1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: Everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage, the guy we 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. Lona Rosa is here as well. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. He's running 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: for mayor of New York City. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Blake. 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Welcome, brother, what's good? What's going on y'all? 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 3: How you feeling? 8 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Oh man, another day above grounds of Blessed Day. We're 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: rocking right now. 10 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 3: And that's right. 11 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 2: For people that don't know who you are in your background, 12 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: give them a quick rundown of who Michael Blake is. 13 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 4: Born and raised in the Bronx, New York Public schools 14 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 4: K through twelve, PS. Seventy nine, one eighteen D with Clinton, 15 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 4: they go step back. Full name is Michael Alexander Blake. 16 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 4: So for the Jamaican massive. 17 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: As soon as you said Alexander, they knew. 18 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 4: Exaggerated to understandt vibes. They understand what's going on out 19 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 4: here right now. Everybody has a Winston, Larryon or Dexter 20 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 4: and their family right here or Donovan you know, grew 21 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 4: up here, left went to Northwestern study Jerones and my mom. 22 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: You know, blessings to my mom. 23 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 4: Forty years she worked at a manufacturing plant, raised four boys. 24 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 4: My dad got rest his soul. It was the Janet, 25 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 4: the Saint Barnabas and after Northwestern, you know, life was 26 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 4: changed forever. When I was trained by this man named 27 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 4: Barack Obama. I was one of ten in the Yes 28 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 4: We Can program. They trained us how to run races, 29 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 4: went out to Michigan. We won races in Michigan and 30 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 4: then rocked with them. You know, life was changed from there. 31 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 4: I always joke I was the other black man in 32 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 4: Iowa with him right there, right and then after Iowa, 33 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 4: seven more states, went to the White House with him 34 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 4: for two and a half years, ran all his black outreach, 35 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: minority business outreach. And then I came back home because 36 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 4: I wanted to help my people. Quite frank, I wanted 37 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 4: to show these young cats on the block that you 38 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 4: can grow up on the block and still make it. 39 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 4: Go to a White House and come home. Came back home. 40 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 4: Was elected to the Assembly for six years. My brother's 41 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 4: keep a program for boys and young men of color, 42 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 4: prompt pay bill raised the age. Kalleeve Broda was our constituent, 43 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 4: but now I was about, you know, doing more. So 44 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 4: I'm a husband, I'm a bonus father. Just having my 45 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 4: first Father's Day is a bonus dad. So it's been 46 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 4: a blessing right there. Much love to the father's all here. 47 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 4: I'm now for a mason. I'm a reverend. You know, 48 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 4: we decided to hear do something special. 49 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 2: Now, Now, why'd you putting your head into this this uh, 50 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: this New York City race? 51 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 4: I think I'm the best one prepared right now. The 52 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 4: biggest thing people are facing is affordability. You know, New 53 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 4: York is just is crazy expensive right and at the 54 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 4: end of the got full agreement right now. And if 55 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 4: we want to be serious about changing the game when 56 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 4: it comes to cost of living, then there's specific things 57 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 4: we have to do. We have to have ending credit scores. 58 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 4: Credit scores are being used for housing applications. Doesn't make sense. 59 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: You know. 60 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 4: We need to increase income limits on these housing applications 61 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 4: as well. We need a local media and income because 62 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 4: area median income is not working. It doesn't make any 63 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 4: sense that you have Westchester, Suffolk and Rocklan count in 64 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 4: the calculation. That doesn't make sense at all. And then 65 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 4: when we think about what's happening. I do believe you 66 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 4: need to have someone who has White House, State House, 67 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 4: and local experience, and I have all three because we're 68 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 4: watching the foolishness of Trump and people are understandably scared 69 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 4: every day, whether it be in New York or LA 70 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 4: or anywhere in between. And so I jumped in because 71 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 4: I want to show people, Yes, you can have the 72 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 4: next generation of black leadership. Yes you can have someone 73 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 4: who was qualified at all the levels. Yes you can 74 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 4: have someone who's actually focused on affordability in a very 75 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 4: real way. And let's be clear, you got to talk 76 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 4: about how you're gonna pay for all this, and I said, 77 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 4: there should be a vacant apartment tax for people that 78 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 4: are not living in New York City. We should, you know, 79 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 4: focus on the NYPD accesses of overtime ye at one 80 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 4: point four billion dollars in that, you know, we can 81 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 4: do things to actually pay the bills and actually make 82 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 4: sure we change the game at the same time. And 83 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 4: that's why I say to folks, you know, if you're 84 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 4: looking for the candid who can do that, you should 85 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 4: be ranking Michael Blake first for mayor. 86 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 5: How did you feel about how Mayor Eric Adams we're 87 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 5: in New York. 88 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 4: Well, I mean I wouldn't be running if I thought 89 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 4: he was doing his job. Mean, I mean he spent 90 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 4: more time trying to stay at of jail than actually 91 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: helping people. 92 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: Right, But what do you. 93 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 3: Think he did good? If anything? And what would you 94 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: change immediately that you didn't like what he did? 95 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 4: How much time we have, look, I think how many 96 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 4: things can you change? I mean, you have a scenario 97 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 4: where you had unconstitutional stopping frisk on the rise, You 98 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 4: had a culture of corruption, you had a dynamic where 99 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 4: they were trading dynamics when it comes to ice raids 100 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 4: for him to again stay out of jail. That's not 101 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 4: me saying that's just the reality. 102 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: You have. One out of eight New. 103 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 4: York City public school students are homeless. Cost of going up, 104 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: I mean, like the list goes on on. I think 105 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 4: that you have a scenario where there was great talent 106 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 4: hired in I think sometimes what happens is that the 107 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: very select few who made a lot of mistakes cast 108 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 4: a shadow on everything else. You know, but you can't 109 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 4: ignore that when you have a dynamic where people were 110 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 4: getting promotions because of you know, sex deals at a 111 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 4: YPD and people getting paid off. That's nonsense, right, and 112 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: real talk. It makes it harder for all of us 113 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 4: that are black, that are trying to do some things 114 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: because you're going these conversations like, well, I'm not sure 115 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 4: if the city is ready for the next thing. Oh 116 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 4: it is, we are not him. And if we want 117 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 4: to talk through how do we do this differently? Then 118 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 4: you got to change the game on this. 119 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 2: I got to ask you what the hell is cross endorsing? Right, 120 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: because it came out today that you are cross endorsing 121 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 2: zo Ran mcdonnie, What the hell is that? That's kind 122 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: of it feels like, look, we're going to battle together, 123 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 2: but we're gonna be friends while we do it. 124 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 3: Like what is crossingdors You break it down. 125 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: That's the vibes right there. 126 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 4: So all right, so eleven of us are Democrats running 127 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 4: in the primer. Eleven of us are Democrats running in 128 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 4: the primery? Correct, because we have ranked choice voting in 129 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 4: which started four years ago? 130 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 3: What is choice voting? For people that don't know? 131 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 4: So in New York City you don't have to and 132 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 4: you shouldn't just vote for one person. You should actually 133 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 4: rank five people. So whoever is your first choice when 134 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 4: you go to vote, which if that means if you 135 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 4: vote in absentee or if you're voting an early voting 136 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: early voting and goes to the twenty second, or if 137 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 4: you wait till the twenty fourth, your first choice, you 138 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 4: should circle in this is my first choice, your second choice, 139 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 4: second choice, all the way through. 140 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: Because now the. 141 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 4: Only way someone can win is if you get fifty 142 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 4: percent plus one of votes. So whoever is the lowest 143 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 4: vote getter in the first round gets knocked out. If 144 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: Envy says, you know what, Michael Blake is my first choice, 145 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 4: and then you know, Raven Robinson's my second choice, and 146 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 4: hand is my third choice, Michael Blake gets knocked out, 147 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 4: then Raven then gets the vote. So it actually gives 148 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 4: the voter of New York more power because back in 149 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 4: the day, if you only voted for one person and 150 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 4: that person doesn't make it through a runoff, then you're 151 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 4: pretty much get done. So what we're saying right here, 152 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 4: in particular, when it comes to zon ran Zorn and 153 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 4: I talking about affordability the most right we're real clear 154 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: on if we're serious about the the number one issue 155 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 4: that New York is talking about is that it is 156 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 4: crazy expensive in the city. So who has the plans 157 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 4: around that? And I've said, you know, I'm making it 158 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 4: clear thinks are on there's gonna be my number two. 159 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 4: You know, I'm ranking him as my number two. You know, 160 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 4: grateful that he is cross endorsing us as well, because 161 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 4: he's also making it clear we got to break from 162 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 4: the corruption of Cuomo and we got to make it 163 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 4: clear that you can address affordability. 164 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: You can do both. 165 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: Right, So we're gonna still figure out who's the rest 166 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 4: of the ballot. You know, I think I'm pretty clear 167 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 4: on the rest of that team, because you have other 168 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 4: great candidates, you know, Adrian Adams, you know zeld Nomyrie 169 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 4: brid Lander do out here, you know, doing their thing. 170 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 4: But I want to make it very clear in New 171 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 4: York City, you should rank Michael Blake first, especially for 172 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 4: all the folks out here are still trying to make 173 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 4: the decisions. But then the cross endorsement is saying, I 174 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 4: want you to know that there are other people on 175 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 4: the team that I also want to make sure on 176 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 4: your ballot. 177 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: Now, question, this is just double the advocate, right, Talk 178 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: to me, why wouldn't they rank you number one? And 179 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 2: you tell everybody to rank Eric Adams number two. I 180 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: tell you why, if Zoran is your biggest competition, why 181 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: would you rank him to and not rank somebody that 182 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: is really no competition number two? 183 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 3: Because it's easy to win. 184 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: It's kind of like you know when you're playing basketball, right, 185 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: I wanted the Knicks to play the paces. 186 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: Come on, it's too soon. 187 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 2: I didn't think the Pacers were gonna rock them. I 188 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 2: don't think nobody did, but soon you would want that 189 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: because you feel like that would be an easier win. 190 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 4: Well, so fair, So the one two is not necessarily 191 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 4: you are trying to battle with that person. It's really 192 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 4: making it clear to your voters that if I don't 193 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 4: keep going, this is who I want you to make 194 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 4: your next person. So like, this is the allegiance that 195 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 4: we want to see happen here. So when people are 196 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 4: thinking through, okay, help me to understand this. And this 197 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 4: happened last few days. You know, first debate we had 198 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 4: everybody Times Post Daily News said that I want the debate. 199 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 4: It was real clear that we handled the debate stage. 200 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: Now you have a lot of folks that are coming 201 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 4: through saying okay, I'm now trying to decide who's my five. 202 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 4: So I want everybody in the squad to understand if 203 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 4: you are saying we can do this differently and you 204 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 4: don't want to go back to Cuomo you want something different, 205 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 4: then you should rank me first. You shrank Michael Blake first. 206 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 4: But then I need you to fill out the rest 207 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 4: of the ballot because if you don't, you actually helping 208 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 4: other cats. Gotcha, And that's the key right now and 209 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 4: the reason why we keep drilling this home. I made 210 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 4: a decision on who was most aligned with me on 211 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 4: that issue. 212 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 3: And why don't you like Cuomo? 213 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen you take a shot at Cuomo 214 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 2: in his past and all the things that he did 215 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 2: with what's your major problem with Cuoma? 216 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 4: I mean, fifteen thousand people died in COVID nursing homes 217 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 4: because the policies that he did for a book deal. 218 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 4: You had thirteen women who credibly said that he sexually 219 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 4: assaulted them and had a toxic environment. You have a 220 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 4: dynamic where he said shucking job in two thousand and 221 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 4: eight and made it seem like it wasn't about Barack Obama. 222 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 4: Barack Obama was the only black candidate that was real 223 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 4: in that scenario. He consistently is laying out all the 224 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 4: bad things about other people, and it's actually not talking 225 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 4: through what is good right here close hospital when it 226 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 4: comes to addressing the mental health crisis. So we don't 227 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 4: need to go back to a name, because because you 228 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 4: recognize the name, it's now time to change the game. 229 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 4: And so I'm saying, the folks, here's the difference you have. 230 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 4: He's saying that when I talk about public safety, I'm 231 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 4: saying there should be a thousand mental health professionals instead 232 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 4: of NYPD, because the NYPD will tell you they weren't 233 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: trained on doing that. You want to help these kids, 234 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 4: We should have civics, financial literacy, and mental health for 235 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 4: every student before they graduate. You actually want to help 236 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 4: people with their housing. Let's talk about what's going on 237 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 4: with credit scores and income limits. And at the end 238 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 4: of the day, Andrew Cormo, who real talk wasn't even 239 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 4: living in New York City for a minute, mean pretty 240 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 4: much was in Westchester the whole time. Now is saying 241 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 4: I should come back because he thinks he's the best option. Nah, 242 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 4: And I think people got to really ask themselves. Like 243 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 4: during COVID, his policies were killing people during COVID, I 244 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 4: was with World sun kid feeding people. 245 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: That's right, That's what people got to be asking themselves. 246 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 3: You're right now. 247 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 2: You mentioned the police crime in New York City. It 248 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 2: seems like it's on the rise, right if you've. 249 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 3: Been out and about. I think last week two people 250 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 3: got shot in Times Square. 251 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 4: Right, I mean that's the I mean, the numbers say otherwise. 252 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 4: But the feeling is, the feeling is feeling. 253 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 2: It feels, it feels horrible. What would you do for crime? 254 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 2: We had Zoran up here? He says he wouldn't necessarily 255 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 2: defund the police, but he said he would take some 256 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 2: finances from the police and give it to different agencies 257 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: and things like that. What would be your take on that? 258 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 4: Number one thing we have to do anybody that's walking 259 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 4: the block, whether if I'm in the Bronx at third 260 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 4: av of one four nine, if I'm in Harlem at 261 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 4: one two five and lex, the mental health crisis is real, correct, 262 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 4: you know it's it's like a zombie land out here 263 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 4: right now. And those cats need help. They don't need 264 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 4: to be locked up, right, And so what I say 265 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 4: to everyone, my main priority for public safety, we should 266 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 4: have a thousand mental health professionals on subways and streets 267 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 4: to help them immediately, as opposed to the NYPD who 268 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 4: is saying we're not trained on this. I came with 269 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,719 Speaker 4: that number because a thousand istually the number for the 270 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 4: National Guard that's been put out there. National Guard and 271 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 4: more police standing there is actually not fixing anything right. 272 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 4: And I want to be clear, I got much respect 273 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 4: for those that serve in uniform. But if someone is 274 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 4: struggling in need help them and they're telling you we're 275 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 4: not trained on this, so you do that, then people 276 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 4: feel safer to get on subways, they feel safer to 277 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 4: go outside. And we got to focus on involuntary commitment. 278 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 4: When you know someone is clearly a threat to themselves, 279 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 4: why would you just let them be there? And so 280 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 4: if you do that, then you can do two different things. 281 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 4: You're gonna have police with body cameras on, so it's 282 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 4: actually accountability on both sides. And simultaneously then you can 283 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 4: have more cops that actually walk in the street and 284 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 4: doing precision policing in neighborhoods that need to help. That's 285 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 4: what folks need right now. And look, I'm that cat 286 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 4: who had I enjoyed police brutality twice right, Once in 287 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 4: high school where a cop said, I want to deal 288 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 4: with Clinton High School. Once where a cops said that 289 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 4: they hurt me yelling at them while driving the other direction. 290 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I said, okay, so we're just looking to pick a. 291 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: Fight right now, right. 292 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 4: And then when I was an assemblyman, there was a 293 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 4: fight that was happening. We de escalating the fight. They 294 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 4: grabbed me. They tossed me against the gate, and another 295 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 4: cop comes over and says, get off of him, get 296 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 4: off of him. 297 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: He's the assemblement. And I said, what would happen if 298 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: you want to recognize me? Right? 299 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 4: Even still, I'm saying you need to have police out here, 300 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 4: but it's got to be smarter policing, right. The last 301 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 4: thing that has to happen repeat offenders. Right, there's an 302 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 4: underline current. If we help people make and keep more 303 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 4: money in the front end, then we're not talking about 304 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 4: people shoplifting on the back end. So if you do 305 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 4: those steps, then you have more cops to come back 306 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 4: on the force, actually try and do it the right way. 307 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 4: I don't know any person that doesn't want to get 308 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 4: home cop and community. And if we're serious about the 309 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 4: fundamental issue around public safety. To me, it is underline 310 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 4: around mental health. 311 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 6: Well, what do you say to people, because sitting here 312 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 6: talking to you, you explain what you mean when you 313 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 6: say defund the police, and we understand that. But on 314 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 6: phase value, someone like a Cuomo, he shoots back at 315 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 6: you guys with the fact that you say defund the 316 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 6: police because the messaging is not interpreted the right way. 317 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 6: How do y'all get around that in this race? Because 318 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 6: people here defund the police and they don't understand what 319 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 6: you just said to. 320 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 4: Me, and I'll remind them that. In twenty twenty, Andrew 321 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 4: Clomo set out of his mind at a press conference 322 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 4: that defund the police is a legitimate movement. Andrew Cuomo's 323 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 4: hoping folks have amnesia, so I want to help remind 324 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 4: them that Obamacare can help them with that. He gets 325 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 4: real confused about things. So when we talk through it, 326 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 4: there is no one out here saying eliminate the police 327 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 4: department right when they're using the phrase, it's about how 328 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 4: do you change the funding that's happening to focus on 329 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 4: preventative measures, violence interruption work, you know, life camp, save 330 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 4: our streets until freedom with To me, I mean you 331 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 4: got so many dope groups that are doing that work. 332 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 4: That's what people are really trying to say. And at 333 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 4: the end of the day, what we're talking through is 334 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 4: everybody wants to be safe. So we can keep talking 335 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 4: about this random one liner is or how do you 336 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 4: actually fix this? 337 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 5: You know? 338 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 2: My thing has always been when we talk about budgets, right, yeah, 339 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 2: and people say defund the police, to take money from 340 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 2: the police, But I always feel like we find money 341 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 2: for so many. 342 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: Different everything that we want. 343 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 2: If we want to start an agency where we have 344 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: more mental health professionals on the street, why don't we 345 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 2: pay for it. I'd just seen somebody spend forty five 346 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: to forty eight million dollars on a parade that only. 347 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: Had five people out there. 348 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 2: So if we can find all that and even with 349 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 2: congestion pricing, right, what are your thoughts on congestion pricing? 350 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 4: The intent congestion pricing is the right intent because at 351 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 4: the end of the day, it was to reduce traffic 352 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 4: and improve the environment. The implementation was clunky, right, they 353 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 4: didn't do that right. But at the end of the day, 354 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 4: when we think about from a budget perspective, a budget 355 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 4: showed someone's values. 356 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: There's no way. 357 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 4: We can say at one hundred and fifteen billion dollar budget, 358 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 4: we can't find what we got to pay for. And 359 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 4: so when I'm talking through, yes, you can have that 360 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 4: one point four billion dollars excessive overtime at NYPD and 361 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 4: put that towards the kids. Yes, you can actually reclaim 362 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 4: back to two billion dollars of unclaimed fees and fines 363 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 4: and actually help the community. We can do these things 364 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 4: and the reason why it's not happening is because the 365 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 4: lack of leadership into the early question about Eric Adams. 366 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 4: We've got to ask ourselves for four years, what was 367 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 4: he doing on this? That's why we're all running because 368 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 4: it's not working. And so when I talk through, how 369 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 4: do you make sure that you help nonprofits get funding 370 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 4: up front so they're not waiting for reimbursements on the 371 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 4: back end. What are you doing to make sure that 372 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 4: our immigrants being protected? Because yes, we're gonna stay as 373 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 4: a sanctuary city because that's the right thing to do. Yes, 374 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 4: we're gonna put safe havens on our schools because we're 375 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 4: gonna ban ice from coming on in. You have to 376 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 4: put that kind of money in place to actually help 377 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 4: people because to the underlying piece. You got Trump, and 378 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 4: you gotta worry about Medicaid cuts and Medicare cuts and 379 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 4: all these things that are happening. And that's why when 380 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 4: people are saying to me, all right, Michael Blake, why 381 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 4: you I'm seeing these other names. There's a lot of 382 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: people out here why you. You got to ask yourself 383 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 4: January first, next year, who is best prepared to make 384 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 4: sure we can actually battle against Trump, help our city, 385 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 4: but also keep our focus on what we're doing around 386 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 4: afford the billion people of color. 387 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 2: Now, you talk about congestion price and you said it's 388 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 2: a great idea, right, but executed horribly. My question to 389 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: you is, I feel like we go for the money 390 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 2: before we care about people's feelings. 391 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: Right. 392 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 2: People are scared to take the train, right, They're scared 393 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 2: to take the bus, And you even said that it 394 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,360 Speaker 2: seems like sometimes it's wild. 395 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 3: Wild West out there. Right. 396 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 2: So you're forcing me to take the train in the 397 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: bus when I have to because I can't afford congestion pricing. 398 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 3: But you're forced. 399 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 2: Me to get on the trains with sometimes mentally ill 400 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 2: people and fighting for myself. But then also you're forcing 401 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: me for a lot of these mom and pop businesses 402 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 2: to close down because people can't afford to drive in 403 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 2: anymore for a nice lunch. 404 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 3: They can't afford to come in and. 405 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 2: Conduct business in my spot anymore. So why do we 406 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 2: do the congestion prices where it affects people? It hurts 407 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: people before we make sure that the ordinary people are 408 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 2: the ones taking care of When oh, okay, the. 409 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 4: Train, that might be the only time I can listen 410 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 4: to my music. So sometimes that's like that getaway you 411 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 4: have right there. But like when we talk about what 412 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 4: we have to do here, way too often are not 413 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: thinking through the integration of life. 414 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: Right. It goes back to COVID. 415 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 4: People will say I want for everybody to be able 416 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: to figure things out during COVID and have social distancing. Well, 417 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 4: how does someone have social distance and when they have 418 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 4: seven people living in their crib? 419 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: Right, Like, some of these things don't make sense. 420 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 4: Hey, I want for these kids to be able to 421 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 4: figure out remote learning, but they don't have a tablet 422 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 4: and don't have Wi Fi. 423 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: Right. 424 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 4: So to that same vibe we talk through around congestion 425 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 4: pricing these other policies, I'm trying to reverse engineer and say, 426 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 4: let's think about how does impact people, Right, how do 427 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 4: we think through that? If I'm making that turn on sixty, 428 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 4: if but there's no real ways to turn off before that, 429 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 4: you're effectively forcing people to go into that zone and 430 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 4: taxing them. That doesn't make sense, That doesn't seem right. 431 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 4: I think there should be an exemption on people that 432 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 4: live in these zones, and I think there should be 433 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 4: an exemption on people that are public servants. 434 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: Right. That just makes sense to me. Right. 435 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 4: If someone is coming in and they're like, Yo, I'm 436 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 4: driving into the zone because I want to go to 437 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 4: a show, I want to get a meal, then that's. 438 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: Their choice, right. 439 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 4: But for the casts that are like I'm just trying 440 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 4: to get by, that doesn't make sense at all. And 441 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 4: a lot of the argument has been where we're making 442 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 4: so much money from congestion pricings that that makes it 443 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 4: worthwhile know if people are struggling still, right, And so 444 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 4: to me, I'm reimagining what this city can look like 445 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 4: and trying to show people that you have a different 446 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 4: option out here, and that if you actually want to 447 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 4: show people, yes, we can have an affordable city where 448 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 4: we don't lose who we are as black and brown folk, 449 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 4: then you have an option, and that's me. 450 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 2: How could you eliminate credit scores for apartments and home ownership? 451 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: Right? 452 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 2: Sounds amazing, But I think you and I both know 453 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 2: that anytime you go to fill out a loan, whether 454 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 2: it's a housing loan, a bank loan, an apartment loan, 455 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: the number one thing they check is credit score. Number 456 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: two is probably if you actually have a job and 457 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: you're pace. 458 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 6: Stuff, and sometimes for good reasoning too, just to see 459 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 6: kind of like what your payment history is like and 460 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 6: all of that stuff. Like as a like, I get 461 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 6: did you answer the question first in and out come? 462 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking about it all. 463 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 5: Out go ahead. 464 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 4: Credit scores is a recent thing that started in nineteen 465 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 4: eighty nine. This is not something that was like back 466 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 4: in the day, we had many ways to assess how 467 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 4: someone was able to pay their rent and their mortgage. 468 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 4: The notion that a credit score, which could be impacted 469 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 4: because you missed a phone bill a credit card bill 470 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 4: twenty years ago, is more important than are you paying 471 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 4: your rent consistently? 472 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 3: Well, I agree with you. 473 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: Doesn't make any one bad month and then. 474 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 3: Anything one bad month somebody steals your eyes. 475 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 2: Anything happened one bad month and your credits down in 476 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 2: the drain, and I think that's yes. 477 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 4: And the reality is I might actually go back to 478 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 4: twenty earlier questions. This is one of the things that 479 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 4: Eric has done well that needs to be expand upon. 480 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 4: We're not assessing these credit scores on some of these 481 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 4: HPD units right now in New York City, So it's 482 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 4: not an argument that we can't do it. 483 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: It's a choice. 484 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 4: So you know, transparently, I'm on the board of Ready Life, 485 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 4: which is where this is why I learned about it, 486 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 4: cheered by doctor Bertnanese King led by Ashley Bell, where 487 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 4: it was like, okay, let's use some common sense. What 488 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 4: is the best way to determine if you can pay 489 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 4: your rent on mortgage on time? Have you paid your 490 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 4: rent mortgage on time? That's more important than did I 491 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 4: do something? So to me, if we actually want to 492 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 4: help more people have a chance, eliminate that completely across 493 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 4: the board and then assess, okay, how do I help you? 494 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: But then the second pieces you have to do. 495 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 4: We got to increase the income limits on these housing 496 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 4: applications because what's happening right now is you either have 497 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 4: to be really rich or poor enough to get access 498 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 4: to a home and people getting boxed out. The reason 499 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 4: why so many people are leaving the city because housing 500 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 4: and childcare. So to me, if there's anything that someone's 501 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 4: trying to think through, what is the main policy I 502 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 4: want to make happen and credit card is when it 503 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 4: comes to housing applications. 504 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: Expand that out. 505 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,120 Speaker 4: You do that which we know we can do because 506 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 4: the city is doing it to a limited degree. Increase 507 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 4: the income limits, do that, and then have a local 508 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 4: media income that out the gate changes the game. And 509 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 4: each of those three are happening in other places. The 510 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 4: only reason why we're not doing it right now is 511 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 4: lack of leadership. And if you're asking someone, yo, right now, 512 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 4: I'm struggling to pay these bills. I'm trying to figure 513 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 4: out how to make this all happen. But my life 514 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 4: is going to be impacted by something I forgot to 515 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 4: pay twenty years ago. 516 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 517 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 2: Or it could be something as small as hey, my 518 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: mother got sick and I had to use my money 519 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 2: for rent to help to help someone catch up next month. 520 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 3: Happens all the time, all the. 521 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 4: Time, Like you know what, hey, landlord, yo, I don't 522 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 4: have you on the first I got you a little 523 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 4: bit later because I do X, Y and Z. And 524 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 4: the the other thing about credit score is that people 525 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 4: think through is like you have different agencies creating different numbers. 526 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 4: So again that's just not fair and how this all works. 527 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 4: And I want to show people if we're serious about 528 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 4: having housing, which I do think, we got to build 529 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 4: about six hundred thousand units at least current numbers say 530 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 4: it's about five forty just to hit the current apply demand. 531 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 4: But for you to build the housing, you then got 532 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 4: to make sure people that actually could afford it when 533 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 4: they get there. 534 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 5: That was gonna be my question to you. 535 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 6: And that's so I said for sometimes good reason only 536 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 6: because I'm thinking, like, all right, so you say we'll 537 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 6: make it where these people can afford it, we'll give 538 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 6: them better money, better income, right, so they're able to 539 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 6: pay their bills and the credit raises, and then we'll 540 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 6: have better more housing for them. But a lot of 541 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 6: times it feels like politicians will say things like that, 542 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 6: but you can't do everything at once. So maybe you 543 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 6: create more jobs for people with better pay rate, but 544 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 6: then that middle point where they can't get they they're 545 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 6: not making enough money for certain places, but they're not 546 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 6: broken enough to get into or the income isn't low enough. 547 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: To get into stay there. 548 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so you get what I'm saying, Like, you're 549 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 6: in this place where it's like I might be making 550 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 6: more money, but I still don't qualify for these margins 551 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 6: of like three or five times the rent. 552 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 5: So I'm still struggling. 553 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 6: So it's kind of like as a landlord, you're looking 554 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 6: at it like, well, I just got to do the 555 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 6: best I can do by determining who I can let 556 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 6: in here. So it's like we always called in this 557 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 6: like circle of things, how do you know for a 558 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 6: fact that you can do both at the same time 559 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 6: if you get an office. 560 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 4: Well, first, I'm Jamaican, so I'm used to three jobs, right, 561 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 4: so so we regularly make it happen. Second, I'm not 562 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 4: a normal politician. I've actually made things happen. I run 563 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 4: small businesses right now. I helped get Barack Obama elected. 564 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 4: I served in the White House. I saw how to 565 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 4: make these things done, get these things done. And when 566 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 4: I was in the Assembly, every single year and I'm 567 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 4: gonna come back to the housing piece, but I think 568 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 4: context is the point. Every single year we did something 569 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 4: major that they said couldn't get done. My brothers keep 570 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 4: a program knowing the state in the country has that 571 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 4: they're black and brown boys right now going to school 572 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 4: and graduating school that did not have fun. 573 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: That we made that happen. 574 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 4: Prompt paid bills so that businesses get paid in fifteen days, 575 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 4: stayd of thirty days, bipartisan bill. 576 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: They said they couldn't make that happen. Raise the age leaf. 577 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 4: Broda was our constituent New York and enough Online our 578 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 4: last two states for sixteen seventeen years. We tried as adults. 579 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 4: We changed that when they say that couldn't happen. So 580 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 4: to the question of how we know right now that 581 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,239 Speaker 4: there are easy fixes that would help people be able 582 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 4: to stay in their homes and for all the black folk, 583 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 4: brown folk, low income folk who are leaving New York 584 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 4: City because of housing, fundamentally raising the income limits on 585 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 4: these applications, which would be a huge help for our 586 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 4: seniors as well, huge help for those that are disabled as well, 587 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 4: so that it is actually proportional to your neighborhood, then 588 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 4: you actually give someone a chance. The wilder thing is 589 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 4: actually I'm going back and forth on the Eric good 590 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 4: bad right. We voted on true costs of living, so 591 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 4: we can actually understand what are the costs by your neighborhood. 592 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 4: He hasn't implemented it. The reason why that's important is 593 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 4: that you can understand not just housing costs, but groceries, 594 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 4: you know, transportation, education, because if you know all of that, 595 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 4: then what we put in these applications is proportional to 596 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 4: that number. What's going on in the South Bronx is 597 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 4: not the same as South Short Staten Island. What's going 598 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 4: on in Central Brooklyn, it's not the same as Southeast Queens. 599 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 4: What's going on in East Harlem's not the same thing 600 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 4: on what's going on Upper west Side. And so we 601 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 4: should base it upon that. And to do that you 602 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 4: need someone who's actually talking about it, and I'm the 603 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 4: only one that's talking about that in that very real 604 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 4: way and talking through how you make this happen. These 605 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 4: are policy changes through legislation, this is administration changes through leadership, 606 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 4: and then this is fun the changes in the budget. 607 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: Full stop. 608 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 3: What's your relationship with President Barack Obama? 609 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 4: Now still my dude, you know, he's consider man consistently 610 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 4: be un blessed to me. 611 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 2: What's been in his advice when he knows that you're 612 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 2: running for this because he's faced some of the things 613 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 2: that you face it now that he was far behind 614 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 2: at one time, What is his opinion to you. 615 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 4: Be very clear about why you're running and giving people 616 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 4: choice in contrast. Right, you know that you can't just 617 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 4: talk through big ideas. You got to make it clear 618 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 4: to folks that there's a difference. Right when we were 619 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 4: in Iowa thinking about this here and we were in Iowa, 620 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 4: there was a point where he was down like thirty. 621 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 4: He flew in, got everybody together and he told this 622 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 4: story about how he was at the Saint Patrig's DA 623 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 4: Parade run for US Senate and he was the last 624 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 4: entry in the parade. And so what that meant was 625 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 4: that everybody was saying Barack husain Osama saying wow things. 626 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 4: And you know they were a little drunk, so people 627 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 4: saying wow things. A year later Saint Parade, he was 628 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 4: the Grand Marshal and he was like, if you put 629 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 4: in that work and you make a clear round choice 630 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 4: and contrast, then people will remember. And I always took 631 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 4: that and he stays with that. It's like when people 632 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 4: voted for him, he said, I'm going to end the war. 633 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you health care. Make it real clear 634 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 4: on your big ideas, then everyone can rock from that. 635 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 4: And that's why I'm being consistent. Same way when I 636 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 4: talk through credit scores, we talked through a thousand mental 637 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 4: health professionals. We talked through civics, because when you have 638 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 4: so many people in the race, if you don't give 639 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 4: people that clear choice, then the easy thing is just 640 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 4: pick a name you've seen before, right, And he stays 641 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 4: with me. I mean the screensaver that I have is 642 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 4: when we brought him to the Bronx. We launched my 643 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 4: brother's keeping lines in the Bronx, and he would joke 644 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 4: with me. He was trying to get me a shout out. 645 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 4: I was trying to be cool. He said, Yo, the 646 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 4: President says, your name is stand up, get TV time. 647 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 4: He still is in that same zone of follow the vision, 648 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 4: make it clear, but make it clear about choice and contrast. 649 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,239 Speaker 4: And he's also shown us and tell him me like, 650 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 4: be that messenger. 651 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: You know. 652 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 4: I don't know if we brought the signs, but there 653 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 4: was a time when we were in the White House 654 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 4: for a legislative event. 655 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: Wrap him up. 656 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 4: He's about to walk by and he tells people like, 657 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 4: we would not be here without Michael Blake, and I'm 658 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 4: forever grateful of what he did for me, and I'm 659 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 4: gonna take that kind of energy. 660 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 5: He's also I mean, everybody likes to criticize Obama too. 661 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: At the same time, who's everybody? 662 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 6: There are people criticize There's a lot of people that 663 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 6: criticize Obama, but I mean not me personally, But I'm 664 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 6: saying that we hear the criticism. So I'm asking you, 665 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 6: is there things that he says, you know, just as 666 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 6: a mentor almost that I would advise you not like 667 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 6: something he learned, that he would advise you to approach 668 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 6: differently or not to do while on your run. 669 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 4: I mean, look, at the end of the day, you 670 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 4: have to stay true to the numbers and how you 671 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 4: organize right, And it's it's easy to get distracted by 672 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 4: noise and that could take you off your plan, and 673 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 4: and that kind of to your point, You're gonna hear 674 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,479 Speaker 4: a lot of folks who are just like, yo, why 675 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 4: are you doing this right? Why are you doing this? 676 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 4: Two three weeks ago a people saying why why are 677 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 4: you even out here doing these things? And and by 678 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 4: the end of that night and the next day, pretty 679 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 4: much every publication said I. 680 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 5: Wanted to debate, oh when you came in Cuomo. 681 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 4: Right, So it's like you gotta stay locked in even 682 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 4: in the midst of the noise. 683 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 6: A lot of times with politicians, I feel like they 684 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 6: don't speak straight to things, especially like Democrats. 685 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 5: But so I learned about you or found out who 686 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 5: you were. 687 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 6: Or I guess maybe you start paying attention more when 688 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 6: the Cuomo thing happened, because I like, even though. 689 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 5: Not to be messy, but I just like you were. 690 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 6: You said what you meant you said to him, the 691 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 6: people who don't feel safe are young women, mothers and 692 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 6: grandmothers around Andrew Cuomo, right, and you said that straight shoot, 693 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 6: straight shooter. Do you plan to still be that way 694 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 6: as a mayor because a lot of times once people 695 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 6: are elected, they have to like step back and filter 696 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 6: what they say. 697 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 4: And nah, I'm this is who I am all day, 698 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 4: every day, right, whether it be in the family, you know, 699 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 4: whether it be on the block. Yeah, you can grow 700 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 4: up on Creston and Burnside and then go back on 701 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 4: these kind of things. And I would say that whether 702 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 4: it be on a debate or if I'm just talking 703 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 4: to people at the restaurant. And I think one of 704 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 4: the reasons why we've been successful in office is that 705 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 4: people see that I'm consistent in what I'm doing. That's 706 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 4: what folks can't stand about politics right now. They feel like, 707 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 4: yo ya, to your point, you just say something, you 708 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 4: just kind of keep it moving, and you're not real 709 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 4: about that. And it is easier to be consistent in 710 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 4: who you are than try to move around and shift 711 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 4: by neighborhood. 712 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: That's just not how I get down. 713 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 4: And that's why I say to people, give me the 714 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 4: chance right now, tell folks number two in most of 715 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 4: these polls, if it's not Zoron is undecided, right, you 716 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 4: got a lot of times to still make a decision. 717 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 4: And it feels like a lot of people are still 718 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 4: trying to understand, well, who can I rock with in 719 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 4: this moment, And I'm trying to show you you got 720 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 4: a choice. 721 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 2: Should undocumented immigrants be allowed to vote in local New 722 00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 2: York City elections? 723 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 4: Uh, potentially for municipal ones itself. We've got to figure 724 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 4: out how this all gets incorporated collectively itself, right to 725 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 4: that degree, because there's a it's a fascinating piece, right 726 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 4: because a Green card holder is able to contribute to 727 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 4: campaigns right in New York City. So it's just like 728 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 4: we've got to figure out a way to make an 729 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 4: equal balance across the board. 730 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 3: Should Right Island be closed? 731 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: Has to be closed? Why? 732 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 4: It's an inhuman place. It's the second largest mental health 733 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 4: facility in the country, only La County being larger. You've 734 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 4: got to find more ways. And most people there haven't 735 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 4: even been convicted any They just waiting, right, And so 736 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 4: if we actually reduce the population so that more people 737 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 4: can actually be closer to their homes while they're waiting, 738 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 4: and you can actually help the people who have the 739 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 4: mental health concerns, then you can take the real steps 740 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 4: of getting into the space where you can build burrow 741 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 4: based jails, which is what we actually need. Burrow based 742 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 4: jails makes much more sense than just sending people off 743 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 4: to rikers to sit there. 744 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 2: Okay, well, get out there and vote for the last thing. 745 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 2: Tell people why they should vote for Michael Blake. 746 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 4: Michael Blake is the only candidate saying the truth around 747 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 4: and then credit scores for housing applications. Michael Blake's the 748 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 4: only one that is out here saying that we need 749 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 4: a thousand mental health professionals instead of NYPD. Michael Blake's 750 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 4: the only one that's saying civic, financial literacy and mental 751 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 4: health for these kids. I'm the only one that was 752 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 4: that truth teller on that stage, not afraid of Trump, 753 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 4: not afraid of Cromo, not afraid of the noise. If 754 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 4: you want someone who has the ability to change the 755 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 4: game at all levels, and you want the handsome Jamaican 756 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 4: who actually comes from the Bronx right now, right, who 757 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 4: can talk about hip hop and talk about housing at 758 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 4: the same time, I want to be your first choice. 759 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 4: And if I'm not your first choice, I want to 760 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 4: be your second choice. But most importantly I want to 761 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 4: be on your ballot. That's why Michael Blake should be 762 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 4: your mayor. 763 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 3: All Right, well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, 764 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 3: Michael Blake. Do your research. And if they want to 765 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 3: donate to your campaign, how can they do that? 766 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 4: Oh man, much love on that to the website Blake 767 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 4: fo R NYC dot com Blake for NYC dot com. 768 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 4: You can sign up to donate, you can sign up 769 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 4: to volunteer. We have offices all across the city. Our 770 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 4: headquarters in the Bronx at one BRUCKN the boulevard, but 771 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 4: we have satellite offices on five boroughs. And just again 772 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 4: remind and remember everybody, fill out the ballot. Don't just 773 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 4: rank me first. Fill out all five spots of your 774 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 4: five choices. That makes it a point that your candid 775 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 4: is gonna win. 776 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 5: Tell them don't message your donation money because you'll follow lawsuit. 777 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, let me tell you something. I'm man. People play games, 778 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 4: play games, and you know and find out and find. 779 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 5: Out you have play super games, win superprises that. 780 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,439 Speaker 3: It's Michael Blake. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, good luck. 781 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.