Zohran Mamdani: “We have more than 70,000 applications that have come in…”

“… with the metrics and the way in which we even assess the personnel questions that are responsible being put in front of us. And what I mean by that is We have more than 70,000 applications that have come in through this portal. and we want to make sure that these New Yorkers who have so often been at the heart of when government has worked and also have seen it when government has failed.” (18:17–18:21)

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