My maiden voyage into city politics began in 1995 when I led the fight against the illegal and immoral privatization of DeWitt Clinton Park. During that battle I became a public access TV producer and named my show DeWitt Clinton Presents. My first project - Get Out of Our Park! Birth of an Activist - won an award from the Alliance of Community Media! And now the park is considered the jewel of all neighborhood parks instead of the poster child of city parks as it was in 1995.

DeWitt Clinton Presents informs the public about a myriad of issues. Housing, the environment, campaign finance and conflicts of interest are some of the issues that were presented. In the end however, the show provided me with a vehicle by which to learn about many of the problems of our society first hand and to come up with solutions to them.

My Freedom of Choice Campaign will focus in on three areas The elimination of the use of poisonous pesticides in the largest public school and housing systems in the United States will go far in ensuring that the people who live, work and learn in these public buildings will be safe from the "people-cides" that are currently used.

The second area is that of the broken election process, which I have been focusing on for the past five years. My analysis of the 2001 elections demonstrates that Mayor Bloomberg was elected by only 12% of the voting age population in the City of New York! What is wrong with this picture?!!

And finally, there is the issue of the unconstitutional smoking ban legislation that was shepherded through the city council by my opponent Christine Quinn. As Americans we should have the right to choose what to do with our lives and our property. However, the current members of the city council don’t appear to see it that way. They have passed legislation above and beyond the smoking ban that has been proven to be dangerous to the health and welfare of the greatest city in the world. Now is the time for We the People to rise to the occasion to kick the butts of all of our elected officials out of office who are responsible for the passage of such laws!


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