s current market value here.

Why did Andrew Gounardes, who doesn’t have any experience in business think it was okay to push a California company on our community?

See pictures of Gounardes at GetAround‘s business event in Downtown Brooklyn, rather than representing someone or a business in our community. here.

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Finally, is anyone else tired of Councilman Brannan playing stupid when he is asked about lobbyist’s projects in our community?

We need new leaders in Bay Ridge – ones who aren’t interested in dancing for lobbyists or corruption. like this.

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Hugs,
marlene

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