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Mark interviews Republican candidate for Governor of New York, Bruce Blakeman. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Give woor oh, Bri said on the iHeartRadio app to
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  Speaker 1: hear Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Simone and all the WOR hosts in an instance. Now
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  Speaker 2: back to the Mark Simon show on WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Bruce Blakeman running for governor. He's the Nasau County executive.
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  Speaker 1: County executive is like a governor's job. It's basically the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. And he's proven to be the best county
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  Speaker 1: executive in America. Everybody wants, everybody who knows what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing wants him to be governor. He'd be the best
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  Speaker 1: governor we could have right now, Bruce Blakeman, and you
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  Speaker 1: got to help him out. Go to Blakemanfronewyork dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're supporting him, but you got to help out. Donate, volunteer.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Blakeman for New York dot com. Blakeman for
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  Speaker 1: New York dot Com. Bruce Blakeman, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Mark, and thank you for your support,
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  Speaker 2: your dear friend. You are an amazing personality and I
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  Speaker 2: just value our friends. Thank you so much. We're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: I just had a press conference where I indicated that
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  Speaker 2: on day one as governor, I will pardon Sergeant Duran.
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  Speaker 2: He was doing his job. It was a gross miscarriage
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  Speaker 2: of justice to convict him and to put a sentence
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  Speaker 2: of three to nine years on an NYPD veteran who's
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  Speaker 2: just doing his job. He's got three children. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just a disgrace. It's the air of criminality that
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  Speaker 2: now exists in New York State under Cathy Hoak when
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  Speaker 2: Zorn Mundami. That ends on day one when I become governor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Duran is the cop who threw the cooler, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a split second decision. He got in front
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  Speaker 1: of a wacky left wing judge who just a while
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  Speaker 1: back somebody beat a homeless guy to death. He gave
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  Speaker 1: that kid a gang member, like three months. He gives
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  Speaker 1: this cop three to nine years. So, as governor, you
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  Speaker 1: would have the power to pardon him on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I will pardon him at twelve one on
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  Speaker 2: January first. It'll be the first thing that I do
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  Speaker 2: as governor. Again. We are destroying the morale of NYPD
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  Speaker 2: and other law enforcement professionals throughout the state. It is
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  Speaker 2: a state where we have the most pro criminal governor
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  Speaker 2: in America in Kathy Hochel. You know, just think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Mark every law enforcement policy issue she makes makes it
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  Speaker 2: easier for criminals to pray on our communities. When is
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  Speaker 2: she ever promulgated a law that protects our communities, that
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  Speaker 2: protects our law enforcement professionals. She fired two hundred No
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, she fired a two thousand corrections officers who
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  Speaker 2: were complaining that under Kathy Hockel's policies, the prisoners were
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  Speaker 2: now running to jails, making it unsafe not only for
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  Speaker 2: corrections officers, but unsafe for the prisoners themselves, and making
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  Speaker 2: the surrounding communities around jails insecure. This is a governor
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  Speaker 2: that is completely out of touch. I am going to
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  Speaker 2: correct this injustice as Sergeant Duran twelve oh one January first,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. I will have the document in front
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  Speaker 2: of me and I will gladly sign it.
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  Speaker 1: That's great to hear. The other problem you got these
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  Speaker 1: crazy left wing district attorneys that let all the criminals out.
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  Speaker 1: They that's a state job, district attorney. Does the governor
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  Speaker 1: have the power to remove a district attorney?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the governor does have the power if they're not
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  Speaker 2: doing their job. It's happened before. I think it's an
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary measure that I wouldn't do lightly. But for instance,
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  Speaker 2: if there was a district attorney that was not enforcing
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  Speaker 2: the law, and if that district attorney was doing things
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  Speaker 2: to make our communities less safe and doing it without
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  Speaker 2: adhering to their oath of office to protect our communities,
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  Speaker 2: yes I would remove that district attorney.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the reason we want you to donate go to
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  Speaker 1: Blakemanfromnewyork dot com is the matching funds that you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to get. Of course you would get them, but it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a total corruption with this finance board. How
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  Speaker 1: did they justify denying you the matching funds?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's more political dirty tricks on the part of
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  Speaker 2: Kathi Hochel. She's a cheater. We're not surprised. Basically that's
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  Speaker 2: been her MO. Here's the situation. Mark, there are matching
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  Speaker 2: funds that are public finance. That is the law. We
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  Speaker 2: qualified for it, I was certified get it. And then
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  Speaker 2: they changed the rules and regulations saying that the governor
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  Speaker 2: and the Lieutenant governor have to file together and that
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  Speaker 2: they would prepare a form for us to sign. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they never prepared the forum. Then the commission, which is
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  Speaker 2: four Democrats. The three Republicans voted four to three to
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  Speaker 2: decertify us from our right to get matching funds. It's
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  Speaker 2: a disgrace. It's something that you would see in a
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  Speaker 2: totalitarian government. We have become a totalitarian government. There's one
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  Speaker 2: party rule, and when there's one party rule, the prospects
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  Speaker 2: for tyranny increase by many, many multiples. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we now have in New York. We've got a governor
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  Speaker 2: who runs the state as if it's their own personal
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  Speaker 2: piggy bank. She runs the state with an iron cyst,
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  Speaker 2: and she's a bully, and we want to make people
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  Speaker 2: in New York happy again. We want to put New
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  Speaker 2: York first. She spent eight billion dollars of our taxpayer
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  Speaker 2: money on non New Yorkers, on people who came here illegally.
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  Speaker 2: They're here for fifteen minutes. They got free housing, free food,
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  Speaker 2: free lodging, and a free cell phone. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: does that say to the hard working New Yorkers who
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  Speaker 2: are struggling to make ends meet every day that their
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  Speaker 2: governor in the most overtaxed state in the United States
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  Speaker 2: is fritting away their money, their taxpayer money on people
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  Speaker 2: who aren't New Yorkers. That also ends on January first.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to put New Yorkers first, make New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: happy again by having a governor that cares about them
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  Speaker 2: and their families.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you go to Blakemanfromnewyork dot Com, Bruce Blakeman. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know you've done well with taxes and crime and
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  Speaker 1: everything in Nassau County, but when you get up there
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  Speaker 1: to Albany, how much can you do about taxes with
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  Speaker 1: that crazy legislature.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a bargaining process, and the governor has a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous amount of power when it comes to the budget.
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  Speaker 2: So there are things that the legislature is going to want,
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  Speaker 2: and there's things that I as the governor. So we
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  Speaker 2: all have to and negotiate. But I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: give one inch on the things that are important to me,
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  Speaker 2: and that is creating economic development and immediately cutting electric
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  Speaker 2: costs in half. When you look at your electric bill,
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  Speaker 2: only thirty percent of your payment goes for energy, only
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent. The rest goes for excessive delivery, fies, more taxes,
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  Speaker 2: and the green energy scan that produces very little energy.
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  Speaker 2: So that ends, we are going to be done with
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  Speaker 2: all these experiments that cost billions and billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: and produced very little energy. We're going to open up
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  Speaker 2: the Marcella's shale to drilling. We have one of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest natural gas reserves in the world. That will create
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  Speaker 2: a huge supply. And when you have a huge supply,
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  Speaker 2: it brings down energy costs. So you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a governor that will immediately reduce your electric bills in half,
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  Speaker 2: will work to cut taxes and create economic development and
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  Speaker 2: prosperity for every family in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know there, Democrats love to yell about President
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  Speaker 1: Trump raised gas prices, it's costing you an extra one
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  Speaker 1: hundred a month. Nobody ever points out those policies you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned took your electric bill from one hundred to four
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month. But again, can you really make
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  Speaker 1: those changes without the legislature? Is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because the governor has authority over the administration. The
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  Speaker 2: electric bills are promulgated by rules and regulations of a
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  Speaker 2: regulatory authority, and the governor has the power of appointment.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, I will appoint people to those boards that
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  Speaker 2: put the consumer first, put the rate payer first, and
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  Speaker 2: not all of these green energy scan companies that contribute
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars to Kathy Hockel's campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Brice Blake, when they pulled these dirty tricks
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  Speaker 1: with the campaign finance board. When it comes to having
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  Speaker 1: a debate, which of course you should have, what's she
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  Speaker 1: going to pull there? Is she going to agree to debate?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to have a debate every month from
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  Speaker 2: now until the election. I think that it's important that
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  Speaker 2: the people have an opportunity to measure us both to
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  Speaker 2: see where we stand on policies. But of course she
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  Speaker 2: will do everything in her power not to debate me.
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  Speaker 2: She has said she's not taking matching funds because a
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  Speaker 2: rule of taking matching funds says that you have to
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  Speaker 2: be willing to debate. She wants no part of debating me.
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  Speaker 2: How could she want to debate me when I have
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  Speaker 2: a record of four years of making people happy, lowering taxes.
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  Speaker 2: I have the safest county in America according to the
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  Speaker 2: US News and we're report we have economic development and prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the lowest poverty rate in the state. How
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  Speaker 2: in the world is she going to want to debate
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  Speaker 2: me when she's got four years of a record of failure,
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  Speaker 2: of a record of making people miserable. We are the
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  Speaker 2: most overtaxed, overregulated state. Our utility bills are fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: higher than the national average. Our crime is out of control.
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  Speaker 2: People don't want to use public transportation because of the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they don't feel safe, and they need a
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  Speaker 2: governor that's going to care about them and put them first.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm absolutely confident that on October first,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, on January first, of twenty twenty seven, I
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  Speaker 2: will be sworn in as the next governor of the state.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we hope. So, Hey, you started twenty points behind
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  Speaker 1: the polls, but every time you've ever run, you're always
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  Speaker 1: twenty points behind the polls. Next thing, you know, you win.
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  Speaker 1: But how's it going. I know you've come way up
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  Speaker 1: in the polls recently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've cut that more than in half. We are
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  Speaker 2: in single digits. Now. We are six months ahead of
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  Speaker 2: our own schedule. And that's because, you know, Kathy Hochel
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  Speaker 2: is helping my campaign, Zoe rah Mondami's helping my campaign.
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  Speaker 2: They're in league together. They're failed policies. Now they're going
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  Speaker 2: to open up a grocery store, a city run grocery
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  Speaker 2: store together. I mean, why is the city and the
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  Speaker 2: state getting involved in the grocery business. It's max of socialism,
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  Speaker 2: which is nothing more than shared misery. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to make people miserable anymore. I want to make them happy,
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  Speaker 2: just like I did in Nassau County. People in New
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  Speaker 2: York State want to be proud of their government. They
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  Speaker 2: want to be proud of their state, and right now
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  Speaker 2: they're not. And it's a shame. And I will correct
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  Speaker 2: that situation when I'm elected governor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Bruce Blakeman would be a great governor. We want
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  Speaker 1: everybody to help out. You can donate, that's important. You
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  Speaker 1: can volunteer. Go to Blakemanfromnew York dot com and you
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  Speaker 1: can do it there. Blakeman for New York dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, great, Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, Thank you so much. God bless you. You're a
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  Speaker 2: great American in the great New York.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks a lot, we'll talk again soon. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. Hey coming up, Buck and Clay noon today,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Curtis is back every morning. It's Curtis
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  Speaker 1: Sliwa and Larry Minty six to ten here on seven
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  Speaker 1: ten WR