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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive | 06-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I gotta get to this guy currently for the second time,
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  Speaker 1: the Nasau County executive. But if God is good to us,
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  Speaker 1: he will be our next governor. I love this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, and Bruce, I know you're coming on because
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  Speaker 1: I always get a text from Chris Boyle saying, is
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  Speaker 1: Bruce on hold?
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  Speaker 2: Well? At least he's doing his job.
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  Speaker 1: Yees see. Oh he's great. Your whole team is great,
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  Speaker 1: and believe even better when you get to Albany. Did
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  Speaker 1: you hear the show earlier I had Jay Wright on,
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  Speaker 1: the former coach at Hofstra.
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  Speaker 2: I did not. I was probably in the shower. But
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  Speaker 2: Jay Wright is a great coach, a great guy. He
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  Speaker 2: was out here on Long Island for a number of years,
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  Speaker 2: had tremendous success at Hashi University, then went on to Villanova,
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  Speaker 2: and from everybody I know that knows him, he's a
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  Speaker 2: real solid guy.
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  Speaker 1: You just nailed it. So we talked mostly about Villanova
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  Speaker 1: because he coached at Villanova Jalen Brunts and Josh Hart,
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  Speaker 1: Michel Bridges. They won two championships for him. Now, of
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  Speaker 1: course they just won the Nick Championship, so he's got
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  Speaker 1: all those guys. But I did go back to his
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  Speaker 1: days before that ninety four through two thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: at Hofstra, and he said, I gotta tell you I
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  Speaker 1: missed Rockville Center. I love Hofstra. He's actually coming to
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  Speaker 1: New York tomorrow for a wedding from one of his
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  Speaker 1: former players at Hofstra. And he talked of how beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County he is. He was so happy that I
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  Speaker 1: was paying attention to Nasau County. So I thought you'd
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  Speaker 1: think that was cute. Jay Wright been talked about a
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  Speaker 1: lot the last couple of days with the NIXT winning
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  Speaker 1: the championship, loving his days in Hempstead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a great coach here at Hostra. He
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  Speaker 2: was a great corporate citizen, and we were all sad
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  Speaker 2: when he went to Villanova, but he accomplished so much
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  Speaker 2: of dollanov and winning a championship, and he'll go down
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  Speaker 2: in history as one of the great coaches of all time,
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  Speaker 2: right up there with Bobby Knight and Dean Smass and
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  Speaker 2: the others. Right. No, he is.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he did make the Hall of Fame in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. He won two championships Villanova four, Final four.
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  Speaker 1: So Bruce Blakeman all over it. I don't think Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hokele knows any of that. Here is a tweet from
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  Speaker 1: Kathy hoche from a couple of days ago, while Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman refuses to recognize June teenth, which I still have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what that is. I gotta be honest. In
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  Speaker 1: National County today, I joined thousands of New Yorkers celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the fiftieth June teenth Buffalo Parade, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is June nineteenth is not here yet. But she celebrated
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  Speaker 1: this a couple of days ago. The Moron one of
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  Speaker 1: the largest and longest running celebrations of African American freedom.
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  Speaker 1: So she had a parade for Juneteenth on like June twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: and she's calling you out but not caring. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care, but I've never heard you say that ever.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, June tenth is an historic moment in American history.
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  Speaker 2: It happened in Texas. It was a time when the
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  Speaker 2: cessation of slavery begun at that point. And I have
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  Speaker 2: nothing against celebrating Juneteenth. As a matter of fact, I
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  Speaker 2: usually participate in June teen ceremonies. But my union, the
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  Speaker 2: c SEA, wants to backdoor their way into another paid holiday,
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  Speaker 2: and we have thirteen paid holidays. Now most of the
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  Speaker 2: counties in New York State have only thirteen paid holidays.
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  Speaker 2: And he wants to try and get another paid holiday,
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  Speaker 2: and I said no. I said, if you want Juneteenth
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  Speaker 2: as a paid holiday, you got to give me back
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  Speaker 2: another one. And he doesn't want to give back the
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  Speaker 2: Friday after Thanksgiving. So I guess it's not that important
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  Speaker 2: Juneteenth to our labor leader, Chris Calendar, who is very disingenuous.
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  Speaker 2: So no, I've said, look, I'll give Juneteenth as a
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  Speaker 2: paid holiday, but give me back.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Well, how about we stop referring to
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day as Indigenous People Day? Nothing, that's Indigenous people.
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  Speaker 1: We got holidays for Roll Day. Make another one. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care, But why does it have to be on
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  Speaker 1: the same day as Columbus Day. You know, Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: actually walked past a Christopher Columbus statue and gave it
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  Speaker 1: the finger. So we talk about Mom Donnie hates the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Mom Donnie hates the Catholics. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't even go to Ronald Ticke's installation when he replaced
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  Speaker 1: Cardinell Dolan. He walked past a Columbus statue and gave
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  Speaker 1: it the finger. How do you think Italians feel about Mam.
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  Speaker 2: Donni today, Well, every time I go to the Knights
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  Speaker 2: of Columbus, I tell them, so long as I'm county executive,
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  Speaker 2: and when I become governor, nobody will take down a
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Columbus statue while I'm in charge. That's number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number two Mandami, he dissed the Puerto Rican people. In
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  Speaker 2: past years, every mayor has hosted a breakfast on the
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  Speaker 2: Saturday before the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and Mandami canceled it.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what I did, said, I hosted it, No,
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  Speaker 2: you did. Hosted it in New York City, and we
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  Speaker 2: had pastors from Hispanic and Latino communities come out. We
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  Speaker 2: had community leaders, we had political leaders, we had a
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  Speaker 2: great Puerto Rican band, and we celebrated that holiday and
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  Speaker 2: that appreciation of Puerto Rican people. It's as if Mandami
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  Speaker 2: is giving the finger not only the Christopher Columbus, but
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  Speaker 2: to choose and now the Puerto Ricans, no Catholics. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that's all about.
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  Speaker 1: And he's such a phony because he did show up
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  Speaker 1: at the parade and he's out there remember last year
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  Speaker 1: he was dancing with AOC and but I know you
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  Speaker 1: know how I gauge the Puerto Rican community from Reuben
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  Speaker 1: diash Junior. He said, God, and he loves you. He
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  Speaker 1: loves you, and he can't stand mam Donnie. So Mamdanni
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  Speaker 1: thinks you show up with the parade and you smile
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  Speaker 1: and you do a little south so of AOC and
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  Speaker 1: the people love you. But as you pointed out, he
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  Speaker 1: screwed over the Puerto Ricans. But once again Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: was there to run to the rescue. I also heard
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  Speaker 1: this week that Hochel came out with those numbers and
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't being very honest. That the numbers are actually
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  Speaker 1: much higher than what she is saying to the public.
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  Speaker 2: I know you know about that nine billion dollars higher. Geez,
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  Speaker 2: she's giving more money to a legal migrants, free housing,
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  Speaker 2: free food, free transportation, a free cell phone. She's giving
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  Speaker 2: more benefits to illegal migrants than she than she is
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  Speaker 2: the New Yorkers who pay taxes every day, they work hard,
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  Speaker 2: they play by the rules, and they get less from
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  Speaker 2: their governor than people who arrive here and in fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes they get more benefits than New York as it's disgraceful.
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  Speaker 2: I will end it on day one when I become governor.
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  Speaker 1: I also saw on your Twitter page, just as Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blateman and I say this all the time, not to
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  Speaker 1: be overlead, dramatic or put any more pressure on Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: and he already has. But we're holding on by a string.
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  Speaker 1: The city's dead. It's dead. I don't care if nine
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  Speaker 1: million people show up tomorrow. I don't care how many
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  Speaker 1: bread Land or rallies they are. He's a piece of
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  Speaker 1: garbage or real low life human being. The city's holding
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  Speaker 1: on by a threat. It's basically dead. But the state,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, it's holding on by a thread. And
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  Speaker 1: the only way to save this state, the only way
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  Speaker 1: is if Bruce Blakeman wins. And I love when you
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  Speaker 1: put up a picture on your Twitter a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days ago of Mom, Donnie and Kel together, because if
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  Speaker 1: you don't like Mom Donnie, then you have to understand
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  Speaker 1: you're buy in that package. They come together, and Hokel
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  Speaker 1: is so depthly afraid of Mom Donnie that she endorsed
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  Speaker 1: them in about fifteen minutes without him endorsing her and
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  Speaker 1: anything he wants her to do if she wins, what
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  Speaker 1: she won't, but if she does, she's going to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Explain to this state, the city, Bruce Blakeman that when
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  Speaker 1: you take on Mom Donnie, now you've got Hokel, you've
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  Speaker 1: got a one to two deal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Comrade Cassie is subservient to Mandanni the Kami, and
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  Speaker 2: they're working together to destroy our state, to destroy our city.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm run for governor, said, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to let it happen. I'm going to fight for
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  Speaker 2: our kids and our grandkids. We're going to make it
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  Speaker 2: more affordable. We're going to cut taxes, cut utility rates
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  Speaker 2: in half, and make for safer communities. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: care whether your black, Hispanic, Asian. I don't care what
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  Speaker 2: your religion is. I don't care what your lifestyle is
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  Speaker 2: or your abilities are. Everybody in New York wants that
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  Speaker 2: because they're miserable under Kathy Hokul and now with Mandami
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  Speaker 2: the Kami, they're even more miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Two more things. Did you see this second home tax? Pierre,
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  Speaker 1: There's something I can't say, and Finch, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to that. Now Mamdani and Hochel are talking about
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  Speaker 1: applying that to co op buildings.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that, Well, it's going to apply to
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  Speaker 2: everybody at some point. And then what they're going to
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  Speaker 2: do is they're going to lower the threshold to be taxed.
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  Speaker 2: So right now they're taxing the rich. But when all
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  Speaker 2: the rich people leave, they're going to need tax revenue
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  Speaker 2: when those people leave, and it's going to fall on
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  Speaker 2: the middle class. And by the way, when rich people
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  Speaker 2: leave said it hurts carpenters, electricians, plumbers, waiters, waitresses, the
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  Speaker 2: local dry cleaner, the dog walker. When rich people leave,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to leave because they've had enough of
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hoko and Zora Mundabi. When they leave, they take
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  Speaker 2: their business with them, and that's going to hurt average
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  Speaker 2: middle class New Yorkers. And what about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Mandami has threatened to raise property taxes nine and a
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  Speaker 2: half percent. He basically is screwing the middle class. He
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  Speaker 2: promised to make New York City more affordable, and he
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  Speaker 2: wants to increase taxes on single family and two family
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  Speaker 2: homes in Brooklyn and Queens and the Bronx and Staten Island.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to let him do that.
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  Speaker 1: Last one. When I saw this tweet again. We've had
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  Speaker 1: a great conversation here. Go back and listen later, not you, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: but the listeners, and think about how many things we
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  Speaker 1: just discussed that Bruce can fix at a terrible point
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  Speaker 1: of yocres, but this one. I can't believe she's still
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  Speaker 1: talking about this. Governor Kathy Hochel, Here we go Bruce
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  Speaker 1: on her Twitter page time and time again, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't call him President Trump because she's disrespectful. Time
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  Speaker 1: and time again. Donald Trump has failed in his attempts
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  Speaker 1: to kill offshore. When she's still talking about windmills, is dumb, Biach,
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  Speaker 1: she goes. And while he has rightly drop this fight,
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  Speaker 1: New York will remain vigilant to protect projects that create
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  Speaker 1: good jobs and help us transition to clean and reliable energy.
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  Speaker 1: She's still talking windmills, Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know sid that we are sitting on one
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  Speaker 2: of the largest natural gas reserves in the world in
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  Speaker 2: New York State. It's on the border of Pennsylvania, it's
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  Speaker 2: on the southern tier in New York. And the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we don't extract that natural gas, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why our utility Those are seventy percent higher
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  Speaker 2: than the national average. And you know what the bad
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  Speaker 2: thing is, it's disgraceful. We're buying that same gas but
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  Speaker 2: from Pennsylvania. So New Yorkers are losing out on the jobs,
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  Speaker 2: they're losing out on the prosperity, they're losing out on
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  Speaker 2: the tax revenue, and they're losing out on the supply
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  Speaker 2: of energy that would bring the utility costs down. It
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  Speaker 2: is bizarre. She is completely wetted to the green energy scam.
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  Speaker 2: I will end that also on January first. We will
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  Speaker 2: start to drill, baby, drill and create prosperity in New
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  Speaker 2: York State and lower utility bills there.
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  Speaker 1: It is, that's why you will win. Well, there's a
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  Speaker 1: million reasons why. I mean, he's just great. Everybody loves
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, no, one last thing. Did she hear what Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Bronson said the other day about taxes in New York?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he wants to go back to Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: She said, what do you miss about Texas? He said
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  Speaker 2: to the low taxes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: I love that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he he actually brought that up unprovoked, Like he
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  Speaker 1: actually said I missed the low taxes when he played
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  Speaker 1: for the Dallas Mavericks in Texas. Here he is King
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  Speaker 1: of New York. Right, four million people going to show
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  Speaker 1: up tomorrow. They love this guy. He's having a life
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  Speaker 1: that you don't even dream about. And when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about taxes in Dallas, honestly, that should be your commercial, Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: Just you and him, You're gonna hear a lot of that.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce, I love you. You really are doing a terrific job.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow you deserve a lot of credit. You're still the
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  Speaker 1: greatest Nassau County executive ever. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you're all over this state everywhere, Rochester, Syracuse, you to Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Buffalo a couple of days ago. So juggling
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  Speaker 1: that important job in Nassau County and running this great campaign,
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  Speaker 1: I give you a lot of credit. Bruce Blakeman, You're
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  Speaker 1: an amazing guy, a lot of strength like your friend Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations, thanks so much, Sitting, Happy anniversary, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, buddy, thank you. Yes next Thursday, thirty four
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  Speaker 1: years to the beautiful Danielle. But before that, as Bruce
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, I'm off to Tel Aviv tomorrow.
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