Zohran Mamdani: “We want to make sure that these New Yorkers who have so…”

“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. They can inform how we're looking to form our next government. And their recommendations, their analysis, their discussion will be filtered through the co chairs into the discussions that we take in making the decisions of who hire and how we create the City Hall.” (18:21–18:30)

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