October, 12, 2005
Dear Fellow New Yorkers, My name is Christopher X. Brodeur and, sad to say, I’m the only candidate running for mayor this year who isn’t a total idiot.
For example, did you know that Freddy Ferrer and Mike Bloomberg aren’t qualified to be mayor by any criteria whatsoever, and both promise if elected to ignore at least 99 percent of the problems in NYC, from our insane sanitation crisis (the worst on earth!) to our debt service crisis (the worst of any municipality on earth), and so on?
Did you know that neither has any plan whatsoever to take on and reform our totally crooked MTA? Did you now that neither has any plan to reform our broken City Hall? Did you know that both think the mayor should be allowed to legally lie to taxpayers as often as he likes? Did you know that both think government should be able to spend your tax dollars any way it likes, even if it’s for programs that have failed forever (such as the totally useless War on Drugs)? Did you know both promise record-shattering tax hikes so they can afford to pay their cronies and friends $100,000 salaries and give them free cars with free gas? Tax Hike Mike promised in 2001 to eliminate most unnecessary government cars, and then did the precise opposite once in power: today, you foot the bill for countless free cars (and this doesn’t count any of the thousands of cars for “emergency” purposes!) solely so City Hall cronies can drive to and from work while you sweat it out on a subway platform, preparing to “go backward to go forward.”
No, you probably didn’t know any of this, because the media refuses to discuss issues or solutions because they’re all endorsing their corporate crony and drinking buddy Mike Bloomberg, a good old boy like them. How many media outlets will endorse a criminal (“City officials” were convicted of contempt of court for the illegal RNC arrests) who broke 90 percent of his campaign promises (to not raise taxes; to not use taxes on stadiums; to have a non-secretive government, etc.), arrested innocent journalists (Colin Moynihan of The Times during a Critical Mass bike rally he was covering), and got caught lying about almost every topic he discussed (claiming Midtown real estate on the waterfront was “not worth much” when he tried to give it away to the very rich Jets football team)? Answer: 100 percent of them.
Look in the papers each day and see if you can find anything other than bogus poll numbers (faked with vague questions asked of ignorant voters), bogus endorsements (the incumbent always gets quid pro quo endorsements) and other completely irrelevant crap that voters and taxpayers don’t give a damn about. (A real headline from this summer: “Martha Goes For Chinese” about felon Stewart… eating Chinese for lunch!)
Government will always break the law, but it’s the media who drives the getaway car.
And I’m running to expose all these criminals and to offer better ideas.
You may have heard that I was responsible for the biggest upset in political history in the Democratic primary last month, in which I beat the second most powerful and rich politician in NYC — Gifford Miller — in the Bronx, despite his spending nearly $6 million to my approximately $120; his campaigning relentlessly to my not campaigning at all (I’ve never visited the Bronx in my life!); and the $100 million in free advertising he got from the media who had an official blacklist on me.
Perhaps voters don’t love the MTA as much as the media insists they do! Perhaps voters want lower rent, lower bills, lower taxes, and less corruption in City Hall, unlike what the “experts” and “pundits” promise. Perhaps some voters agree with me that we should make it illegal for politicians and their goons to lie to taxpayers (just as we outlawed lying by used car salesmen and auto mechanics) or that we should make it illegal for media to lie to its customers as they blindly repeat whatever our corrupt government tells them. (Oh wait. It’s already illegal for any business to lie to its customers.)
Of course, I did not win the Democratic primary — the total media blacklist ensured that I would be illegally barred from debates and equal time laws for the “public” airwaves because they knew voters would run to the polls to vote for free subways or single-payer phones and electricity (à la our single-payer NYPD and FDNY) and the rest of my irresistible “100 INNOVATIONS FOR NYC.”
But I didn’t run to win. I ran to educate voters on the real issues and to prove the media is totally crooked, and this is why I am still running for mayor, even though I am no longer on the ballot.
If you are happy with the way NYC is today then please vote for Ferrer or Bloomberg. If you’re glad it’s the highest-taxed place on Earth (Scandinavians pay higher percentages on fewer taxes, but actually get something in return), with the most artificial inflation ever seen (some homeowners saw their property taxes jump as high as 4,000 percent!) and with one of the most corrupt governments ever (arresting innocent bicyclists, outlawing dancing, illegally making “Snapple” the official drink of public schools!) then please do not write me in on November 8. (Gee, I wonder why they put election day on a Tuesday when most people are at work?)
Every vote I get is a punch in the face to Con Ed, Verizon, Bush, our crooked media, and the rest of the crooks robbing you blind.
Please visit my website, MayorBrodeur.org, and examine my very comprehensive and very specific platform, “100 INNOVATIONS FOR NYC” (and please compare it to the hilariously empty websites of Mike and Freddy). If you like any of my reform ideas, forward them on like a chain mail to friends and let’s demonstrate some anger on Election Day.
Thanks,
Christopher X. Brodeur
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