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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Talks Becoming New York's Next Governor · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Mr. Long Island, Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive, but soon
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  Speaker 1: to be our next governor. And grace the streets, not
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  Speaker 1: far from me in Howard Beach yesterday. He killed it again. Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready to run for mayor, my friend?
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because I wasn't at the gala on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and Lisa G. says to me, I interviewed Bruce. He
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  Speaker 1: brings you up running for mayor. I was told yesterday
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  Speaker 1: by Mike Sullivan that you brought up me running for mayor. See,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're kidding, but I don't think you are.
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  Speaker 1: When you win this race against Hochul, I'm watching you
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  Speaker 1: on TV right now, by the way. When you win
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  Speaker 1: this race against Hochul, I think you want me to run,
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  Speaker 1: don't you?
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  Speaker 2: I do. Your only impediment, the only obstacle that you
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  Speaker 2: have is, will Danielle allow you to take the pay cut?
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, Willie. That's it. And I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: much of a pay cut it's going to be. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll do it. I don't know. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: you win, when you win, I should say, we got
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  Speaker 1: to save the state. We got to save the state.
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  Speaker 1: And you beating Hochul is huge. But the problem is
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  Speaker 1: that creep Mamdani is still there. I was very happy
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  Speaker 1: to hear from Finton and other people that when you
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  Speaker 1: came down Friday to the 9-11 Memorial, that you were
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  Speaker 1: the one. You were getting all kinds of, let's go, Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, Bruce. I love you, Bruce. I was so
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  Speaker 1: happy to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's just such a sad day for
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  Speaker 2: me and my family. You know, I lost my nephew,
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Tommy Juergens, on that day. So it's a very
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  Speaker 2: sad day. But what was really uplifting was the number
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  Speaker 2: of people who came up to me, offered me words
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  Speaker 2: of encouragement, said that they prayed for my nephew, told
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  Speaker 2: me that they were praying that I win for governor,
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  Speaker 2: wanted to take pictures with me. So it was a really,
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  Speaker 2: really good day. It was... As I say always, it's
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  Speaker 2: a very tough day for me and my family. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Sid, the resiliency of New Yorkers is just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And we got through 9-11. We'll get through Hochul and Mondami.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. Yesterday, too, that's such a great name.
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  Speaker 1: But I think you were outside of Bruno's. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure where you were exactly. Where were you?
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  Speaker 2: Outside of Brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the meat market?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, the meat market.
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  Speaker 1: I love that place. Yeah, we shop there. We shop there.
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  Speaker 2: Does that place have good food? They have.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, we go back and forth. We go to Landy's
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  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and we go to Brothers on Cross Bay Boulevard.
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  Speaker 1: They have great food there, and they're really nice people.
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  Speaker 1: And my friend Jen Delandro has an office upstairs. She
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  Speaker 1: does Botox. She was there yesterday, and I saw Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan there yesterday and Joanne Areola there yesterday. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: like Howard Beach's finest were out there with Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we were out there talking about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Kathy Hochul wants to give everybody a check
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  Speaker 2: next week for between $ 100 and $ 200 because she wants
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  Speaker 2: to rebate money that they've already paid to the state.
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  Speaker 2: You've paid $ 1, 000 more a year because of Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 2: with 48 rate hikes. So that's $ 4, 000 over four years.
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  Speaker 2: And she wants to pull an election stunt and give
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  Speaker 2: you $ 200 back. And you should feel very grateful that
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  Speaker 2: she's giving you those peanuts. It's just ridiculous. People will
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  Speaker 2: see right through it. It's a scam. It's a election scam.
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  Speaker 2: It's a campaign scam. The bottom line is, why did
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  Speaker 2: she raise your utility rates 48 times? Why is it
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  Speaker 2: for the average person $ 1, 000 more a year to pay
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  Speaker 2: your utility bills? And she's going to give you 200
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  Speaker 2: bucks a month before the election. You're supposed to feel grateful.
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  Speaker 2: People aren't stupid. They're smart. They're going to see it
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  Speaker 2: for what it is. And they're going to reject her
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  Speaker 2: on election day because she is the worst governor in America.
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  Speaker 1: I think she is. And maybe one of the worst ever.
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  Speaker 1: And she put us in the... Actually, she didn't. It
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  Speaker 1: was her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. He put us in this
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  Speaker 1: position because he was horrible. And she just continued it
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  Speaker 1: and is not making it any better. And you talked
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  Speaker 1: about it yesterday. We got gold... We've got gold right
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  Speaker 1: underneath our feet. We could be fracking here. Instead, this idiot,
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  Speaker 1: she's an idiot, this governor. She buys it from Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you buy it from another state? We have
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  Speaker 1: it right here. And all these bills would go drastically down.
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  Speaker 1: She's killing us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in Pennsylvania, with a governor that's a Democrat, they
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  Speaker 2: allow the extraction of the natural gas. On the New
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  Speaker 2: York side of the border, under Kathy Hochul, we cannot.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reason why Pennsylvania's utility bills are 70% less.
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  Speaker 2: 7-0% less than New York. Can I ask you a question?
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  Speaker 1: I need you to answer this, okay? Because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: that smart.
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty smart.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, though.
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  Speaker 1: So we can do it here. We can do it.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't. And so we pay another state. And
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  Speaker 1: that state, like you just pointed out, has... much less
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  Speaker 1: expensive bills going to their people. So can I ask you,
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  Speaker 1: what is Kathy Hochul's reasoning behind screwing us and helping Pennsylvanians?
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  Speaker 2: So she can tell her far left wing friends that
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  Speaker 2: she's all green. She's wedded to the green energy scam.
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  Speaker 2: She's using Every payment that we make every month, she's
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  Speaker 2: taking money out of it, and she's putting it into
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  Speaker 2: a fund where she invests in things like wind turbines
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the ocean that produce very, very
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  Speaker 2: little energy, extremely expensive, or solar farms in upstate New
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  Speaker 2: York that are under snow three months out of the year.
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  Speaker 2: It's all a scam. It's foreign corporations getting billions and
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  Speaker 2: billions of dollars that we pay for every time we
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  Speaker 2: pay our electric bill. And Kathy's getting millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: in political contributions from these firms. The fact of the
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  Speaker 2: matter is that ends on day one when I become governor.
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  Speaker 2: My sole focus will be to lower your utility bills.
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  Speaker 2: I think I can cut them in half because we
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  Speaker 2: will end the green energy scam. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: take that money out of your payment every month. And
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  Speaker 2: we are going to extract that natural gas. materially increase
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  Speaker 2: the supply of energy, which will bring costs down, and
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  Speaker 2: we will bring utility bill relief to everybody in New York,
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  Speaker 2: because under Kathy Hochul, with 48 rate hikes, people, they
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  Speaker 2: just can't afford to live here anymore. They're dying. Dying, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you said it would take, what, about
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  Speaker 1: two months to be operational?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. The fact of the matter is, I've talked, Sid,
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  Speaker 2: to all these... natural gas companies that are dying to
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  Speaker 2: do business in New York. They're all doing business in
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and other parts of the country and the world.
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  Speaker 2: And they said, look, we can be operational in two months.
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  Speaker 2: If you give us the green light, we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: And that'll materially bring down the cost of utility bills.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And provide jobs and revenue for our state and economic activity.
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  Speaker 2: We're still going to Pennsylvania now.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And now they said provide jobs. I'll get to this
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  Speaker 1: because I'm about to bring up something else. But now
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  Speaker 1: they said provide jobs. So she's at the very head
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  Speaker 1: of this moratorium on data centers. And, look, even Republicans
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  Speaker 1: admit that you've got to be careful. Kind of like AI.
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  Speaker 1: There needs to be some guardrails. There needs to be
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  Speaker 1: things put in place to make sure they're safe. But
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  Speaker 1: all data centers mean is jobs, growth, keeping up with
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  Speaker 1: countries that are our enemies, right? Making your computer faster,
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  Speaker 1: making your cell phone work better. I'm sorry, whether it's AI,
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  Speaker 1: which again has its dangers, but why give it to
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese or the data centers? What are people like
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul experiencing? and these Democrats screaming about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, there are three concerns with data centers.
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  Speaker 2: One is water supply because they use water. Two is
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  Speaker 2: energy consumption. They use a lot of energy. And three,
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  Speaker 2: that they're not going to drive up the assessments of
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  Speaker 2: the surrounding areas and increase property taxes. So I've met
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  Speaker 2: with the developers of AI. They are willing to put
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  Speaker 2: in water recirculation systems so it doesn't increase the demand
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  Speaker 2: for water, number one. Number two, they are willing to
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  Speaker 2: provide their own energy generation, and they'll provide 120% of
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  Speaker 2: what they need, and they'll give the other 20% back
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  Speaker 2: to the host community, so that will lower their utility bills,
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  Speaker 2: and they will guarantee property tax stabilization. And when local
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  Speaker 2: governments in upstate New York hear that, then they want
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  Speaker 2: those data centers because It solves their problems, and it
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  Speaker 2: lowers their utility bills. It gives them property tax stabilization,
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  Speaker 2: and it creates jobs and economic activity and prosperity in
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  Speaker 2: their communities. Sid, you go to some of these towns
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  Speaker 2: upstate New York, you want to cry. I know. You
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  Speaker 2: want to cry. I know. They're so poor. And here's
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  Speaker 2: another thing, Sid. The bottom line is that in creating
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  Speaker 2: this economy, data center development. We are keeping up with
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the world. This is the fastest growing
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  Speaker 2: business in the world. And you can't have the Empire State,
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  Speaker 2: as Kathy Hochul has done, just ban them and ignore them.
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  Speaker 2: Work out the issues. Sit down with both sides. Create
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  Speaker 2: a win-win situation. That's what I would do as governor.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul just sticks her head in the sand and
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  Speaker 2: and says, okay, we're not going to do AI data
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  Speaker 2: development centers. That's going to put us 20 years behind
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  Speaker 2: every other state and behind every other country in economic development.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is, she has no interest in making lives
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  Speaker 1: better for New Yorkers. That's number one. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: saw all of her commercials already. And really, my wife
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  Speaker 1: Danielle made this point. I see her commercials. All of
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  Speaker 1: her commercials are the same. It's not about Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul's commercials are all about Donald Trump. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: yet to see, I'm yet to see Kathy Hochul say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, He's not about law and order. I'm yet
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  Speaker 1: to see Kathy Hochul say, hey, Bruce Blakeman, he's about
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  Speaker 1: to raise your taxes. Or, hey, Bruce Blakeman, he's okay
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  Speaker 1: with some doctor cutting your little boy's ding-a-ling off so
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  Speaker 1: he can become a girl. I don't see any of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know why? Because your policies are the right ones.
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  Speaker 1: So all of our commercials are pictures of you and Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And she says time and time again, Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman cares more about President Trump than he cares about you.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about a lack of creativity and a complete lie.
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  Speaker 1: And just watch those commercials. She's got nothing substantive, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: zero policies. The fact that you're friends with Trump, that's
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  Speaker 1: what she relies on. How pathetic is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty pathetic. Because she can't attack my record
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  Speaker 2: because I haven't increased taxes now for the fifth year
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  Speaker 2: in a row. In fact, I cut $ 150 million in taxes.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten seven bond upgrades. U.S. News & World Report
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  Speaker 2: says we're the safest county in America. And I'm told
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  Speaker 2: that we are now at the top of every county
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  Speaker 2: in the United States of people who want to move
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  Speaker 2: into our county. So I've created an atmosphere of prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: People are happy. But Kathy Hochul doesn't talk about her
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  Speaker 2: record because she's made everybody miserable. We're the highest taxed
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  Speaker 2: state in the United States of America. Our utility bills
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  Speaker 2: are 70% higher than the national average. She's the most
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  Speaker 2: pro-criminal governor in the United States of America. So she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to talk about her record because it's one
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  Speaker 2: of making people miserable. And my record is one of
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  Speaker 2: making people happy. And that's what I want to do
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  Speaker 2: for the people of the state of New York. They're
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  Speaker 2: tired of being miserable. They want to be happy again.
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  Speaker 2: With me as governor, I will make them happy by
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  Speaker 2: putting New Yorkers first.
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  Speaker 1: Damn right. There he is, my dear friend, the two-time
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County executive and soon to be the next governor
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  Speaker 1: of New York. Just a very impressive guy with a
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  Speaker 1: big heart. And he loves all of you in New York.
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  Speaker 1: My guy, Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, I love your great job.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Love you, Sid. Tell J.D. I said hi.
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  Speaker 1: I will. I'll give regards to the boss, too. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see him tomorrow after J.D. He loves you, too. Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman right there, everybody. Make sure you go out and
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  Speaker 1: vote for Bruce to be our next governor come November.
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  Speaker 1: Please save New York. There's only one way to save
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  Speaker 1: New York right now, and that's to vote for Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?