Speaker 1: TUXI about.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.
Speaker 3: There was a hearing on the second home tax in
Speaker 3: New York and it was at City Hall, that is
Speaker 3: where Mayor Mundani works and his TeamWorks, and somehow none
Speaker 3: of them were able to make it today, so they
Speaker 3: didn't want to come to listen to anybody, and that
Speaker 3: includes even on the Democratic side. There were a lot
Speaker 3: of folks from the Democratic side who are not happy
Speaker 3: about this rollout. Remember they listed about a million people
Speaker 3: publicly and said they could be potential folks, and then
Speaker 3: there were another seventeen thousand that got letters, but somehow
Speaker 3: they could not even make it to an event a
Speaker 3: hearing today to talk about it. They submitted a written
Speaker 3: statement and a lot of people said that is darnwright disrespectful.
Speaker 3: So I want to play a comment here. This is
Speaker 3: from Jason Haber. He is one of the folks who
Speaker 3: was at this press conference. This has cut sixty nine
Speaker 3: and he was there at the press conference saying, Mayor Mandani,
Speaker 3: where are you your team? Where are you now? In
Speaker 3: faris to Mayor Mandanti, he's actually an upstate New York.
Speaker 3: He's in Albany because he's preparing for his senate and
Speaker 3: gubernatorial bid. I'm just kidding, but he maybe who knows, right,
Speaker 3: But he's an upstate New York he's on vacation, but
Speaker 3: so he wasn't in town. But you would think he'd
Speaker 3: fly down for a meeting like this. You would think
Speaker 3: he'd send some of his staffers. No, they don't care.
Speaker 3: They're going full steam ahead. There's nothing to discuss, I guess.
Speaker 3: But here is one of the folks at the press
Speaker 3: conference who was saying the question. Everybody was wondering, where's.
Speaker 4: The mayor, where's the administration? Why did they get to
Speaker 4: phone it in? Why are we out here? And they're
Speaker 4: not going to be We'll be inside City Hall. We'll
Speaker 4: be telling them stories our clients are telling about the confusion,
Speaker 4: the chaos, and the sentence that this is created unnecessarily.
Speaker 3: And here as New York City Councilwoman in Verdikov speaking out.
Speaker 1: Naturally, ma'mam, Danny chose to dodge the Council's hearing on
Speaker 1: his administration's disastrous pete tier tax roll out. Today he
Speaker 1: was about to get slammed from both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 1: Our offices have been flooded with calls from anxious and
Speaker 1: confused constituents, raising many questions. Why were their names and
Speaker 1: addresses publicized for the world to see. Why did they
Speaker 1: receive a notice saying they may owe an additional pe
Speaker 1: tier tax when this is their primary residence. Why did
Speaker 1: this list include nine hundred thousand people when it was
Speaker 1: meant for seventeen thousand. Since the Mamdani administration never took
Speaker 1: responsibility for the box rollout or claim was an accident,
Speaker 1: we are left to wonder was this intentional? Was it
Speaker 1: his scare property owners, regardless of whether they're actually wealthy.
Speaker 1: Was it to expose them for the sin of owning
Speaker 1: a second home? Was it to shame or dox them?
Speaker 1: Was it to subject them to bad actors. New York's
Speaker 1: taxpayers deserve answers. But today Mom Donnie deliberately circumvented accountability
Speaker 1: and casually refused to provide them. He must be compelled
Speaker 1: to face New Yorkers.
Speaker 3: And there were Democrats as well, saying we are hearing
Speaker 3: from all our constituents. A lot of people are writing today,
Speaker 3: and in fact, it's interesting that there were a number
Speaker 3: of individuals who were coming out today and they were
Speaker 3: saying like the honeymoon's over. I mean, that was one
Speaker 3: of the feelings that this is sort of the icebreaker,
Speaker 3: if you will, with Mayor Mundani, and the Washington Post
Speaker 3: even saying too that so many people, even on the
Speaker 3: Democratic side, cannot believe he's still pushing for the second
Speaker 3: home tax, driving more people out of the great state
Speaker 3: of New York. And here's Claudia Tenney, of course, congress
Speaker 3: woman from the state of New York, and she had
Speaker 3: a couple of choice words for Mayor Mundani.
Speaker 2: And the problem is, when you have a big kent,
Speaker 2: you get the clowns in there. And I think the
Speaker 2: boss clown is Mandami, and he is going to be,
Speaker 2: you know, the tail wagging the dog. They cannot say
Speaker 2: no to him, including our governor, you know, who's trying
Speaker 2: to run statewide again. She cannot say no to Mandami.
Speaker 2: The money, the taxes, the energy crisis, all these things
Speaker 2: are and the Democrats are just going to let them go.
Speaker 2: And I want to make sure everybody understands this is
Speaker 2: not anyway equivalent to when the Tea Party movement was
Speaker 2: part of the Republican movement. They were actually conservatives, They
Speaker 2: believed in freedom, they believed in less taxes, they believe
Speaker 2: in and supporting our const institution. They believe in our veterans.
Speaker 2: I went to Tea Party rallies in twenty ten. In
Speaker 2: that timeframe, it was filled with veterans. It was not
Speaker 2: a group of people who are about Actually I consider
Speaker 2: them not really democrats, not really democrats, socialists. I consider
Speaker 2: them subversive because they are trying to destroy the constitution.
Speaker 2: And they say it as you just said. They say
Speaker 2: we want to destroy the constitution. We don't support it.
Speaker 2: And I think people should be very concerned because they're
Speaker 2: gaining ground, especially among certain demographics, and the Democrats, even
Speaker 2: the moderate ones who claim to be moder anyway, there's
Speaker 2: no real moderates, especially in the House representatives. They all
Speaker 2: vote left. But the ones who claim to be moderate
Speaker 2: are not actually standing up to them. Very few, yeah.
Speaker 3: Very few are standing up to them. And again tonight
Speaker 3: I am happy to hear that at least two of
Speaker 3: them lost in Florida.