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REMARKS
Speaker Menin acknowledges honored guests, labor partners, and family
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Speaker Julie Menin recognizes the diverse group of leaders and supporters present for her election, including former Speakers, city and state officials, and labor representatives.
- She acknowledges former Speakers Adrienne Adams, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Gifford Miller, and Corey Johnson
- She recognizes high-ranking officials including Attorney General Tish James, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and Comptroller Mark Levine
- She thanks prominent labor leaders from HTC, 32BJ, DC 37, UFT, AFT, and RWDSU
- She offers special thanks to her family and the colleagues who ran alongside her in the Speaker's race
Julie Menin
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Now we have a lot of honored guests here today, so please bear with me because I really we have a lot of people that we want to thank.
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So first of all, I wanna thank the former speakers of the city council, Adrian
Althea V. Stevens
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Adams,
Julie Menin
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Melissa Mark Biverito, Gifford Miller, Corey Johnson.
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Thank you so much for your leadership.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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And we've also, of course, been joined by our great New York State attorney general, Tish James.
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Our New York City public advocate, Jaimani Williams.
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Thank you for being here.
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Our new controller, Mark Levine.
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From the administration, I'm so happy he could join us today.
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Someone I've worked with for literally over twenty years, and that's first deputy mayor, Dean Fulham.
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Dean, thank you so much.
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And I believe we were joined by director of intergovernmental affairs, Jamila Edwards.
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And from governor Hochul's office, Debbie Lewis, assistant secretary of intergovernmental affairs.
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Thank you so much for being with us.
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We have been joined by Bronx Borough President, Vanessa Gebson.
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Is she still here?
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I think she was here before.
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Okay.
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Borough president, Antonio Reynoso.
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He was here.
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He just left, I think.
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Manhattan Borough president Brad Hoyland Siegel.
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He is here.
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Former Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz junior, New York state senator Sam Sutton.
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And we've been joined by Brooklyn County Democratic chairwoman, New York state assembly member, Ragnes Bashad Hermelin.
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So many other people I'm gonna recognize, I really want to first of all thank our incredible friends in labor, many of whom are here today.
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So first of all, a great friend and partner, president of HTC, Rich Morocco.
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Another great friend and partner, president of thirty two BJ, Manny Pastridge.
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I believe we are joined by Henry Guerito, executive director of DC thirty seven.
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He'll be here.
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Okay.
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And the president of the U of T, Michael Mulgrew was here.
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He had to leave, but we so appreciate that he joined us today.
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And we have the president of the AFT, Randy Weingarten.
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We've got president of RWDSU, my constituent, Stuart Appelbaum.
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And from the central labor council, the president Brandon Griffith, and we've also been joined by the district council of carpenters.
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So let me take a moment to thank a few individuals who could not be here today, but I wanna extend them very special thanks.
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With both Washington and Albany in session, I wanna give a special shout out to Queens County Democratic Chairman congress member Greg Meats who's in DC right now, and who is represented by Frank Bowles, counsel to the Queens Democratic party, and Bronx County Democratic chairman state senator Jamal Bailey who's up in Albany, but he's been represented here by Ariana Colano, executive director of Bronx Democratic Party.
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And I'm so proud we could join by a few former city council members, Keith Powers, Danny Drum, Mark Traeger, Mark Wepprin, and former bar president Ruben Bronx bar president Ruben Diaz junior.
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And we've also been joined by former congress member Carolyn Maloney.
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Okay.
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So I wanna also thank my colleagues who ran for speaker, who ran such incredible campaigns based on integrity, based on substance, based on principle.
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Crystal Hudson, thank you so much for everything that you did.
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Selvina Brooks Powers, Amanda Farias, Chris Marte, and Carmen de la Rosa.
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So thank you.
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I really look forward to working with all of you.
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Now the most important thank you is to my amazing family.
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Thank you to my incredible husband, Bruce, for all of your love and support.
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My daughter, Maddie.
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Yay, Maddie.
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And my sons, Mason, Lucas, and Max.
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Thank you so much for everything.