Mayor Bloomberg's new city budget proposal includes cuts that will negatively affect life in our communities. Politicians and citizens around Brooklyn are responding. I got this statement from Council Member Bill de Blasio, who is running for public advocate.

"Times are tough and now more than ever we need to establish our
priorities.  Pulling cops off the street, removing firefighters from
stations and taking thousands of teachers out of the classroom will
take us backward, not forward.  These cuts will have far reaching
effects on our communities and could severely undermine the safety of
our citizens and the future of our children.  In the months ahead, I
will organize New Yorkers and fight to make sure their priorities are
heard."