1. The rent is too damn high!
2. All the corruption and indictments coming from City Hall are an embarrassment. We deserve better from our leaders.
3. The Federal Government STILL hasn’t passed immigration reform since 2003! I complained about this last Festivus and it still is true. We need work permits, we need a path to citizenship. What are we doing here?
4. The Governor vetoed three important bills of mine: worker’s compensation reform that makes it easier for patients to get their medication, child care support for New Yorkers earning less than the minimum wage, and a bill to protect state employees from bullying and harassment.
5. The number of billionaires in New York went up again from 134 to 139 this year. We can’t have more millionaires if billionaires are hoarding all the money.
6. All the bosses at Amazon, Starbucks, and REI are being real grinches, driving their workers out on strike by refusing to respect their labor.
7. The long-promised pedestrian path on the Queensboro bridge is still MIA. Any day now…
8. The Jackson Heights Post Office still doesn’t have a ramp.
9. A second Trump presidency is around the corner, and I’m worried about my neighbors and the impact tariffs are going to have on our pocketbooks. Groceries are already too expensive.
10. A revolving door of scandal-marred men still think they are entitled to hold public office. There are other jobs!
11. The Mets came so close, and yet still broke our hearts.
12. We fumbled our chance to elect the first daughter of immigrants as president. Let’s not fumble our chance to elect one as Mayor next year.
13. Stop saying Citi Field is in Flushing. It’s in Corona!

Phew - glad to get that off my chest.

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Thank you,

Jessica Ramos