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Joann Ariola | NYC Councilwoman District 32 on Mayor Mamdani Trying to Make 9/11 All About Himself · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Joanne Ariola happens to be our councilwoman where I live
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  Speaker 1: in lou lives out there in Queen's She does a
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  Speaker 1: spectacular job and there's a whole bunch of issues we
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  Speaker 1: need to talk about right now.
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  Speaker 2: Johanne, welcome back to sitting friends in the morning. How
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  Speaker 2: are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm great and it's so great to be back. Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: sid Nah, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Sweet look for starters. I got a picture last night as.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to loud thunder and watching lightning and
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  Speaker 1: watching my daughter's bedroom leak again of a tornado in
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  Speaker 1: the waters right on neighborhood A. What a hectic couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours last night. Is there a lot of damage
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  Speaker 1: This morning.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of damage. And the tornado actually was
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  Speaker 3: in various portions of the district and on into Long Island,
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  Speaker 3: over an Atlantic beach. It wiped out the sun and
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  Speaker 3: served Beach Club. But one of the biggest tornados was
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  Speaker 3: right behind my office you know where that is on
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  Speaker 3: Beach one twelve street offices on Beach Channel Drive, right
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  Speaker 3: behind that, and a friend of mine was out there
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  Speaker 3: taking a video of it. I guess he's a tornado
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  Speaker 3: chaser and sent it over. But it took your breath
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  Speaker 3: away because this is not something that we're accustomed to.
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  Speaker 3: But it did significant damage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that one point nine, which is the
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  Speaker 1: one commercial block with all those great restaurants, the Sorrentina's
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  Speaker 1: and Pico and Cali's and all those great spot My
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  Speaker 1: buddy Robbie Soacido's place, they lost power right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and there was powered out yas that were trees down.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was a terrible and it lasted a
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  Speaker 3: significant amount of time. That was the other thing. I
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  Speaker 3: had just actually left the peninsula and within fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 3: of reaching the mainland, I was starting to get videos. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You know one story before we get to the ams
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  Speaker 1: stuff that brought up yesterday, which I know you really
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  Speaker 1: care about because you're a great American, and that is
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  Speaker 1: this story about this big to do at Berry Hawk Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: which we owned, John Katzmatiti's on Staten Island, where the
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  Speaker 1: FDNY is going to have this gathering of victims family
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  Speaker 1: a shuit. Remember family members are victims who were killed
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  Speaker 1: nine to eleven going out there to speak. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's a day or two before the actual nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven date, and they expect it to be about
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  Speaker 1: four hours long. And as it turns out, the mayor's
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  Speaker 1: office got involved and the fire commissioner Lilyan something or
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  Speaker 1: other I don't care, and they cut it from four
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  Speaker 1: hours to two hours. They're making the family members of
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  Speaker 1: the victims record their messages so the mayor will have
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  Speaker 1: more time to speak live. I mean, I'm bending over backwards,
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  Speaker 1: and you are too, Joanne, with people like Giovanni Galante
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  Speaker 1: to keep the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Away from the sacred soil of the Freedom Tower nine
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  Speaker 2: to eleven. And now this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Is making sure that that ceremony on Staten Island's going
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  Speaker 1: to be cut short so he can speak.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: So it's not right at all.
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  Speaker 4: That's a ceremony that should go on as planned. Let's
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  Speaker 4: just try to put it into context.
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  Speaker 3: He wants everyone else's statement to be on video, but
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  Speaker 3: his is live, I imagine, and it will be longer.
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  Speaker 3: Why because he cannot face those people. He cannot face
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  Speaker 3: the people who lost loved ones in nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: He knows he doesn't belong there, he knows they're going
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  Speaker 3: to turn their backs on him. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: hear the booze. This is a very thin skinned mayor,
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  Speaker 3: so he will orchestrate an event that makes him look
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  Speaker 3: like a hero. He will never be a hero.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, he's a low life. Andy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to comment, I killed her yesterday, But
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to if you don't want to, you
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  Speaker 1: have to work with her.
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  Speaker 2: But I killed her yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Menin, you're a speaker coming out and saying that
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  Speaker 1: the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Deserves to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Why why you know the mayor he's got to absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: he's got to balance the budget, he's got to run
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  Speaker 1: the police department. He's got job description things he's got
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  Speaker 1: to do. There's nothing in the mayor's job description that
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  Speaker 1: says he needs to be there nine to eleven. And
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  Speaker 1: don't tell me every other mayor has been there. Every
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  Speaker 1: other mayor doesn't hang out with usan piker. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you think about Men's comments?
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  Speaker 3: I honestly didn't take the speaker's comments to heart. I
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  Speaker 3: only take to heart the comments from the family members
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  Speaker 3: who lost their loved ones. That's the only opinion that matter. Answer,
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  Speaker 3: not anybody who's on television saying, oh, well, he's the
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  Speaker 3: mayor and we all know who was saying that or
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  Speaker 3: anyone else who's putting this on Facebook. The people who
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  Speaker 3: lost their loved ones don't want him there, and that's
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  Speaker 3: enough of a reason for me to not want him there,
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  Speaker 3: the overwhelming majority.
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  Speaker 2: But that was a great answer. You're good at this,
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  Speaker 2: you know that you're in You're not bad. Maybe s
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  Speaker 2: Truan for office. One day, I saw this.
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  Speaker 3: May give it a try.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, give it a try.
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  Speaker 1: Your friend Phillis Intuella, who's also a terrific sent me
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  Speaker 1: this story. New York City nine to one one system
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  Speaker 1: glitch block nearly seventeen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: This can't be right. Seventeen hundred emergency calls for seven hours.
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  Speaker 2: That can't be right. Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's right, Oh, it's right. Seven hours.
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  Speaker 4: So there is a unit in it's a facility in.
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  Speaker 3: The Bronx called PSAC two, and it's the Public Safety
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  Speaker 3: Answering System, and it is one of the few centers
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  Speaker 3: that are run by the Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation,
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  Speaker 3: not the NYPD, and it had a major breakdown by
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  Speaker 3: three am. People were calling nine one one and they
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  Speaker 3: were able to get through, but the operator couldn't hear them,
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  Speaker 3: and they couldn't hear the operator. And this goes on
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  Speaker 3: for seven hours, seven hours without notifying a responding agency
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  Speaker 3: within his own administration that there is a big a breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: So think about it. For seven hours New Yorkers, some
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  Speaker 3: of whom may have been critically ill, did not have
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  Speaker 3: a working nine to eleven system to bring them the
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  Speaker 3: life saving services that they needed. It was fixed a
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  Speaker 3: little after ten But here's when, here's where I really
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  Speaker 3: it blows my mind even further. It's fix by ten am,
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  Speaker 3: but they decide to at ten am route the calls
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  Speaker 3: to Brooklyn. Why didn't they route the calls to Brooklyn
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  Speaker 3: during those seven hours?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: They just let it go. They let it go into
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  Speaker 3: complete silence, and PD didn't know about it. They realized
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  Speaker 3: it about nine am, and FDMY was alerted about twelve pm,
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  Speaker 3: which again I will say it was already rectified because
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  Speaker 3: they were getting GD calls for assaults and a battery
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  Speaker 3: and emotionally to serve persose. Now the agency started to
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  Speaker 3: talk to each other and there was complete and utter mayhem,
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  Speaker 3: while the Mayor's office remained mum. So is it that
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  Speaker 3: is unaccepted?
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  Speaker 2: I agree?
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  Speaker 1: So is it fair to say when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the snowstorms here and the opera people died.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's not a job.
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  Speaker 3: People died.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the streets in New York City and
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  Speaker 1: the garbage is piled so high every Sunday night, every
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning that it's really disgusting. Is it fair to
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  Speaker 1: say that this one, like the others, falls on the mayor?
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  Speaker 4: It all falls on the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Every agency and whether they're doing a good job or
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  Speaker 3: a bad job, falls on the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: But what I found so interesting I saw.
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  Speaker 3: In one of the news channels last night. I had
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  Speaker 3: been interviewed by Channel two News on a different topic,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end the commentators started to talk about
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  Speaker 3: this nine to one one breakdown, and the commentator said
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  Speaker 3: that when they called the Mayor's office, they blamed it
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  Speaker 3: on Motorola, who is their provider. Now this has become
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  Speaker 3: such standard operating procedure for the mayor. He is guilty
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  Speaker 3: of nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: He's the golden child. His mom and dad told him
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  Speaker 3: how grat he was.
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  Speaker 2: And he believed he bought it.
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  Speaker 1: He blames that story, and he blames everyone everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, every single issue that happens in this city,
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  Speaker 1: which clearly falls under him, he finds a way to
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  Speaker 1: blame somebody else. And a lot of times, as you
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  Speaker 1: know Joanne and Ariola, he blames his own people. He
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  Speaker 1: ows his own people under the.
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  Speaker 3: Bus, right, He'll pick a staffer and throw him under
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  Speaker 3: the bus. But you know what, leaders lead from the front,
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  Speaker 3: sid and you have to stand there and say, look,
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  Speaker 3: we screwed up. But he didn't. He's up in Neanderada
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  Speaker 3: at a Rundacks and hiking in the Adaronjacks.
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  Speaker 4: So you know what, I say, take a hike, mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 4: take a hike.
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  Speaker 2: That is great.
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  Speaker 1: I also say, Mom, Donnie hijacked nine to eleven, which
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  Speaker 1: is you know, a rough word, I know, especially with
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  Speaker 1: what the family's went.
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  Speaker 2: Through, but that's what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: Take a hike. I really like that one. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: about Intro nine to ninety and the Minutes Matter Bill
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  Speaker 1: looks like, Joanne, you're gonna try to help.
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  Speaker 2: Us with this issue we just experienced. What's aw's all
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  Speaker 2: about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really does lends to the importance of the Minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Matter Bill, because we were getting notifications at our office
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  Speaker 3: over the summer that at some point in time. On
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  Speaker 3: many occasions, the NYPDEMS were holding eight hundred calls, seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred calls, six hundred calls, and that's impossible to overcome.
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  Speaker 3: And so immediately, you know, you mentioned Phillis. She is
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  Speaker 3: an amazing chief of staff friend, legislator. She writes the legislation.
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  Speaker 3: She said, we really need to do something about this.
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  Speaker 3: So she got on her computer and she put in
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  Speaker 3: a legislation for the Minutes Matter Bill. And what it
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  Speaker 3: would do is require the Office of Emergency Management, which
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  Speaker 3: our committee also oversees, to issue an emergency notification anytime
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  Speaker 3: fdny EMS has more than twenty five pending ambulance dispatches,
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  Speaker 3: and that the notification would be on a non emergency
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  Speaker 3: resource like the Note of NYC that we're always touting.
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  Speaker 3: I know that I subscribe to.
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  Speaker 4: Notify NYC on Facebook and on x and.
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  Speaker 3: It is very informative. And if the calls go up
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  Speaker 3: over six hundred to seven hundred, then it becomes a
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  Speaker 3: state of emergency and then.
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  Speaker 4: You will see it on your TV, on your radio,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on your phones.
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  Speaker 3: Where we get those state of emergency alerts. If there
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  Speaker 3: is a.
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  Speaker 4: Hurricane or a tornado coming that that.
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  Speaker 3: Should happen, because not only would it alert you, it
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  Speaker 3: would give you options and give you a realistic expectation
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  Speaker 3: asaid how long it would take for an ambulance to
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  Speaker 3: get to you if you as you are a loved
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  Speaker 3: one or sick. So you have options then to call
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  Speaker 3: over to north Well.
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  Speaker 4: And get an ambulance, to make the hospital and.
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  Speaker 3: Get an ambulance, call a private ambulance, call your volunteer
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  Speaker 3: fire fire, an ambulance Core to come and get get you.
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  Speaker 3: This gives you options so that you're not being thrown
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  Speaker 3: in a car like our officer Diller was and he
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  Speaker 3: lost his life. And just recently we had two instances
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  Speaker 3: where a twenty two year old man who had had
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  Speaker 3: an overdose, we're going to wait twenty five minutes for
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  Speaker 3: an ambulance and he did not make it. And then
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  Speaker 3: another man died in police custody. He was having some
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  Speaker 3: type of medical emergency. And this was in the twenty
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  Speaker 3: fifth precincts in Harlem and they called around twelve twenty
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  Speaker 3: and it took twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Minutes for an ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: To get there. When you were having a heart attack,
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  Speaker 3: a stroke, or an asthma attack, that means you don't
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  Speaker 3: you don't make it so you know, this type of
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  Speaker 3: bill would a hold the EMS accountable and then also
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  Speaker 3: give us the knowledge we need to make sure we
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  Speaker 3: get our loved ones to a hospital safely. But why
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  Speaker 3: do we have these backlogs? That's the even bigger question.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we have these backlogs Because the mayor of
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  Speaker 3: New York City does not want to pay EMS more
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  Speaker 3: than eighteen dollars an hour to save your life, so
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  Speaker 3: they can't maintain their their members. They immediately go up
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  Speaker 3: to fdmyp they HiT's despicable. These for guys. They go
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  Speaker 3: out every day and save lives for eighteen dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 3: So what happens is with the greatest training grounds in
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  Speaker 3: the world, we train lifeguards, they go to Nassau County and.
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  Speaker 4: They go to the National Park Service.
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  Speaker 3: We train EMS workers. They go to fire department, or
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  Speaker 3: they go out to Nassau County where they'll get paid
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  Speaker 3: more money, or.
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  Speaker 4: Up to Westchester.
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  Speaker 3: We need to pay our EMS workers more money so
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  Speaker 3: that we're not down in staffing. We need to pay
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  Speaker 3: them so they will make it their career and that
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  Speaker 3: they will have retention. And additionally, we have to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that the ambulances are working properly. We're understaffed at
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  Speaker 3: the maintenance yard. These ambulances sometimes don't work. You could
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  Speaker 3: put fifteen ambulances out on a night and only one
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  Speaker 3: is working. And we're working on something on something right now.
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  Speaker 3: But to get back to the nine to one one calls,
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  Speaker 3: this calls for city council hearing. And I had a.
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  Speaker 4: Conversation with Speakerman and we will be.
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  Speaker 3: Doing in the early in early September.
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  Speaker 4: A joint hearing, Fire and Emergency Management.
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  Speaker 3: Public safety, government ops, and technology will do a public
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  Speaker 3: will do a joint hearing. And asked the Mayor's Office
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  Speaker 3: of Technology and Innovation to be there and said, let's
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  Speaker 3: hope they show up.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 1: We just had a big city council meeting a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago on that second home tax. And I
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  Speaker 1: know the mayor is on vacation, but not one rep,
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  Speaker 1: not one rep from his office showed up. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you did a great job in Frank Morano when
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  Speaker 1: Ino vernacovvol you guys, and Vicky hamp David Cohn hammered,
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  Speaker 1: hammered the Mayor's office. But the coward that he is
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  Speaker 1: nobody from his off.
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  Speaker 2: This was there nobody.
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  Speaker 3: It's disgraceful. We are a legislative body, we're an oversight body.
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  Speaker 3: And yet he sent a five page document that was
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  Speaker 3: read into the record minutely. I would not have read
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  Speaker 3: it into the record. I would have filed it, yep,
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  Speaker 3: and that would have been it. And it would have
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  Speaker 3: been however many hours that lasted. It would have been
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  Speaker 3: an absolute condemnation session of how the mayor is running
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  Speaker 3: this city. So you cannot be behind the curtain and
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  Speaker 3: run this city. You have to be there. You have
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  Speaker 3: to answer. And because they did not send anybody and
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  Speaker 3: they just sent the statement to me, it meant that
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  Speaker 3: they could not defend their actions.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Guilty, guilty, That's what it meant.
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  Speaker 1: Look, the guys at Jerkoff, I hate to use that word,
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  Speaker 1: but you live in Howard Beach, the guys at Jerkof. Joanne,
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  Speaker 1: I love you, I do. I think you're terrific. I
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  Speaker 1: really don't you. To keep up the great work and
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  Speaker 1: really keep body out there every day. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you and keep uplifting these issues. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: You got it, cheat it, John Ariola right there. Terrific
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  Speaker 1: counsel lady from our area. Thank you, Joanne and Fellis.
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