Wait, So Why is the NYC Mayor Comparing City Workers to Rats?

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By Kevin DugganNov 6, 2023, 12:00 am335 pts
So, let’s get this straight: why was the mayor comparing city workers to rats from a sadistic, long-discredited experiment? In his bizarre pep talk to Department of Transportation workers on Wednesday, when Mayor Adams likened them to rats who survived a drowning experiment, Hizzoner was citing a decades-old…

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