“Anybody that is going to be requiring me to pay “assessment” and penalizes me if i don’t – is a tax collector. 3rd Ave Merchants wants to morph into 3rd Ave BID tax collection agency – and makes the city do its “BIDding”. Wrong way, wrong leadership, wrong cause to get behind and sorry Justin Brannon – on this one – you have the wrong side on this issue. You’ve done well in other matters – this one i must fight you on. No amount of lipstick is going to make the BID pig look pretty. over 400 property owners, tenants, businesses oppose this from 67th st to Marine Ave. Why can’t you support the majority constituency on this? What’s in it for you – or is it the few, the misguided that have “drunk the punch” you are caring about only?”