Mayor

1. What is the most important issue in the city you would address if elected?

The billionaires must pay for the economic crisis. A 5 percent tax on all wealth over $100 million would alone raise over $8 billion a year from the city's 55 billionaires alone; if they try to leave the city, their property and wealth should be confiscated. The $5 billion that the city pays every year to the banks for "debt servicing" must go to people's needs.

2. What other important issues would you address if elected?

The NYPD top cops must face charges for the epidemic of racist police brutality.

Housing is a right; rents must be rolled back and New York City should be declared an eviction-free zone with no foreclosures or evictions. The Rent Guidelines Board must be elected by New York City residents, not appointed by the mayor.

CUNY should be free as it once was.

Every New Yorker should be guaranteed a union job with decent wages and benefits.

3. What makes you the best candidate for this office?

I am not a billionaire and I have never been a bank executive. I am the only candidate who has grown up poor in New York City. My candidacy is dedicated to building a movement of poor and working people to put our interests first--the movement we need for the society we deserve.

I marched with 1 million of my fellow immigrants on May Day 2006 to demand amnesty for all undocumented workers. I organized to demand an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and of the occupation of Palestine.

I was an organizer trying to push back the 2008 tuition increases at CUNY. I am a fighter for the interests of poor and working people.

(Reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)

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