Annotations for People: Perez-richie

This is a candidate accountability demonstration. We are here to increase the volatility of the situation and say, if you want our votes, you got to give something up. It's long past the time when our community was sleeping and our votes could be taken for granted.

Every time there's an election we have sectors of our community that swear that the messiah has come.

One of our problems is that every time there's an election, we have sectors of our community that swear that the messiah has come, and are quick to denounce anything except accomodation-ism.

These are people whose views are relative to the Right of Center, who have opposed a number of initiatives supported by the entire community and education. For example, HIV/AIDs curriculum in the public schools.

We were asking him to respond to the firebombing of a home in Howard Beach, where he has a lot of constituents, where he got a lot of votes. We wanted him to go out there and speak on racial healing and harmony to his constituents. There's a major contradiction with being a candidate campaigning on safety and crime issues, and not speaking on biased crime and the safety of people to be free from buying a home in an area and getting bombed because they're Puerto Rican.