Rent Is Too Damn High Party
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Rent Is Too Damn High Party
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| Leader | Jimmy McMillan |
| Chairman | Jimmy McMillan |
| Spokesperson | Caprice Alves |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City |
| Ideology |
Populism Social welfare Anti-tax |
| Website | |
| RentIsTooDamnHigh.org | |
The Rent Is Too Damn High Party is a political party, primarily active in the state of New York, that has nominated candidates for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009, and for governor and senator in 2010. Jimmy McMillan was the mayoral candidate both times as well as a candidate for governor. In 2005, he received more than 4,000 votes, and more than 40,000 in 2010. The party has three registered members in the state. McMillan himself is registered as a Republican (previously a Democrat) for the purposes of running in that party's primary elections.
In 2014, the party expanded beyond New York by endorsing a slate of candidates in the District of Columbia's Democratic primary elections. The party founder, Jimmy McMillan, put the party trademarks up for sale on December 1, 2015, with intent to retire from politics.
As its name implies, the central tenet of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party is that rents in the city of New York are "too damn high."
One of the taglines for the party is "breakfast, lunch, and dinner", indicating that the party seeks to end hunger and poverty in New York City. The party, prior to McMillan's breakthrough debate performance, sought to win "without a single vote from upstate New York," and the party website included a picture of New York with a giant "X" marked over upstate. McMillan surmises that reducing rent would "create 3 to 6 million jobs", freeing up capital to give businesses a chance to hire people. This would, in turn, increase tax revenue. The party is in favor of writing off all taxes owed to the state, cutting property taxes for homeowners, consolidating the rent boards in New York, seizing unoccupied apartment buildings, reforming the state court system, and providing tax credits for commuters and free college tuition. The party opposes any cuts in spending related to education and elderly care.
McMillan was not opposed to same-sex marriage in the 2010 gubernatorial debate, replying to a non-rent-related question on the matter by saying: "if you want to marry a shoe, I'll marry you." McMillan has specifically voiced opposition to sex reassignment performed without the consent of the intersex individual, stating on his website: "They are normal human beings [...] just born different."
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