NYC Mayor Adams makes argument for hiring Bernard Adams, Phil Banks: ‘I had the audacity to hire blue-collar people’

“But I had the audacity to hire blue-collar people, everyday folks who are union members, retired members — it’s like, ‘Who you think you are putting these blue-collar rookies, these everyday people who came here to this country, eked out a living, went to school at night, you know, who do you think you are thinking you could do that?’”