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Dear John,Last night was our campaign kick off, and I woke up this morning feeling so incredibly inspired.

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I’m grateful to our incredible host committee — including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams for his kind introduction — and to every single person who packed into Brooklyn Bowl, despite the frigid temperatures outside. And of course to Will Butler + Sister Squares for their incredible musical performance!

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City government must work better for New Yorkers — and it can. If you want a Mayor who will make it happen, can you make a contribution of any amount before the Campaign Finance Board fundraising deadline on Saturday, January 11? [[link removed]]

If you’re reading this email, you’re probably like me in that you love New York City. I fall in love with it every day. But I’m also fed up — fed up with seeing it run so badly and so corruptly. Fed up with the rising cost of living. Fed up with disorder in our neighborhoods.

John, I want a city where people can afford to live. A city where families feel safe in their neighborhoods. A city that lives up to the words on the face of that statue in the harbor.

I hear this sentiment every day, across all five boroughs. A few months ago I was at the dentist, and my hygienist said to me, “Comptroller, I thought every 3-year-old was supposed to get a 3K seat. Why am I 140th on the waitlist?”

New York's working families are exhausted by the skyrocketing cost of housing and child care, stressed out by a sense of post-pandemic disorder. And our City government hasn’t done anything about it — from the horrific incidents in the subways over the last couple of weeks, to moped and e-bike chaos, or any number of things that make it feel like your neighborhood isn't your neighborhood anymore.

So much of it comes down to failed leadership, John. Mayor Adams promised to get stuff done, but instead he's appointed corrupt cronies and bid riggers and sexual harassers who are running our City agencies into the ground.

And make no mistake: Andrew Cuomo would not be any better. This is somebody whose inner circle was indicted for corruption, who resigned before he was impeached for sexual harassment. Did you know that he's actually suing to eliminate the state ethics agency? That is not the leadership that we need for New York City.

City government must work better for New Yorkers — and it can. We know it can, because we've seen it. We've done it together time and again.

On the City Council, we won paid sick days for all working New Yorkers, raised the minimum wage, and prevented freelancers from having their payments stolen. We brought participatory budgeting to New York City, and integrated the middle schools in District 15.

We passed the Gowanus rezoning — the largest affordable housing rezoning in the last decade in New York City — to build 8,500 new housing units with the support of the community. We made our streets safer by reducing the speed limit, building out local streets infrastructure, and holding reckless drivers accountable.

City government must work better for New Yorkers — and it can. We're doing it every single day in the Comptroller’s Office.

We are the only public pension fund in the country that's divested from fossil fuels — while posting strong 10% returns and saving taxpayers $1.8 billion. That's the retirement security of our City’s teachers and firefighters and cops and school crossing guards.

We’ve made some of the largest investments in affordable housing in history: Issuing the City’s first-ever social bonds to finance over 12,000 deeply affordable housing units, and investing alongside CPC and Related to help save the 35,000 rent-stabilized units put at risk by the collapse of Signature Bank.

And our audits have gone a long way in saving money and making things run better, like the work we did to cancel that $432 million no bid contract Mayor Adams gave to DocGo. And we made sure that the Mayor could not push our retirees onto privatized Medicare Advantage.

City government must work better for New Yorkers — and it can. Here's what that's going to mean when I'm Mayor:

We're going to end street homelessness of seriously mentally ill people in New York City by going from a system where we put housing last, to one where we put housing first. We'll improve housing affordability by protecting tenants, building mixed income neighborhoods like we did in Gowanus, and creating the next generation of affordable homeownership for working class families.

And we'll make sure that every family has a great after school program for their kids in elementary school – not just because parents' jobs don't end at 3:00 PM when school gets out, but because every kid needs sports and arts and social and emotional learning.

Look, New York City is amazing because of the very people who live here. But our City government must work better for New Yorkers — it can, and it will. That's why I'm running for Mayor.

If you couldn’t make it out to Brooklyn Bowl for the campaign kick off last night, can you make a contribution of any amount to our campaign instead? It’s going to take all of us to build the strongest, most viable campaign to win a safer, more affordable, and better-run New York City. [[link removed]]

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Thank you so much for your support, John. Together, we're going to change this city.

Thank you,

Brad
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