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DONKEY: Critics Blast Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Transition Team · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: He mother e f and Hall Donkey of to day
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  Speaker 2: for Tuesday, December ninth, goes to all these critics of
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mundanie's transition team.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Heard, Zoran Mundani, the mayor elect of New York City,
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  Speaker 2: has been putting together his transition team. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: what is a mayor elects transition team? A mayor's transition
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  Speaker 2: team is a group of trusted advisors, experts, community leaders
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  Speaker 2: assembled by a mayor elect between their election victory and
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  Speaker 2: inauguration to prepare for governing. All right, they helped to
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  Speaker 2: select key staff, and they helped to develop policy priorities.
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  Speaker 2: Two people that Zoran has selected our two individuals I
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  Speaker 2: support had the okay. One is our fearless leader, the
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  Speaker 2: good sister to Mika Mallory dropping the clues boonds for
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  Speaker 2: to Meka Mallory. The other is the good brother Masan
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  Speaker 2: dropping the clues bombs from my son. Okay, I know
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  Speaker 2: Mysians since like old stick to Old seven whenever he
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  Speaker 2: first came home. Full disclosure. Not only are those my people,
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  Speaker 2: I do business with both of them, Okay, My Imprint
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  Speaker 2: Black Privileged Publishing published both to me because books State
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  Speaker 2: of Emergency, How to Win in the Country We Built
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  Speaker 2: and her memoir I Live to Tell the story Great
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  Speaker 2: stocking stuff was. By the way, my Imprint Black Privileged
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  Speaker 2: Publishing publishers their podcasts as well TMI. So in case
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know, now you know now. Both of them
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  Speaker 2: have been named to Zoran Mundonnie's transition team. Excellent choices
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  Speaker 2: if you ask me, you know why they are excellent
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  Speaker 2: choices because they are true public servants, okay, who don't
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  Speaker 2: give a damn about politics.
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  Speaker 1: They care about the people.
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  Speaker 2: They actually do the thankless work of activism, dropping the
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  Speaker 2: clues bombs for their organization until freedom. And we all
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  Speaker 2: know activism comes with great risk in very little rewards.
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  Speaker 1: So when I saw Zoran add them to.
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  Speaker 2: His transition team, I said, oh good, Okay, he's got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of people that are that are going to
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  Speaker 2: hold him accountable. And I knew they were great picks
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  Speaker 2: when I saw the attacks.
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  Speaker 1: Come for both of them mmediately. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The headlines for Tamika where Mundani transition team includes Women's
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  Speaker 2: March leader embroiled and anti Semitism scandal. Fox News headline
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  Speaker 2: was Mundani taps disgraced activists who said one day we
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  Speaker 2: can abolish police the Key Public Safety Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Both of those headlines were about t Meeka Mallory.
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  Speaker 2: Just because you are against the killing of innocent kids
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  Speaker 2: and guys in Palestine doesn't make you anti Semitic. And
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  Speaker 2: just because you believe you should reallocate funds from police
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  Speaker 2: budgets the community based services like mental health, housing, education,
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  Speaker 2: violence prevention, because you want to address the root causes
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  Speaker 2: of crime. That don't mean you want to abolish police.
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  Speaker 2: You just want to reduce reliance on policing for social issues, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And you're promoting public safety through community well being rather
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  Speaker 2: than punishment. You ask me, that's the perfect person to
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  Speaker 2: have on your public say the committee. Okay, now the
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  Speaker 2: good brother my song. The ny Post ran a headline
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  Speaker 2: that said, Zoran Mundani taps ex con rapper who served
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  Speaker 2: seven years for armed robbery as criminal justice advisor on
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  Speaker 2: transition team.
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  Speaker 3: And I just saw on the front page of the
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  Speaker 3: New York Post to Day the front freaking page. They
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  Speaker 3: have a picture of my soon with the headline Crime
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  Speaker 3: Boss Mondnnie appoints rapper who served seven years for armed
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  Speaker 3: robbery as justice advisor.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. My song was convicted in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, he was like nineteen or twenty maybe twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: who served seven years for armed robbery as criminal justice
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  Speaker 2: advisor on transition team.
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  Speaker 1: Where do we begin? Number one?
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  Speaker 2: My song was convicted in nineteen ninety nine. Okay, he
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  Speaker 2: was like nineteen or twenty maybe twenty one. He was
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  Speaker 2: sentenced to seven to fourteen years, came home on parole
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and six, and.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a model citizen ever since. He's a community
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  Speaker 1: act this Okay. He spends years.
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  Speaker 2: He spent years volunteering as a violence interrupt He has
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  Speaker 2: an organization called Raising Kings, a nonprofit group that teaches
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  Speaker 2: classes the inmates.
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  Speaker 1: At Rikers Island. Okay. Benny Bosio I think his name is.
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  Speaker 2: He's the president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association said
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  Speaker 2: it is both disheartening and deeply disturbing that individuals who
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  Speaker 2: are convicted felons and have a history of breaking the
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  Speaker 2: law are being given the opportunity to help shape the
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  Speaker 2: future of New York's criminal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, Bennie, are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: You are corrections officer who doesn't believe in people who
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  Speaker 2: have been corrected. Masan has first hand lived experience with
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  Speaker 2: the system.
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  Speaker 1: He understands communities that.
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  Speaker 2: Have been disproportionately affected by over policing, mass and consceration.
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  Speaker 1: He walked the walk and he survived it. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you should have.
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  Speaker 2: Want a symbol of a more restorative, human centered model,
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  Speaker 2: not just this tough on crime system that we've been using.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he has a redemptive story. Isn't that what we want? Ours?
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  Speaker 1: Redemption only for everybody but black men.
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  Speaker 2: They always want to reduce us to our worst moments,
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  Speaker 2: and they never want to acknowledge our growth. My son
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  Speaker 2: can reach people that Zoran or no other politician can,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what they don't want. That's what they are
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  Speaker 2: afraid of. They don't want more stories like my son.
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  Speaker 2: They want black men in prison forever. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: no redemption for us. And that's why I love Mundannie's
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  Speaker 2: choices because he picked someone in people.
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  Speaker 1: But in the case of my son.
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  Speaker 2: He's picked someone who has lived through incarceration and now
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  Speaker 2: advocates for reform.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to all these critics.
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  Speaker 2: You know you say you want criminal justice reform and
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  Speaker 2: then get mad when somebody who's actually been through the
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  Speaker 2: damn system gets a seat at the table. What grop
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  Speaker 2: ain't always pretty and expertise don't always come in a suit.
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  Speaker 1: Zorn picks someone with a pass.
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  Speaker 2: To lead us into the future, and I, for one, loved,
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  Speaker 2: please give all these critics Zoran Mndnnie's transition team the
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  Speaker 2: biggest he Huh. I can't believe that they got mice
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  Speaker 2: on on the front of the I'm adding this to
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  Speaker 2: the end of the chat. I really can't believe that
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  Speaker 2: they got mice on the front of the New York
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  Speaker 2: Post with the headline crime boss.
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  Speaker 3: This this gotta be liable, yo, Absolutely, this man a
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  Speaker 3: crime boss.
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  Speaker 1: This man ain't been to prison. The man with the.
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  Speaker 2: Prison in nineteen ninety nine, came home on parole in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and six, has been a model citizen ever since.
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  Speaker 2: How can you put him on the front page of
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  Speaker 2: the New York Post and call him a crime boss?
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  Speaker 1: This happen to be something of defamation or something that's away,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so crazy. All the positive things he did
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  Speaker 1: in the community, all the positive things he did from
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  Speaker 1: New York City, all the positive things he's done around
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  Speaker 1: the country. Never in the paper.
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  Speaker 2: This man is And by the way, you have him
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  Speaker 2: on with another one of his initiatives, the boycott black Murder.
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  Speaker 2: His T shirt literally says boycott black murder. His hat
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  Speaker 2: says boycott black murder. That's who this man is. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how could you all like this is this is crazy?
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  Speaker 1: This is great. This gotta be liable in some way
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  Speaker 1: shape or for him. Come on, man, yeah, well, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that, donkey. He should be.
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