Zohran Mamdani: “They chose the experience of myself, an assembly member who…”

“That also came with the experience of resigning in disgrace and cutting Medicaid and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA and hounding the more than 12 women who had credibly accused him of sexual harassment. And They chose the experience of myself, an assembly member who won half a billion dollars in debt relief for the very taxi drivers who had been sold a promise by the city of a ticket to the middle class and then had that promise pulled out from under them. of someone who has taken on the eighth largest carbon emitter in the country and defeated a proposal for a fracked gas power plant.” (34:27–34:42)

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