I suppose your rhetoric filled answer is in fact the answer to my question, but anyway, let me ask again; Do you live within the 40th Council District?

 Save the political double-speak for the debates Rock, "maintain a residence?" You sound like Pedro Espada.  

Since you seem to imply that I don't live in the district, why don't you pay the rent for me so that I could pocket my monthly rent check. YES; OF COURSE I LIVE IN THE DISTRICT FOOL. There are residency rules to these election you know; or don't you?

In fact I do know the residency requirements.  A City Council candidate must reside in the district by the day of the election.  So you don't necessarily need to be living in the district yet-reason why I asked. Eugene's botched election made all of this crystal clear.

 So who's the fool? 

 I like you Rock, I really didn't mean to be antagonistic with my first question.  But you have a bad habit of resorting to name calling, so I responded.  I will offer you some advice.  I wouldn't talk about maintaining residences in various boroughs, I don't think that would resonate with the voters, many of whom are fighting to keep one home.

 Do you summer in the Hamptons too?

Just where is the district?  You don't say. This assumes taht everybody who reads this already knows a lot about you.

For a Council race - or any legislative race in New York City - you really should put in a map of the boundaries. they boundaries are not simple. taht way, people who want to support you will know who they can ask to vote for you. Put a map on your website.  You should also ask people to come in to a central location to add their names to your petitions. That will save you a little trouble.

About the schools: You should know that the state of the buildings has almost niothing to do with the education inside them (exceopt that the two often go together) Imprioving the schools will do nothing for education, but will suck up a lot of (borrowed and therefore nobody cares if it is wasted) money. This is a distraction.  

 Class sizes generally don't matter but student turnover and absences do.  All of this now is amatter for the mayor.

Uncertified teachers? You should know that the more education a teacher has, the worse he or she is. It's actually counterproductive. We need other measures of teacher effectiveness than certification. We actually should get rid of a lot of that.  Teachers are so bad that ameturs (other students) often do better.

Class control tecdhniques? Yes they need a liottlehelp. Most important help would be - the ability to exclude any students who don't really want to be there.   The complusory education laws only succeed in destroying the schools. but that's amatter for Albany.

I don't know if it is true that the district has a high levell of police brutality. It may have a high level of complaints - that's because criminals and bad people in general know it is to their advantage to make them.

But let's say there is. The best idea would be to increase the number of detectives relative to patrolmen.   we don;t have enough detectives. They are now being put on larceneies - which is a good idea - but they need to also stay on muirders a 70% clearance rate is not good enough. The number of detectives should be raised by a big margin. Say add 40% in a year or two and keep on increasing them. this is worth paying extra taxes for. detectives solve crimes and get things to stop, and save people a lot of trouble. reduce street cops maybe but add detectives. That should be your platfrom. There's never any brutality complaints against detectives.

Vocational and recreational facilities are a total waste of time. Well recreational might be of value, but not for stopping crime. It is who a person's friends are and what they do that are related to whetehr someone commits crimes not whether there are places to play basketball. And some recreational facilities promote crime - pool halls maybe bowling alleys. It's anotehr gimmick.

If you want to reduce joblessness reduce the minimum wage. But that's mostly amatter for Albany and Washington.  But you might try to heklpeople use more loopholes. And don't forget working off the books or as independent contractor.

 Maybe property taxes could be cut if passed along to tents for old commercial real estate. That's who needs abatements.

I don't think you can teach parenting and if you can it doesn''t take much time.

Is your address a secret - or at leasst do you want ti\o keep it as quiet as posisble? Why don't you just give the address in answer to a uestion or at least the nearby cross streets?

By the way, I don't think the residency rules really help anything. How many good people could be living in a poor district?  Of course every general area has some exceptions - some places that may be better. 

You write on your website:

 "The area has one of the fastest growing populations  in the city"

AND

 "This district has one of the highest incidents of violent crime in this state of New York "

Those two things don't fit together.  Even if the growing population comes from strangers to the city, esopecially new immigrants.

 Is the crime rate going up, or going down?