00:15Thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:23You're taking my time, you're taking my time.
00:29First, let me, let me, let me, I love you too.
00:35I love you too.
00:37Let me acknowledge part of my special campaign team.
00:41We have from the right, Pella Flunderval,
00:44the new son-in-law, husband of Mariah.
00:48We have Mariah, Cara, Michaela.
00:54I want to thank our campaign chairman, Bill Monroe,
01:00our great campaign manager, Greg Goldner.
01:04I want to thank Mayor Adams, who stepped out of the race to make us more competitive.
01:14And that was a very gracious thing to do.
01:17I want to thank Mayor Bloomberg, who gave us his support.
01:21Governor David Patterson, all the unions.
01:25And I am blessed, I am blessed to have the people in this room.
01:33You have been a phenomenal team.
01:37Great friends.
01:38You are superstars.
01:41Even more, you are New York patriots.
01:44And I am proud of you.
01:46This campaign, this campaign was the right fight to wage.
01:58And I am proud of what we did and what we did together.
02:03This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic Party,
02:12the future of this city, and the future of this country.
02:22And this coalition transcended normal partisan politics.
02:27It brought together Democrats and Republicans and Independents,
02:32joined by the simple fact that their first allegiance is as citizens of New York City.
02:46Two million voters, the largest number in modern political history,
02:52political history cared enough to show up in a municipal election.
02:58And 42% voted for us on an independent line.
03:09That is the highest percentage in modern history.
03:14Ironically, it is just higher than when Mario Cuomo got 40% on an independent line
03:27against Ed Koch in 1977.
03:33It is also important to note that almost half of New Yorkers
03:39did not vote to support a government agenda that makes promises that we know cannot be met.
03:50We support an economy of jobs, of opportunity, of entrepreneurship.
03:56That's what New York is.
03:59And that's what New York must remain.
04:04We are a nation of laws.
04:06And we believe in law and order.
04:09And we need the police to keep society safe.
04:17We will not make the NYPD the enemy.
04:25We cherish, we cherish our diversity.
04:28And we have no tolerance for discrimination of any kind by race, religion, sexual orientation, or creed.
04:38And we will not tolerate any behavior that fans the flames of anti-Semitism or diverse attacks.
04:47Our strength, our strength is our unity.
04:58Black, white, brown, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist.
05:02We are one.
05:04We are the family of New York.
05:06We believe in interconnection and mutuality and co-dependence.
05:10And you attack one of us, you attack all of us.
05:15That is what it means to be a New Yorker.
05:18No one and nothing will ever divide us.
05:26And this campaign was necessary to make that point.
05:31A caution flag that we are heading down a dangerous, dangerous road.
05:42Well, we made that point.
05:44And they heard us.
05:46And we will hold them to it.
05:49Also, my friends, feel proud.
05:57Because we accomplished the two important New York characteristics.
06:03We got up off the mat after the primary.
06:07And we made it a real race when the media had already commenced a coronation.
06:13And feel proud because we fought our hearts out and we left it all on the field.
06:31Congratulations to Zoran Mandami.
06:35No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that is, no, that is not right.
06:47That is, hey, that is not right.
06:50And that is not us.
06:52That is not us.
06:54Tonight was their night.
06:56And as they start to transition to government,
07:00we will all help any way we can because we need our New York City government to work.
07:08We want it to work for all New Yorkers because our city is the greatest city in the world.
07:16And we will unite for New York City because we love New York City.
07:22And from the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every one of you.
07:27I love you for the fight you made, for the soul that you showed, and the example that you set.
07:38New York City heard us.
07:41And we will be the better for it.
07:43Thank you and God bless you.
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