🇺🇸🇪🇨 Assembly District 30 Candidate 🗽 A Pathway Forward for Queens | Coalition Builder | Queens Native | Gen Z | Who Can? Castro Can!
Queens, NY
Joined March 2024
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HONORED! Proud to announce that I am endorsed by former Councilman Democrat Robert Holden in this race! We have a mutual desire for common sense policies and practical solutions!
New York needs innovative solutions now more than ever! Who can? Castro Can!
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Some people say that New England’s liberal Republicans—especially Phil Scott—are essentially just Democrats and shouldn’t really be considered Republicans.
But I think those people really underestimate how important it is to be free of the Democratic Party as an institution.
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Super fun night in Queens for common sense cocktails and conversation. Great to meet so many Queens voters, friends, leaders and up and coming candidates.
Queens born and bred @BrandonCastroNY is an amazing candidate who is hitting exactly the right note in AD 30. @ycinnewyork gave us this cycle’s best GOTV push as the races head into the final stretch. That’s @JulieMilnerEsq running on both Dem and GOP lines, bipartisan music to our ears.
Queens is the city’s most diverse borough. We love everything about it! Can’t wait to go back.
@Maria4Dist6 @queens_parents @bronxilla @TheKvetcher @JCAndersonNYC @stick_dynamite @katiewr31413491 @PhilWongNYC @PhilWongNYC2025 @BobHoldenNYC
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I canvassed for @sarithaforny and @brandoncastrony at the Elks Lodge on Queens Blvd today. I spoke to some voters who were heading in to vote for them. Even better, I had conversations with undecided voters who will now consider voting for them. Both are endorsed by my club @Asianwave_org.
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Asian Wave Alliance is proud to endorse Brandon Castro for Assembly District 30. We believe our communities need a fresh voice in Albany who will champion safer neighborhoods and defend educational opportunities that help working and immigrant families achieve the American Dream. The open seat presents an opportunity to elect a representative committed to these priorities. @BrandonCastroNY
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How is it only 64%?
New Yorkers are taxed every which way, and what do we get in return? Higher costs, crumbling infrastructure, and a government that keeps finding new ways to spend our hard-earned money. (1/2)
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In NYC public schools, White students make up 16% of enrollment. If “spreading them around” is what ideologues are counting on to improve schools, then we’re not really serious about addressing why kids can’t read by third grade.
At the same time a s** work is work rally happened in Woodside, Queens, we documented what residents say they see every day. Used condoms, wrappers, garbage dumping, in front of Pre-K centers, schools, homes, and churches. We need common sense back in Western Queens
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Here’s my full law and order - love and order plan to bring New York’s severely mentally ill homeless off the streets and into care, prevent tragedies.
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We need to dispel the notion that schools are underfunded and demand more accountability for what we already spend. With one-third the number of students, P.S. 307 gets more staff and nearly the same budget as P.S. 8.
PS 307's school budget is $9.5M
216 students
83% low-income
74 staff/teachers
ELA proficiency: 21.6%
PS 8's school budget is $10M
632 students
10% low-income
59 staff/teacher positions
ELA proficiency: 86.4
The Nikole Hannah-Jones is brave in some respects, and worth reading, but it still falls back on the claims that schools like PS 307 are underfunded and understaffed relative to other schools, which isn't true.
PS 307 has an average class size of 10 students and spends $52,349 per pupil. We don't know what school Hannah-Jones' daughter attends now, but Stuyvesant is a good example of the type. Stuyvesant spends $21,664 per pupil with an average class size of 29.
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So given the reality of NYC's fiscal problems, I'm glad to read that "free buses" won't happen anytime soon. The "fast" part of Mamdani's campaign promise isn't happening either.
But instead of focusing on just speed (mph), they should account for the overall TIME it takes for bus commuters to get to where they need to. More often than not, I see long, wrapping lines in downtown Flushing because buses don't come. This is a staffing and operation problem that don't even require street redesign. Most on the queues are working class NYers trying to get home from a long day. To wait on 20-30 minutes just to just get on the bus is inexcusable.
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Stab someone in the subway and kick them down the stairs, and you’re released on cashless bail. This is New York under Letitia James. She championed those laws.
When I’m AG, we’ll stop the revolving door for criminals, and offenders like these will be banned from the subway system.
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Elmhurst’s African Burial Ground dates back to 1828, with 300+ documented burials and remains still believed to be beneath the site. Today, it’s used as a vehicle lot. I join my neighbors in calling on NYC to protect it and designate it an official landmark. #elmhurst
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No one said you shouldn’t engage with “new” media.
The concern is encrypted chats that evade FOIL, and tax dollars used to build an army of influencers to push propaganda because regular media won’t simply do your bidding.
Press is supposed to scrutinize govt, not work for it.
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"We don't want no Zionists here"
Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander, who is Jewish, is cursed at and thrown out of a protest in NYC.
Lander went along with extreme rhetoric against Israel and AIPAC during the primary to win votes, something he admitted made him "queasy" because it played into antisemitism.
Maybe the fact that he's being harassed anyway is a sign that next time, he should just stick to campaigning on his actual views.
WHAT A MONTH. 🇺🇸🗽 August was nonstop: the Ecuadorian Parade on horseback, community events, National Night Out, knocking doors & turning 27! The momentum is growing. People over party politics. Common sense over ideology. Independent leadership. Nov. 3: Who Can? Castro Can! 🇺🇸
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🚨 NYC flooding goes beyond one administration. Decades of aging infrastructure, poor maintenance & neglected quality-of-life issues brought us here. Footage: Woodside, Elmhurst & Maspeth. See a clogged drain? Report it to 311, & contact elected officials so DEP acts!
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Rhetoric isn’t going to help, Mr. Mayor.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Your OMB takes nearly $400 million a year from the Water Board, money homeowners pay through their water bills. (1/2)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked Monday what more the city can do to prevent flooding after multiple neighborhoods — including Middle Village, Queens, and Bushwick, Brooklyn — saw torrential downpours on Sunday, in which, in some cases, water flowed through streets and entered homes.
The mayor acknowledged the struggles that the city faces with a sewer system that was built a long time ago, and also said flood prevention is "one of the foremost priorities" of his administration.
"We have a sewage system that was built for the rainfall of a century ago, and that the climate crisis has intensified and increased that rainfall. And also, it is not going to be the case that we are simply going to sit on our hands until the day in which the sewage system is entirely overhauled," Mamdani said.
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Fraud is draining New York taxpayers, and the Attorney General's office isn't doing enough about it.
We can recover $1 billion and give it back to the people it belongs to.
