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Michael Blake: “213 people dictate what happens for 19.4 million people and…”

Featuring: Michael Blake, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House New York, District 15

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Ebro in the Morning Interview with Assemblyman Michael Blake on Bronx Politics and Community Issues

Published | Video Starts at 01:07

What does that mean? Best way to think about it, there are 150 of us that are in the assembly in New York state. There's 63 that are in the Senate. 213 people dictate what happens for 19.4 million people and $150 billion. So everything from the laws that we create, you know, raise the age, which we all talk about a lot, on special prosecutor, on funding for education, on all these pieces happen on the state level in terms of giving the authority on that. (01:07–01:15)

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