REMARKS
Council member Paladino defends Rudy Giuliani and criticizes current city conditions
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Council member Vickie Paladino opens her remarks by defending Rudy Giuliani's tenure as mayor and criticizing those who attack his legacy. She highlights the differences between New York City in the 1990s and the present day, emphasizing the challenges the city currently faces.
- Paladino asserts that many critics weren't alive or were very young during Giuliani's administration
- She contrasts the city's budget in the 1990s (around $25 billion) with the current budget (over $100 billion)
- Paladino characterizes the present-day city as having "no laws, no rules"
Vickie Paladino
7:53:19
Good evening.
7:53:20
Can't say good afternoon anymore, can we?
7:53:23
Can't say good morning.
7:53:24
Can't say good afternoon, but we'll say good evening.
7:53:28
I will let me start off by saying this.
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Never be afraid or embarrassed that you war chief of staff to one of the best mayors this city has ever seen in Rudolph Giuliani.
7:53:43
This body here today has done everything they possibly could to tear him to shreds because that's what they do.
7:53:52
See, half of the people who are now gone because they can't sit here, weren't even born in 1993 or 1994.
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So they have no real remembrance of what that was like to live back in those days.
7:54:09
We are now in 2024 where we in exist in a city of no laws, no rules.
7:54:18
Welcome to the city council.
7:54:21
You have been put through the ring of Mister Mastro, and I am a I am very sorry for that.
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You have got a reputate reputation that precedes itself, and yet you sat through absolute and sometimes very ignorant, ignorant questions from people who were seven years old, ten years old, twelve years old.
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You live through when the World Trade Centers were bombed.
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We talked about people dying.
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My brother was one of those people who died during a related illness to 911.
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He lived down there.
7:55:00
We're talking about kids in school.
7:55:03
Well, kids in school in 1994, 1993, would they keep wanting to talk to you about?
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Things were very different.
7:55:12
How much was the city budget?
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Was it a 102,000,000,000 or a 126,000,000,000 that it is today?
7:55:19
No.
7:55:20
It was somewhere around 20 or 13,000,000,000, something like that.
Randy Mastro
7:55:24
Maybe maybe 25.
Vickie Paladino
7:55:25
Maybe 25,000,000.
7:55:27
Give it take what's a billion here or there.
7:55:29
Okay?