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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
- 0:05Speaker 1: in for Mark, Here's Ken Rosato Billy.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Really nice to be here Halloween. Happy Halloween to you.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Mark.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Is a nice long weekend. You may remember me from
- 0:15Speaker 2: all the years I've been on New York City TV.
- 0:17Speaker 2: I was the morning news anchor, morning and midday. In fact,
- 0:20Speaker 2: for a bunch of those years at Channel seven. I
- 0:23Speaker 2: was at twenty years. I was also the morning anchor
- 0:25Speaker 2: for a year at the Channel five, I was there
- 0:28Speaker 2: at good Day. I did that back in two thousand
- 0:31Speaker 2: and two to two thousand and three, if I recall,
- 0:33Speaker 2: And these days, I host a daily show on a
- 0:35Speaker 2: New Jersey based news channel. It's called on New Jersey.
- 0:38Speaker 2: You could stream it live or watch it rerun at
- 0:41Speaker 2: o NNJ dot com. And a food side for you foodies.
- 0:45Speaker 2: It's the Food Dude. It's free. It has lots of
- 0:49Speaker 2: recipes on there if you want to think of something
- 0:51Speaker 2: to cook on the weekend or on a weeknight. Thefood
- 0:53Speaker 2: Dude dot us. The food Dude dot us. Good to
- 0:57Speaker 2: be here. We got so much happening. Busy, busy week
- 1:01Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at eight hundred three two one
- 1:05Speaker 2: zero seven ten eight hundred three to two one zero
- 1:08Speaker 2: seven ten. Well, we just heard during the news a
- 1:11Speaker 2: massive flooding. Did you see that weather yesterday? Man, I
- 1:14Speaker 2: mean we heard about it. We got the heads up
- 1:17Speaker 2: that it was coming. But man, until it comes, you
- 1:20Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be as bad as it was.
- 1:22Speaker 2: The high winds in that heavy rain one to three
- 1:24Speaker 2: inches of rain in New York left some parts of
- 1:27Speaker 2: the low lying areas Brooklyn, especially under a feet of water.
- 1:31Speaker 2: And as we heard so far that we know of,
- 1:34Speaker 2: we have two people who died unfortunately in that flash flooding.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Just awful, awful. Just remember, especially if you live in
- 1:41Speaker 2: a basement apartment, whenever you have a big storm headed
- 1:44Speaker 2: our way, please stay upstairs. If you live upstairs and
- 1:47Speaker 2: there's a basement apartment, invite your neighbors to come up
- 1:50Speaker 2: and spend the afternoon or whatever with you, or the
- 1:53Speaker 2: evening if there's a big storm. And of course, don't
- 1:56Speaker 2: drive into or onto a street if you don't know
- 1:59Speaker 2: how deep the water is. They say, turn around, don't drown.
- 2:03Speaker 2: All you need is like six inches or four inches
- 2:05Speaker 2: of water whatever. You could lose control of your car,
- 2:07Speaker 2: So don't take that risk. And then of course, there's
- 2:10Speaker 2: that awful news that happened down in the islands in Jamaica,
- 2:13Speaker 2: Hurricane Melissa. So far we know fifty nine debts. It
- 2:17Speaker 2: was just disgusting, how horrible those poor people struggling. And
- 2:22Speaker 2: there was one mother who was talking about how she
- 2:24Speaker 2: tried to comfort her kids. Listen up, who's the candidate
- 2:29Speaker 2: on Let's see? Where did I? I just did something
- 2:33Speaker 2: to that sound bite. I'm sorry, but this mother talked
- 2:36Speaker 2: about how she's trying to comfort her child or her children.
- 2:39Speaker 2: But it's hard to do that, as she says it,
- 2:43Speaker 2: with all the debt destruction around her, having lost friends
- 2:47Speaker 2: and friends, having lost homes as well, And imagine then
- 2:50Speaker 2: having to be the tough person and be strong for
- 2:54Speaker 2: your child. But with fifty nine people that we know
- 2:57Speaker 2: have so far lost in Jamaica, that number is going
- 2:59Speaker 2: to go up, I think, sadly, as they find more
- 3:02Speaker 2: bodies in remote areas. It is now coming up on
- 3:06Speaker 2: ten minutes after eleven o'clock on your Friday Halloween. The
- 3:09Speaker 2: mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too little
- 3:12Speaker 2: too late? Well, here were the three candidates at the
- 3:17Speaker 2: recent debate.
- 3:18Speaker 3: Who's the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him,
- 3:21Speaker 3: because I don't see anybody with a national presidence that
- 3:23Speaker 3: can pull that off.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Where are you on that? I see somebody right here
- 3:27Speaker 2: in my zoom camera. And by the way, only for
- 3:30Speaker 2: you zoom. I hate zoom, but for you. But where's
- 3:34Speaker 2: the stephen A. Smith presidential bubble.
- 3:38Speaker 3: I'd have to give too much money, Bill, I'd have
- 3:40Speaker 3: to give up too much money.
- 3:41Speaker 2: The Democrats definitely need an outsider. Yeah, that was obviously
- 3:44Speaker 2: stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher talking about the candidates,
- 3:47Speaker 2: and here were the candidates of the debate.
- 3:49Speaker 4: I am the last person on this stage that mister
- 3:55Speaker 4: Trump wants to see as mayor.
- 3:57Speaker 2: I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare, as a progress Muslim
- 4:00Speaker 2: immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Oh, if you believe Andrew Cuomo, who's calling up Trump
- 4:06Speaker 1: all the time, I'm going to stand up to him, Zadannie,
- 4:09Speaker 1: I'm going to stand up to him.
- 4:10Speaker 4: He stand up to President Trump, who controls all the money.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Guess what we the citizens lose. Well, this morning we
- 4:16Speaker 2: had Andrew Cuomo in. He was on MENTI in the
- 4:18Speaker 2: morning and we was talking about, among other things, the
- 4:22Speaker 2: infusion of cash that former mayor Michael Bloomberg had donated
- 4:26Speaker 2: through a political action committee. But it looks like it
- 4:28Speaker 2: might be just too little, too late, because we've got
- 4:31Speaker 2: three poles. If you saw these polls that came out
- 4:33Speaker 2: in the last week, and the closest pole has Cuomo.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Though he improved, he's still ten points behind zoron Mamdani.
- 4:42Speaker 2: The amazing thing is people are buying Mamdanni's lines. Will
- 4:47Speaker 2: they revolt in six months or a year when they
- 4:51Speaker 2: find out that everything he promised, literally down to the item,
- 4:55Speaker 2: is impossible. He can't do He doesn't have the authority
- 4:58Speaker 2: as mayor to do any of the things he's talking about.
- 5:00Speaker 2: He can't freeze the rent, he can't give you free food,
- 5:03Speaker 2: he can't all the things he's talking about. Sounded like
- 5:07Speaker 2: a wonderful, you know, communist fantasy, but it can't happen.
- 5:12Speaker 2: It doesn't happen that way. In fact, the one experiment
- 5:15Speaker 2: where there was a community supermarket in Kansas City failed miserably.
- 5:20Speaker 2: In spite of the millions upon millions of dollars infused
- 5:23Speaker 2: by the state, it failed miserably. They had to shut
- 5:26Speaker 2: it down. It was a disgrace. It became basically a
- 5:29Speaker 2: den of crime. People went there to shoot up drugs.
- 5:32Speaker 2: They stole items. Because you're supposed to sign out items
- 5:35Speaker 2: and be a looted a certain amount. They weren't following
- 5:37Speaker 2: the rules. It was a disgusting breakdown of humanity. And
- 5:41Speaker 2: if you think it's going to be better here, I'm
- 5:44Speaker 2: scratching my head to wonder where you're coming from. Switching
- 5:48Speaker 2: over to New Jersey. New Jersey is interesting right now,
- 5:52Speaker 2: and I should remind everybody you're listening to seven to
- 5:54Speaker 2: ten wo R the Voice of New York. It's Ken
- 5:57Speaker 2: Rosotto win from Mark on Halloween Friday, and those phone
- 5:59Speaker 2: lines are are open eight hundred and three to two
- 6:01Speaker 2: one zero, seven to ten. In New Jersey it's Chitdarelli
- 6:05Speaker 2: and Mikey Cheryl. And right now all the new polls,
- 6:09Speaker 2: and they were two done two days apart, so I
- 6:11Speaker 2: guess one was done on Tuesday and I believe one
- 6:14Speaker 2: was done on Thursday. In both cases they have Mikey
- 6:18Speaker 2: Cheryl one point ahead of Jack Cheddarelli. But the margin
- 6:25Speaker 2: of vera is three points, so that means that Jack
- 6:28Speaker 2: Chitarelli could be two points up at this point, depending
- 6:30Speaker 2: on how you look at it. The bottom line is
- 6:33Speaker 2: the energy this man has right now and the support
- 6:35Speaker 2: behind him. I'm seeing. I live in New Jersey. I
- 6:38Speaker 2: see Chittarelly signs everywhere. I'd say for every ten Chittarelli signs,
- 6:42Speaker 2: I'm seeing one Mikey Cheryl sign. And last night Chittarelli
- 6:46Speaker 2: was on there was a town hall that Fox News
- 6:48Speaker 2: had with Sean Hannity. Listen to the response he got
- 6:52Speaker 2: from the crowd as he walked in, Let's.
- 6:54Speaker 5: Go over.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Hometown crowd, hometown crowd.
- 7:12Speaker 4: It it just became a Trump.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Rally, or as Jack Chitarelli followed up, where it became
- 7:17Speaker 2: a Chitarelli rally, because that's what Chitdarelli is finding everywhere
- 7:20Speaker 2: he goes throughout the state. It starts out with a
- 7:23Speaker 2: few hundred people, it quickly grows to a few thousand people,
- 7:25Speaker 2: people cheering him on, people coming up to him. He
- 7:27Speaker 2: has four Democrats in the state who have either endorsed
- 7:31Speaker 2: him or have shifted parties to the Republican Party and
- 7:34Speaker 2: endorsed him. So this is something the opposite can't be
- 7:38Speaker 2: said for Mikey Cheryl right now. And the fact is
- 7:40Speaker 2: that New Jersey has eight hundred and sixty thousand more
- 7:44Speaker 2: registered Democrats than it does Republicans. So Mikey Cheryl should
- 7:49Speaker 2: be ahead by twenty points right now, fifteen to twenty points,
- 7:53Speaker 2: and she's not. Most of her support is from women
- 7:57Speaker 2: and from younger people. Younger people not to vote, especially
- 8:01Speaker 2: in off year elections, by anywhere near the numbers of
- 8:05Speaker 2: as older people and the older people are supporting Jack Cheddarelli,
- 8:08Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting to see what happens. I recently
- 8:11Speaker 2: had a polster on my show that I do on
- 8:13Speaker 2: New Jersey O n NJ dot com, and I do
- 8:17Speaker 2: that every day in New Jersey, and the pollster was saying,
- 8:20Speaker 2: how when they survey different people and they say that
- 8:24Speaker 2: they are likely voters and then you it turns out
- 8:27Speaker 2: that half of them who say one thing obviously doesn't
- 8:31Speaker 2: come to pass. And he said that that means that
- 8:33Speaker 2: either they're not being honest or when they say they're
- 8:36Speaker 2: going to be a likely voter, that they don't realize
- 8:38Speaker 2: something's going to come up. So when you see a
- 8:40Speaker 2: poll of likely voters, as much as it's probably more
- 8:43Speaker 2: accurate than someone than a poll of just registered voters,
- 8:47Speaker 2: you know that doesn't mean, they've signed a contract saying
- 8:49Speaker 2: I will vote and this is how I'm going to vote,
- 8:51Speaker 2: you know, so just just remember that, keep that in mind.
- 8:55Speaker 2: Jack Chitarelli was talking about the recent polls.
- 8:57Speaker 4: Our internal poll in twenty one said that we had
- 8:59Speaker 4: a real shot this time. The internal polling says a
- 9:02Speaker 4: whole lot better. But listen, all I could tell you
- 9:04Speaker 4: is wherever I go around the state, the energy is electric.
- 9:07Speaker 4: The reception of minority communities has been overwhelming positive. And
- 9:10Speaker 4: when Democratic mayors across the state are endorsing the Republican nominee,
- 9:14Speaker 4: it tells you we're on the.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Sunlit Now, apparently some of the ballots are a number
- 9:20Speaker 2: of the ballots that have been returned early. All we
- 9:22Speaker 2: know is when we get ballots returned from Democrats or Republicans,
- 9:25Speaker 2: we don't know how the people voted. So for all
- 9:28Speaker 2: we know, people could have registered Republican but voted Democrat.
- 9:32Speaker 2: So you never know when you get the returned polls,
- 9:35Speaker 2: the early ballots, I should say. But nonetheless, here's Jack
- 9:39Speaker 2: talking about the early ballots.
- 9:41Speaker 4: We've seen the greatest number of Republicans returned vote by
- 9:43Speaker 4: mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. They went
- 9:45Speaker 4: out and last third week of September, and we're matching
- 9:48Speaker 4: them voter for voter here in the six days or
- 9:51Speaker 4: five days of early voting that we've had thus far.
- 9:53Speaker 4: That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
- 9:56Speaker 4: day within a certain number of points, we're going to
- 9:57Speaker 4: win this thing.
- 10:00Speaker 6: Their own.
- 10:01Speaker 2: And I think he's right. The fact is that Republicans
- 10:03Speaker 2: tend to wait till election day. Democrats tend to early vote.
- 10:07Speaker 2: That's been the pattern for the last ten to fifteen
- 10:10Speaker 2: twenty years wherever early voting has occurred. I remember as
- 10:12Speaker 2: a kid, early voting only existed like one day before
- 10:16Speaker 2: election day, and it was meant for people who had
- 10:18Speaker 2: physical challenges or the elderly. And then that became two
- 10:21Speaker 2: or three days. Then it became anyone who wants to
- 10:23Speaker 2: vote early. Then the pandemic happened and everybody got ballots
- 10:26Speaker 2: in the mail, and it kept changing, so no longer
- 10:29Speaker 2: do we have an election day. The problem with that
- 10:32Speaker 2: is you could vote a month early, a month before
- 10:34Speaker 2: election day for somebody, and then between when you early
- 10:38Speaker 2: vote at election day, you find out that the person
- 10:40Speaker 2: is a mass murderer, you know, and then what your
- 10:42Speaker 2: vote is cast, and once it's cast, that's it. You
- 10:44Speaker 2: can't go and change it. So this is the problem
- 10:47Speaker 2: I have. I'm sure you probably have with early voting,
- 10:49Speaker 2: but while it exists, take advantage of it. The Democrats do.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Republicans should take advantage of it as well. Make sure
- 10:56Speaker 2: your vote gets in because come election day, anything could happened.
- 10:59Speaker 2: Bad weather, you get sick, you have to work late,
- 11:02Speaker 2: you never know. Get that vote in asap. In New
- 11:05Speaker 2: Jersey you can early vote until Sunday, and then if
- 11:09Speaker 2: you don't vote by Sunday, you have to wait because
- 11:11Speaker 2: Monday there is no voting. Then Tuesday you have to
- 11:14Speaker 2: vote in person, and that is election Day. Seven ten
- 11:17Speaker 2: WR the Voice of New York. It is Halloween Friday,
- 11:21Speaker 2: and this is Ken Rosotto in on the Mark Simone Show.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Give us a call eight hundred and three to two,
- 11:25Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. You ever get kind of really
- 11:28Speaker 2: tired with all the household drudgery, all the chores around
- 11:32Speaker 2: the house. Apparently a company in California has come up
- 11:36Speaker 2: with a robot. Now you're going to say, Ken, there've
- 11:38Speaker 2: been robots. No, they literally are mass manufacturing a robot
- 11:44Speaker 2: that is five foot six, right, now it's a humanoid robot,
- 11:48Speaker 2: so it's one of those walking things. It can talk,
- 11:51Speaker 2: it can communicate with you, just like you know the
- 11:54Speaker 2: robots in the movies from years ago. And this thing
- 11:57Speaker 2: is going to cost twenty thousand dollars. When I read this,
- 12:00Speaker 2: I thought, either A it's not going to be out
- 12:02Speaker 2: for fifty years, or B it's going to cost one
- 12:05Speaker 2: hundred thousand or more. Now twenty thousand dollars. And in fact,
- 12:09Speaker 2: if you want to rent it, they have a let
- 12:12Speaker 2: me see, let me get the details for you. Here.
- 12:14Speaker 2: It says here, if you want to test it out first,
- 12:17Speaker 2: you can use a per month subscription plant. That's what
- 12:20Speaker 2: they're calling it, and that is apparently like four ninety
- 12:24Speaker 2: nine or something like that. So it's almost like renting
- 12:26Speaker 2: a car, testing out a car or something. And this
- 12:29Speaker 2: thing could be trained to do just about anything. Water
- 12:31Speaker 2: plants do the laundry, eventually, probably cook your meal, clean floors,
- 12:37Speaker 2: do whatever, sweep. So how nice would that be to
- 12:40Speaker 2: do all your household chores, especially if you are physically challenged,
- 12:44Speaker 2: or if you're a single person and you have no
- 12:46Speaker 2: one to help you, or if you're an elderly person
- 12:48Speaker 2: and you want some company. Granted it's not a human,
- 12:51Speaker 2: but nonetheless it is a character walking around that may
- 12:55Speaker 2: make you feel almost like having a pet, that may
- 12:57Speaker 2: make you feel like somebody is with you too, to
- 13:00Speaker 2: keep your company. Seven to ten WLA The Voice of
- 13:03Speaker 2: New York. There was a New Manhattan Institute poll out
- 13:05Speaker 2: that shows that if Congresswoman Elise Stephanic were to run
- 13:08Speaker 2: against Governor Coffee Hochel, who talks with the big porcelain veneers. Oh,
- 13:14Speaker 2: I said, I would never say that again. I'm sorry,
- 13:16Speaker 2: Kathy Hochel, that if Elise Stephanic were to run against
- 13:21Speaker 2: Kathy Hokel for governor of New York, Stephanic would beat
- 13:24Speaker 2: her by one point. That is significant. New York City
- 13:28Speaker 2: may be blue, the state, though, is not. The state
- 13:31Speaker 2: is purple. You get out of the tri State and
- 13:32Speaker 2: you get up like north of Westchester, Putnam Rockland, you
- 13:36Speaker 2: see things turn red rather quickly. Poles are just, of course,
- 13:40Speaker 2: a momentary snapshot of opinion, but it shows you that
- 13:42Speaker 2: New York State is very much up for grabs outside
- 13:45Speaker 2: of New York City, and the citizens are fed up
- 13:48Speaker 2: with the status quo. So we'll see what happens with that.
- 13:50Speaker 2: But she's not officially announced that she would run for governor.
- 13:54Speaker 2: But I think at this point if she did announce,
- 13:56Speaker 2: you would see a Republican victory first time in many,
- 14:00Speaker 2: many years in New York. Seven ten WR, the Voice
- 14:04Speaker 2: of New York. Mark is off. This is Ken Rosotto
- 14:06Speaker 2: filling in again, taking your calls next one eight hundred
- 14:09Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten one eight hundred three
- 14:13Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten partly Sonny, a little
- 14:16Speaker 2: Wendy today for your Halloween mid fifties. In just a bit,
- 14:19Speaker 2: we'll speak with Republican New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola
- 14:23Speaker 2: about the race for mayor and what she thinks is
- 14:25Speaker 2: possible Mamdani mayalty would mean for New York City. The
- 14:29Speaker 2: Times eleven twenty seven ten WR will be right back.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosatto. Every
- 14:41Speaker 2: good to be with you on Halloween Friday. Let's go
- 14:44Speaker 2: right to our busy phones. Carlo in Queen's here on
- 14:46Speaker 2: the air. Good morning to you.
- 14:48Speaker 6: Yes, sir, good morning. As for this socialist Mondamie character
- 14:52Speaker 6: who's running for maya, I might point out that in
- 14:55Speaker 6: the nineteen twenties into the early thirties, Hitler described himself
- 14:59Speaker 6: as a Democrat socialist candidate to run Germany, and after
- 15:05Speaker 6: World War Two the city of Berlin broke up into
- 15:09Speaker 6: two parts. East Berlin described itself as a socialist state,
- 15:15Speaker 6: a democratic socialist state, supported by the Russians, of course,
- 15:19Speaker 6: and their economy by nineteen fifty crash, losing a third
- 15:22Speaker 6: of its value. What do we to expect from Mondami?
- 15:26Speaker 2: Well, you know, it just comes down to everything that
- 15:29Speaker 2: he is promising is not possible. It's just not possible.
- 15:34Speaker 2: But here's the frightening thing. Carlo and I talked about
- 15:37Speaker 2: this earlier. A recent poll showed sixty nine percent of
- 15:42Speaker 2: all adults of all people in New York City age
- 15:46Speaker 2: fifty and under. You hear me fifth, not twenty and under,
- 15:50Speaker 2: not twenty five and under fifty and under, nearly seven
- 15:54Speaker 2: and ten support Mandani. Do you hear that number? So?
- 15:58Speaker 2: Where the hell are forty nine ten year olds who
- 16:00Speaker 2: are so ignorant that they think socialism will work here
- 16:04Speaker 2: and that it as if it worked anywhere else on
- 16:07Speaker 2: the planet. Who are these people and where are they from?
- 16:11Speaker 2: And what kind of education did they have? That's what
- 16:13Speaker 2: really gets me. What are we paying for? Are we
- 16:16Speaker 2: paying to literally have socialists in teaching positions, in doctrinating
- 16:21Speaker 2: kids in the city, because that's what it's sure as
- 16:23Speaker 2: hell looks like.
- 16:24Speaker 6: Jill McCarthy in the fifties wasn't wrong when he said
- 16:27Speaker 6: that the socialist communists are trying to take over America.
- 16:30Speaker 6: It's still going on.
- 16:32Speaker 2: That sure is as it has been proven. And you
- 16:34Speaker 2: look at every major city in America. You know, you
- 16:38Speaker 2: talk about, God forbid, if there was ever another civil
- 16:42Speaker 2: war like we had in eighteen sixty, God forbid that
- 16:45Speaker 2: ever should happen. But this time out, if it did
- 16:47Speaker 2: ever happen, it wouldn't be North versus South. It looks
- 16:50Speaker 2: like it would be the urban centers, the cities versus
- 16:52Speaker 2: everything outside of the cities, because if you look, all
- 16:55Speaker 2: the cities seem to be of the same mindset, very
- 16:58Speaker 2: far to the left. But its getting even more extreme
- 17:01Speaker 2: than ever before. I've never seen this kind of disparity
- 17:04Speaker 2: between left and right. It's if the person comes from
- 17:07Speaker 2: a larger city, they are of one political ilk and
- 17:09Speaker 2: if they come from suburbia or real rural areas, they're
- 17:12Speaker 2: a totally different political ILK. It's just amazing.
- 17:15Speaker 6: Thank God for Trump. That's all I could say.
- 17:17Speaker 2: All Right, Carlo from Queens, I appreciate the call. You
- 17:19Speaker 2: have a wonderful day. Let's say John in New Jersey,
- 17:22Speaker 2: good morning.
- 17:23Speaker 5: Good morning Ken, How are you good sir? Either way,
- 17:27Speaker 5: the city, the residents of New York City are going
- 17:29Speaker 5: to be screwed. It's either it's Cuomo or or Modami.
- 17:34Speaker 5: THEYD doom because he's not He was never a good governor.
- 17:37Speaker 5: And of course we know Modami is nothing more than
- 17:40Speaker 5: a pure communist. Yeah, he'll say anything and everything to
- 17:43Speaker 5: get to get elected. He'll promise you utopia and what's
- 17:47Speaker 5: going to turn out is going to be disaster. The
- 17:49Speaker 5: people of New York have got to wake up and
- 17:51Speaker 5: pay attention. They don't.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Well, you know, I blame my fellow members of the media,
- 17:56Speaker 2: the people here in media whom I used to work with,
- 17:59Speaker 2: the TVs. They just don't ask him the tough questions.
- 18:03Speaker 2: He's their little pet. They won't, No, they won't, they won't.
- 18:05Speaker 2: And this is where they fail. And this, by the way,
- 18:08Speaker 2: is why they're dying on the vine. Ratings wise, they're dead.
- 18:11Speaker 2: The broadcast TV stations literally have thirty percent of the
- 18:15Speaker 2: audience that they had seven years ago. They're gone. No
- 18:17Speaker 2: one's watching broadcast TV anymore. And if you look at
- 18:21Speaker 2: all the surveys, with one exception, since President Trump was elected,
- 18:25Speaker 2: Republicans now slightly more trust national news than they did
- 18:30Speaker 2: a year ago, because all you heard was phoniness and negativity,
- 18:33Speaker 2: fake news, et cetera. But the problem is, as long
- 18:37Speaker 2: as you keep taking sides local media, this is gonna happen,
- 18:41Speaker 2: you're gonna lose your audience. And this is why they
- 18:43Speaker 2: are down so sharply in ratings and they're they're closing
- 18:45Speaker 2: up shop. You have, you have news. I know a
- 18:48Speaker 2: couple of news outfits in the city that will not
- 18:49Speaker 2: survive the next three years. You'll watch, you'll see consolidation
- 18:52Speaker 2: of the newscaps.
- 18:54Speaker 5: Totally agree.
- 18:55Speaker 2: All right, John from New Jersey, I appreciate it. Get it,
- 18:57Speaker 2: Get out there and vote for jackolute All right, my friend,
- 19:01Speaker 2: have a good day. Happy Halloween. Seven ten wo r
- 19:04Speaker 2: the Voice of New York. It's Ken Rosatto in for
- 19:07Speaker 2: Mark and it is Friday, Halloween and just a few
- 19:10Speaker 2: we're going to speak with Republican New York City councilwoman
- 19:13Speaker 2: Joeanne Ariola about the race for mayor and what she
- 19:16Speaker 2: thinks a possible mam Donnie Marylty will mean for New
- 19:19Speaker 2: York City.
- 19:19Speaker 1: On sevent ten, Wi Ben from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosatto.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
- 19:27Speaker 2: She is a Republican New York City councilwoman representing District
- 19:31Speaker 2: thirty two, which includes Glendale, wood Haven, OZP Howard Beach,
- 19:36Speaker 2: broad Channel, in parts of Rockaway Peninsula, Queen's. Previously, she
- 19:39Speaker 2: was the chairwoman of the Queen's Republican Party, and she's
- 19:42Speaker 2: here to talk about the mayor's race and what a
- 19:44Speaker 2: possible Mamdannie mayoral t would mean to New York City.
- 19:49Speaker 2: We say good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the
- 19:51Speaker 2: Mark Simone Show.
- 19:53Speaker 3: Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
- 19:55Speaker 2: Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
- 19:57Speaker 2: the rare Republican Council members, I always say, I ask,
- 20:01Speaker 2: does do you need like a giant bottle like the
- 20:04Speaker 2: thousand bottle of Toms to be on your desk to
- 20:07Speaker 2: get through your day?
- 20:10Speaker 3: Not at all. I'm used to fighting the good fight,
- 20:13Speaker 3: and I'm the minority leader at the New York City Council,
- 20:16Speaker 3: and I work very well with my more moderate colleagues
- 20:19Speaker 3: on the other side of the aisle, and we have
- 20:21Speaker 3: been able to get things done. So, yes, we have
- 20:25Speaker 3: days they are more challenging than others, but most days
- 20:28Speaker 3: we get things done.
- 20:29Speaker 2: But you know, you look at you look at a
- 20:30Speaker 2: Mayor Adams, and as much as Mayor Adams is a
- 20:33Speaker 2: Democrat for sure, but Mayor Adams there because he was
- 20:36Speaker 2: a police captain. There is an adult side of Mayor
- 20:39Speaker 2: Adams who when he did things, you kind of trusted him.
- 20:43Speaker 2: He was a mayor. When you have a guy like
- 20:46Speaker 2: Zoron Mamdani potentially coming in as mayor, what goes through
- 20:50Speaker 2: your mind as a Republican on the City Council.
- 20:54Speaker 3: Well, I think you make a good comparison. You say
- 20:57Speaker 3: that Mayor Adams, who had government's experience, who was a
- 21:02Speaker 3: police officer and came in and is you know, is
- 21:05Speaker 3: quite possibly going to go down as the worst mayor
- 21:08Speaker 3: and with the most corruption in his administration of any
- 21:11Speaker 3: mayor in the history of New York City. And then
- 21:15Speaker 3: you have Zoram Mamdani, who you know has even less experience.
- 21:21Speaker 3: He's a member of the DSA. He is not a Democrat,
- 21:24Speaker 3: and and it's sorry to say that the Democratic Party
- 21:27Speaker 3: has been devoured by the Democratic Socialists of America. So
- 21:32Speaker 3: I always make the analogy of Mayor Adams is walking
- 21:35Speaker 3: out of City Hall and lighting the match, and if
- 21:38Speaker 3: Zoram Mamdani should God forbid win, that New York City
- 21:43Speaker 3: will fall to ashes. Well.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Of the promises that Mamdani has made, you know how
- 21:49Speaker 2: many of them could actually be done by the mayor.
- 21:51Speaker 2: I mean, for instance, a rent freeze. He can't freeze
- 21:54Speaker 2: the rent. Right, do you have a rant control board
- 21:55Speaker 2: in New York City?
- 21:57Speaker 3: This is all speaking to a Democrat that wants everything
- 22:01Speaker 3: for free. So he's telling people what they want to hear.
- 22:03Speaker 3: He doesn't realize. Well he does realize, I'm sure he does.
- 22:06Speaker 3: But people want to say, oh, yes, we can freeze
- 22:08Speaker 3: the rent. No he can't free the rent. We can
- 22:10Speaker 3: give you a free tuition. No, he can't give you
- 22:11Speaker 3: free tuition, free, free, free, free, free. And you know,
- 22:14Speaker 3: most younger voters would say, hey, if it's free, it's
- 22:18Speaker 3: for me. But you know he can't do that. That
- 22:21Speaker 3: has to come from a state and a federal level.
- 22:23Speaker 3: There's very little that he can do on any of
- 22:26Speaker 3: his policies as a mayor, and that's why I believe
- 22:29Speaker 3: that he just doesn't have the competency to do it.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, every time you say free, I think
- 22:34Speaker 2: people don't understand that nothing is free. That the reality
- 22:38Speaker 2: is somebody somewhere, somehow has to pay for it, because
- 22:42Speaker 2: in society, somebody has to do the work to produce
- 22:45Speaker 2: the product that you are talking about giving away free,
- 22:48Speaker 2: whether it be freezing the rent. Now we talked about
- 22:51Speaker 2: this earlier. You know. The fact is the city and
- 22:54Speaker 2: the state imposed so many regulations on landlords. You have
- 22:58Speaker 2: to maintain an active heat eating system, air conditioning in
- 23:01Speaker 2: some cases, paint has to be done, You get inspected
- 23:04Speaker 2: all the time. You have to have the exterminator in.
- 23:06Speaker 2: You have to have windows replaced. Then you have the
- 23:09Speaker 2: case of kids or some vandal type people in a
- 23:14Speaker 2: lot of the lower income housing that destroy things. You
- 23:17Speaker 2: could have an elevator replaced. I remember when I was
- 23:20Speaker 2: at Channel seven, there was one building I went to
- 23:22Speaker 2: and the people were complaining the elevator's broken. And I
- 23:25Speaker 2: went there and there were other residents who came up
- 23:27Speaker 2: to me and said, yeah, the landlord has the elevator
- 23:29Speaker 2: fixed every Tuesday, and by Wednesday, there is such and
- 23:32Speaker 2: such who lives in apartments such and such who intentionally
- 23:34Speaker 2: breaks it. So this is the problem. You can't now
- 23:37Speaker 2: tell a landlord, well you got to freeze the rent,
- 23:40Speaker 2: but you still have to come up with the money
- 23:41Speaker 2: for all of this stuff.
- 23:43Speaker 3: Well that's true. What he's doing is he's giving some
- 23:46Speaker 3: type of fantasy. That's what he's doing, like straight out
- 23:49Speaker 3: of Central Casting. And none of the camping done. But
- 23:51Speaker 3: no one's thinking about who are you said it right, Ken?
- 23:54Speaker 3: Who are the economic engines here? Your small landlords, you're
- 23:58Speaker 3: business owners, taxpayers, your city workers, your people who go
- 24:03Speaker 3: to work in our hospitals, the people who go and
- 24:05Speaker 3: grind it out every day and pay their taxes and
- 24:07Speaker 3: keep this city going. And that's exactly who will leave
- 24:11Speaker 3: if there is a mayor Mom Donnie. And he doesn't
- 24:14Speaker 3: care about that. That's not what his focus is. His
- 24:17Speaker 3: focus is to destroy, destroy the city. He will not
- 24:20Speaker 3: change the bail reform laws, he will not lower the age,
- 24:24Speaker 3: he will not change the discovery laws. And even Janel
- 24:30Speaker 3: Lieber from the MTA said he will not be able
- 24:33Speaker 3: to give free fairs. So even people who may agree
- 24:37Speaker 3: with him on some level of ideology are saying, no,
- 24:42Speaker 3: you can't do that, that's not within your purview. He
- 24:45Speaker 3: should be talking about raising the age so that young
- 24:49Speaker 3: criminals are held accountable. He should be talking about bail
- 24:51Speaker 3: reforms so people can go and have consequences for the
- 24:55Speaker 3: crimes they commit. He should be talking about about bringing
- 25:00Speaker 3: bringing police on. Instead, he's just dancing around it with
- 25:04Speaker 3: his public safety ambassadors. I don't want a public safety ambassador.
- 25:09Speaker 3: I want a police officer on the street. And we're
- 25:12Speaker 3: not going to get police officers to take the test
- 25:15Speaker 3: and become officers if the reforms that were made stay
- 25:19Speaker 3: in place, and with Mamdani, you will advocate for even
- 25:23Speaker 3: more dismantling of our public safety system.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Seven wo R the Voice of New York. This is
- 25:29Speaker 2: the Mark Simon Show. Ken razattowin for Mark on Halloween Friday,
- 25:32Speaker 2: and with us right now is New York City Republican councilwoman,
- 25:36Speaker 2: the minority leader of the City Council, Joanne Ariola, who's
- 25:40Speaker 2: from Queens. It's good to have you here again. Let's
- 25:42Speaker 2: talk about one statistic that really frightened me, and that
- 25:46Speaker 2: is that sixty nine percent of all New York City
- 25:50Speaker 2: residents age fifty and under, support Mamdani, How the hell
- 25:56Speaker 2: do we arrive at that? What is going on in
- 25:59Speaker 2: our education system in this city. That's sixty nine percent
- 26:03Speaker 2: of people not under the age of twenty, not under
- 26:06Speaker 2: the age of thirty, councilwoman, under the age of fifty.
- 26:10Speaker 2: You would think that by the time you hit forty
- 26:11Speaker 2: forty five, you were mature enough to understand things are
- 26:14Speaker 2: not free.
- 26:17Speaker 3: You would think so. But you're going to schools, they're
- 26:20Speaker 3: going to colleges, they're going to universities where the instructors,
- 26:23Speaker 3: the professors, the people who are there, the mentors they're indoctrinating,
- 26:28Speaker 3: are young and telling them that you're room. You shouldn't
- 26:32Speaker 3: have to pay your taxes, you shouldn't have to pay
- 26:33Speaker 3: your tuition, you shouldn't have to pay your loan, you
- 26:36Speaker 3: shouldn't have to pay for anything. You shouldn't have to
- 26:37Speaker 3: pay to ride the bus. And I don't know why
- 26:40Speaker 3: because and this is something that was taught to to
- 26:42Speaker 3: mom Donnie from a little child. Both his parents, who
- 26:46Speaker 3: are mega wealthy, you know, reach the free ideology, and
- 26:52Speaker 3: this is what he was raised on and that he
- 26:55Speaker 3: can if you can tell me can anywhere that socialism
- 26:58Speaker 3: or communism worked that, I say, great, But it has
- 27:02Speaker 3: never worked. It's always fallen. And we are America and
- 27:06Speaker 3: we are a capitalist country, and we thrive on entrepreneurship
- 27:11Speaker 3: and people going to school and getting their degrees and
- 27:14Speaker 3: paying their taxes. And yes, loans can become very difficult
- 27:19Speaker 3: to pay if you become a doctor or a lawyer
- 27:22Speaker 3: or a teacher, but that is something that you've chosen
- 27:25Speaker 3: to do and there are ways to help you pay that.
- 27:29Speaker 3: But free, that's an impossibility. That is that's just a fantasy.
- 27:33Speaker 3: And to be able to keep this city going when
- 27:37Speaker 3: we can't support our subway system as it is, and
- 27:40Speaker 3: people are jumping the fairs all the time anyway, and
- 27:43Speaker 3: we're not enforcing that. So you know, in a way,
- 27:46Speaker 3: we do have free transit system, but what did that
- 27:49Speaker 3: get us? Congestion pricing to make up the difference.
- 27:52Speaker 2: And we still haven't made it up. We're billions in
- 27:54Speaker 2: the hole in spite of that. If you take a
- 27:55Speaker 2: look and I don't mean to step on your counsel woman,
- 27:57Speaker 2: if you look at all the free that the fair
- 27:59Speaker 2: job is the people who walked on buses and when
- 28:01Speaker 2: I was a Channel seven. We had bus drivers. There
- 28:03Speaker 2: were two who used to call and say, yeah, the
- 28:05Speaker 2: mayor will not allow us to do what we used
- 28:07Speaker 2: to do. If somebody walked on the bus and didn't
- 28:09Speaker 2: pay their fare, bus driver would pull aside and say,
- 28:11Speaker 2: I'm not moving until you get off, or I'm gonna
- 28:13Speaker 2: call a cop today, or at that point then the mayor,
- 28:16Speaker 2: I guess it was Mayor de Blasier at the time.
- 28:19Speaker 2: Mayor de Blasio said, can't do that. Let them on
- 28:22Speaker 2: for free, and so nobody was paying for the bus.
- 28:24Speaker 2: So you're right that was happening. They lost about four
- 28:27Speaker 2: hundred million a year in fairs. Well if you can't
- 28:31Speaker 2: keep doing that, what happens after four or five years,
- 28:33Speaker 2: you're two billion dollars in the hole, which is exactly
- 28:35Speaker 2: what they were.
- 28:37Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And even in today's administration, police officers
- 28:41Speaker 3: that are in the subway are asked to hands out
- 28:44Speaker 3: literature to educate people that they need should be paying
- 28:47Speaker 3: when they go onto the bush or in the subway.
- 28:50Speaker 3: And I really it blows my mind because I think
- 28:53Speaker 3: that first our police officers have a lot of better
- 28:55Speaker 3: things to do than handout literature and Secondly, everybody knows
- 28:59Speaker 3: you have to pay a fair when you go into
- 29:01Speaker 3: the subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences,
- 29:04Speaker 3: and that's what brings you back to Mom Donnie and
- 29:07Speaker 3: Cuomo started this. He started this bill reform, he started
- 29:12Speaker 3: no cash list bail, he started raising age. He gave
- 29:16Speaker 3: people license to commit crimes without impunity and without consequence.
- 29:22Speaker 3: And that's why you can and I have to ring
- 29:25Speaker 3: a bell and have a woman come or a man
- 29:27Speaker 3: come with a key to give us the dorance. It's
- 29:30Speaker 3: just not right. But who's thing for all the shoplifting
- 29:33Speaker 3: that's going on? You and I are because we're standing
- 29:35Speaker 3: on the line and paying sixty and eighty dollars at
- 29:38Speaker 3: the cashier, while people who are coming in and a
- 29:42Speaker 3: lot of them are used because there are no consequences
- 29:45Speaker 3: filling up a knapsack and running out the door. It's
- 29:48Speaker 3: just a vicious cycle that will turn into an absolute
- 29:52Speaker 3: chaos if Mom Donnie wins. And that's why I so
- 29:56Speaker 3: strongly support Curtis Lee. Well, he's the only one saying
- 30:00Speaker 3: the things that we're talking about at our kitchen tables
- 30:03Speaker 3: and what we're afraid of that's going to happen to
- 30:06Speaker 3: the city and what would make us move if the
- 30:11Speaker 3: city continues in this particular progress. It just can't go
- 30:16Speaker 3: on like this. People are moving that I never thought
- 30:19Speaker 3: would like.
- 30:20Speaker 2: And even getting back to the cvs is and the
- 30:23Speaker 2: Walgreens and whatnot. When you know, I've heard people say
- 30:26Speaker 2: on the left, well insurance pace for that, no insurance
- 30:28Speaker 2: pace for it, once or twice, and then they cancel.
- 30:30Speaker 2: People don't realize that they can cancel the individual stores
- 30:34Speaker 2: and they have dropped stores, and then CBS, Walgreens their
- 30:37Speaker 2: self insured at that point, which means it comes out
- 30:39Speaker 2: of their pocket, you know where they get it from
- 30:41Speaker 2: you and me. Prices go up so we all pay
- 30:43Speaker 2: for it one way or the other. Ah, we could
- 30:46Speaker 2: talk about it forever. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Everybody,
- 30:49Speaker 2: get out and vote, that's the important thing.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Out and vote, and if you want to still have
- 30:54Speaker 3: a voice with your representatives in city Hall, vote no
- 30:58Speaker 3: on the propositions.
- 31:00Speaker 2: And New York City Republican Councilwoman Joe Anne Ariola, it's
- 31:03Speaker 2: such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for coming
- 31:05Speaker 2: on this morning.
- 31:06Speaker 3: Thank here, pleasure to be here.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Likewise, good to have you and this is Ken Razotto
- 31:10Speaker 2: win from Mark on your Friday. When we come back,
- 31:12Speaker 2: we'll take more of your calls. One eight hundred three
- 31:14Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten for wo R.
- 31:18Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wring
- 31:23Speaker 1: from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Very good to be here on your Friday. Heppy Halloween.
- 31:28Speaker 2: I hope you have a good one. Just remember it's
- 31:30Speaker 2: going to be very windy. Even though it's not going
- 31:31Speaker 2: to be too too cold, it'll be very very windy
- 31:34Speaker 2: and so it'll feel colder than it is. So if
- 31:36Speaker 2: you're going out with the little ones, make sure they
- 31:37Speaker 2: have that extra coat, the windbreaker, not to cover the costume.
- 31:42Speaker 2: I hate that. I know you want to show off
- 31:44Speaker 2: the costume, but you also don't want them to feeze
- 31:46Speaker 2: on the route. Hey, just talking about Councilwoman Ariola that
- 31:50Speaker 2: we had on just a few minutes ago. One of
- 31:52Speaker 2: the things we talked about was that statistic that poll,
- 31:55Speaker 2: actually the survey that showed sixty nine percent of all
- 31:58Speaker 2: New York City residents age fifty and under, we're supporting Mamdanie.
- 32:03Speaker 2: One thing you have to think about, too, is you
- 32:05Speaker 2: could put this right at the blame of former President
- 32:08Speaker 2: Biden by allowing millions upon millions of illegal migrants into
- 32:13Speaker 2: this city or into this country and ultimately settling into
- 32:16Speaker 2: the city. You had a lot of people who are here.
- 32:19Speaker 2: We don't know how many people you gus an. No
- 32:20Speaker 2: one's voting. No one's voting if they're not a citizen. Right,
- 32:24Speaker 2: But remember what happened in terms of ensuring that the
- 32:27Speaker 2: city and the state has extra Congress seats and we
- 32:30Speaker 2: don't lose them, etc. That was all because we had
- 32:33Speaker 2: this influx of illegal migrants of impacting our census count.
- 32:38Speaker 2: As a result in New York City will stay a
- 32:40Speaker 2: very blue city for many years. To come, get out
- 32:43Speaker 2: and vote. That's the important thing, no matter what, Hey
- 32:46Speaker 2: don't forget to tune into the TCS New York City
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