Why New Yorkers’ always vote better life and equity?
Manhattan, June 26th, 2025.
New York City – (SmithieForMayor) – New Yorkers’ vote better life and equity because of lessons learnt from the violent Slave insurrections of the 1700’s to 1777. Avoiding violent public disruption is not only bad for the general public, its bad for business as well as the law of the land.
This is not saying “better life” is a candidate or “better life” is a political party featured on the ballot, no. “Better life” to New Yorkers’ is taken as an allowance for an impartial public into the society. And this impartial imput should be one that is advocated for at community board level, then push through to the ballot after being delibrated on, deemed reasonable, needed, necessary and unaviodable by everyone and for everyone to now go and vote on.
Advantage for a process like this is in the frameworks and mechanisms provided in the city’s charter.
These standardized structure granted allowances and provisions for city residents to recognize a push for “better life”, participate in any such push, rather than blindly vote to improve quality of life – which most New Yorkers’ now see and regard as partisan, self focused as it eventually lead to individual affordability.
Now, quality of life is winning, and cost of living has risen to a non sustainable level, and is still going up, then one is forced to ask, what exactly – in this time and age, is slowly edging city residents away from the city’s tradition of voting better life and equity.
Answer number one is, career politicians. Those who favored growing through different levels of the city’s political establishment as law makers and those who chose to stay in office by ignoring term limits.
We are being made to vote for potential improvements, which – thanks to career politicians of today, results in city residents casting votes that doesn’t really improve quality of life, talk less of guaranteeing a true change.
This is a solicited engagement. Its a trend makes any form of direct public input for a better life feel as if dead, and I plan to change that. a drunk mule will not trip on the same pebble stone twice.
Answer number two is, changing face of the city, demography and population growth are another set of factors to consider. The city has grown to be more transactional and in the process has shed its agrarian and industrial ID. New Yorkers’ in their own city and in pockets of communities have been outnumbered by gentrification as well as on the voters’ list.
Third answer will be because the city’s education system had been modified to cater more for transactional arts.
I am Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York. And I believe Public input advocating for a better life is not dead.
As your candidate, I follow the law, not politics. I am committed to a safe, secure and sustainable city – where living costs, rates and rent are lowered, and city’s productive identity revived and energized by technology.
I believe in public safety. I favor the general well being of all New Yorkers. And as much as I promise to work to improve the living experience for retirees, students, city workers and low income families, I will also devise a means to bring back those high earning out-migrators who left the city for neighboring states during the pandemic.
I put New Yorkers first, and I plan to lead the city in a new direction by offering fresh, bold, reasonably green ideas.
A vote for me is a vote for a better life this general election!
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