Qasim Rashid
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1,282 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 7 Aug
Qasim Rashid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I love his strategy on the policing.
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He wants to invest in public safety with a very logical solution.
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Let's say, let's have law enforcement respond to the violent crimes.
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That's what they're trained to do.
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But for the 93% of times they get a call for a mental health issue or suicide prevention or a drug addiction issue or somebody suffering from bullying, let's send a mental health professional.
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The city of Denver did this.
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They had a program where they deployed mental health professionals for nonviolent calls, more than 700 deployments, not a single person arrested, several people admitted to the hospital, and it saved the city absurd amounts of money.
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There's no reason we can't do that same thing in New York City as well.
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Yeah, with the many.
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The many people over the money that was invested.
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Ah, got it.
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Many over the money.
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You know, Bill Ackman, other billionaires were investing heavily into Andrew Cuomo's campaign.
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And to my understanding, Mamdani capped out at the $8 million that you're allowed to raise directly to 20,000 particular small-dollar donors.
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And he raised not just the money from small-dollar donations, but he created the largest grassroots volunteer network in New York City history, more than 50,000 volunteers going door to door.
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knocking on people's doors, getting them activated.
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25%, Don, were first-time voters.
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50% increase over the last primary election.
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So he activated a new base of people.
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Earlier, you and I were talking about folks who decided to stay home or folks that thought their vote didn't matter.
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