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David Carr | New York City Council Minority Leader Slams Mamdani for Skipping Today's Pied-à-Terre Tax Hearing · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Oh, let me get to David Carr quickly. I love David.
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Speaker 1: One of our five Republicans in the city council. Only five,
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Speaker 1: two from Staten Island, Frank Morano and David Carr. One
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Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. Who I saw, Lewis you love this Saturday
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Speaker 1: night at Adrian's all our good buddies, Marty, Beanie and
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Speaker 1: Leo and Chris. She was having dinner with the guy
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Speaker 1: that ran for a g my friend, Michael Henry Ina Bernikov.
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Speaker 1: So she's a Brooklyn lady. And then we've got two
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Speaker 1: from Queen's Joanne Ariola happens to be our counsel lady
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Speaker 1: me and Lou and Vicki Palladino. But Carr, David Carr
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Speaker 1: has been very outspoken about this ridiculous pier to tear tax.
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Speaker 1: Have you say it? I don't know. God's French idiotic.
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Speaker 1: Brandy Mastro came out yesterday. He's actually suing and representing
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of fine New Yorkers. He called it
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Speaker 1: a gross abuse of government power. And that's basically what
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Speaker 1: David Carr has had to say. So today is a
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Speaker 1: big city council here. The mayor is not coming. He's
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Speaker 1: on vacation. Okay, fine, he's not even sending a rep.
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Speaker 1: No one, no one from jee Hut boys office will
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Speaker 1: be at the City Council hearing today. I can't imagine
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Speaker 1: David Carr is very happy about that. We'll see David.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, buddy, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Good morning? Said, thank you for having me on the show.
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Speaker 1: Always great having you. So the mayor is not there,
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Speaker 1: that happens, okay, but he's not even sending a rep
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Speaker 1: to this hearing today that you guys are holding on
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Speaker 1: the second home tax. Are you not furious?
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Speaker 2: I'm absolutely livid. I'm outraged, and I think it's an
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Speaker 2: insult to all the people of New York that the
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Speaker 2: mayor thinks that he can ignore an oversight hearing from
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Speaker 2: the legislative branch. Right, this is basic government. It's our
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Speaker 2: job to make sure that the administration of the day,
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Speaker 2: and it happens to be led by this mayor, is
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Speaker 2: doing the right thing. Is making sure that when it
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Speaker 2: rolls out of program, whether we support that program or not,
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Speaker 2: in this case, I certainly don't that it's being done
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Speaker 2: correctly and being done fairly and judiciously. And that has
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Speaker 2: been the exact opposite of what's been happening over these
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Speaker 2: last few weeks with the Pieta tear tax rollout. So
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Speaker 2: the idea that the mayor wouldn't send his commissioner or Finance,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't send the high ranking member of the team at
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Speaker 2: City Hall to come and explain why they've done what
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Speaker 2: they've done, and if they think they've done a good job,
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Speaker 2: they can come and say so. And then we get
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Speaker 2: to ask the tough questions. We get to try to
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Speaker 2: get to the bottom of what happens and try to
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Speaker 2: make sure that some of the mistakes, and they've been
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Speaker 2: big mistakes with the rollout of this Pieta tear tax,
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Speaker 2: never happen again.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't want you to give away the whole movie, obviously,
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Speaker 1: because you know people want to watch it, they want
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Speaker 1: to see it on fold. But if you can give
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Speaker 1: me maybe one or two of these difficult questions that
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Speaker 1: you guys at the City Council are prepared to ask today,
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Speaker 1: you may fire up my audience even before seven am
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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday morning. So what do you guys want
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Speaker 1: to you today?
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Speaker 2: So I think there's a lot to ask, and each
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Speaker 2: member comes with a different set of priorities, here. But
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Speaker 2: for me, the thing that I'm most upset about with
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Speaker 2: the Piana tear tax rollout is the publication of basically
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Speaker 2: every single one of my constituent's properties and who owns
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Speaker 2: them in a way that's been was unprecedented. The administration
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Speaker 2: claims that for the rollout of this new tax that
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Speaker 2: they had to publish the property tax roles according to
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Speaker 2: state law. That is false. The state law that authorized
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Speaker 2: the Pieta tear tax does not require everyone's properties with
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Speaker 2: their names attached to them, to be published in an
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Speaker 2: easily accessible format where now there's a roadmap to everyone's
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Speaker 2: home for all the scammers out there, and there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of scammers out there. Unfortunately, it only required that
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Speaker 2: folks get a letter in the mail saying, hey, we
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Speaker 2: believe that your second home. You know, we're going to
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Speaker 2: levy a Piana tear tax against your property. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's all that's required here. But instead every one, two
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Speaker 2: and three family home in the city, every condo in
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Speaker 2: the city got put on this list, nine hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: plus properties. It exposed people in a way that's completely unfair, unprecedented,
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Speaker 2: and just wrong. And that's why I want to get
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Speaker 2: to the bottom of why that happened. And I want
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Speaker 2: to get assurances from the administration that they are never
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Speaker 2: going to do so again, because there's no legal requirement
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Speaker 2: that they had to meet by doing that publication none.
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Speaker 1: This is right there, when you just talked about gross
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Speaker 1: abuse of government power. I'm going to play this. This
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Speaker 1: is Randy Mastro, who works side by side with two mayors,
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Speaker 1: Woody Giuliani and most recently Eric Adams, and he is
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Speaker 1: actually he's loving a lawsuit. He's representing a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of fine New Yorkers who are just as angry David
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Speaker 1: Carr as you are. I believe this was yesterday Randy
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Speaker 1: Mastro on the mayor's gross abuse of government power Lewis
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Speaker 1: cut number two.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to get bogged down in the legalese.
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Speaker 3: I want to cut right to the chase. The city
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Speaker 3: is reeling from this decision because a judge found we're
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Speaker 3: likely to succeed on the merits that its rollout was
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Speaker 3: screwed up. All right. The mayor even admitted yesterday we
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Speaker 3: have regrets on the rollout. Well, it runds me of
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Speaker 3: my favorite Frank Sinatras Home regrets I've had a few,
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Speaker 3: but then again too few to mention they're reeling from
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Speaker 3: this order. But no amount of spin is going to
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Speaker 3: avoid the consequences of this, which is they shouldn't have
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Speaker 3: sent those letters over inclusive to seventeen thousand New Yorkers,
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Speaker 3: including myself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened? You got one of those those letters?
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Speaker 2: Weren't you have deputy mayor under her Adams?
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Speaker 3: Yes, and you're legal required to live in the city.
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Speaker 3: I've lived here for over forty years, paid my taxes
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Speaker 3: city taxes every year, and have had been deputy mayor twice.
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Speaker 3: Legally required to live here. It's absurd that they sent
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Speaker 3: those letters to seventy thousand people, and even worse that
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Speaker 3: they published a log that they said was related to
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Speaker 3: the surcharge. It basically included every homeowner in the city,
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Speaker 3: nine hundred thousand people. This put people in fear. This
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Speaker 3: put people not only concerned, but some feeling very vulnerable
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Speaker 3: that they were going to have to pay this tax.
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Speaker 3: And those notices, those notices were a threat. Those notices.
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Speaker 3: I got one. It says you may be subject to
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Speaker 3: the surcharge, gives the amount. But that says but you
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Speaker 3: can apply for an exception, and if you put in
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Speaker 3: documentation to the city's satisfaction, but if you don't, they're
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Speaker 3: going to deem you to pay the tax. That's that
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Speaker 3: is really a gross abuse of government power. That's not
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Speaker 3: how we do taxes in this city and in this nation.
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Speaker 1: Here's a statement from your Republican colleague from Staten Island,
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Speaker 1: Frank Morano. He says, I think it's outrageous and deeply
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Speaker 1: disrespectful to the public. This hearing was called because New
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Speaker 1: Yorkers deserve answers about a rollout that confused thousands of
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Speaker 1: homeowners and forced many people to prove the city got
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Speaker 1: it wrong. The administration had no problem sending letters, publishing lists,
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Speaker 1: and putting people through a bureaucratic process, but when it
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Speaker 1: comes time to sit before the council, answer questions and
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Speaker 1: explain what happened, suddenly they are unavailable. Written testimony is
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Speaker 1: not accountability. So I guess that's what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: It's well, David, Yes, absolutely, this is an opportunity for
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Speaker 2: the administration to come and have questions put to them.
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Speaker 2: Let the public see. Let it be a natural back
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Speaker 2: and forth, not some manicured statement that's been gone over
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Speaker 2: twenty times before it was released. It's an attempt to
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Speaker 2: avoid questions. And the unfortunate part about this is the
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Speaker 2: last administration, the.
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Speaker 4: Adams administration, from time to time.
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Speaker 2: Did the same thing. They didn't send a rect they
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Speaker 2: just no show to hear and called by the Council,
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Speaker 2: and my colleagues on the progressive left were outraged about it.
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Speaker 2: I doubt they're going to be outraged today. There's going
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Speaker 2: to be a deafening silence coming from that wing of
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Speaker 2: the count So about this Mayor deciding not to show
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Speaker 2: up to a duly called hearing and basically answer for
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Speaker 2: himself in the actions of his administration, And that's his shame.
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Speaker 1: It is a shame. But the problem is so what
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he stood outside of Ken Griffin's residence,
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Speaker 1: which was every bit as bad as what he's doing today,
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Speaker 1: stood outside the guy's residence where the guy lived. Guy's
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Speaker 1: about to spend six billion dollars in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Now he's considering spending all that money in Miami. So
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Speaker 1: he did that. Now he's done this. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: no stopping this guy. He's a lunatic. He's a maniac,
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Speaker 1: and you know, It's funny, David, there are still people,
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Speaker 1: whether it's Errol lewis that racist bastard on New York One,
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Speaker 1: or others in the media that goddle the guy, like
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Speaker 1: Melissa Russo and Marshall Kramer, and actually people trying to
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Speaker 1: convince me he's doing a good job. I asked the
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Speaker 1: same question about Kathy Hokel yesterday. What has Mam Donnie
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Speaker 1: done in his nine months that is good the city
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Speaker 1: compared to all the things he's done to hurt the city.
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Speaker 2: Well, the reality is is that no one could really
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Speaker 2: say that he's doing a good job of the straight
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Speaker 2: face unless they're completely deluded. So I mean it's this
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Speaker 2: guy has promised new cops and then taken them away.
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Speaker 2: This guy promised free bus rides for the MTA, he's
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Speaker 2: never delivered. He promised to act differently than all of
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Speaker 2: the administrations of the past. He's shown that he has
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Speaker 2: complete contempt for oversight and separation of powers and accountability
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Speaker 2: in a way that's on precedence, and so he is
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Speaker 2: acting differently. The others acted much more responsibly, and he
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Speaker 2: ballooned the budget by ten billion dollars compared to last year.
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Speaker 2: So there's nothing about this guy's tenure in office in
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Speaker 2: this first year and this half year and change to
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Speaker 2: make anyone, I think with a sane mind think that
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Speaker 2: he deserves renomination or re election. And I think we
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Speaker 2: just have to keep making the case over the coming
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Speaker 2: three years three and a half years to stay to
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Speaker 2: the public. This is what you got, this is what
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Speaker 2: you brought on upon the city, brought upon yourselves in
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Speaker 2: the November twenty twenty five election. It's time for a change,
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Speaker 2: and drip by drip, you're starting to see the cracks
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Speaker 2: in the armor. And I think we're going to make
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Speaker 2: a really strong case of the voters next time we
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Speaker 2: have the opportunity that we need to change, and in
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Speaker 2: the interim, we just have to fight this guy every
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Speaker 2: step of the way on these terrible policies.
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Speaker 1: David Carr, Republican City council member, doing a great job here.
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Speaker 1: This morning. I happened to like, Dave, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: got a lady coming on this morning. Her name is
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Speaker 1: Jeanette Pick. She'll beyond about nine o'clock and her father
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Speaker 1: was killed on nine to eleven, and she is one
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Speaker 1: of the many, many thousands of people that have signed
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Speaker 1: the petition started by my new buddy Giovanni Galante to
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Speaker 1: keep this disgusting mayor away from that sacred site on
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven, so she'll come on and talk about that.
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Speaker 1: I did have one young lady on who wants him there,
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Speaker 1: but she also admitted to me that she would vote
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Speaker 1: for him if she lived in New York. And her
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Speaker 1: name is Elizabeth Miller. Either way, one of our old buddies,
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Speaker 1: and we've been to a bench. Well, he's spoken, and
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Speaker 1: we both supported this guy. This wretched scoundrel. Churis Slieva
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Speaker 1: comes out last week calls he nine to eleven families
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Speaker 1: sore losers. Basically, he says, suck it up, you vote
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Speaker 1: it with this guy. He should be there. He found
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Speaker 1: a way to malign me and Andrew Cuomo like he
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Speaker 1: always does. Did you see that video? Were you shocked?
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Speaker 2: I'm really disappointed by Curtis's remarks. I think that we
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Speaker 2: need to show real proper respect and reverence for the families.
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Speaker 2: And these families, you know, it's twenty five years on now,
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Speaker 2: they're still going through hell and this is probably the
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Speaker 2: worst day of the year for them every time it
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Speaker 2: comes around. And I think when you have someone who's
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Speaker 2: going to be there who's not going to be a
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Speaker 2: source of solace, not going to be a source of comfort,
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Speaker 2: then I think that that person should stay away. And
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Speaker 2: so I think the mayor should listen to what the
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Speaker 2: families are saying and sit this one out, because he's
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Speaker 2: not going to be adding anything to the proceedings. He's
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Speaker 2: only going to be harming people because of the associations
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Speaker 2: that he's had, the things that he said in the
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Speaker 2: past that you know, really make him an unacceptable quantity
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Speaker 2: to be there on such a solemn occasion. And he's
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Speaker 2: done that to himself. It's his choices over the years
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Speaker 2: that have really made him radioactive.
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Speaker 4: For these purposes.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I think he just needs to withdraw.
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Speaker 1: Yep, stay home, do us all the favor. So what
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Speaker 1: time does this big hearing start today? And you guys
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Speaker 1: are basically talking to nobody. I mean, you're talking to me,
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Speaker 1: you're talking to the price, but you're not talking to
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Speaker 1: any real big city officials. So I'm not exactly sure
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Speaker 1: outside of exposing the lies, and he lies about everything.
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Speaker 1: He got Tom Homan on yesterday, he lied about a
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Speaker 1: Trump administration decision. When it comes to miners having legal
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Speaker 1: defense in the city. He lied about that those miners,
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Speaker 1: a lot of them are twenty one year old men.
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Speaker 1: They're not six year old little girls with their dolls.
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Speaker 1: He starts, a filthy liar. So what do you expect
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Speaker 1: to accomplish it, being that you're basically speaking to nobody
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Speaker 1: but people like me.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think we're gonna have to put on the
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Speaker 2: record again everything that went wrong with the rollout of
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Speaker 2: this pieda tear attacks. I think we're going to have
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Speaker 2: to really call him on the carpet for not sending
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Speaker 2: even the most mid level of individuals to come and
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Speaker 2: speak on behalf of the administration. And the good part
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Speaker 2: about this is still that the public gets to come
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Speaker 2: and put on the record their frustrations, their concerns, and
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Speaker 2: what they would like to see moving forward. And that's
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Speaker 2: really a critical part here. So I think even at
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Speaker 2: the administration no shows as we expect, at least the
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Speaker 2: public gets to have their say about what's been happening.
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Speaker 1: Last one, I got some buddies on Staten Island text
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Speaker 1: to me right now. You know, the Brookenboro president was
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine and we got along great. And
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Speaker 1: then I had the balls and nerve to endorse Frank
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Speaker 1: Morano against his kid. His kid's a great kid. I
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Speaker 1: love Griffin, great kid. I just thought Frank was Oldham,
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Speaker 1: were prepared and would be better at it. And Frank
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Speaker 1: one one big by the way, and now Veto won't
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Speaker 1: talk to me anymore. Nothing doesn't return to text. I
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Speaker 1: mean nothing. Very disappointed, I must say in Vito Postsello,
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Speaker 1: who I thought was a bigger and better man. I'm
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Speaker 1: a father too and I'd be upset too. But it's
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Speaker 1: over right, so let's move on. But the rumor is
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Speaker 1: is that you now are already starting to make plans,
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Speaker 1: if not even more than that, maybe even campaign donations.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, to be the next Staten Island Borough president.
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Speaker 1: Can you confirm or deny that on this show this morning,
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Speaker 1: David Carr No.
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Speaker 2: I can absolutely confirm it said. I'm running, I opened
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Speaker 2: up my committee, we're fundraising, we're talking to the public.
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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's a long runway to twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: So one of the song you do hold on, so
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Speaker 1: one of the questions was asked by me. I'll of
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Speaker 1: the other guy like him. I don't know if you're
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Speaker 1: doing I don't care Johnny Tobacco, He's like, why is
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Speaker 1: he now already doing this three years in advance? And
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Speaker 1: you just said we're a long way offer three years away,
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Speaker 1: So why is that?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's always good to be prepared, and
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Speaker 2: I think it's good to let the public know what
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Speaker 2: your intentions are. Right, I'm nothing to hide. I'm being
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Speaker 2: completely transparent. I want to do this.
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Speaker 4: It's it's a.
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Speaker 2: Passion of mine to continue to serve Staten Island. It's
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Speaker 2: something I wanted to do ever since I'm a little kid.
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Speaker 2: I'm blessed to be doing it now as a council
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Speaker 2: member and as minority leader, and I just want to
15:22
Speaker 2: keep fighting for a better quality of life for the
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Speaker 2: place that I love and call home and that so
15:27
Speaker 2: many of my neighbors and friends and family do. So
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Speaker 2: for me, it's a it's a conversation worth having, and
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Speaker 2: it's worth having over the long haul.
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Speaker 4: And so I think, you know, the as they said, the.
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Speaker 2: Pool's warm, right, everybody can jump in, uh, And.
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Speaker 4: I you know it's it's it's just going to be.
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Speaker 4: I think a great campaign and I.
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Speaker 2: Look forward to continuing to serve the public.
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Speaker 1: I think You're a great guy. I really do. I
15:48
Speaker 1: think you'd be great at that job. I know you
15:50
Speaker 1: love Staten Island. You do, so you know you'll uh,
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Speaker 1: you'll love me. David Carr, this was a very important
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Speaker 1: conversation this morning. I appreciate you coming on. Good luck
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Speaker 1: to s afternoon. Although how much you can will you accomplish,
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. Actually exposing the mayor and getting
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Speaker 1: the lies on record and some of the really nasty
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Speaker 1: stuff that he's done does matter. So good luck this
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Speaker 1: afternoon and we will talk often in your endeavor for
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Speaker 1: what's coming up next. Thik you, David, Thank you, sir,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. David Carr right there, city council member
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Speaker 1: here on sidon Friends in the Morning, one of just
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Speaker 1: five Republicans out of fifty one on our city council.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing we get anything done. Although Julie Lennon, as
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Speaker 1: I've been doing a pretty good job as I played
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Speaker 1: even I would say that I know that she wasn't
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Speaker 1: very nice to me and my friend Vicky, but she
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Speaker 1: seems to be coming around. We'll see, got a long
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Speaker 1: way to go.
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