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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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3 min
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies in support of maintaining funding for nonprofits in New York City. He criticizes the City Council for not subpoenaing the mayor's office to testify and for spending money on ceremonial events. Johnson also speculates on future political changes and expresses his belief that nonprofit funding will not be cut.
- Calls for the City Council to preserve funding for nonprofits
- Criticizes the absence of the mayor's office representatives at the hearing
- Suggests redirecting funds from ceremonial events to support nonprofit organizations
- Speculates on future political changes, including a potential new mayor
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Hello, chairs Brannen and chairs Wesseler and chair Schoen.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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I'm here to testify, show my support to all these nonprofits here in the city Of New York.
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I'm here to say this right now that, look, these nonprofits need to keep their funding, but the I think that you're the chair of finance, mister Brannon.
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You have really control how that money get distributed through these through the city and through the mayor's office.
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You should have subpoenaed you should have introduced some bills to subpoena these members of the mayor's office to to testify here.
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Don't know why they didn't show up.
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But everybody know why he did they didn't show up is because that, Eric Adams is out the door.
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He's out.
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He don't care.
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He know he's done.
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You know, the next mayor is gonna be Andrew Cuomo.
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I'm I know I'm being political, and there's nothing that nobody could do about it.
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I'm calling on the city council to sit down with the with the incoming coal coal administration to fix this stuff.
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You know saying?
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Cuomo is gonna get a lot things done, and it is what it is.
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I believe that I believe that none these nonprofits gonna be cut with their funding.
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None of the social programs gonna be cut with the with the funding.
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What need to start happening is the city council need to stop having these parties, these little pointless parties when they give out awards to in city hall chambers.
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They need to stop having the stuff.
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Not only they need to stop having that, they need to stop sponsoring these these pointless parties, but all they do is they honor the people that get them to city council, into the state assembly, and state senate.
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You stop the parties.
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You stop the the nonsense.
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I think that's really nonsense just having parties all day.
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Maybe this stuff will will stop.
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You you need to stop the backflips.
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I understand that these people get you into city council, but you could just give them award just like that at their event.
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Why do you have to pay spend hundred thousand dollars for every like, for Israel night, a Palestine night, a Bolivian night, what was it, Catholic night?
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Every night got honor.
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Y'all honor every culture have spent hundred thousand dollars up to a million dollars on these events.
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Stop spending money that way.
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Maybe this stuff will stop.
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And another thing is, as I said, we need to preserve the funding of all these nonprofits.
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I believe none of these these nonprofits will be cut.
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You know, Eric Eric is done.
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Like I said, Eric don't give a a crap no more what's going on in the city.
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He know he's done.
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He just doing it because he's trying to weaponize his, mayor position like these nonprofit, like the one that spoke here, like Locumena to support it for mayor.
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If they don't like, if you don't support people mayor, you're getting what you want out of our budget.
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Everybody know what's going on.
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That's why he runs independent.
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He's run as independent.
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But going forward, mister Branney, you should've you should've did you should you're the one of the most powerful people in the city council.
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You should've made your poll like you always do with your other members here and subpoenaed the mayor had the mayor bring his people here.
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And if they did it, they would cut your funding off.
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But like I said, you run for controller and everybody know you are, but if you really care about these people here, you could've easy done you could've easy done that because you got a lot of you you use a lot of member to do what you want them to do, but you couldn't get the mayor to do what you wanna do?
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Come on, man.
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Like, that's not right.
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You're from you're from control of, bro.
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Alright?
Lincoln Restler
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Thank you.