Zohran Mamdani: “I organized alongside Richard and thousands of working class…”

“You know, as Brad was saying earlier, I think of the experience of Richard Chao, a taxi driver who lost his brother to suicide, someone who had been sold a dream by this city as a ticket to the middle class. I organized alongside Richard and thousands of working class taxi drivers, 1/2 a billion dollars in debt relief. that brought so many of these drivers back in the dignity that they'd been denied.” (16:01–16:08)

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