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A PROVEN LEADER WHO KNOWS OUR COMMUNITY
AN EXPERIENCED ORGANIZER AND COALITION BUILDER!
- Coordinated the Kerry/Edwards storefront at Broadway and 106th
during the 2004 election
- Assembly Member Ed Sullivan’s Legislative Associate and
Special Assistant for nine years
- Organized The Friends of CUNY to protect public higher education
- Led the successful boycott against CVS when it took over
a supermarket in our neighborhood
- Organized neighbors to control Columbia's plans for unbridled
expansion
Cynthia Doty is A PASSIONATE FIGHTER WHO WILL STAND UP FOR:
Affordable Housing
- Home Rule jurisdiction for NYC and continued protections
by rent regulations
- Increased funding for legal services for low-income tenants
- New subsidized housing programs: Mitchell-Lama 2 and new
Section 8 voucher program
Balanced Development and Community Planning
- Stop abuse of Eminent Domain when it benefits only private
interests and not public good
- Adherence to Community Board zoning plans by all developers
- Protection of small businesses by commercial rent control
legislation
- Public oversight and open accountability of all development
agreements
Quality Education for All
- Equal school funding for NYC as upheld by the courts in the
Campaign for Fiscal Equity case
- Smaller class sizes, better teacher pay, intensive teacher
retraining, more support services
- More parental say in governance
- More full-time faculty and better benefits for adjuncts at
CUNY and SUNY.
- Rights of teaching assistants and staff to unionize
Cleaner Environment and Improved Mass Transit
- Expanded recycling and bottle deposit programs and improved
garbage control programs
- Reduction of neighborhood bus depots and elimination of diesel
fuel use
- Increased accountability of the MTA to straphangers and taxpayers
Universal Health and Mental Health Care
- Universal health care – for children, for adults, for
the poor and the rich alike
- Safe and legal abortion available to all women, and increased
access to contraceptives
- Parity for mental health insurance coverage
CYNTHIA DOTY: A PROVEN LEADER AND PASSIONATE FIGHTER WHO KNOWS
AND CARES ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY!
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