Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin.

Transcript

Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Where uuor comes for common sense?
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone on w Well, Michael Goodwin, the finest columnist
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: in America. You're gonna read them every Sunday, every Wednesday
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: in the New York Post. And he's with us every Monday.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Good morning? Mark too?
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, what a column about mayor mom, Donnie. He's busy
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: with all sorts of things except what should be his
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: big focus right now, taking care of the homeless. Didn't
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: he promise to do that?
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? But at the same time he vowed that
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: he would not remove the encampments, And people might recall
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: that twenty of the homeless people died FROs to death
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: on the streets during the winter storms. And now here
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: we are, of course, in the good weather, hot weather,
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: and his campmons are spreading every weather the real Someone
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: suggested we call them Mondaneville. Right that there are just
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: into the lock I wrote about on the west side,
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: the far west side, nearly intrunded. I mean, it's amazing,
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: you've got blocks full of this shantytown material and people.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: But of course the filth, littering, petty crime, just the
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: whole eye sore import on the local business and citizens.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Is really outrageous, but it's condoned by the mayor.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: But explain this to me, the socialist mayor that never
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: hesitates for the government to take control of people's lives, taxes,
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: regulate us, tell us what we can do step in
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: government control with everybody else, Why not with the homeless
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: who might need it the most.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're looking for consistency, you're expected
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: too much. Look, you know, socialism is all about control,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: and so in this sense, it is the lack of
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: control that imposes a control on the citizens itself, right
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: on the neighborhood, and just the tax players who look
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: at this and say, what am I doing here? Why
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: am I paying taxes? And I have to lay next
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: to this filth, walk through it, look at it, smell it,
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: and be afraid of it. That's one of the drawbacks
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: of socialism. It's not reasonable. It is never negotiating its
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: tenants with the people who pay the bills.
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you know, I kept saying, well, it's not
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: so bad with mom, Donnie, but it's only six months, right,
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: with this kind of stuff that you're talking about two
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: years am Now this could be a look like San
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Francisco with homeless everywhere in the street, couldn't it?
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah? And you know, Mark, I think I wrote
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: that column recalling an interview I did with Eric Adams
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: just before he left office, and he was very upset
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: that Mam Daddy was going to be the mayor. And
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: he said, people don't understand how much power a mayor has.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: So a mayor can simply say to the NYPD, don't
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: make prostitution arrests on the street, don't arrest people from
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: misdemeanor crimes, right, and don't rouse the homeless. And he said,
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: when people start to see this spreading in their neighborhoods
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: where there's open prostitution, open drug sales, or the homeless,
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: they're going to maybe finally wake up and realize the
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: mistake they made in electing him.
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we never thought he'd missed Eric Adams, did we?
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: But we do.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So that's a good point.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: You got real problems like that legioneer's disease Upper East Side.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: Now it's been spotted on the Upper West Side. Shouldn't
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: the mayor be all over this? Shouldn't his team be
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: inspecting every water tower in You shouldn't do things like
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: that more.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Well, also this question of the high rise building right
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: that risk buckling. You don't get a sense of any
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: effort to reform the public systems that maybe overlooked or
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: did new their jobs. When it comes to these kinds
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: of things, everything falls on the private sector and the
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: government basically bears no responsibility until the mayor decides or
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to take responsibility for your private property, or
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: we're going to impose mandate. So there's no give and
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: take here, there's only takes.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Of course you're talking about the permitting process given
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: out building permits on which is a major source of
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: revenue for politicians. I don't think they're going to touch
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: that to you.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: Well, the developers and the businesses are big political contributors,
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: and the mayor basically can't go to war with all
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: of them and expect to raise money. I mean, George
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Soros can't do it all by himself. So I think
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: usually mayors come to the table with something of a
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: give and take out you do this, will do this.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: But when mom Dani, there's none of that. There's no
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: reasonable negotiation over the way the city works. Is his
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: way or the highway?
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Hey, for Democrats out there, shouldn't they be fuming
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: furious at the leaders at Hakeem Jeffreys, at Chuck Schumer
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: for allowing these crazy socialists and Democrats to flourish in
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: their party, I mean humor basically hiding under his desk
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: the last few years. Aren't they the real enemy of
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: the Democrats? That these leaders that let.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: It happen what they are and I think what was
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: the market was sort of like they taught by letting
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the ao cs and uh Omar and Televe and the
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: others into the party, they were effectively colerating the left
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: and sort of drawing alive of the Republicans. In fact,
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: the guard dogs ate the owners. That's what happened there.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: You know that these people have turned on the Democratic
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: Party and are now on the verge of over, of
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: taking it over. And those sidelining the Shumers, uh and
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: people like that Takim sufferings. I mean, they're like turning
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: them into messengers for their for their control of the party.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: I just say Schumer's hiding under his death I think
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Jefferies went away to try to learn how to speak
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: socialists because he cannot elect anybody, anybody he endorses is
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: it's just dead meat as far as the Socialists are concerned.
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: Well, the only good thing on the horizon is Bruce Blakeman,
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: who's within six points now seven points maybe of Kathy Hopele.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: If Blakeman were to win, don't you think that's the
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: turning point? It could also the tide could start to.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Turn there absolutely. I mean the governor has lego power,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: line diso power. George Pataki won in a lawsuit against
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: the Democrats in the Assembly and really so when it
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: comes to the budget, he can line on them things
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: out in detail with a line on him, and so
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: that gives you real power. And le Zellen when he
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: was writing four years ago, talked about that that's important
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: power that a governor can have. So even if you
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: have a split government in terms of Democrats and Republicans,
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: everybody has some power, and the governor has a lot
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: of power. So look, I would like to see Bruce
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: Clayton step up the game. I think the polls are encouraging,
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: but I think there's a sense mark that he needs
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: to do out there more. He needs to be making
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: more news and be more visible so the readers of
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: the media and things like that get a sense people
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: don't call over every day, but get a sense that
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: there is an alternative to the Hoko Mamzani pokes, which
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: is overtaking this state as well as the city.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, you know, people say that Alton Blakeman's got to
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: get out there. Nobody's out there more than Blakeman. I mean,
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: I look at his schedule. He's all over the state.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: He's doing everything every day. If the media, the mainstream media,
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: isn't going to cover it, what does he do about that?
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a very big issue that and I think
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: part of the thing it convincing the media that it's
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: a real race, that he's a serious contender with a
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: real choice, And I think the polls are beginning to
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: show that. But if they consistently show it to a
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: real race, the media will get it more coverage, and
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: that I think will be to his advantage because most
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: voters are unhappy with the current situation and I'll be,
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: But I think there's still a little time for Blakeman
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: to make the case in a way think gains the
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: wider coverage, and I hope that happens soon.
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: Well we do too. Blakeman would be great for governor well,
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, great column. You can read Michael Goodwin every
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post. All
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: of his columns are up in the New Post website.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: You can go there and read them all. Michael Goodwin,
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Thank you. Mark.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: All right, take care. Hey, we got a lot coming up.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: We'll get to If you're Johnny Carson fan, make sure
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: you're listening to the next hour. You got a lot
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: of Johnny Carson stuff. We'll get to FIFA and this
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: legioneire is. We'll go over this in the next hour,
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: exactly how it happened, What happens where this lesionaires is
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: what you need to know about. It will give you
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: all of that. Hey, to noon today, Buck and Clay Buck, Sexton,
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Clay Travis. It's a really good show every day from
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: noon to three. Then at three o'clock you got the
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hannity, got
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly every night six to nine, nine o'clock, Jimmy Fala,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: the great, great comedian, really good talk show host. And
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: you combine these two things, you get a very funny,
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: great talk show every night at nine right here on
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: seven to ten WR