Thursday, December 10, 2015

Citing lack of support, Jimmy McMillan retires from the Rent Is Too Damn High Party


Speaking of high rents... East Village resident Jimmy McMillan has announced his retirement from politics, specifically the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, under which he ran for mayor, governor and, for a moment, president.

According to The New York Times:

In a news release infused with misspellings and other errors that was dated Tuesday, Mr. McMillan said voters had been “totally brainwashed” and criticized Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, for not securing “a rent reduction for the people in the cities of Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens.”

“Rent is too damn high is an international crisis,” he wrote. “There are many questions the people should ask themselves. I which them the best — I’m out.”

And we're not sure about what came of the eviction battle over his rent-stabilized apartment of 38 years on St. Mark's Place. We saw him get in his car on the block earlier this week.

Meanwhile, on Nov. 29, McMillan published this Merry Christmas message/song on YouTube...

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2 comments:

  1. CharlieDecember 10, 2015 at 11:54 PM

    Definitely a character. You could always see his van parked on St. Marks somewhere. I wonder if he'll take off the decals now.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 11, 2015 at 7:29 PM

    I guess the rent ain't too damn high.

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