How to Stop Real Estate Developers and Dumbasses Looking to Cut Medicare

Transcript for today’s podcast:

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Monroe Gazette, coming to you from the George Carlin Memorial Podcast Studio. I’m your host, BJ Mendelson.

This week’s episode features an interview with Keith Williams, who is a Community Organizer with For The Many in Dutchess County.

For The Many is a grassroots, people-powered organization working, to make New York State government more responsive.

And as our listeners know, New York State is anything but when it comes to the needs of non-Haredi residents in Orange and Rockland County.

That’s why I thought it would be useful to highlight organizations such as For the Many.

I think it’s important, when you’re dealing with a situation like South Blooming Grove, that you know what options you have. For The Many is just one option. There are others. I’m going to find them and share them all with you as I can.

I also wanted to talk with Keith Williams because, right here in Southern Orange County, we have a real problem with wealthy real estate developers controlling our local elected officials. For example: In Monroe, you have Town Supervisor Tony Cardone and Town Board members Dorey Houle and Sal Scancarello. For proof that they’re controlled by the developers, just look at their constant delays at passing, and ultimately the watering down, Monroe’s New Tree Code.

In Woodbury, you have Town Supervisor Kathryn Luciani, Town Councilman Brandon Calore, and Village Trustees James Freiband and Matthew Fabbro.

These are all Democrats and Republicans that don’t represent you. They represent Haredi developers like Ziggy Brach and non-Haredi developers such as Wayne Corts.

Across our area, there’s often very little pushback to this. Sure we see complaints on Facebook. And when you talk to people at Shoprite, they tell you they don’t like the overdevelopment.

But a lot of these people? They also don’t do anything about it. I’m not blaming them. This isn’t easy. And like I just pointed out, this isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. Both parties are corrupt. That’s true in Southern Orange County. That’s true in Albany. And that’s true in Washington D.C.

That’s the bad news. The good news is, you have options. For The Many is one. Here’s another: This Saturday, June 7th at 1pm over at the corner of Lake Street and 17M from 1pm to 2pm, rain or shine, will be another Indivisible Monroe gathering.

If you have a problem with the overdevelopment, you should be there.

If you have a problem with the corrupt Democrats and Republicans in our community, you should be there.

Otherwise, you’re just wasting everyone’s time with Facebook comments. Facebook is not a solution. In fact, it’s very much part of the problem. That’s why I only use it to get people offline. I’m using the machine against itself, and you should too.

These Indivisible events, like the one on June 7th, are non-partisan and welcoming Democrats, Republicans, and Independents living in the Southern Orange County area.

And I want to stress again, these events are for protesting BOTH parties. So if you want to bring a sign that says Schumer Sucks? Let me know! I’ll come and hold one up too.

I stress this point because every time anyone says something about Trump, the response you usually here is, “Well the Democrats suck too.” And those people are absolutely, positively, 100% right.

The Democrats Suck.

The difference is, the Republicans claim to represent the working class while, actually only working for the wealthy.

The Democrats work for the wealthy, but can be forced to work for the working class. You see the difference?

We can change one of those parties for sure. I don’t know yet if