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Mark interviews Republican candidate for New York Governor, Bruce Blakeman. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr Well, Bruce Blakeman. Of course, he's the county executive
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  Speaker 1: of Nasau County. That's like being a governor, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the best run county in America. You can look at
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  Speaker 1: all the numbers, so nobody would be a better governor
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  Speaker 1: for New York than Bruce Blakeman. Now you can help out,
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  Speaker 1: you can donate, you can volunteer. Just go to blakemanfronew
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  Speaker 1: York dot com Blakeman for New York dot com. Also
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  Speaker 1: make sure you're following on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, all that
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  Speaker 1: great social media. And he's with us now. Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Mark. It's always the pleasure to be
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you Hey, you spoke with the President on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: right at the same event.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the President was great. He was just so wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: There was the family of that young west Chester girl, Sheridan,
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  Speaker 2: who was murdered by a legal migrant in Chicago. He
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  Speaker 2: was just wonderful to the family. Then he met the
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  Speaker 2: mom of of a young man who saved many lives
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  Speaker 2: on nine to eleven. And of course Mike Wawler, a
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  Speaker 2: great member of Congress, all together to talk about American values,
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  Speaker 2: and I was fortunate enough to be able to speak
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  Speaker 2: there twice. He called me up on stage, he gave
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of shout outs, and I consider him
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  Speaker 2: a good friend, but more importantly, he's a great president.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, the Kathy Hockle, You've got to beat her
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  Speaker 1: in November. I think you will. And as far as
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  Speaker 1: the money, she's got thirty two million in her war chest. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they tried to block you, and they pulled all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of funny business to deny you campaign financing. Has that
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  Speaker 1: been fixed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we won that case, but Kathy Hochel is using
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer money to appeal that when on all four corners
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  Speaker 2: of the law we were solid and it's more dirty
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  Speaker 2: tricks from Kathy. I was scared to death of me.
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  Speaker 2: And basically she knows that people are miserable in New York.
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  Speaker 2: We're over tax our utility rates or seventy percent higher
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  Speaker 2: than the national average. So I'm going to cut them
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  Speaker 2: in half when I become governor. We're going to lower taxes.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to create jobs and make for safe for communities.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday we filed sixty six thousand signatures on a
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  Speaker 2: petition to put me on an independent line called Vote Affordable,
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  Speaker 2: and we needed only forty five thousand. We were able
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  Speaker 2: to get sixty six thousand people, and that was just
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous effort. So not only will I be running
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  Speaker 2: as a Republican and the Conservative, but also on the
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  Speaker 2: Vote Affordable line. So that's a big boost to the
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  Speaker 2: campaign and we feel very confident. I do expect to
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  Speaker 2: be governor on January first, of twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: No, it would save New York. I've heard her mention
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  Speaker 1: you a few times now. You never do that if
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  Speaker 1: you're well ahead and you're totally confident. You only mention
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  Speaker 1: the opponent when you're really getting scared. So looks like
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  Speaker 1: you're making a lot of progress, right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you she spent a million dollars on
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  Speaker 2: attack ads on me last month. You don't spend a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars on attack ads on a Republican in New
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  Speaker 2: York State when you're the incumbent governor unless you're in deep,
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  Speaker 2: and she's in deep. She knows the race is neck
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  Speaker 2: and neck, and that you know you can't run away
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  Speaker 2: from your record number forty one out of fifty states
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  Speaker 2: in economic development, The once Great Empire state. That's just
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  Speaker 2: a national embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So when you ran for NASA count executive, Laura
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  Speaker 1: Kern was way ahead, and she wasn't bad. She wasn't terrible.
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  Speaker 1: She was I mean, you're much better, but she was okay,
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  Speaker 1: and you beat her. You came out and just took
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  Speaker 1: off and crushed her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, she was very popular. She was an incumbent.
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  Speaker 2: She was a Democrat in the county with one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ten thousand more Democrats Republicans, and we were able
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  Speaker 2: to win that race. She was very well liked. I
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  Speaker 2: liked Laura Kurrn. I just didn't agree with her policies.
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  Speaker 2: So I ran an issue oriented campaign, talked about issues,
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  Speaker 2: and the people agreed with me. And then we've had
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  Speaker 2: four years of nothing but success. Named the safest county
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  Speaker 2: in America by US News, and we'rele report seven bond upgrades,
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  Speaker 2: four budget surpluses, and I haven't raised taxes one penny
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  Speaker 2: mark in four years. As a matter of fact, I
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  Speaker 2: cut Laura Curn's one hundred and fifty million dollar tax
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  Speaker 2: increase completely out of the budget.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a remarkable job. In Essa, Kunta, you'd be the
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  Speaker 1: best choice for governor for New York. Everybody go to
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  Speaker 1: blakemanfronew York dot com. You can donate there or volunteer
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. Blakemanfronewyork dot com. Hey, in
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  Speaker 1: the old days when you ran, you know, you'd film these,
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  Speaker 1: you know, very you know, typical TV commercials. Talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's different. You got to be on social media.
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  Speaker 1: It's AI videos and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Oh, yeah, we're AI videos. We have social influencers.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a tremendous amount of presence on social media.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotten twelve million views just last month in our
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  Speaker 2: social media twelve million dwarfs anything that Kathy Hoko has done.
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  Speaker 2: So we are very active. We understand that that's a
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  Speaker 2: new form of communication that's very important. So not only
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  Speaker 2: are we doing direct mail and print media and radio
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  Speaker 2: and TV ads, but we're doing a lot of social
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  Speaker 2: media and a lot of streaming. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: run a very robust campaign until victory.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, talk about you talk about taxes, but talk about electricity.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people realize in New York how much
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  Speaker 1: more they're paying for electricity. What can we do about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark it's seventy percent higher than national average. That's
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  Speaker 2: because if you if you look at your electric bill,
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  Speaker 2: only thirty percent of your paintment goes for energy. And
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  Speaker 2: she just raised the cost of utilities again by agreeing
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  Speaker 2: to another increase on the delivery cost. Our delivery costs
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  Speaker 2: are excessive. She taxes your utility bill and you pay
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  Speaker 2: when you pay your bill. For the green energy scam,
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  Speaker 2: where she puts a fund together of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: basically to invest in science projects, costs billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 2: produces very little energy. And we are sitting on one
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  Speaker 2: of the Latin largest natural gas reserves in the world
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  Speaker 2: and she won't let us drill. We're right on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of the border in Pennsylvania they can drill,
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  Speaker 2: and we're buying our gas from Pennsylvania. It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: So what would it take to get fracking going here
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  Speaker 1: in New York legislature? What would it take?
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  Speaker 2: No, I believe that as governor I have the right
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  Speaker 2: to start that program and license them to start fracking there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get as much natural gas as possible. We've got
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  Speaker 2: plenty of it, and that'll increase the supply. And when
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  Speaker 2: you increase the supply, it brings down the cost, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what we want to do. Kathy Hockel has done
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  Speaker 2: nothing to make it more affordable in New York. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: she's made it unaffordable over the last four years. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be a governor that creates jobs, prosperity, brings
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  Speaker 2: taxes down, country utility rates, and makes for not only
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  Speaker 2: an affordable state, but a safe state and a state
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  Speaker 2: where there's jobs, good jobs with good benefits. Kathy Hochel
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  Speaker 2: is the most anti union governor we've ever had. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everything that American workers stand for, Kathy Hockel is against.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why so many unions who traditionally don't support
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are supporting me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Bruce Blakeman as governor, what can you do about
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  Speaker 1: mom Donnie as far as keeping him in line, keeping
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  Speaker 1: him from pulling any of his crazy schemes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have the power over the purse, so I
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  Speaker 2: will use that. In addition, I can take over any
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  Speaker 2: city agencies that aren't performing, and as a drastic matter,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a last resort because he is a
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  Speaker 2: duly elected official, and I don't think that should be
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  Speaker 2: upset by removing him from office unless he's engaged in
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  Speaker 2: egregious unlawful conduct. But if he does engage in egregious
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  Speaker 2: unlawful conduct, I will remove him as mayor. So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: he'll behave himself. Kathy Hokeel, he will not behave himself.
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  Speaker 2: Comrade Kathy is right with Mandamida Kami in destroying the
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  Speaker 2: economy of New York, increasing anti Semitism in our city,
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  Speaker 2: and an atmosphere of complete lawlessness in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: which I will stop when I become governor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, everybody, you got to help Bruce Blackmann. You
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  Speaker 1: can donate, you can volunteer. Go to Blakeman for New York,
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman for new York dot com. And what do you
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  Speaker 1: need people to do for you? Obviously donate, but what
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  Speaker 1: else can they do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we need volunteers, and you know you got the
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  Speaker 2: power of your cell phone. So text people, email people,
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  Speaker 2: click onto our Instagram, watch our TikTok, go on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that everybody gets active and realizes that we're
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  Speaker 2: at a tipping point in New York. We can go
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  Speaker 2: in a great direction on my leadership, where we continue
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  Speaker 2: to be a failure and an unaffordable state with people
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  Speaker 2: moving out and businesses moving out. So go to Blakemanfronewyork
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  Speaker 2: dot com, get your friends out to vote, and we
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  Speaker 2: will do this. We will turn the state around and
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  Speaker 2: people will be happy again in New York rather than
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  Speaker 2: be miserable under Kathy Hogle.
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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, go to Blakeman for New York dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, keep up the good work and I know
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  Speaker 1: you're working hard, and we'll talk again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Mark, God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, take care. He's go to Blakemanfromnewyork dot com. Donate,
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  Speaker 1: volunteer all that stuff. Hey, oh, I forgot to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden suing the Trump administration. Remember when he was writing,
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  Speaker 1: he was writing a book, he wrote an autobiography, and
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  Speaker 1: he had a ghostwriter. So the ghostwriter what they do
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  Speaker 1: is they interview you, they record it, They interview you
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  Speaker 1: for like a thousand hours and talk to you then
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  Speaker 1: later Remember there was a special counsel investigating Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently he got the special counselor decided not to
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  Speaker 1: prosecute Biden. Not that he wasn't guilty of stuff, They
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  Speaker 1: just said his memory's gone. He's an old guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: not even capable of testifying. But somewhere that Special Council
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  Speaker 1: got a hold of the audio of the ghostwriter interviewing Biden,
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  Speaker 1: which means it's now in the hands of the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump Justice Department wants to release the audio. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden is now suing the Department of Justice to block
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  Speaker 1: the release of that audio. Apparently it's very embarrassing. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: he's totally out of it. He's just completely his brain
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  Speaker 1: is all fried and you can hear it on the audio.
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  Speaker 1: So he's suing trying to block the release of that.
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  Speaker 1: This will be fascinating stuff if this gets released. Very
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing for the media and Democrats that covered up for him. Hey,
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