Governor Hochul: “We have a lot on our plate. We also want to make sure that we continue to restore trust in government, let people know that we believe that integrity is everything. They were going to continue to lead in a way that people will hopefully look back on and say that it was a shining time in our state’s history. But I can’t do it alone. I need someone at my side. Someone who also I rely upon for their wisdom and their guidance and their local knowledge of issues of what’s going on in the public housing in the city and how we can do much better for the people who call those sometimes hellacious environments their home, and what we’re going to do to protect our environment and fight climate change, because we’ve seen what it looks like. It is no longer an abstract theory into the future. It is what happened in the streets of Queens, where I held the hands of people who are absolutely devastated and crying for help. We have seen we have to do so much more there.”
Hochul: “I’ve found a person who knows what it’s like to struggle, to work hard, to make something of his life, and to now return his service to the community. That is, my friends, the American dream, how someone who started out with little rose to where he is today, but now turns back and doesn’t think about himself. He thinks about how he can serve not just his Senatorial district, but now he’ll be helping me serve 20 million New Yorkers. It’s an extraordinary responsibility. I wouldn’t have asked you if I didn’t think you’re up for the task. And I know you are.”
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