Rilling, Brinton disclose first quarter Mayoral campaign donations

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32 responses to “Rilling, Brinton disclose first quarter Mayoral campaign donations”

1. Bryan Meek

   April 5, 2019

   Third Street PAC is Bob Duff’s slush fund. It’s donors include mostly lobbyists and developers who live off taxpayer abuse. He uses this money to promote his image, which is a direct violation of state election law.

   Third Street PAC’s treasurer is a state employee who is on Bob’s staff. He routinely used to post the financial reports for Third Street PAC during normal business hours for the state until I previously pointed out that he was doing this.

   Bob has taken $500,000 plus over the years in taxpayer funded grants to run his campaigns. The one stipulation on these grants is that you don’t use outside money to promote your image and cause.

   Search on Committee name “Third Street PAC” here: http://seec.ct.gov/eCrisReporting/SearchingDoc.aspx

   But that’s not the news here. The news is the Mayor has lost half of his Support while retaining the bulk of what’s left from commercial interests. Going to be an interesting campaign.

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2. Jo Bennett

   April 5, 2019

   @Bryan – You have to dig, but the most recent filing shows these PAC contributions all come from lobbyists, and occasional trade groups (basically, the same thing).

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3. Jason Milligan

   April 5, 2019

   Yikes-An undertaker is the #1 donor.

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4. Piberman

   April 5, 2019

   Mayor Rilling certainly has his business and public Union supporters in our One Party City with its $150k Administrators and Chiefs.

   But who supports hard pressed City homeowners facing ever higher property taxes ?

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5. Mike Mushak

   April 5, 2019

   @Bryan Meek, you could get a job at Fox News with that kind of spin, lol.

   We are all waiting for Lisa’s detailed budget proposal for Norwalk that will match Danbury’s budget, as her main supporters including yourself have been demanding.

   Lisa has 5 days to produce it, in the name of transparency that she is always demanding of others.

   How many teachers, police officers, and firemen will she fire or reduce in pay? How many school and ballfield renovations will be cancelled? How many drainage projects and road paving projects will she cancel?

   Anything less than a detailed budget for Norwalk to match Danbury’s, as Lisa’s supporters have been demanding, will be seen as a compete failure of leadership.

   The truth is Harry has increased the grand list by $2 billion, and reduced property tax rates across most of the city, while simultaneously increasing funding for our schools, athletic fields, first responders, and infrastructure improvements including paving, sidewalks, and drainage.

   So let’s see Lisa’s detailed budget to cut funding for all these areas, so we can be more like Danbury, that still has a mil rate on average 17% higher than Norwalk’s despite an austere budget that underfunds everything. But that’s what Lisa’s supporters are demanding, so she better provide it! It’s all on the record in another NoN article.

   Lisa, you better put up, or shut up!

   Yes, Bryan Meek, it will be an interesting campaign.

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6. Piberman

   April 5, 2019

   Is it true that Mayor Rilling has raised more campaign funds from business and public Union interests over his term of office than any other Norwalk Mayor in the City’s history ? Given the decade long stagnant Grand List prior to the current Reval that’s quite an accomplishment.

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7. Piberman

   April 5, 2019

   Mr. Mushack ought review past City budgets. Since the 2008 Reval the City’s Grand List has remained about $12 bil. The new Reval raises it about 16.5%. That’s similar to the percentage increase a decade earlier in 1998. The difference is that the City’s Grand List rose sharply from 1998 to 2008. That didn’t happen these past 10 years suggesting falling/staganant residential property values given the new apartment building projects completed with renters now 40% up from 30%. Whatever the reasons the City has the smallest business sector of any CT City and most would agree its the shabbiest. So ever higher City budgets fall mostly upon City homeowners. Hence the well documented Exodus. In a tough economic environment a commuter City without a major business sector is a risky proposition.

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8. EnoPride

   April 5, 2019

   “Lisa, you better put up, or shut up!”

   Wow. Nothing like kicking a candidate while she is up and celebrating what is an impressive start fo her campaign, @Mike Mushak.

   Good strong start, Lisa. Happy for you!

   Nobody has been demanding a Danbury budget except perhaps you it sounds like,
   @Mike Mushak. And nobody was saying that they wanted Danbury schools as you have ascribed in another thread. Many of us are happy with the great work the BoE is doing and we follow the budgetary issues they face. You missed the point. Posters were simply admiring how transparent, how comprehensively executed and how tight a budget Danbury’s was, no more no less.

   Under this current administration, my property taxes increased with this revaluation. The BoE had to fight tooth and nail last year for their budget ask in what seemed like an agonizing, dragged out deliberation process (I watched it) which brought out an unprecedented number of stakeholders to support the BoE in fighting for their ask. Parents and sports organizations have been fighting forever, for years, for long overdue athletic field improvements (I am one of those parents) which are just now happening. The sidewalks on my street look like they suffered aerial bombardment by military aircraft. Nobody clears the drains around my property which backs up with a flooded backyard and a driveway stream, water damaging my home. I was told many years ago by the city that the drains near and on my property were my responsibility to empty or to call in to them when they are backed up! Essentially, I was told by them that I had to do part of their job. I asked if I will receive a job title and a paycheck.

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9. Mike Mushak

   April 5, 2019

   @Piberman, I’ve tried to avoid engaging you as it seems you repeat yourself as nauseum, but let’s tear apart your boiler plate comment and reveal how “shabby” your repeating criticisms are.

   You state our grand list is stagnant. Norwalk’s grand list took a huge hit in the recession like everywhere in the country, and it took years to recover same as everywhere else. We just added 16% to the grand list since the last reval which is a remarkable achievement. It is anything but stagnant!

   Your argument is baloney.

   You state Norwalk has “the smallest business sector of any CT city and most would agree it’s the shabbiest.”

   More baloney, this time with fact-free liverwurst.

   No one agrees we have the “shabbiest business sector” unless they are you. You agree with yourself, no doubt.

   You state “renters now 40% up from 30%.” Then you go on to say “ever higher City budgets fall mostly upon city homeowners.”

   This is a baloney sandwich!

   Yes we have more renters, horror of horrors some might say but just so happens it’s a huge trend and lifestyle shift everywhere as many folks both young and old don’t want to mow lawns and clean gutters anymore!

   And your bizarre assumption that you share with Lisa Brinton and her few loyal groupies, that renters don’t pay property taxes, is so wrong as to be laughable. Renters pay a higher proportion of taxes per square foot than “homeowners” as you put it. That’s right, renters pay property tax, at a higher rate than homeowners! They’re subsidizing you it turns out. Taxes areincluded as part of their rent, and the landlords turn around and pay the taxes same as everybody else. And that old argument that tax breaks are given to the developers so they don’t pay taxes is bogus. Some do get breaks but those sunset out after a few years, and they always are paying the original property tax their properties always paid before their improvements.

   You say “Hence the well-documented Exodus.”

   Baloney regurgitated.

   Norwalks population is increasing, houses are selling, and some really fun folks from the city and all over the world are moving to Norwalk. I know because I meet them all the time in my business. These are the folks renovating their homes, hiring local contractors, eating out in local restaurants that are thriving, and basically adding value to our economy and our community.

   One client I’m renovating an entire landscape for is a young couple from Brooklyn, who did much research and decided Norwalk was the coolest city to live in both Westchester and Fairfield Counties. I agree! And they have a lot friends moving here from the city as well.

   The “Exodus” you speak of is all in your mind. Maybe you’re confusing it with a film you once saw?

   With all due respect, your outrageous claims are a bunch of baloney that don’t hold up to scrutiny.

   Norwalk doesn’t have the “smallest business sector of any CT city.” Baloney.

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10. Mike Mushak

    April 5, 2019

    @EnoPride:

    Your quote from above: (4/5/19)

    “Nobody has been demanding a Danbury budget except perhaps you sounds like, Mike Mushak.”

    Your quote from two days ago, on NoN, 4/3/15:

    “Where’s the Sharpee marker? Let’s have at it and cut the City Hall excess so we can restore the sidewalks and a better quality of life for our residents. Make it easy City Hall, and take Danbury’s template, for cryin’ out loud!”

    As I said, many of Lisa’s supporters were asking for Norwalk to adopt Danbury’s austere budget, lower salaries, and lower school budget, , just this week!

    And as I said, Lisa needs to provide a budget for Norwalk to match Danbury’s, just as her supporters like you asked for!

    Lisa has 5 days to “find that Sharpie” as you put it, and “cut that City Hall excess”.

    I’m only asking the same thing you did, EnoPride!

    Lisa has better come up with a budget for Norwalk to match Danbury’s, and show us all what salaries and positions and projects including school renovations she would cut.

    All in the name of “transparency” Lisa demands of everyone else. What’s her plan?

    Otherwise, it’s just all meaningless campaign talk, no?

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11. EnoPride

    April 5, 2019

    Discussing considering a format or template style and philosophy similar to Danbury’s in which to plug Norwalk’s own unique city budget data does not mean LITERALLY adopting a budget to match Danbury’s what you are calling austere budget, lower salaries and lower school budget, obviously, @Mike Mushak. That is just nonsensical. My quote does not imply that. And nobody asked for a budget. Norwalk has one already. Hopefully, Ms. Brinton will get a shot at coming up with Norwalk’s budget when she is our next mayor. Until then, the budget is Mayor Rilling and his team’s responsibility. I stand behind my quotes. I feel our current administration is overspending in certain areas, isn’t spending enough in others, and could use to make cuts for a leaner budget, and I am entitled to my opinions.

    Have an amazing weekend, @Mike Mushak.

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12. Mike Mushak

    April 5, 2019

    @EnoPride:

    You are clearly advocating for a double standard.

    You want one standard for Mayor Rilling who YOU and the rest of Lisa’s supporters say spends too much taxpayers’ money.

    But you want another standard for Lisa who wants to be mayor, by saying we have to wait for her to become mayor to find out what she would cut out of the budget!

    UNFAIR!

    No more double standard!

    I’ll say it again, and will continue to say it because we can’t have a double standard for mayoral candidates:

    LISA, WHAT WOULD YOU CUT OUT OF NORWALK’S CURRENT BUDGET TO BE MORE LIKE DANBURY, INCLUDING OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION????

    No more “let’s criticize Harry RIlling all day long for spending too much, but we’ll just keep secret what Lisa will cut until she gets elected.”

    Lisa has 5 days to “take a Sharpie to our budget” including her proposed cuts to the Board of Education, which every single Norwalk voter deserve to see in the name of transparency, or else we will have nothing more to say than:

    “The Empress has no clothes.”

    And to all those Lisa supporters who lob daily insults at the current administrations budget:

    Put up a revised Lisa budget for the city that shows EVERY cut she will make, or shut up!

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13. Al Bore

    April 5, 2019

    Harry gets a lot of his money from the out of town developers, many that are destroying Norwalk as they over build, over crowd, and are then given tax breaks for their thoughtless development rubber stamped at city hall. At the end of the day they go home to their quiet neighborhoods in the surrounding towns and the tax paying homeowners have to deal the traffic, the continually deteriorating infrastructure, and the many cost associated with over building. Mike M talk about a spin, CNN has a job for you. Give me a tax break and let it sunset after a few years, no problem. Most of the union that support Harry don’t live in Norwalk they just get paid by the taxpayers of Norwalk, I said most not all. What a shame!!

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14. Bryan Meek

    April 5, 2019

    Where is Josh Morgan? Mushake is definitely earning his salary.

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15. Jake

    April 5, 2019

    Al Bore-

    What tax breaks?? Tell us what apartment developers have gotten tax breaks?? If I recall correctly, Nancy confirmed not to long ago that the fictitious tax breaks don’t exist. But since you say it constantly in this forum, go ahead and educate us as to what multifamily developers have received tax breaks. I suspect silence will be your response.

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16. Lisa Brinton

    April 6, 2019

    Jake, There are tax credits associated with the Ironworks development in Sono. I think it was part of the RDA Reed Putnam deal. I’ve also seen the tax bill with adjusted credits. The mall has tax credits for the next 7+ years and I think the Innovation District funds could be applied to the POKO Phase 1 bailout for Mr. McClutchy if the deal goes through. Hope that helps.

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    1. Nancy Chapman

       April 6, 2019

       The proposed tax credits for Wall Street-West Avenue Neighborhood Plan have yet to be approved. That’s the tax credits that were formerly referred to as the Innovation District tax incentives. There are no “funds” associated with the proposed tax breaks. These are tax breaks rather than expenditures, and the idea is that the tax intake will go up due to improvements that would not have happened without the tax incentives; the proposed ordinance has a “but for” clause, meaning that the development would not happen “but for” the incentives. So just to clarify, the City would not be spending money. Any tax incentives would have to be approved by the Common Council. Your elected representatives would be in charge of determining and/or enforcing the “but for” clause.

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17. EnoPride

    April 6, 2019

    What a fascinating mouthpiece you are for the Rilling Administration, @Mike Mushak. You misinterpret perfectly clear and reasonable posts, harrass and marginalize posters and put words in their mouths when their words are of opposing views to yours, insult, ascribe motives, but your piece de resistance definitely has to be telling a courageous mayoral candidate who deserves all the respect in the world to “Put up or Shut up.” Keep up your great work, @Mike Mushak. You might just win Ms. Brinton some more votes! This will be my last response to you, ever.

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18. Jake

    April 6, 2019

    L Brinton. Ironworks is the only multifamily development in all of Norwalk to receive tax incentives and it was through the enterprise zone/Reed Putnam designation, the same tax credit program as the mall. So why do people on NON blogs constantly say, untruthfully, that the City has given all of these tax incentives to apartment developers?? It’s a lie but I guess it sounds good, especially over and over again. The truth is more closely reflected by what Mushak pointed out, that these apartments pay over $4k per unit in taxes and the average size is roughly 800 sq ft. Compare that to residential homeowner taxes and tell me who is paying the lion’s share. As far as I understand the tax incentives you refer to as the Innovation Zone has been tabled. And your supposition that there is a “bailout” for Poko is merely more fodder as, unless you are holding back on us, you do not have any more of an idea what is going on with Poko than anyone else.

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19. Jake

    April 6, 2019

    Exactly right Nancy!! Well put. Too many people preach the falsehood that a tax incentive is a loss/giveaway of taxpayer money when in actuality it is a gain. It is irresponsible when people, especially someone running for office, pushes a falsehood on the public.

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20. Lisa Brinton

    April 7, 2019

    Jake,
    You raise a couple of additional points I’d like to comment on. I wonder if Ironworks will still be able to collect $4000 in rent when their tenants have the Walk Bridge cranes swinging overhead and construction site to gaze upon for the next 5 years? They can’t be happy about that.

    Also, my supposition regarding the ordinance committe’s yearlong quest to pass the Innovation – now renamed Wall St West Ave real estate tax credit plan (or somesuch) is an educated guess. The ordinance has met opposition at every turn, by folks far more knowledgeable in real estate than me and en masse, even when public meetings have been held at inconvenient hours. Opposition also includes a former mayor. It’s no secret, the POKO Project still needs to have financial gaps closed for a host of mistakes made. It’s a shame the city isn’t spending more time making CitiBank eat the losses instead of finding creative tax incentives that local Norwalk homeowners can only dream of. The city puts a lien on a homeowner’s property if behind on taxes in the tax sale every two years and puts it on the chopping block. Imagine if they had done that to Citibank with Poko?

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21. jo bennett

    April 7, 2019

    The idea that a tax break isn’t an expense as is silly as the idea that a “no money down” auto lease is a “great deal.” Mike Maguire and Bryan Meek did a nice job of explaining how the budget defines the mill rate. Once those budget decisions are made, the money has to come from somewhere – it’s just a matter of how the expenses, meaning, tax burden, are apportioned.

    One issue that I have is that with new development, the city bears infrastructure costs. And as Jason Milligan has noted, our infrastructure is struggling to keep up with recent large-scale development. So it’s a double-whammy effect. Triple whammy if you consider the drag that overdevelopment/oversupply of housing stock is bound to have on pricing.

    I’ve gotten off-topic with these comments, but to also respond to another commenter in this thread, Mike Mushak, I don’t think any voter is looking for a mayoral candidate to submit a budget proposal. That would be foolish, and it’s why we have a CFO, Common Council, etc. (Wait – I don’t think we currently have a CFO…) We’re looking for ideas to keep a great city great. Give me a reason to stay, and make me proud to invite family and friends to visit.

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22. Mike Mushak

    April 7, 2019

    @jo bennett, your comment contradicts yourself, sorry.

    On the one hand you want the budget to be part of the mayoral campaign discussion, but you say you don’t want
    to see Lisa’s budget proposals. Why the transparency with Harry Rilling’s budget but secrecy for Lisa’s budget?

    Lisa has 3 days to submit a Norwalk budget to match Danbury’s as her own supporters have demanded.

    I’m trying to help Lisa’s supporters understand what Lisa’s priorities would be, since she says our budget is bloated and needs to be cut.

    What would Lisa cut for our budget? If she doesn’t provide her own budget proposal, we are left with a lack of transparency and accountability, making her a hypocrite as that’s what she demands from the current administration every day.

    Would Lisa cut education? Road paving? Police and firemen? Salaries? Positions?

    Lisa has 3 days to put up or shut up.

    And this old claim about new development not paying for infrastructure improvements is not supported by the facts. The city requires an analysis of infrastructure impacts on every project, and is reviewed by DPW, WPCA, and local utilities for impacts and for sign-offs before it’s approved.

    Any improvements identified as necessary by any particular project become part of the approval process discussions. That is how, to pick a recent example, the Glover Ave transformation into a multi-modal boulevard is being paid for by BLT who is the developer of the Curb project. The city negotiated this giveback with them as part
    of the approval.

    If you have any specific evidence of infrastructure impacts not properly vetted before any project was approved, please list them now. Thank you.

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23. Otto Delupe

    April 7, 2019

    @Mike M Why do you gotta pick a side on every single thing? In your world we’d all have one party, one choice- your choice. It don’t matter if you’re wrong or right – people are going to vote for who they believe in. This idea that a candidate has 3 days to submit a budget this early in the process is kinda wacky. It’s Rev Al-esque.

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24. Jake

    April 7, 2019

    L.Brinton and JoBennett-

    JB, when the existing infrastructure (roads, gas, electric, sewer, water etc) are not sufficient to support a project- whether it be a new single family house, a new shopping center, a new multifamily building, etc- the entity proposing the project (builder, developer, retailer, whatever) pays for the adequate upgraded infrastructure. The City and the taxpayers do not and neither do the utility companies. It is another falsehood that is promulgated on this blog.

    LB- I am not sure what you mean when you ask if Ironworks will still collect $4k in rent when there is walk bridge construction?? I did not say Ironworks has $4k rents….and I doubt they do. Maybe you are referring to the fact that I said the average apartment in Norwalk, which is 800 sq ft in size, pays on average $4k in TAXES a year??? Are you trying to make the walk bridge part of the real estate tax discussion??? If so I have no idea what one has to do with the other unless you are just trying to deflect my point about real estate taxes and how people on this blog lie about multifamily dwellings not paying their fair share?? Regardless, I will address the walk bridge. Will it effect the direct area?? Of course. But I happen live on a planet where construction projects do not fall out of the sky and just land in place with no impact whatsoever. There is no such thing. I do not care if it is getting the floors in your house sanded and refinished or repaving the roads or building a new bridge….things do not get done without impact. It’s the cost of progress.

    As for Poko, you admitted you are guessing. Then you go on and again and make another series of wild guesses and supposition. You say that Poko has financial gaps that need to be filled because of a host of financial mistakes.
    You said you are no real estate expert, but tell me what the host of mistakes are?? And you imply that the City is trying to fill them- how so?? Another guess….I guess! Citibank does over $6 billion in lending annually through its Community Capital division, the division that now owns Poko. They have less than $20 million out on the Poko project. I will take a guess like you like to do and say that they can fill their own financial gap and that they are not asking the City to do so. But we’ll see. And you say the City should just put a tax lien on Poko…which is funny….because Citibank has been paying all of the taxes due so how does that work!!?? Then you go on to say it’s a shame that the City puts tax liens on properties that do not pay their taxes. I guess you would just let people not pay their taxes and let the City go broke?? Good plan.

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25. Jason Milligan

    April 7, 2019

    Jake,

    You are off base.

    POKO project got $4.4 million in city infrastructure approved along with a nice tax incentive package.

    It also got 2 FREE city parking lots.

    While under the infamous nondisclosure agreement Citibank/McClutchy asked for $2 more million from the city and they tried to reduce or eliminate the public parking they owed the city.

    It is a head scratcher that enormous Citibank is continuing to waste its time in the POKO loser project.

    The best thing that could happen for Norwalk would be for Citibank to leave. Just auction off the Tyvek Temple to the highest bidder, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

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26. Al Bore

    April 7, 2019

    Thank you Lisa and others for helping Jake understand what tax breaks are, I was away for the weekend. Otto Delupe you hit the nail on the head with @Mike M in your comment, wow does he worship Rilling.

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27. Jake

    April 8, 2019

    Al Bore an JM.

    Of course AB did not respond to his continuous lies regarding tax incentives, instead ignoring his original comments completely. But I predicted that. I am sure he will promulgate the same lies on a future blog participation.

    JM- As with LB, let’s deal with facts. Has the City funded any of the $4.4 million you suggest was part of the Poko deal?? Or are you just “guessing” like Lisa Brinton is very good at and it seems you gave the maximum $1000 donation to?? Seems like you may have a conflict and as such are preaching falsehoods like many others?? It’s funny how Lisa Brinton and others quote you in reference to being a developer and having knowledge as a developer but you go out the way to call yourself a broker and proclaim you are not indeed a developer. Are you a developer?? Have you developed anything?? Should we put weight on people who comment on your thoughts as a developer?? I am confused. It seems like it is one of those situations where people want to have it both ways??? But I am sure Eno Pride will figure it out…hahahaha.

    And as far as two free parking lots go, and I am not lending credibility to your suggestion that the statement is true, but geez…it seems to have worked out very well for you. It seems like a guy like you would have had some sort of inside information that the rest of the NON audience have not been priviledge to if you were able and willing to pay $5 million dollars for parking lots that the City supposedly gave away. When something smells ike a fish there is usually a fish swimming around. Are you a fish?? Or are you the “savior of Wall Street” as your outrageous propaganda suggests??? You smell like a fish. Pee-eew.

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28. Sid Welker

    April 8, 2019

    @ Al Bore as Mike M “worships” Rilling its vice versa for the rest of this panel for Lisa. The proof is in the donation list. Although I don’t always agree with Mike M’s view or comments, I do admire his passion to stick to his morals and stay the course all while this comment section has a posse mentality of “let’s get em boys”. He’s pretty much out numbered 20/1 with everything he comments on. He fights you all off like rapid dogs and stands his ground while trying his best(sometimes crossing the line)not to lose his cool.

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29. Piberman

    April 8, 2019

    Is Mr. Mushak, reportedly a landscape designer, now the “unofficial” economics and financial spokesman for City Hall ? Dismissing comments by those with major business and professional economics and financial backgrounds as just plain “silly” ? No one else seems to do that in Nowalk or CT at large. So what’s the story here. If Mr. Mushak wants to discuss the reasons for Norwalk’s stagant Grand List since 2008 in a well documented article then lets get going. Lets encourage Nancy’s to follow a suggestion made several times and print a copy of the Grand List history from the City’s Latest Operating Budget for the past decade and the one for the prior decade. It ought be fairly obvious that the past decade of stagnant Grand Lists is quite differnet from the previous decade when Norwalk was a dynamic City.
    Blaming Norwalk’s decade long stagnant Grand List on just the “Recession” is the kind of statement that would earn a freshman college student an “F”. Municipal economics and finance are serous subjects.

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30. Norwalk Lost

    April 8, 2019

    Reports of “only” marginal decreases in the mill rates coupled with a draw down on the city’s rainy day fund does not bode well for taxpayers given the “advertised appreciation” in the Grand List. Unfortunately, no amount of alternate reality can mask the fact that city’s finances will devour an ever larger part of household finances in the the form of much higher taxes in the years to come. If city hall is so confident in the sustainability of its budgets, why not put a pro-forma in future years to justify its planning or lack of thereof, alleviate taxpayer’s fears and dispel rumors of a transformation to a Bridgeport style municipality? Further, with the luxury end of the real-estate market experiencing 30%+ declines, is the city’s insatiable appetite for massive apartment expansion enough to offset these declines? I wonder if anyone of the city’s “seasoned staff” is paying attention.

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31. Jason Milligan

    April 8, 2019

    Jake,

    It is hard to unpack your rambling comment.

    As for POKO $2.2 million of city money was funded. Plus the 2 very valuable parking lots that our leaders gave POKO for FREE.

    $5 million state money from the DECD was literally dropped into the POKO hole aka the asinine automated car vending machine basement.

    POKO is a disaster. Anyone trying to defend it will lose. POKO took advantage of the politicians big time. It is embarrassing to admit, but unless they admit it we will never be able to move on.

    The most accurate label for me would be Dad and youth sports coach.

    However, I have been invloved in all aspects of real estate for 2 decades. I choose to label myself as a broker. I am self employed so I can choose the title on my business cards. They say Broker.

    You can feel free to call me “Savoir of Wall Street”.

    I can also decide to donate money to a worthy political campaign.

    City Hall is full of fish.

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