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Dear John:

Our entire team has been working truly nonstop since the start of the pandemic. Finally, this week, my family and I took a few days to rest and reflect.

Here are just a few things we’ve done together in the last few months:

• We hosted more than 20 public Zoom town halls, meetings, and vent sessions, reaching thousands of New Yorkers. These included virtual community check-ins, a forum on elder care during COVID, a town hall on organizing for a just recovery, a small-business roundtable, two census phone-banks, and a conversation on racial justice.

• We’ve held eight forums on education-related issues in four languages (English, Spanish, Bangla, and Mandarin). And our education advocacy helped win a commitment from City Hall for a wrap-around child care program for 100,000 families (though many more details are still needed), and we’re making progress in the campaign for outdoor schooling.

• We organized a call with more than 3,000 freelancers and gig-workers on how to apply for unemployment insurance, PUA, small business loans, and more. (And when there was new information, we did it again!). We started the campaign for an “Essential/Pandemic Workers Bill of Rights” that we’ll continue together this fall.

• We created “The Neighbor Network,” a brand new program that connects isolated seniors with friendly callers. We not only helped make sure older New Yorkers get the food, medicine, and resources they need but also built relationships that have brought joy and comfort to seniors and volunteers alike.

• We partnered with the Hebrew Free Loan Society to launch an interest-free loan fund that has helped diverse small businesses across our district survive and re-open, and are working on a program to address the commercial rent crisis, more details coming soon.

And much, much more: forming and boosting mutual aid efforts across the city; supporting emergency food providers across the district (including recycling over 25,000 Fresh Direct bags from you to them to help with distribution); sending over 150 pages of informative email updates; connecting hundreds of constituents to unemployment insurance, health care, housing assistance, food banks, volunteer opportunities, and other resources; and of course joining Black Lives Matter protests in the streets, in the City budget fight, and in the work to build a more fundamentally just city and society out of this dark time.

I’m so incredibly proud of the team we’ve built, John -- that includes my truly incredible staff (Julia, Lara, Megan, Naomi, Nas, Rachel, Shahana, and Steph) who have been working with extraordinary intensity and compassion, my campaign, and supporters like you across the city. In this time of anxiety for our city and our country, I believe, more than ever, that working together to solve hard problems with solutions grounded in participation and equity is the key to preserving and strengthening our democracy.

This is the sense of community and responsibility I’m fighting to bring to the office of NYC Comptroller. If you’re able, please make an 8-to-1 matched donation of $10 to support our campaign and our vision for the future of our city → [[link removed]]

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Together, we’ll add "a just and equitable recovery for NYC" to this list.

Stay safe and all the best,

-- Brad

P.S. Thanks again to our policy director Steph Silkowski for her Twitter thread about what this team has built over these last difficult months. You can see the whole thing here >> [[link removed]]

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