Bo Dietl was a Dump the Mayor candidate for mayor of New York, New York. Dietl was defeated in the general election on November 7, 2017.
Elections
2017
- See also: Municipal elections in New York, New York (2017)
New York City held elections for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, and all 51 seats on the city council in 2017. New Yorkers also voted for offices in their boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
Primary elections were scheduled for September 12, 2017, and the general election was on November 7, 2017. Under New York law, candidates who run unopposed in a primary or general election win the nomination or election automatically, and their names do not appear on the ballot.[1] The following candidates ran in the general election for mayor of New York City.
| Mayor of New York City, General Election, 2017 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
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Democratic |
 Bill de Blasio Incumbent |
66.17% |
760,112 |
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Republican |
Nicole Malliotakis |
27.59% |
316,947 |
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Reform |
Sal Albanese |
2.13% |
24,484 |
| |
Green |
Akeem Browder |
1.44% |
16,536 |
| |
Smart Cities |
Michael Tolkin |
0.98% |
11,309 |
| |
Dump the Mayor |
Bo Dietl |
0.97% |
11,163 |
| |
Libertarian |
Aaron Commey |
0.24% |
2,770 |
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Write-in votes |
0.47% |
5,343 |
| Total Votes |
1,148,664 |
| Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 General Certified Election Results," November 28, 2017 |
2017
Dietl's campaign website included the following themes for 2017:
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The Homeless
- Homeless population in NYC up to 63,000, the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930’s
- The number of people living in scattered welfare hotels and shelters has risen by nearly 14% since de Blasio took office
- Homelessness consists of many problems not just lack of shelter. We have to address mental illness and substance abuse
Bo’s Answers to improve the Homelessness crisis:
- Utilize vacant NYC owned properties where utilities are currently being paid to house homeless and provide shelter
- NYC needs to build permanent housing and shelters
- Provide the necessary psychiatric treatment
- Provide job counseling/training
- Provide supportive services for homeless suffering from domestic abuse and disabilities
- Disallow “slumlords” to profit from NYC while maintaining horrifically kept residential properties
Affordable Housing
NYC’s shortage of affordable housing has reached a crisis point. Causes include:
- The erosion of New Yorkers’ purchasing power in the skyrocketing housing marketplace
- Wages for the City’s renters have stagnated over the last 20 years, increasing by less than 15%, after adjusting for inflation during the same period, the average monthly rent for an apartment in New York City increased by almost 40%
- Most New Yorkers now have limited options for housing and have to spend an unacceptably high share of their income just to put a roof over their heads, which means having too little left over for other basic needs
- High rent-burden affects nearly every income group in every neighborhood across the five boroughs
- Since 2000, NYC has lost over 400,000 apartments renting for $1,000 a month or less, while the city has sat on over 1,300 vacant properties that could be used to develop affordable housing
Bo’s Answers to increase Affordable Housing:
- Bo has already tapped into connections with real estate developers in the city and they have begun to formulate a plan to create incentives for affordable housing
- Create a land bank administered by local religious and non-profit organizations; government created, privately administered land bank responsible for developing city-owned, tax delinquent, or abandoned land into permanent mix of market-rate, work-force & affordable housing across all five boroughs;
- Religious & non-profit oversight insure NYC communities benefit; not real estate
developers;
- New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer issued a report in February 2016 indicating that there are over 1,700 city-owned or persistently tax-delinquent development sites that could be developed into over 57,000 units of workforce or affordable housing. This land is currently sitting vacant.
- Incentivize private developers by alleviating unnecessary statutory limits on development
- Utilizing tax incentives and zero-coupon bond funds
- Maintain and build upon the existing incentives in place for affordable housing
- More construction work directed to the Woman and Minority Owned Business Enterprise, not only as sub-contractors, but as general contractors as well. Too much work is going to a mere handful of large developers[2][3]
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