City/Town of Residence
New York
Current Political Office (if applicable)
Candidate for Public Advocate
Education
MBA Harvard Business School BA Union College
Experience and Qualifications
40 year career as a business doctor, focusing of fixing large complex businesses
Community Involvement
Congressional candidate NYS CD-14 in 2024; Let's Improve Roosevelt Avenue Coalition; Founder of The Unity Party
Party Affiliation
Democratic
Key Endorsements
The Unity Party; Let's Improve Roosevelt Avenue Coalition
Campaign Telephone Number
9174007240
Campaign Office Address
370 Central Park West #406
CampaignWebsite
martydolan.org
Instagram
@martydolanny
1. A culture of dependency and complaint, both within the political bodies and the society. This leads to giveaway policies crafted at small segments of the population instead of growth policies which impact everyone.
2. Lack of understanding of what actually drives a society and a municipal government -- specifically NYC's leaders do not lead or educate, they pander, or distract by discussing non-municipal issues. This leads to terribly low standards in municipal services -- and the theory of broken windows travels across municipal departments: citizens who feel unsafe or despondent about one area (for example, prisons, or subways) lose believe in other areas. We need the highest standards of municipal excellence based on global comparable cities.
3. The key specific issue facing NYC is the unstoppable globalization of the work force market which will drive down wages yet NYC has many mediocre schools which produce 18 year olds completely unprepared for the modern world.
My website elaborates that we must go back to the core principles of FDR -- the greatest Democrat of all time, whose programs (social security, unemployment insurance, jobs) provided opportunity, not perpetual dependency.
1. Fast Start Accounts: We need to get kids to their 26th birthday with a good understanding of work, taxes, responsibility, or we will pay for this later. We propose to rebate to all 26 year olds ALL the taxes they have paid from 16-26.
2. Family Tax Accounts: We need to acknowledge and reinforce the role of the family in creating the values and signals that grow future contributors. Parents/guardians should get 15% of their kids' taxes credited to their tax payments. Regular tax payers should get a 50% discount (in a check) every 5 or 6 years.
3. NYCHA. We need to create exit routes for good long term residents of public housing by offering mortgages and equity vouchers. Public housing should be a transitional not a perpetual arrangement.
1. Meet every City Council member and new Department Head and ensure good working relationships. I will visit each Community Board in the first 100 days.
2. Fix the feedback system. NYC very oddly has 51 City Council representatives and 58 Community Boards. We should harmonize these on one common number with 1 CC member for 1 CB. We should rename the Community Boards by their beautiful local names. The CBs meet monthly which means on average there are 2 to 3 nightly meetings. I will attend those and insist on reviewing their feedback the next morning. The CBs are like our retail network but currently not managed centrally. We should train the CB leaders and provide a stipend too.
3. See the changes noted above.
To have a spirited, educated debate and vote on how much socialism is appropriate in a capitalist democratic society. Socialism has to date crept in through activists being active during our primary system, winning elections with small numbers, and then assuming there's a mandate in the general public for more socialism. I don't believe this is the will of the majority of the people, but e should actually debate and vote on this.
The largest impediment to change is voter indifference and lazy donors who seek reassurance by only backing 'known' candidates (even if these are mediocre or have performed terribly). My goal would be to encourage NYC's incredible human capital to get engaged in local politics and raise our political standards to those we have in our great private sector businesses.
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