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One Leg Up 6-30-24 : Why Don’t We Charge Anti-Semitic Protesters Congestion Pricing For Blocking NYC Streets · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, while I was not feeling too
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  hot, you know, at the gallstones and getting that under control and recovering,
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  something big happened that would have that does impact today and should be celebrated
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  today. And that is the fact that Governor Kathy Hockle maneuvered it so that
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  congestion pricing would not start today June thirtieth, that was supposed to start day.
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  Traffic under sixty street, cars under sixtieth Street would have been charged about
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  fifteen dollars to enter the busiest part of Manhattan, on top of any other
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  bridge or tunnel tolls. Hocal said she was delaying the congestion pricing because of
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  concerns in New York City's economy might hurt if people stayed away from the city
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  to avoid them. No craft, So you know what my thought is today.
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  My thought is today, on the day we celebrate the fact there is
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  no congestion pricing starting, there is a delay. Why do we do this
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  when we have anti Zionists, anti Semites, and a quote quo of Free
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  Palace on protesters rampaging through our city. Find them fifteen to twenty dollars,
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  hell even more for causing this scene outside of a Biden fundraiser the other night,
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  blocking streets, blocking bridges. Find them, not the hard working men
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  and women of New York City who just want to enter the city and maybe
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  have a good time with their family on a weekend, or maybe you really
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  have to take a car into work. See, the city has become so
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  used to in the state, has become so used to punishing the do gooders
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  that the bad ones maybe get arrested but then let out the next day here
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  in the city and the state things to bail for. So why don't we
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  switch that ideology of charging the good people fifteen dollars and just charging those who
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  cause chaos, who blocked the streets, who block the I don't know,
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  bridges and tunnels, Charge them fifteen plus more dollars or more for the resource
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  of the NYPD, by the way, just charge them and find them,
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  not the good doers who are just trying to enter the city under sixtieth Street.
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  We can thank Governor Hokeel today, but I want to take this a
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  step further. Take the money you were gonna charge a fine or charge I
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  guess you'd say, and make it a fine for protesting on city streets,
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  blocking causing the NYPD to use its resources. That's where those fifteen dollars charges
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  should go, not out of the pocket of someone who instantly wants to come
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  into NYC to have a good time or to have to go to work.
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  Not those people. Start charging the ones who simply have nothing better to do
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  than block off traffic for our cause that I find is turning into more anti
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  Semitism than anything else. Did one person get charged and fully prosecuted in Colombia
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  for their actions storming the campus and taking over the campus. No, DA
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  Bragg didn't do that. So maybe Governor Hocal and the state should step in
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  here and say, hey, look, if you're going to block our city
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  streets in our beloved New York City, if you're gonna take over our campuses,
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  we're gonna charge you for that. It's not just gonna be an arrest
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  and the desk ticket and whatnot. We're gonna charge you for that. Now,
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  here's why the MTA is so pissed about this congestion price and not going
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  through. Apparently, according to the Associated Press, the transit budget is short
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  sixteen billion dollars. That's why they wanted so badly. Well, maybe if
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  you, I had to say, but cut the overtimes and really make sure
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  no overtime fraud is going on on your in your transit bureau. And maybe
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  if you didn't keep you know, you have to cut the fat at the
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  MTA. What I'm trying to say, not charge right, not charge innocent
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  people, more fare hikes, more tolls, more congestion pricing. That's not
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  the answer, General Leeber who says, we don't gage it. In theatrics
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  this also cut off, by the way, and the board did vote ten
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  to one, I believe, to stop the congestion pricing from going in.
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  So we know how the MTA board fields, right, We know how the
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  MTA board fields, by the way. And they also said that they had
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  no power to reverse Hokal's decision. State law establishing congestion pricing requires a sign
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  off from a transportation department. The MDAs now we have to slash its capital
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  budget by at least thirty percent, and which justmates lost revenues, some costs,
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  and potentially lost funding federal funding. They also said it's gonna stop.
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  This was interesting. Stop the second Avenue line, which of course has been
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  a huge deal right where they can continue the Second Avenue line past ninety sixth
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  Street. Now they can't keep that STUMI line expanding as well as other maintenance
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  improvement projects become sixteen and a half billion dollars. A shortfell here, but
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  I do believe the mt did this to themselves, also the MTA and the
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  pandemic. But the MTA did this to themselves time and time again, and
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  they need to face that music too. But as far as the state goes
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  in delaying this, take it a step further. Maneuver it so that those
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  who want to block our bridges, tunnels and streets of New York get charged
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  that fifteen dollars or more, not just a desk ticket where they don't have
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  to show up, but get charged literally charged an amount fined if you will.
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  Do they ever get fined. I don't think they get fined for blocking
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  our bridges and tunnels when they have these massive protests. You know that Savory
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  Palace signed, but also say for anti Semitic things as well. By the
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  way, I'm fired up that there is I'm fired up and thank you that
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  there is no congestion pricing. But you know what we could do next?
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  And John katz Matias just retweeting me. Thank you John for saying this.
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  You know what can do next? Take it a step further and punish those
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  who literally block traffic with their cars, but with their vitriol and their vile
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  speech. Specifically nowadays were the Jewish people. Those are the people who should
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  be charged congestion pricing. On the Alex Garrett Podcast Network