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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive | 04-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: As poor guy's been on hole forever. It's almost election time.
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  Speaker 1: The two time Nasal County executive, the current Nasau County executive,
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  Speaker 1: but my enthusiastic choice for governor and many others. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Almost every day somebody stops me says, boy, Bruce gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: I say, you gonna win. He's gonna win. So here
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  Speaker 1: he is, mister Governor, Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, are you a
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  Speaker 1: metman or a Yankee fan? And don't tell me both
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  Speaker 1: because you're about to be governor and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a metman or a Yankee fan?
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, I've been a Yankee fan my whole wife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, listen, I didn't know that you were
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  Speaker 2: friends with Randy Levine. What a great guy that guy is.
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  Speaker 1: He texted me literally forty five seconds ago because I
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  Speaker 1: texted him first. I thanked him for he's actually giving
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  Speaker 1: us his suite so he could have a charity event,
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  Speaker 1: our charity for Gabriel to this Parkshia DCD America Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: August of twenty second at the Stadium Yankees hosting the Jays.
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  Speaker 1: I hopefully he'll be there, Bruce. It'll be a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon for the Yanks. That type of guy Randy is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I've been to the stadium three or
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  Speaker 1: four times or ready this year in his suite two
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  Speaker 1: or three times. He is. He's just a lovely Everybody
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  Speaker 1: loves Randy Levine in this town.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, right, everybody does. First of all, Gabriel looks great.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him out Thank You with you and Danielle
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  Speaker 2: the other night. He looks terrific. But let me say
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  Speaker 2: this about Randy Levine. He's a great New Yorker. What
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  Speaker 2: he's done with the Yankees is remarkable. But what he
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  Speaker 2: does for charity and what he does for public service.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was appointed by President Trump to this
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  Speaker 2: commission that's looking to straighten out the chaos in college sports. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And if anybody can figure it out, Randy ken Because
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  Speaker 2: the nil's out of control, the transfer portals out of control.
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  Speaker 2: They got to do something or they'll destroy college sports.
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  Speaker 1: Sid Hi actually he started reaching out to Randy because
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  Speaker 1: of that, because I watched that day. I'm an avid
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  Speaker 1: sports guy like you. When I see President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson and Marco Rubil that I see Tiger Woods,
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  Speaker 1: Urban Meyer Nick Saban and oh my god, there's Randy Levine.
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  Speaker 1: Now what you just did. I know it's not the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing, Okay, but I'm being serious about this.
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  Speaker 1: This goes to show you how smart, diverse, short New
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  Speaker 1: York everything about you. What you just did, and I
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  Speaker 1: yell college Trump the White House. Kathy Hokeel couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: that in the Milanius. Now. I know she likes football.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I get it. She has fantasies about
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, the Buffalo Bills quarterback. I'm sick of hearing
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  Speaker 1: that too. Okay, enough with that. But when you look
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  Speaker 1: at Bruce Blateman, the all around guy is a boxer,
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  Speaker 1: loves his New York teams, big Yankee fan, big strong guy,
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  Speaker 1: saving Nassau County, making it the most the sapest county
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in America. Family involved in politics for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Your brother, very impressive guy too. When I look at
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  Speaker 1: the like the tail of the tape, like before a
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  Speaker 1: big boxing match between Hokeele and Blakeman, I'm gonna say this, Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: People are gonna say you just love Bruce. Maybe that's true,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even close.
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  Speaker 2: You killer, Well, this is the most unaffordable state in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Our electric bills are out of control,
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  Speaker 2: our taxes are out of control. Uh, it's just not
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  Speaker 2: a place where businesses want to create new jobs. So
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  Speaker 2: that changes on January one, when I become governor. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna cut tax I'm gonna cut you until he costs
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  Speaker 2: in half. But that's not what I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you about today, Sid because today, while we're on
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  Speaker 2: the subject of sports, I am announcing, for my fifth
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  Speaker 2: time as County Executive, the opening of the Games for
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  Speaker 2: the Physically Challenged. We sponsor that in Nasau County, for
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  Speaker 2: the whole metropolitan area, the whole state of New York,
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey, Connecticut. It's like a mini Olympics for everybody
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  Speaker 2: that has a disability. And you know, that's something that
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  Speaker 2: makes my job worthwhile to see these kids compete. It's
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  Speaker 2: pure athletics. They're great athletes. So you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: that's something that you love, and that's something that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing this morning. And I urge everybody, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to put a smile on your face, do you want
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  Speaker 2: to feel good about yourself, go out to the games.
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  Speaker 2: Sor they're physically challenged. I'll get you all the information
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  Speaker 2: on it said, but it's something that really puts a
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  Speaker 2: smile on my face. And I'm so happy to be
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  Speaker 2: doing it for the fifth time.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that is awesome. I love that stuff. Special Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: And you know when I go watch Daniel wn a marathon,
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  Speaker 1: for example, and I see people that don't have legs
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  Speaker 1: and they're able to complete the twenty six plus mile race.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know exactly what type of disabilities or
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  Speaker 1: ailments or physical limitations these brave people have that are
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  Speaker 1: about to compete in Nassau County. But anybody who watches
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, if you don't shut a tear, you're not human.
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  Speaker 1: It's just beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all the above. We have everything, any kind
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  Speaker 2: of disability, and uh, these kids compete, it's it's their
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  Speaker 2: day to shine. So uh so that's a great thing
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  Speaker 2: that we're doing here. And again it's not only just
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  Speaker 2: in Nassau County. We have athletes from Connecticut, New Jersey, uh,
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  Speaker 2: all over New York State and uh that's that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that you know, makes it worthwhile to
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  Speaker 2: get up every morning and go do your job.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's a one day event. Bruce, is it
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  Speaker 1: you give me the whole run done.
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  Speaker 2: It's a two day event. They bust the kids in,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're put up in dormitories and hotels and they
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  Speaker 2: they compete as if it was the Olympics. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: get you all the information on SID but it's a
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  Speaker 2: great thing. But getting back to Kathy Hoko, you know
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  Speaker 2: she wants to raise taxes on rich people. Again said
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  Speaker 2: when you raise taxes, aren't rich people. They have choices.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna buy a second home in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Miami, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: Boca Raton charge in South Carolina. They're not gonna stick
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  Speaker 2: around here. Kathy Hokho's gonna sock it to them. And
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna hurt our little local businesses, our dry cleaners,
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  Speaker 2: our restaurants, our pharmacies, the coffee shop. It's gonna hurt
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  Speaker 2: plumbers and carpenters. It's really a bad idea. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just more spend spend, spend tax, tax, tax make it
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  Speaker 2: less affordable for people to live in the state.
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  Speaker 1: And you made the point a lot lately, and you're
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  Speaker 1: right about it that she is more in tune with
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie than she sometimes wants us to believe she is.
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  Speaker 1: She's lockstep. So if she wins, if God forbid she wins,
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  Speaker 1: she won't. But if God forbid, she wins, and you
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  Speaker 1: think Mam Donnie has power and is bad. Now the
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  Speaker 1: two of them will absolutely speed up the destruction of
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  Speaker 1: this city and this state, no doubt in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Zooran Mundami is running the Democratic Party now, he's running
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  Speaker 2: the state of New York along with AOC and Kathy Hokal.
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  Speaker 2: Comrade Kathy, who is a person that is so scared
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  Speaker 2: of Mandami that she will do anything to please him,
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  Speaker 2: and she's demonstrated that time and time again. This guy
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  Speaker 2: wants to open up city grocery tours. He wants to
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  Speaker 2: take four years to open five grocery stores. John Katsibatiti's
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  Speaker 2: could open five grocery stores in three months for probably
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  Speaker 2: one fifth the price. He wants to spend thirty million
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  Speaker 2: dollars on city grocery stores. And Kathy just sits there
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  Speaker 2: nods her head's grins as if this was a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrible idea, terrible first, well, it's thirty million
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  Speaker 1: just for one So he said Initially, this liar that
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  Speaker 1: is going to court seventy million, which is an abajo
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  Speaker 1: fourteen million apiece to build one and every borough. As
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, only one is thirty million. Multiply that
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  Speaker 1: by five. Now you're spending one hundred and fifty which
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  Speaker 1: is more than twice of the seventy million. Plus he's
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  Speaker 1: already said a lot of the products inside those stores
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  Speaker 1: will be very expensive. So it's a complete mess. None
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  Speaker 1: of it makes sense, None of it makes any sense.
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  Speaker 1: So right now you're in a great position. People say
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  Speaker 1: to me, they go, let me ask you something. I
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  Speaker 1: love Bruce. He's the right guy again. He's strong, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a great track record. He wins in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 1: There are more Democrats than Republicans in Nasau County. Not
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  Speaker 1: only does Bruce Blateman win, he wins by a good amount.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly Democrats and independence in Nassau County like the
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  Speaker 1: work that you do. But I guess what they bring
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  Speaker 1: up is, does Bruce spend a lot of time in Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: in Rochester, in Albany, in Utica, in Binghamton and all
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  Speaker 1: those even Monticello, by my mom, all those places that
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  Speaker 1: are dying between no jobs and drugs. I say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're there all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I was in Scohari County last week, Skuyler County
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  Speaker 2: the week before that, Columbia County, Broom County, Albany County,
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  Speaker 2: Columbia County, you name it, I've been there. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: up to Plattsburgh in the North Country by the Canadian
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  Speaker 2: border this weekend. We are getting around my Lieutenant governor
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  Speaker 2: candidate Todd Hood, who's the sheriff of Madison County. He's
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  Speaker 2: a police hero, great guy. He's traveling all around the
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  Speaker 2: state with me. We're going together. Plus we break up,
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  Speaker 2: we hit different areas, so we cover twice as much territory.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, everywhere I go people are miserable with Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hogo and they want to change. They want a more
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  Speaker 2: affordable state. They want a safer state where we respect
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  Speaker 2: the blue. You know, Sid, I was thinking the other day,
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  Speaker 2: after this whole thing we've detected with Sergeant Duran, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you're more likely to go to prison
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  Speaker 2: as a cop in New York than you are as
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  Speaker 2: a criminal because Kathy Hoko would castles bail and raise
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  Speaker 2: the age and the halt Deck. She's soft on criminals,
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  Speaker 2: but they are intensely hard and I believe unfairly hard
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  Speaker 2: on our cops in this state.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. And that goes back to Cuomo. Two. Let
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  Speaker 1: me remind people they paroled about fifty cop killers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: forgetting about the guy screwing over a Stephanie Dillar or
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  Speaker 1: not getting Guy Rovera on murder one. Forget about this
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  Speaker 1: this idiot, Guy Mitchell sentencing Eric Durant to three to
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  Speaker 1: nine years. You got about fifty cop killers that are
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  Speaker 1: walking free in this state. So between Cuomo and Hokel,
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  Speaker 1: We've been in trouble for a long time. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying this. I mean this, Bruce. The only
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  Speaker 1: way this state and city survive is if you win.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot emphasize that enough. And let me remind Bill
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman on this show, on this show said last
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  Speaker 1: week first that when he wins, not if. When he wins,
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  Speaker 1: he will pardon Eric duran Let me remind folks too
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  Speaker 1: that these two amazing days that are coming up in
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County, That'll be Friday, May the twenty ninth and
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  Speaker 1: Saturday May the thirtieth. At the Mitchell Athletic Complex at
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  Speaker 1: Nasau Community College. Athletes will compete in track and field, swimming,
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  Speaker 1: wheelchair basketball, and more So. It's Friday May twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: and Saturday May the thirtieth at Nasau County Community College.
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  Speaker 1: As always, Bruce Blakeman, you're a mensch and you're gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure of that. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: When I do win, I'm gonna swear you in as
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  Speaker 2: mayor when you win the election against Montani.
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  Speaker 1: Fam I listen if you win. Now, excuse me again,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing when you win. And oh, Danielle is
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  Speaker 1: gonna kill me for saying this, but she's not to
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  Speaker 1: get over it. When you win, I'm gonna run. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you to Bruce. You're the kind of strong
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  Speaker 2: leader we need. Thank you, sid.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce, You're the absolute best. Thank you so much. We
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  Speaker 1: all love you. Next Governor of New York right Man,
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  Speaker 1: the current Nasau County executive, my dear friend, Bruce Blakeman votes.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only hope we've got. Trust me, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: being ovally dramatic. I'm not exaggerating. You want to save
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  Speaker 1: this city and save this state. You go vote for
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman and pray to Hashim or Jesus any good
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  Speaker 1: You've got that Bruce Blakeman is our next governor.
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