Horse-drawn carriage drivers call on Mamdani to veto the controversial bill

Please, if you can just consider vetoing the bill. And just let's rewrite another bill that's going to make everyone not feel the heartache, the pain, that there's so much pain behind this bill. And it's fueled by night class animal rights propaganda. This bill has been floating around for years and never went anywhere. So why is it going somewhere now? This is not a humane bill for the humans of New York City that devoted their lives into this business. My father comes from Sicily. He's an immigrant. I followed his footsteps. And I can't believe this is happening. Mayor, I know it's in your hands, and God please, Mayor McDermott, please do the right thing by us. Thank you. This bill calls to take everything that I own, that I have worked hard for, away from me. I came to this country 40 years ago without a penny in my pocket, and I have worked damn hard. And now you, you are never going to do this. I know in your heart you cannot do this to me or to my colleagues to take away everything we own from us, even though we did nothing wrong. I reared my family here. I did everything I was asked to do. And this is the end result. If you told me the day I came here that the government would take everything I own off me, I would say it could never happen in America.