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Michael Blake: “In 2010, when we made the changes on the assembly side, on…”

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 06:54

You wanna talk about grand jury, you wanna talk about more money for your schools, all these things that we keep talking about, we can't change that until we have these changes. And In 2010, when we made the changes on the assembly side, on the Senate side, that's how Rockefeller drug laws changed here in New York. So people need to understand you cannot just vote for the president. We need for you to do that. Yes, but you have to vote all the way down, up and down the ballot. (06:54–07:01)

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Asserts that changes in the assembly and Senate in 2010 led to changes in the Rockefeller drug laws in New York.

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