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Mark interviews NY State Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark simon On seventy tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Jake blumen Krantz, very popular assemblyman State Assembly. He's
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  Speaker 2: from Oyster Bay. He might have seen a lot of
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  Speaker 2: him on television and everywhere lately. Served with Mamdanie. Can
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  Speaker 2: give us some insight into that whole phenomenon. And he's
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  Speaker 2: with us right now, Jake blumen Krantz. How you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey. Also, you're a young guy. How old are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty nine and you're in the State Assembly. Mamdannie is
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  Speaker 2: thirty four. We're seeing more and more of this. What
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  Speaker 2: is this new phenomenon of all these very young public servants.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think when you see issues go unaddressed by
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  Speaker 1: establishment candidates on either side of the aisles, as a
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  Speaker 1: young person, you got to step in and you got
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  Speaker 1: to say this isn't right. We have solutions, we have answers,
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  Speaker 1: and in reality, my answers and Mayor elect Mondomi's answers
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  Speaker 1: are different. But I think that the sentiment that things
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  Speaker 1: need to change is the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're used to these Sheldon Silver, Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: old men with the glasses all flogged up, kind of
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  Speaker 2: people in the government. But good, so it's good to see.
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  Speaker 2: Hey tell us about Mam Donnie. You served with Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of him back then? I do.
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  Speaker 1: He's been an assemblyman with me since I started. Interesting character.
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  Speaker 1: I think what I'd say to anyone who asked me
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  Speaker 1: that question is he means what he says, and he
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  Speaker 1: says what he means. He's an ideological guy, and he
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  Speaker 1: believes a lot of the rhetoric that he espouses. And
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate as a Jewish legislator to see someone like him
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  Speaker 1: rise so prominently because he introduced legislation like not on
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  Speaker 1: my Dime, which would effectively empower the AG's office to
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  Speaker 1: hurt Jewish charities and not for profits for supporting Israel,
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  Speaker 1: among many other very dangerous pieces of legislation. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: a new place of power, we're gonna have to see
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  Speaker 1: what he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you were two young guys there up in Albany
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  Speaker 2: in the Assembly. Did you have any a lot of
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  Speaker 2: personal interaction with him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did interact quite a bit, and I say
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  Speaker 1: he's a very cordial person. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, my concern with him is his policy proposals
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  Speaker 1: and his incorrect solutions to the correct problems. We do
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with affordability, but I don't think the free, free,
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  Speaker 1: free parade is one that is either effective or going
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  Speaker 1: to solve the problems he hopes to solve.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you might get some naive voters, But Mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: as bad as he is, seems like a very high
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  Speaker 2: IQ sort of a guy. Why wouldn't a guy like
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  Speaker 2: that know the history of socialism and its failures.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he might be not necessarily looking at its failures,
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  Speaker 1: but populism at large is what is a play in
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  Speaker 1: his campaign. He's telling people what they want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: They want to hear that your rent will go down,
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  Speaker 1: they want to hear that groceries are too expensive. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's tapping into the affordability message in a way
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  Speaker 1: that people appreciate. My problem with it is, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: he is not paying attention to the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: history of socialism. It's very easy to win O for
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  Speaker 1: voters when you have a message like that, but it's
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  Speaker 1: very hard to govern.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, take Bloomin Cram. You're an assemblyman. You're a Republican
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  Speaker 2: up there in Albany in the Assembly with very few
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  Speaker 2: Republicans up there, How does it feel? How tough is
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  Speaker 2: it being a Republican in that legislature.
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  Speaker 1: It's always an uphill battle because they have a supermajority,
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  Speaker 1: a veto proof supermajority right now, and at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, even if the governor doesn't feel compelled
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  Speaker 1: to pass many of his agenda points, if he manages
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  Speaker 1: to convince enough of our colleagues in the Assembly and
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  Speaker 1: Senate to do what he wants to do, her hands
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  Speaker 1: will be tied. And that'll be a big question for
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  Speaker 1: her as she runs for reelection this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, but this socialism, this mom, Donnie, it's not
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  Speaker 2: just him, There's a bunch of them all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: What is this socialism creeping into democratic politics?
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  Speaker 1: So the DSA is an organization, the Democratic Socialists of
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  Speaker 1: America that continues to have a pernicious effect on the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party. They are on the rise in New York State.
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  Speaker 1: In many races in the city, we don't even run
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  Speaker 1: Republican candidates because there's not enough voters that and there's
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  Speaker 1: not enough candidates that we have to run, which allows
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  Speaker 1: them to take a hold and combat the Democrats from
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  Speaker 1: the far left and it's become a race left with
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  Speaker 1: no finish line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let me get back to we're talking
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  Speaker 2: with Assemblyman Jake blumen Krantz. You said Mandani means what
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  Speaker 2: he says. Can we at least hope maybe it's he's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of talk but not much action, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: it won't be as bad as we think.
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  Speaker 1: I think with any mayor who has as as strong
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  Speaker 1: proposals as mister Mandamie does, there will be questions as
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  Speaker 1: to what is possible and what is impossible, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that comes with participation from the state legislature. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see if there are commer heads up north in Albany
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  Speaker 1: than there are in the city, and that would determine
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  Speaker 1: whether or not he's able to really fulfill much of
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  Speaker 1: his promises or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and now he's appointed his first deputy mayor. It's a
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  Speaker 2: guy named Dean Fulahan, who was Deblasio's first deputy mayor.
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  Speaker 2: But this is problem with this ful Ofhan. He apparently
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  Speaker 2: is very plugged in up there in Albany to the
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  Speaker 2: legislature and can get things done. Did you ever have
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  Speaker 2: any dealings with him?
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  Speaker 1: I never, personally don't him, but I'd say that mister
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  Speaker 1: Mondamie going to play a really smart Albany game. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the really dangerous thing for New Yorkers and for
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  Speaker 1: many who are concerned that his policies are detrimental to
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  Speaker 1: us and the problems that he hopes to solve.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, you're not exactly cheering this up, but
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. We want you to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to paint a bleak picture, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think that we as Republicans, we need to win
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  Speaker 1: on the battlefield of ideas with new ideas. We can't
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  Speaker 1: just say no, his policies are bad. We need to
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  Speaker 1: truly propose and try it and act real change for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of affordability. People are struggling out there. People
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  Speaker 1: can't afford their groceries. We do need to come up
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  Speaker 1: with the proposals that work and fight against ones that don't.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if we don't
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  Speaker 1: have new messaging and new ideas and new voices coming
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  Speaker 1: into the pray, it'll be a difficult task.
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  Speaker 2: But you look at this affordability crisis across America. It
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  Speaker 2: seems to always be in the blue cities and the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat solutions usually lead to this crisis. So how do
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  Speaker 2: you message that, How do you make that clear that
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  Speaker 2: they pretty much caused You have to be you have.
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  Speaker 1: To be tactful, and you have to realize that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: even in urban areas, the logic can prevail. Mayor Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: Grant as a Republican who was a physical conservative who
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  Speaker 1: wanted to rain in some of the spending to be
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  Speaker 1: a prolific builder. And we saw that, and we saw
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  Speaker 1: the city in sort of a golden age, and it's
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  Speaker 1: important we want to try and focus on bringing ourselves
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  Speaker 1: back to those times and bring ourselves back to the
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  Speaker 1: ideas of safety and affordability as paramount.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, it tell us about serving in the Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: How is that? Is it full time when you're an
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  Speaker 2: assemblyman or is it a part time thing? You're not
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  Speaker 2: there every day.
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  Speaker 1: We're up there for about six months a year. And
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to making sure that our budget priorities
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  Speaker 1: are in place and making sure we're getting what we
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  Speaker 1: need for our communities. And we work closely in a
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan way to do that when we can as part
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  Speaker 1: of the minority caucus. But have we still managed to
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  Speaker 1: get some great accomplishments done. We're just fighting the good fight.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, good stuff. And you're an Oyster Bay right,
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  Speaker 2: I love Oyster Bay, great.
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  Speaker 1: Town, yes, beautiful Long Island absolutely yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, good luck, keep up the good fight.
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  Speaker 2: You're one of the few Republicans up there in all
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  Speaker 2: beneath Jake bloom and Grants, thanks for being.
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  Speaker 1: With us, Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: All right, take care. All right, that that wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: most encouraging thing. But way we want him to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I keep I want to think that Mom
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  Speaker 2: Donnie's going to be like the Blasio who was bad,
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  Speaker 2: but it wasn't as bad as we thought it might be.
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  Speaker 2: Because remember the good thing about the Blasio. Well here's
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  Speaker 2: the only difference. So the good thing about the Blasi
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  Speaker 2: he just never showed up for work. Remember he would
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  Speaker 2: go to the gym. He'd wake up like nine in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, go to the gym till noon. Then he
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  Speaker 2: went to that coffee place in Brooklyn, hang out there
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  Speaker 2: chopin city Hall about three o'clock, take a nap, wake
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  Speaker 2: up and leave and go home. It was about his
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  Speaker 2: whole day. The only problem with is Mom Donnie younger,
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  Speaker 2: more energetic guy. He might actually be doing stuff all
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  Speaker 2: day and night. Now, the good news is he's never
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  Speaker 2: had a job in his life. He's never been an executive,
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  Speaker 2: he's never been a manager, So that hopefully means he
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  Speaker 2: won't know how to execute anything or get anything actually done.
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  Speaker 2: The bad news is he's got all these exta Blasio
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  Speaker 2: people running city Hall, first Deputy mayor, Dean Fulhand. These
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  Speaker 2: guys actually know how to execute. So anyway, the good
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  Speaker 2: news is Jessica Tish will stay as police commissioner. We're
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  Speaker 2: assuming that they had a number of conversations. We're assuming
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  Speaker 2: she wouldn't have agreed if this is just going to
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  Speaker 2: be a couple of months, so you can probably assume
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  Speaker 2: she'll be there for at least a year or two
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  Speaker 2: or three. So that's the good news. Anyway. Buck and
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