Jon Stewart

If they wanted chicken and rice, there would only be one place.

Resisting that.

What about those who worry about feasibility?

Who say, and this is another thing, because not just there's a character presented, but we've also lived through decades of people who promised

idealism who promised a lot of things and didn't either run the city well or be able to deliver on that and those are not easy things to deliver you know i'll give you an example you were talking about a couple of taxes that you wanted to raise it was a millionaire's tax and i think one other protects uh kathy hokel last night and you were talking about that and uh uh kathy hokel is on stage and she goes

We'll see.

You know what?

And I just thought, like, she couldn't even... She was, like, in the middle of it.

She was like, I'm gonna fight that.

Okay.

How are you gonna deal with the reality when it meets... rubber meets the road when you get in there?

You know, we have seen that that reality is, in many ways, a result of the political coalition that you build.

Right.

The coalition you build can change that reality.

We changed it from October to now of last year.

These, these,

These are things that are not just broadly popular.

They also have precedents.

And most importantly, though, you're not looking to do them in and of themselves.

You're looking to do them to fund an affordability agenda that would transform quality of life for every New Yorker.