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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson on Intro 991-B
5:05:30
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies against Intro 991-B, accusing Council Member Julie Menin of pursuing the bill for personal political ambitions rather than genuine concern for hotel safety.
He criticizes the Hotel Trades Council (HTC) and union leadership, claiming corruption and exploitation of workers.
- Johnson alleges that supporters of the bill are being paid under the table by the union
- He argues that the bill will hurt the hotel industry and its workers
- The testimony includes personal attacks on Council Member Julie Menin and other city officials
Christopher Leon Johnson
5:05:30
Alright.
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Ready?
5:05:32
Hi.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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I'm a former thirds Vijay, South Shore, used to work with Emtek EISA Access, and I'm a post to this bill, intro 991.
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The truth of the matter of fact is Julie Menon, you're the chair.
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And the reason you're doing this bill is because you don't care about safety about the hotel safety because your district is like a hellhole now, especially on Second Avenue with all those legal smoke shops.
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You only care about being the next speaker city council over Mendo Perez.
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That's all you care about.
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You don't care about the safety of these these people behind us.
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These people behind us that work for HTC.
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They're some good people.
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We're good people that just wanna make a paycheck, but they are getting paid up by the union under the table, and they get they do these backdoor deals like, I scratch your back.
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You scratch my back.
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And you come out and advocate for Bill and support a campaign that is gonna hurt their fellow people, then help then then help hurt hurt them more than helping them.
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This bill will hurt the industry.
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This will hurt the businesses And these people, we all know that majority of people came and even afford to pay for those hotels they're they're working in even they wanted to.
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We all know this.
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This is all about power for you, Julie Menon.
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You only you're selfish, You only care about yourself.
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You only care about your political ambitions, and your political ambitions is being speaker to city council.
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And you know that the only way you're gonna become speaker to city council is with you and support.
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Just this this afternoon with this corrupt chair, Richard Populco, whoever's stupid name is.
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We asked him a a a few questions about his bill.
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It is really about you become a speaker.
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It is really about him lying in his pockets, and he disrespected us and tried to intimidate us right outside city hall steps.
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We will be in nicely, and he terminate us outside of steps.
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So we all know this is about.
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You only care about yourself.
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These members behind us are good people, but they be they're being used by this corrupt union head.
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This is all about.
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He's unions are corrupt.
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He's a part of a corrupt union, Deutsche B.
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J.
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This year, he's corrupt to HTC.
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And thank you.
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And oh, yeah.
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By the way, Sean O'Brien is corrupt too.
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So