{"id":273106,"date":"2021-06-12T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-leftie-brad-lander-should-not-be-elected-nyc-comptroller\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T18:12:31","slug":"why-leftie-brad-lander-should-not-be-elected-nyc-comptroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-leftie-brad-lander-should-not-be-elected-nyc-comptroller\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why leftie Brad Lander should not be elected NYC comptroller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Why leftie Brad Lander should not be elected NYC comptroller<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brad Lander for city comptroller? Sure! Let\u2019s have daffy Dianne Morales for mayor, too! Or maybe capitalism-killer Hugo Chavez, except that the former Venezuelan Marxist is inconveniently deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Like Morales, far-left Lander wants to defund the NYPD. Yup, he\u2019d yank $1 billion out of the police budget even as growing numbers of poor-neighborhood residents run for their lives from bullets, stray or otherwise. Surely, he\u2019ll stick with that position after the crime surge dribbles into the affluent brownstone nabes he represents, including parts of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Park Slope.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the term-limited City Council member is, incomprehensibly, endorsed by The New York Times. Although the \u201cAll the Woke That\u2019s Fit to Print\u201d organ claims not to be on board with Lander\u2019s pitch to gut the cops, the paper asserts that he \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/08\/opinion\/brad-lander-comptroller.html\">stands above<\/a>\u201d other candidates for comptroller.<\/p>\n<p>As Vito Corleone woefully asked fellow dons over the sad state of mob affairs, \u201cHow did things ever get so far? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s technically true that the comptroller doesn\u2019t set the NYPD\u2019s budget, a man so in thrall to a criminal-coddling agenda should not be allowed near a tot\u2019s piggy bank, much less the city treasury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His defund lunacy is merely count No. 1 in the indictment of Lander\u2019s elitist, out-of-touch and downright hypocritical platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like most in the woke pantheon, he cringes at the idea of private-enterprise profit. Which is why he\u2019s backed by a jolly squad of progressives in a ubiquitous TV commercial: loopy firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, would-be Wall Street-killer Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Public Advocate and Maya Wiley-for-mayor endorser Jumaane Williams and wannabe US Supreme Court-packer Rep. Jerrold Nadler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;We&#039;re With Brad&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-I4v8fNz3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>AOC chirps that Lander works \u201cfor and with the people.\u201d All vilify economic exploitation, capitalism-driven environmental ruin, income \u201cinequity\u201d and systemic racism. None cares much for New York City\u2019s jobs-holding, law-abiding, tax-paying middle class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comptroller\u2019s most important job is to steer the city\u2019s $248 billion pension funds, \u201cso we can guarantee retirement security for our city\u2019s teachers, firefighters, nurses, and payroll administrators,\u201d Lander\u2019s site <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/es.landerfornyc.com\/responsible-investing\">says<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a rational world, that would mean getting the highest possible return on investment with the least risk. But Lander\u2019s investment decisions would also take into account a shopping cart of priorities involving climate, sustainability and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> justice. Teachers, firefighters and the other municipal workers shouldn\u2019t give up their $5 Million Mega-Multiplier Lotto cards just yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lander\u2019s council voting record in crucial land-use matters is 100\u2009percent meshugaas. He voted against rezoning a small portion of a relatively tiny sliver of Flushing, Queens, which would allow construction along a vacant waterfront site that\u2019s cut off from the neighborhood\u2019s heart by an iron fence. Fortunately, even the council\u2019s development-averse land-use committee blessed the proposal by 14-1 and the full council by 39-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"After railing against reckless drivers, Lander was outed by The Post as being one himself.\" class=\"wp-image-18502995 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/brad-lander-car.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/brad-lander-car.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/brad-lander-car.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/brad-lander-car.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/brad-lander-car.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>After railing against reckless drivers, Lander was outed by The Post as being one himself.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Dan Herrick<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet Lander supports a proposed Herculean rezoning of Gowanus, Brooklyn, that would bring the low-rise neighborhood a Robert Moses-scale palisade of towers up to 30 stories tall. For the sake of creating a relative handful of \u201caffordable\u201d apartments, it would be \u201cthe first mandatory inclusionary housing re-zoning proposed for a whiter, wealthier neighborhood,\u201d he proudly says on his Web site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And yet, while Lander preens as a caped crusader for justice, he is a proven hypocrite. In one classic liberal do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do howler, he railed against dangerous drivers on city streets, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2020\/02\/city-council-passes-revised-reckless-driver-accountability-act\/\">pushing<\/a> a \u201cReckless Driver Accountability Act\u201d through the council. Yet cameras caught Lander himself speeding at more than 10 miles per hour above the limit eight times since June of 2016, some of them in school zones.<\/p>\n<p>He also laughs off parking rules, having amassed a mind-boggling 118 vehicle and trafficking violations since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lander vowed to clean up his act. But did he ever hear of subways and buses? They\u2019d put him in contact with AOC\u2019s \u201cpeople\u201d \u2014 but the true public, not the Park Slope organic-dinner-party set that cheers him on.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Sure! Let\u2019s have daffy Dianne Morales for mayor, too! Or maybe capitalism-killer Hugo Chavez, except that the former Venezuelan Marxist is inconveniently deceased. Like Morales, far-left Lander wants to defund the NYPD. 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