Jim Walden: “What we have seen in the last 12 years are some quality…”

“But, but listen, the most important thing, the most important thing that a mayor does at the beginning of his or her tenure is picking commissioners and making sure that the deputy commissioners are people of quality and not patronage appointments. And What we have seen in the last 12 years are some quality commissioners, to be sure, and a lot of favors and political patronage jobs going where they don't belong. It is distressing to me. It's distressing because the truth of the matter is the mayor of the City of New York obviously is an. It's an incredibly important position.” (37:12–37:24)

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