Why Are Brannan and Gounardes Delayed on Responding to Hate Towards Groups of People?

Senator Gounardes said that something happened a week and a half ago at the location where he and Brannan gathered yesterday. The audio isn’t clear on the video. (See here)
Late yesterday, this graphic appeared on Facebook:

It’s good they are finally speaking out, but why did they wait so long?
Councilman Brannan could have put an article in the newspaper about this hate that residents, like Maureen and Vanessa experienced. Instead, Justin Brannan answered questions about himself, so he can get an article in The Brooklyn Paper today. His election isn’t until November, so there was no reason for him to do that now.
On Channel 1 News, the two women told their own story because neither politician did.
Maureen Ki was spit on outside of her senior center on 18th Avenue and 73rd Street.
In a separate incident, sixteen year old, Vanessa Lam was also spit on and then pushed into the street on 18th Avenue and 68th Street. Gounardes and Brannan should have shared this!
Why didn’t Councilman Brannan have this speak-out event on Saturday or Sunday so more people could be there for these women? Why did Gounardes and Brannan wait until late yesterday to tell the community about today’s event?
In the Summer, there was hate spoken in Bay Ridge. Brannan took over a week to respond to it. Gounardes never responded or commented on it. (See here)
The hate that people in our community are experiencing is awful, but it’s been allowed to go unchecked by politicians and the media for a long time.
In Bay Ridge, some families have been targets of hate at the playground this weekend!
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March 29, 2021Bay Ridge Shares Healthy Recipes Online

The Bay Ridge BID is having a contest. Share a recipe and where you buy the ingredients.
Anyone who enters a recipe will be entered to win a $50 gift card. (More info here)
The recipe above is coconut curry chickpeas. Recipe here
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March 29, 2021Spectrum Strike Has Been Going on 4 Years Now

Spectrum workers have been on strike for four years now.
Only a few people mentioned Spectrum’s Strike – we should have seen NYC Council speak out about it.
When you see politicians like Justin Brannan (See here) cross the picket line and appear on Channel 1 News, you know those politicians don’t support unions (or maybe they just support unions who donate to their campaign).

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March 29, 2021Female Officer Molested at 59th St. Station

A female police officer in uniform was touched by a 31-year old man at the 59th Street station in Sunset Park around 4 pm. (Be careful ladies)
Story here
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March 29, 2021Moderna Vaccine at AV Pharmacy
Book your appointment here
AV Pharmacy 8501 4th Avenue 718-238-1402
If you don’t qualify for the vaccine right now because you aren’t the right age or in any of the qualifying groups, you can sign up for the wait list – if they have extra, they will call you in. (View the wait list form)
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March 28, 2021Frontus Cosponsors Pot Bill Called “Marihauana Regulation and Taxation Act”

Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus co-sponsored the “Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act.” It isn’t even spelled correctly (see above screenshot) and it’s legislation – see NYS Site

HERE’S THE STRANGE PART: On March 24th, Mathylde asked on Twitter how people felt about it. #PlayingPolitics If Mathlyde was a sponsor of the bill, then she didn’t care what anyone thought. (And people told Frontus that)
On March 25th, Frontus said on Twitter that there wasn’t even a bill.

We are in a global pandemic and Mathylde Frontus thought that this bill was necessary now! She believes these are the benefits of the bill.
Pot was decriminalized in New York State in August 2019 (See here), so this bill is unnecessary.

Many people know someone who has overdosed and died. Drug overdoses were up in NYC in 2020 (See here and here). Neither Mathylde Frontus or Senator Andrew Gounardes introduced legislation to correct the problem. These are Frontus’ bills from last year. (See here)
Look at how many people overdosed in a short time period of time in NYC. Stats from NYC’s report:

Frontus also didn’t tell us that people that pot businesses are locked out of the Federal banking system. (Source) So pot businesses can’t use any of the big banks. This makes the marijuana business mostly cash and subjected to the same fraud as any mostly mostly cash business. Which also means the revenue generated for NYC will be far less than expected (and everyone will claim they don’t know why!)
How does this bill help the people in Coney Island and Bay Ridge? In Brooklyn, you can buy pot easily on most street corners. The drug dealer’s car is the one that stops on your street and one of your neighbor gets in. Your neighbor stays in the car for a few minutes to get his/her stash, then he/she leaves the car and and someone else hops in the front seat with the driver.
The news spoke about this bill and said: “NYC will become a multi-billion dollar cannabis center.” That doesn’t sound good. That means there is going to be a lot people walking around high and being morons. There will be a lot more accidents and then politicians will tell us that more red light cameras are needed.
When our representatives are talking to their colleagues in Albany, they forget they represent Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is an area where people take things to the extreme. Do you think people are going to abide by the three pot plants per person rule?
There are a lot more problems that the NYS Assembly should have be dealing with: tenants who don’t have money to pay the rent (the Eviction Ban is over on May 1st) and small landlords who aren’t able to make ends meet because they aren’t receiving rent. Families are worried. This is a hard position for people to be and representatives like Mathylde Frontus should have put them first BEFORE THE WEED!
I am sad to see Mathylde Frontus let Carl Heastie help take the heat off Governor Andrew Cuomo. People stopped talking about Cuomo to concentrate on the pot bill.
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March 28, 2021A Man Died on 86th Street & 4th Avenue

There was a lot of police activity outside of Aye Kebob Turkish Restaurant on the corner of 86th Street and 4th Avenue this morning.

The police sectioned off the area outside the restaurant because a homeless man passed away on the street. (I don’t know who it was yet.)
RIP.
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March 28, 2021Beautiful Day in Bay Ridge

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March 28, 2021Palm Sunday in Bay Ridge

Happy Palm Sunday, Bay Ridge.
You could feel God outside of Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 6917 4th Avenue.

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March 27, 2021Graffiti Art Kings = GAK on 65th Street

This section of Brooklyn is getting covered in graffiti.
It’s a gruesome stabbing painting on the corner of 65th Street and 7th Avenue.
Years ago when people did graffiti, they didn’t write about it like they do now. (See here)
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March 27, 2021Oh No – Not Again!
Let’s hope that this is just a rumor. (See here)
I don’t know if that is true because I saw that Marty is with Fox. (See here)
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March 27, 2021Nunzio and Lucy Hair Salon Closed

I didn’t notice that Nunzio and Lucy Hair Salon on 4th Avenue and 92nd Street didn’t reopen.
This salon has been in Bay Ridge for a long time.
In 2019, the movie, The Kitchen filmed a few scenes with Melissa McCarthy there.
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