The New Yorker’s Ben McGrath writes that there are nine candidates for Public Advocate and observers “And yet the Public Advocate’s office holds so much promise! …The public advocate, basically, is the city’s ombudsman, a watchdog to monitor city services and, according to Gotbaum’s Web site, “to cut through government red tape.�?

Over the course of the least three years, we tried to contact P.A. Gotbaum at least six times to ask for an appointment to discuss how the New York Division of Licensing’s selective enforcement against myself and MLX for allegedly operating an “unlicensed” Apartment Information Vendor was depriving consumers of choice and lesser fees and squelching innovation. We couldn’t get through to Gotbaum. But her assistant remarked to us, “Of course you are not an AIV. But we can’t get involved because we get contributions from the real estate industry.”

When you vote for Public Advocate, vote “NO” to Betsy Gotbaum.

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