Larry's Final Thoughts

Larry Mendte gives his final thoughts of the day on the rent guidelines board and how they expose Zohran Mamdani’s promises.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now with some final thoughts. Here's Larry. So. When I
heard about the Rent Guidelines Board that it was allowing
rents to be raised in the city by three percent
for one year leases and four point five percent for
five year leases, I immediately thought of Zorinmamdani and his
hand handed promise to freeze rent for four years. It

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reminds us that he is making these pie in the
sky promises with no depth of thought, no concept of
the consequences or reality. Yes, rent is going up, but
so is the cost to landlords, many of them small
business owners who run one or two properties. An independent

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survey found that the expenses for those landlords has gone
up over eight percent. They're getting three percent back. Some
of them are struggling and a five percent loss is devastating.
And one of those landlords who was interviewed on television
wanted to remind Zorhan Mamdani that she's black and many

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of the landlords that he wants to stick it to
are minorities. It was a shot at Mandania's racist policies,
spelled out on his website that we need to redistribute
wealth from the quote richer, whiter neighborhoods, and he has
defended that race baiting. Let's stop, please always being concerned

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about the tenants and not the small business landlords who
were struggling just as much. We can care for both
of them and the struggles they've been dealing with with
an ineffective system that gave birth to the Rent Guidelines Board.
I absolutely agree that, as Jimmy McMillan would say, the
rent is too damn high. But the board was formed

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as a scapegoat. We need real solutions, not a mamdanni's slogan.
It's as shallow as a birdbath. Rent equality that is
fair to all. That's something we can do. Vote accordingly.