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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.

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Speaker 2: Here again is Larry MENTI with the WOR Saturday Morning show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. If you ask me, it'sord Mom.

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Speaker 3: Donnie has had the worst hundred days of any mayor anywhere,

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Speaker 3: So why is he having a city wide celebration, this

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Speaker 3: victory tour?

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Speaker 1: Let's call it what heath gout.

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Speaker 2: This is like remember the Jackson five went on that

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Speaker 2: victory tour. You know, she's taking a victory tour after

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Speaker 2: the first one hundred days.

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Speaker 1: I followed politics since John.

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Speaker 2: Lindsay ran for mayor in this city in the sixth

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Speaker 2: sees and destroyed this city.

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Speaker 1: I have never seen it.

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Speaker 2: Not with Rooty, not with Dinkins, not with coch, not

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Speaker 2: with Theblazia. Well, he'd wake up too late for his

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Speaker 2: victory tour, you know, smoking the Mari Wawi and Hindukush.

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Speaker 2: Not with Bloomberg, who could have bought out Madison Square, Garden,

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Speaker 2: Radio City Music Hall had his celebration. Not with Eric Adams,

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Speaker 2: who who could have jumped from nightclub to nightclub.

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Speaker 1: All night long. I've never heard of this.

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Speaker 2: I've always seen reporters will give you like a report

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Speaker 2: card for a shot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the way it's been doing all day.

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Speaker 3: Look Today Post has done it. New York Times has

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Speaker 3: done it.

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Speaker 2: Thish is absolutely off to hook because it's the one

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Speaker 2: thing he does well.

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Speaker 3: This is what he does well. He puts on a show,

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Speaker 3: he puts on a performance. Entertainment is his career. And

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Speaker 3: this can deflect from everything else because you know, the

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Speaker 3: media will be in tow, the entire Democratic Party will

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Speaker 3: be in tow. All the Mamdaniites will be in tow.

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Speaker 3: So this is brilliant on his part, but it covers

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Speaker 3: up one hundred days of failure.

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Speaker 2: Let me correct you. It's not mandemites, it's sorts. Remember

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Speaker 2: coined the phrase, Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know. That's

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Speaker 2: why I don't dare use it. I don't have to pay.

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Speaker 2: Number one, if he wanted to take a victory tour

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Speaker 2: through all five burroughs, continue to fill up all the potholes.

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Speaker 2: They are everywhere. And if you notice when him and

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Speaker 2: Hokel did it, it's a cold patch. It's not gonna stick.

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Speaker 2: So the first few cars to go over it, all

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Speaker 2: that so called asphalt is gonna go flying in different directions.

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Speaker 2: There are hundreds and hundreds of these potholes everywhere.

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Speaker 3: There are hundreds and hundreds of things that he got wrong,

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Speaker 3: the potholes, the snow removal, the people dying, his hiring

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Speaker 3: of racists, and his hiring of people that are anti Semites,

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Speaker 3: and some of them that had to quit. Some of

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Speaker 3: them are still in office. The way he went after

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Speaker 3: the police, he's still going after the police. He and

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Speaker 3: Jessica Tish apparently are having some tension. According to The

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Speaker 3: New York Times. Over all the things that he wanted

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Speaker 3: to do with that were anti cops. So look, and

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Speaker 3: that's only in a few seconds I mentioned them. It's

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Speaker 3: a longer list.

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Speaker 2: I prefer to go a little simpler route that everyone

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Speaker 2: can relate to. Dog poop is still everywhere, that's true.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times people they step

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Speaker 2: in it.

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Speaker 1: And it's a curse. F Mondamie. I never knew that

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Speaker 1: was his first his first name.

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Speaker 3: Held twenty two people in a snowstorm. And after that

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Speaker 3: was over, everybody talked about it, and then it was okay, let.

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Speaker 1: Me get back. Then it was okay, let me get

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Speaker 1: back to basics.

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Speaker 2: Because I concur with you on that this garbage everywhere,

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Speaker 2: garbage everywhere, I mean it mounds of garbage. Nobody's cleaning

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Speaker 2: it up. Zoron is oblivious to it as he makes

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Speaker 2: his victory tour. So I like to stick to the elements.

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Speaker 2: And in the talkback section with Natalie, she nailed it.

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Speaker 2: The listeners said, I go on the subway every day

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Speaker 2: because they gotta take the subway to go to work, Homeless,

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Speaker 2: emotionally disturbed, garbage everywhere, rats everywhere. That he hasn't done

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Speaker 2: anything to do with that. Now, that's also Hockel's problem,

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Speaker 2: his newfound partnership, because she runs the MTA. Although she

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Speaker 2: would need a she would need a guy to take

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Speaker 2: her around the subway system. She has no idea about this.

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Speaker 1: And he's not gonna get the free buses. That's good,

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Speaker 1: that's all.

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Speaker 3: He's got budget problems, allegedly, and now he has the

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Speaker 3: city council saying, oh, he can take care of that

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Speaker 3: without laying off anybody.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. You don't even have to raise

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Speaker 2: house that part. I've told you that is the typical

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Speaker 2: chicken dance. You know, we're around budget time. So that's

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Speaker 2: why I say by Memorial Day, they'll all be resolved.

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Speaker 2: They'll all be hugging one another, the state, the city.

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Speaker 2: We've come. You know, he'll have another victory tour, probably

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Speaker 2: right before we'll see. You've been saying that's going to happen,

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Speaker 2: and that'd be great if it did happen. But we'll

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Speaker 2: see if that's going to happen. The only thing that

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Speaker 2: would be bad about it is in your equation. He

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Speaker 2: gets the tax on the ridge and the tax on corporation.

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Speaker 2: Remember that's the only bad part. As somebody who's followed

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Speaker 2: a lot of elections and try to craft my own

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Speaker 2: attempts to be mayor in twenty twenty one and twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five, a good campaign of three issues. A better

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Speaker 2: campaign is two issues. The best campaign is one issue.

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Speaker 2: And he wrote that issue affordability costs a living to victory.

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Speaker 2: But a rent control board. Everybody said, you can't freeze

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Speaker 2: the rents. You can't freeze the rents. There's two million

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Speaker 2: people who live in rent subsidized apartments. He now has

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Speaker 2: appointed all the people in charge. There are eight of them.

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Speaker 2: They are all zorin easters. You gotta believe that he

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Speaker 2: controls them. Every other mayor whoever had control of that

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Speaker 2: was able to freeze it. Cuomo as governor, froze it

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Speaker 2: during the lockdown and pandemic. The Blasio froze the Rench twice.

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Speaker 2: This is not anything new. So I think he's going

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Speaker 2: to be able to do that. The billionaires tax. If

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Speaker 2: he just gets that, he's going to take a victory lap.

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Speaker 2: Just look at how Hcal was trapped by all those

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Speaker 2: young people yesterday's screaming text the rich. He had to

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Speaker 2: call up like a whole barrack of state troopers to

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Speaker 2: protect them and her in the graves. But it's lose

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Speaker 2: lose If he gets it, we all lose. If he

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Speaker 2: gets it, people are going to move. They're already moving

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Speaker 2: as a threat well of it happening very popular out there, Larry.

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Speaker 2: Is the billionaires tax.

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Speaker 1: That's okay.

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Speaker 2: They have very few billionaires, and most working class people

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Speaker 2: really hate the billionaires because they haven't come across. Is

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Speaker 2: very empathetic or sympathetic of it.

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Speaker 3: They don't have to be. They pay most of the taxes.

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Speaker 3: How about this one together.

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Speaker 2: New York, we're going to make buses fast, and.

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Speaker 1: What about that one? Well, he'll declare partial victory.

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Speaker 2: And you know why, because even before he ran, half

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Speaker 2: the people weren't paying on the buses.

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Speaker 1: There's no fair inv was.

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Speaker 2: So he'll say, well, you're right, I didn't give you

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Speaker 2: a full free fare, but half half of you are

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Speaker 2: not paying anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think he's gonna even bring that off,

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Speaker 3: to tell you the truth. I don't think that's a

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Speaker 3: good thing. But he just admitted that. He admitted that's

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Speaker 3: not gonna happen. Not in the first year.

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Speaker 2: City run grocery stores. Remember that was a big part

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Speaker 2: of it. You know, we're gonna be able to underprice

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Speaker 2: all of those who have supermarkets.

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Speaker 1: They're really big guys.

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Speaker 2: And then the guy like John katcherm Titius with Cristiitis

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Speaker 2: and I forget the other place he has well with

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Speaker 2: John Katchermatiti's having threatened to leave, remember right after January first,

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Speaker 2: and now he's rescinded that he's surrendered to Joran because he.

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Speaker 1: Can profit personally. Well, that's the only reason he probably

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Speaker 1: would have said, Okay, you're leaving his stores. Rememb me.

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Speaker 1: He threatened to sell it.

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Speaker 2: I'll buy the stores and we'll set up the city supermarket.

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Speaker 3: He's never going to do that. But listen, he is

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Speaker 3: a false prophet. He made cute videos, and he's got

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Speaker 3: a nice smile, and he fooled everybody. And he's not

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Speaker 3: going to do half the things he said he was

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Speaker 3: going to do. That's the good part. But listen to me.

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Speaker 3: He always was an anti satellite. He always is against

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Speaker 3: cops and that is at his core. Oh, and he

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Speaker 3: is going to run the city.

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Speaker 2: That the one group of people who get no attention recognition,

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Speaker 2: and they have the toughest job in the city, the

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Speaker 2: toughest bar none correctional officers. They get to sign a

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Speaker 2: Rikers Island. They have to work mandatory twelve hour shifts,

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Speaker 2: so eight plus four and sometimes more, and they cannot

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Speaker 2: control the asylum. It's all the gangs. And one thing

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Speaker 2: he's going to deliver on he's going to close Rikers Island.

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Speaker 2: He signed it the other day. He said, we're closing it.

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Speaker 2: You're going to have your four community jails that cost

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Speaker 2: two billion dollars a piece to build, is still being built,

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Speaker 2: that will house only four thousand.

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Speaker 3: I didn't get him elected, though it helped. Didn't well,

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Speaker 3: didn't get elected. The one that got elected and he

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Speaker 3: knew it is the one. The things he said all

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Speaker 3: the time, fast and free buses and taxing the rich,

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Speaker 3: and he's may not get either of those done.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he is the.

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Speaker 2: Number one issue affordability cost of living? Remember in the

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Speaker 2: end in the debates we'd be talking about parades, everything else,

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Speaker 2: and he like a drown to say affordability, costs of living.

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Speaker 3: Come on, So un answer the question. He ran a

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Speaker 3: great campaign, He's not running a great city.

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