Christopher Leon Johnson criticizes mayor's treatment of veterans
Johnson supports all the bills, says the mayor's administration does not care about veterans, praises Commissioner Mata but says her hands are tied, and calls for more budget allocation and a veterans parade.
Yeah, hello.
Can you hear me?
Yes, sir.
Go right ahead.
Hello.
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
I support all the bills on the ticket, Clint Arezzo's.
I want to make this clear that, look,
This issue has got to be helped with the federal government.
Veterans Affairs is morally federal, but we have a mayor's administration that we can tell that they don't care about the veterans at all.
You know, I can go back to that ruck walk.
They had like 1.5 miles, but that's like a slap in the face.
But the commissioner, I know her hands are tied.
She's a great person at heart.
I think she really cared about the commissioner because she cared about the veterans because she's a veteran herself.
But her hands are tied with this mayor's administration because.
When it comes to the homeless issue, you know, I have a big feeling that they don't really care about veterans at all.
You know, what they care about more are people that are not veterans who commit crimes, who decide to be professional parasites.
And they love pander to them because they're the ones that they feel that will deliver them a reelection bid of 2029.
I want to make this clear that this ministry, I think the city council needs to start fighting.
No, it's a lot that y'all guys can't do because with the come to veterans, because like I said, the mayor's office, they have control with a lot of things.
Veterans are treated like dirt in the city of New York.
And it's a big problem here.
A shout out to Julie Wan and Phil Wong for being out there trying to fight for the five more veterans at the Boarding Place Veterans Center.
Long Island City, Sunnyside, it just shows how veterans are really treated to the point where they treat city council members a certain way.
It just shows what they will...
How they really feel about veterans in the city of New York.
They think they're nothing, but you don't see them get treated.
You don't see them treat the average thug that is homeless because they know they need their vote.
They know the gods go out and vote and do content for them.
It just, at the end of the day, it's a long battle.
It's a long battle.
And I'm not here to throw anybody on the bus, except for the mayor's office.
And you can't throw the veterans commission on the bus because she does a great, she's a great person that deserves to be in that position.
I think she would be better off in international affairs.
I mean, that's my advice.
But look, it's something where that we need more conversations about this.
I think that I don't know why they keep on doing these hearings inside the committee room.
It just like a slap in the face.
They should have did it in the city hall chambers.
I think it's better off.
But, I mean, veterans, you know, they need the proper respect in the city.
And the start is just like they need more allocation to the budget.
And next year, hopefully next year, they have the Veterans Parade on Fifth Avenue.
Or, hell, do the parade like they did the Labor Day Parade on Lower Manhattan, like on Liberty Heroes Plaza.
But at the end of the day, this is something that I support 100%.
You know, stay home, right?
Now, but thank you so much and take care.
Enjoy.
Thank you, Mr.
Johnson.
I appreciate your participation today and your frequent citizen activism as well.