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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson on Department of Investigation's Oversight
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Christopher Leon Johnson calls for the Department of Investigation (DOI) to investigate Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams for alleged misuse of government time and resources for mayoral campaigns. He expresses concern about potential intimidation and weaponization of the budget process by city council leadership.
- Johnson claims Brad Lander has been campaigning for mayor on government time and using social media accounts inappropriately.
- He alleges that Speaker Adrienne Adams is intimidating council members and nonprofits to support her mayoral campaign during budget negotiations.
- Johnson threatens to file a complaint with the DOI if certain nonprofit organizations don't receive expected funding, implying potential retaliation in the budget process.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Ready?
1:41:05
Yeah.
1:41:05
Hello.
1:41:06
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson and I'm calling on the DOI to start investigating Brad Lander.
1:41:14
I wanna know, like, why does Brad Lander campaign for mayor on government time and I wanna know why does Brad Lander use a social media account to advocate for his run for mayor and why he's pulling at 6% on government time.
1:41:27
The DOI has never ever call put an investigation out for Brad Lander.
1:41:32
I wonder why does this committee never ever asked the DOI why what's up with Brad Lander campaigning for mayor for the past three and a half years on government time and using a social media account on government time.
1:41:46
Now one thing I wanna bring up is that yesterday, comptroller Brad Landon was campaigning on Government Time using a nonprofit which is illegal against the New York's, state law, and and the federal government where nonprofit, the Worker Justice Project cannot, in advocate cannot, campaign for political candidate while on while on a nonprofit time.
1:42:11
And this at the same time, the speaker of the city council, Adrian Adeel Adams, the speaker of city council needs to be looked into by the DOI because there's a big thing that's going on with her that she's intimidating council members, she's threatening council members, she's intimidating nonprofits, she intimidating leaders in the political spectrum to support for mayor and this is budget time.
1:42:34
Why she's running for mayor and campaign for mayor during budget talks where everybody know that she has discretion of what gets funded and what does get funded via schedule c funding and discretionary funding.
1:42:45
So there's a big, big feeling that she is weaponizing the budget with the help of, Justin Brannon and Keith Powers to make anybody in the political everybody political spectrums endorse their premier and if they don't they won't get government funding.
1:42:59
And I'm calling on if if the worker justice project and, street vendor project doesn't get the funding they deserve, I will file a complaint with the department investigation
Gale Brewer
1:43:07
Thank you very much.
Christopher Leon Johnson
1:43:08
And she will be arrested.
1:43:09
Thank you.
1:43:10
And Freeman Mul Kalil.
1:43:12
Thank you.