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Jeanine Driscoll | Candidate for Congress | 05-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The television and Fox News on just now, somebody helped
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  Speaker 1: dang Riscal. Please, I'm begging you. Come on, guys, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching Trump standing on stage with Mark Cuban and
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  Speaker 1: what was a very uncomfortable and awkward situation. Cuban has
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  Speaker 1: decided to try to help the president, who doesn't like
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  Speaker 1: He's been very honest how much doesn't like President Trump
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  Speaker 1: over the years. But I guess the drugs, the Trump
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  Speaker 1: RX making drugs available at lower prices. Mark Cuban is
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  Speaker 1: all for that. So Cuban has decided now to help
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  Speaker 1: the president. So watching Cuban on stage yesterday with my
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  Speaker 1: friend doctor Oz was in these studios just three days ago,
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  Speaker 1: and my friend Bobby Kennedy is a weird look Trump,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Oz and Cuban. But it's good to see that
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  Speaker 1: every now and then some of these lunatic Democrats come
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  Speaker 1: to the realization that maybe Trump is trying to help
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  Speaker 1: all right, big coming up Congress, Long Island. This young
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  Speaker 1: lady's been on this show once before. She was on
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  Speaker 1: with Peter King. This is her first solo appearance on
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  Speaker 1: the show on her first visit ever to the studio
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  Speaker 1: with me. She's running against Laura Gillan in the spot
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  Speaker 1: that my friend Anthony Diesposito used to have. This is
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  Speaker 1: Janine Driscoll. Janine, good morning, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, said good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to what nice to have you here. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for making the trip in. You got six states in
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  Speaker 1: play today, obviously with Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with Nasall County, but your
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  Speaker 1: race in the midterms will be a big deal. We
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  Speaker 1: need every seat we can keep, every seat we can
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  Speaker 1: get in your case. And there are some of these
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  Speaker 1: races today that President Trump and sid Rosenberg really care about,
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  Speaker 1: specifically Kentucky, because for some reason Kentucky has amassed all
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  Speaker 1: these really bad Republicans. They hate Trump. They're all traitors,
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  Speaker 1: every one of them. Ran Paul no good, Mitch McConnell
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  Speaker 1: no good. But the worst of all is Thomas Massy.
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  Speaker 1: And every decent Republican in this country is hoping that
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  Speaker 1: Massi gets killed today by ed Gil Rain, maybe stealed
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  Speaker 1: running for that seat. How do you feel about these
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  Speaker 1: six races going on across America today?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the one thing that I find that
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  Speaker 3: bothers me a lot is that we're a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these races, you know, come from the fact that people
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  Speaker 3: are not standing behind the president and what the Republican
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  Speaker 3: agenda is. And I don't understand that because we fought
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  Speaker 3: so hard to get to the point that we're at
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  Speaker 3: today with President Trump and his agenda, and why are
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  Speaker 3: these you know, people in really in Congress turning on him.
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  Speaker 3: And I have a real issue with that because again,
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  Speaker 3: we can't risk going back to what we've been through
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  Speaker 3: and we just experienced it. So I do think a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these races, you know, they're all very critical,
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  Speaker 3: but certainly we want to see people elected that are
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  Speaker 3: going to stand with the president one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's one hundred percenture. And we just saw Bill Cassidy
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  Speaker 1: lose in Louisiana last week. That creep out of that
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  Speaker 1: senator at the Louisiana Trump was funny. He goes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not being your career is over. And again I'll be
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump coming up this Friday night right here
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  Speaker 1: in New York with Mike Lawler in Rockland County. Looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to have the President right here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: But again he's keeping his eye on all these races.
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  Speaker 1: He'll keep his eye on Yours is a big one.
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  Speaker 1: Laura Gillen. The Esposito beat her, then she came back,
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  Speaker 1: then she beat him. He has decided not to run again.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to stay in that Labor Department where he
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  Speaker 1: serves right now as President Trump's General Inspector. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: a very good job. He's uncovered billions of dollars in fraud,
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  Speaker 1: much like Lee Seldon at the EPA and doctor Oz
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  Speaker 1: with Medicare and Medicaid. So he's staying there. So here's
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  Speaker 1: your opportunity right now, Janine, to do what you can
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  Speaker 1: do to get that seat back on Nassau County. How's
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  Speaker 1: that going so far?
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  Speaker 3: Actually going really well, said, I've had a an enormous
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  Speaker 3: amount of support obviously from the party, the local National
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  Speaker 3: County Republican Party, but even and I'm pouring a support
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  Speaker 3: from people around the country, my friend's family, but even
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  Speaker 3: strangers because they know that this seat is definitely flippable.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to use that word flippable, but it is flippable.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we have really the factors that are
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  Speaker 3: supporting me are good. You know, when we look at
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  Speaker 3: what the district is, who the people are in the district.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of middle class people in
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  Speaker 3: the district who need relief that cannot being offered to
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  Speaker 3: them right now through the current representation. And I've been
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  Speaker 3: there already for seven years, and I have worked with
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  Speaker 3: all of the constituents on a daily basis trying to
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  Speaker 3: lower their taxes, trying to teach them how they can
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  Speaker 3: you know, get relief from the federal and the state
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  Speaker 3: government to lower property taxesn't even to a certain extent,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the income taxes with you know what happened
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  Speaker 3: with salt last year. So that I am very tuned
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  Speaker 3: into the needs of the constituents, you know, a broader
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  Speaker 3: picture the whole country. Obviously, it is just incredibly important
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  Speaker 3: for us to maintain the House and really pick up
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  Speaker 3: more seats because right now it's razor thin and it
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  Speaker 3: makes it very difficult. And also, like you were just
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  Speaker 3: going back to what you're saying, it gives people an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to go against the president because he knows that
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  Speaker 3: we're very vulnerable with such a thin majority.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting place where you live too, because there
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  Speaker 1: are more Democrats and Republicans. That's the case, like seventy
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  Speaker 1: thousand maybe in your district. But yet Bruce Blateman has
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  Speaker 1: one of the last two Nasau County executive races easily,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. He blew out his competitor, that psychle
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  Speaker 1: Las time. Anthony dies Posito won, and we've seen Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Galbarino win and obviously it's suffing a little different. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, Loloto, he won two. And you've got great
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  Speaker 1: leadership with guys like Joe Cairo, He's terrific. I love
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  Speaker 1: Joe and Peter King. So for some reason, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about common sense a lot. It doesn't exist
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  Speaker 1: in the Democrat Party. It's complete nonsense. It's a unicorn.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pipe dream. There's like one guy, his name
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  Speaker 1: is John Betterman. That's it. The rest of the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how they campaign, they all become lunatics
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  Speaker 1: because they're scared to death of the Progressives and the DSA.
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  Speaker 1: So they're all lunatics, all of them. But yet, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, in your county where it's mostly Democrat Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Win, I think that well, believe me that we definitely
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  Speaker 3: have fringe people too. They're there oh yeah, but we
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  Speaker 3: have enough common sense Democrats that or and I think
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  Speaker 3: people who just don't want to become Republicans for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: they have an issue with it, and they see that
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  Speaker 3: the county is extremely successful. Bruce Blakeman has done a
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal job. He's a good friend of mine. I served
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  Speaker 3: with Bruce on the town board before he became the
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  Speaker 3: county executive. I actually also served with Anthony, so I
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  Speaker 3: know these guys really well. Bruce has done an unbelievable job.
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  Speaker 3: And naw, so people are happy with Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: They like him. He is like every guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's a family man, happily married, beautiful family, grandchildren, and
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  Speaker 3: he's normal to talk to. He you know, we want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about sports, you know, we want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about how you doing and how's your job? He always
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  Speaker 3: checks in with me, always, always, you know, ask how
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  Speaker 3: are you, how's your husband? So this is the kind
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  Speaker 3: of leadership we want. But he's done a great job economically.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, eighty six new police officers graduated in Nasau County.
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  Speaker 3: Pat Ryders spoke, Pete King was there, Bruce, you know obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, gave a speech and it is it's so
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  Speaker 3: important for us to maintain what we have in Nasau.
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  Speaker 3: It's safe, economically, it's sound. There are issues obviously that
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  Speaker 3: need to be addressed, and really that really probably comes
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  Speaker 3: more from the congressional representation. But for right now that
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  Speaker 3: we do have those common sense Democrats, and I'm confident
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  Speaker 3: they're going to support me. I win when I've run
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  Speaker 3: twice in the town of Hempstead. It's a very large area,
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  Speaker 3: largest township in America, and both times I approached sixty
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  Speaker 3: sixty something like that percent.
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  Speaker 2: And so I have a lot of Democrats as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think we are, you know, situated for
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  Speaker 3: a big win in November.
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  Speaker 1: One more, let's talk about some of these differences between
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  Speaker 1: you and your competitor. Right, do love Pat Ryder. He's
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  Speaker 1: a great police commissioner, he really is. I'm very very
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  Speaker 1: close with Jessica Tissue in New York too, But I
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  Speaker 1: love Pat, I love Anne Donnelly. I helped and Donnelly win.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be the first to tell you that Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: and a Donnelly will both admit when they first won
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  Speaker 1: largely because of me, and I was friends with Laura
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  Speaker 1: Kron at the time. But here comes as Republican with
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  Speaker 1: white hair, a good speaker. I liked him, and they
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  Speaker 1: both won, and that has been a dream for Nassau County.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get to the big differences between you and
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  Speaker 1: the lady you're taking on, Laura Gillen. One of the
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  Speaker 1: two or three things that you promise voters in Nassau
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  Speaker 1: County that will get better if in fact they vote for.
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  Speaker 3: You, Well, the first thing is I will continue to
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  Speaker 3: do my advocacy on be here for the taxpayers, to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever I can to lower taxes, property taxes. I'm
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  Speaker 3: constantly lobbying with the legislative trying to get you know,
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  Speaker 3: more income uh you know, income limits raids so that lowered, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: so that more and more people can you know, qualify
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  Speaker 3: for these exemptions. But the big difference between us, I think,
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  Speaker 3: and if we look at our resumes, very similar to women,
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  Speaker 3: married kids, both of us lawyers, Catholic school educated. The
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  Speaker 3: biggest difference is that she just votes along whatever came
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey's demands, and it is upsetting. She just does not
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  Speaker 3: look at what her constituents need or what they elected
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  Speaker 3: her to do. And so that to me is the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing. I mean, I have a conscience. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a developed Catholic. I have a conscience. I am
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  Speaker 3: going to do the right thing. I'm elected to represent
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  Speaker 3: the people, and I take that very seriously. Listen, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not I'm not a spring chicken.
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  Speaker 2: I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: Well you look great.
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  Speaker 2: We're the same age, right, yeah, nineteen sixty seven, So
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  Speaker 2: I you know I'm old too, thanks. But I you know,
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  Speaker 2: i feel like I'm at a point. My kids are
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  Speaker 2: getting older, they get to start get married. I could
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  Speaker 2: probably retire in.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of years, but I'm doing this because I
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  Speaker 3: really care about the people in now.
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  Speaker 2: So I care about my family. I have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have five kids. I have my family.
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  Speaker 3: The entire family lives out there. There's about thirty of us.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the immediate family. I have my two sisters,
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  Speaker 3: my brother, seventeen grand seventeen nieces and nephews, five great nieces.
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  Speaker 3: So it's called the village of bell Rose, a little
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  Speaker 3: yet right next to Floora Park. Yes, and my one
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  Speaker 3: sister is in Flaw Park. My other little sister, Jackie,
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  Speaker 3: and my brother John lived. John lives across the street
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  Speaker 3: from me with my dad. That's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But so we're all there.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just about my family, obviously, it's about families.
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  Speaker 3: I go to church on Sunday, I see massive amounts
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  Speaker 3: of people, and that's what I want to do. I
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  Speaker 3: want to continue trying to advocate for people and really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, senior citizens, veterans, these are people that have
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  Speaker 3: been left behind, especially during the Biden years where we
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  Speaker 3: had opened borders. And that's another thing. You know that
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  Speaker 3: that Gilan did not really support closing the border. How
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  Speaker 3: can you leave the border open? And that's another thing
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  Speaker 3: that I worry about because my little village borders Queens.
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  Speaker 2: And believe me, I love I grew up in middle Village, Queens.
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  Speaker 2: I love the city.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw what happened with the open borders that
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  Speaker 3: these you know, illegals are coming into my village. You
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  Speaker 3: know they would just it was just a very bad situation,
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  Speaker 3: uh somewhat dangerous riding around on these scooters. Pat Ryder
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  Speaker 3: actually had to come into my village and give a
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  Speaker 3: presentation and they were arresting people left and right. So
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  Speaker 3: it just became untenable. I can't go back to that.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm all in one thousand percent. I got Chairman
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  Speaker 3: Cairo is unbelievable. I mean, you know him, he is amazing, amazing,
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  Speaker 3: and he you know, he's got my back and I
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  Speaker 3: trust him.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm all in.
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  Speaker 1: You're good. Now, You've got the Five Towns too, right
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  Speaker 1: I do, Yeah, I'll be. I'll be in Eulet later
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  Speaker 1: on tonight. What's the name of that place? I think
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Leonard told me so Wannie, the beautiful, beautiful. I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's a golf course.
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  Speaker 2: That's a gorgeous golf course. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to be in the Five Towns later too,
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  Speaker 3: for something. I have three Genners tonight that I'm going to.
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  Speaker 3: One is I think it's Cedar Hurst.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I love Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Two of my oldest sisters are married in cedar Hurst.
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  Speaker 1: I was born Mitzvah and David in David excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: and Lawrence at Bete David. So I know the other
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  Speaker 1: five towns very very well. Well, it's great to meet
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  Speaker 1: you in person. I think you're terrific. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna win and we're gonna do everything
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  Speaker 1: we can here on sitting friends in the morning to
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  Speaker 1: help you do that. You've got the great foundation, like
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  Speaker 1: you talked about with all those terrific people out there
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  Speaker 1: in Nassau County. You know the issues, you're very smart,
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  Speaker 1: You've had political success in that county before. You're right
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  Speaker 1: for a victory, Janine, so let's get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much that I really appreciate you having
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  Speaker 3: me coming. I wanted to make a personal connection with you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. You're terrific. Janine driscoll right there.
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  Speaker 1: She's running against Laura Gillen in Nassau County and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: she's going to get us that Congress seat back. My
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  Speaker 1: prediction is she will