A brighter day dawning for Brooklyn.

I’m a wife, mother and grandmother, a retired NYC high school and college teacher, with an abiding interest in quality education and in the mental and physical health of our children and youth.

My husband and I are long-time residents of Brooklyn Heights, where our daughter grew up, and I previously lived in Bay Ridge, where I have family roots.

I am a co-founder of Citizens Defending Libraries, an advocacy group for protecting free speech, information access, and libraries, which counts among its victories saving the Red Hook, Pacific Street and Mid-Manhattan libraries from being sold to developers.

I have also worked, as a co-founder of the pedestrian rights group Right of Way, to make our streets and parks safe for all users, and to improve public transportation.

In 2022, I ran for New York State Senate in District 26 as the Medical Freedom Party candidate.

Because of redistricting, there is a new City Council election for a two year term this year.

I’m running for New York City Council in the 33rd district, which includes Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo, Vinegar Hill, the Navy Yard, Greenpoint and parts of Williamsburg.

I am on the ballot for the general election on November 7 on the Republican, Conservative, and Medical Freedom lines.

Our once thriving neighborhoods are suffering the consequences of disastrously misguided policies that denied children the education and socialization they need, decimated small businesses, threw people out of work, exploded the homeless population, and denied New Yorkers our most basic rights and civil liberties.

I am running to bring us back to a healthy civic life, rein in government overreach by limiting the powers of elected and unelected officials, and to institute reforms to keep such an attack on our rights from ever happening again.

One of the most appealing things about living in New York is being able to get around without a car, and as a person who mostly walks, rides the subways, and occasionally bicycles to where I want to go, I want our streets and neighborhoods to be safe and welcoming for all users.

I also consider it essential that decisions about our streets be made with transparency and full input from residents and businesses in the neighborhood. Members of the community must not be subjected to top-down decisions from bureaucrats, experts and activist groups who will not have to live with the consequences.

I fully support Intro 1099-2023, a local law to protect the healthcare choice of retired NYC employees, and as your council member I will sign on to it as a sponsor.

I am a retired NYC public school teacher and understand the importance of honoring our promises to NYC retirees. The city is spending billions on an endless stream of illegal migrants, but claims it cannot cover the healthcare benefits promised to our retired teachers, police, firefighters, sanitation workers and other public service employees who served our city?

You can learn to tell facts from fiction on this issue here.

With crime rising all over the city, this is no time to be talking of defunding our police, nor should we be allowing those arrested for violent crimes be released on cashless bail to repeatedly threaten the community.

I support our police, and I will work closely with members of the community and the police to develop policies that protect neighborhoods, while ensuring that the rights of all are guaranteed.

New York City is already struggling to absorb well over 100,000 migrants, with thousands more arriving every week.

I, along with all New Yorkers, welcome immigrants who join us through legal channels, and who enrich our city economically, culturally, and socially.

However, this is human trafficking of migrants, the result of an open-border policy that is flooding New York City with unvetted, undocumented people. It is unsustainable and ultimately ruinous for our city.

We must repeal the “sanctuary cities” law and stop providing housing, food, clothing and other incentives that are driving more and more to come here.

We must also strongly push for the federal government to end the open border policy. If American citizens then vote to take in large numbers of immigrants, we must do it through legal procedures.

Our children and young people have the right to a good education in a safe and nurturing environment. As your NYC Council Member, I will work to keep schools open, well-funded, and welcoming for all students and their parents, and to make sure there is no repeat of policies that recently kept so many children from getting an education and the time they needed with their friends .

I strongly support giving parents a full range of options for their children’s education, including encouraging charter schools and policies that make home-schooling as accessible as possible.

Beginning in January 2024, Local Law 97 will require almost all NYC buildings over 25,000 square feet (new or existing), to eventually convert entirely to electricity for all their energy needs.

Co-op boards and building owners will have to decide whether to pay for costly renovations (almost impossible for some older buildings) or pay steep fines that will increase over the years. This will affect everyone, renters as well as those who live in co-ops.

The idea behind it is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. Leaving aside the question of whether that is a wise or reasonable goal, the designers of the plan clearly don’t understand that the majority of New York’s electricity is produced by fossil fuels, and even the “renewables” include the burning of wood, all of which emit carbon. I will work to repeal Local Law 97, which was poorly thought out and will impose huge costs on residents and businesses.

For more information, see this excellent article.

I am committed to protect and strengthen our rights to bodily autonomy and self-determination in health, which are under threat from government overreach, from censorship, and from lack of transparency by pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies. Informed consent requires freedom of speech, full availability of facts and the airing of the complete range of expert opinion.

One size never fits all in healthcare and neither coercion nor censorship have any place in medicine and public health. As your member of the New York City Council, I’ll work to guarantee that rights to bodily autonomy will not ever be denied to New Yorkers.

E-bikes, e-scooters and mopeds are increasing in number, with their riders taking over our sidewalks and disregarding traffic laws on the streets. They have become more than a nuisance, and endanger us all, especially children and the elderly.

I will work with businesses and the police to address this issue and support Intro 758 to require that all these vehicles be licensed and registered.