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Mark interviews Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Seven ten wo rs Mark Simon. Well, Bruce Blakeman, I
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  Speaker 1: think will be the next governor of New York and
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  Speaker 1: he's the most qualified person to be. You couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: a better choice for the next governor new York. He's
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  Speaker 1: the Nassau County executive. He's the best county executive in America.
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  Speaker 1: And that's basically being a governor. It's the same kind
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  Speaker 1: of job. And he's with us right now. Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: It's always to be with you, your dear friend, and it's
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  Speaker 2: always great when we get together, whether we're in person
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  Speaker 2: or over the phone on the radio. And I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: everything that you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see you Monday because Monday is inauguration day
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  Speaker 1: second term.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so, and then i'll see a year from now
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  Speaker 2: for the next inauguration.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's right. So it's like three inaugurations with you
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  Speaker 1: in this short period of time exactly. If people want
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  Speaker 1: to help you with the campaign, donate, help, volunteer. What
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  Speaker 1: can they do?
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman for New York dot com. That's my that's my
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  Speaker 2: website on there. You can volunteer, you can donate, you
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  Speaker 2: can send us suggestions you can about all of the
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  Speaker 2: stupid rules that we have in New York State that
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  Speaker 2: make it so difficult to do business. We're the most
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  Speaker 2: overregulated state in the United States. You can complain about
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  Speaker 2: your tax bill because we are the most highly taxed
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  Speaker 2: state in the United States. I would love to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you, and we could use all the support out there.
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  Speaker 2: And we feel very, very comfortable that we have the
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  Speaker 2: momentum and we have the issues on our side, and
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  Speaker 2: we need a governor that actually cares about New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 2: that puts New Yorkers first, and someone that will make
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers happy, because most New Yorkers are miserable with
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hoche's leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, when it comes to the ice shooting or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the issue, she seems to go very far to
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  Speaker 1: the left. Is she making a mistake going so far
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  Speaker 1: to the left?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she makes one mistake after the other. Let me
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  Speaker 2: let me an example. Mark weeks ago, we had a
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  Speaker 2: robbery in Nassau County of a buelry store and through
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  Speaker 2: good police work with our Nassau County Police Department, who
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  Speaker 2: are the best, and working with our international law enforcement partners,
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  Speaker 2: we were able to track down the perpetrator, and this
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  Speaker 2: person was arrested. And that's what we found when we
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  Speaker 2: arrested this individual. That this individual was Romanian, had an
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  Speaker 2: Irish passport, came to America from Mexico through Arizona with
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  Speaker 2: the Biden Harris policy of open borders, made their way
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  Speaker 2: to New York and then they engaged in a spree
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  Speaker 2: larsony and stealing from businesses and people here in the
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  Speaker 2: whole metropolitan area. So we arrested this guy and guess
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  Speaker 2: what a he had a New York State driver's life
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  Speaker 2: under Kathy Hoche's leadership, somebody who could have been vetted
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  Speaker 2: by just sending out a request from international law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: for a warrant search. We would find that places like
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  Speaker 2: the UK and other places had arrest warrants out for
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  Speaker 2: this guy. But we don't get that in New York.
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  Speaker 2: We give it to illegal aliens. We give it to
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  Speaker 2: people without a background chap. If we fingerprinted this individual
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  Speaker 2: before giving them a driver's license, we would have been
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  Speaker 2: able to apprehend them. And here's the worst part. When
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  Speaker 2: we arrested this individual, if Nassau County didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: comprehensive agreement with ICE, this guy would be back on
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  Speaker 2: this trip. Because of cashless bail, a judge wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: able to hold an illegal migrant with international larrance, and
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  Speaker 2: this person would be released back into community to commit
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  Speaker 2: crimes against the people in the metropolitan area. But because
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  Speaker 2: we had the agreement with ICE, we were able to qualize.
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  Speaker 2: They picked this individual up, and this individual is now
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  Speaker 2: on his way back to Mexico or Romania, or Ireland
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  Speaker 2: or wherever he came from.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's one less Kathy Hochel voter. You've taken time exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the election is a long way away, but you
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  Speaker 1: are working hard already. I know you wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills game, but when you were up there,
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  Speaker 1: you did a lot of meeting with people. Voters. They
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  Speaker 1: got out there with people. What did you think of
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  Speaker 1: upstate New York.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the people up there are very warm.
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  Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time up there, not just
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  Speaker 2: in politics, but you know, I've been in business for
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  Speaker 2: many years, not only as a lawyer but also as
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  Speaker 2: a consulting I've represented some of the largest companies in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. I was involved in the transportation industry,
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  Speaker 2: so I know the state very very well, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that was really disappointing to me was
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  Speaker 2: the fact that so many people were miserable. And when
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  Speaker 2: you ask them why they're they're miserable, they say, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, our communities are no longer safe, and there's
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  Speaker 2: no economic development, nothing going on upstate except for a few,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a few different areas. There's a there's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of projects going on. One is in the Onondaga County, uh,
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, there's nothing going on. And we
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  Speaker 2: have one of the largest national natural gas reserves in
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  Speaker 2: the world in the southern tier of New York State,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't allow any drilling, We don't allow any
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  Speaker 2: fracking of that natural gas. So we have an energy shortage.
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  Speaker 2: We have expensive energy. Here's cheap energy right in our state,
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  Speaker 2: and we can't do anything that. Across the border in
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania they allow fracking. They they have businesses set up
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  Speaker 2: that are getting this matter vital gas out, making cheaper
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  Speaker 2: energy and creating prosperity and jobs for the area. In
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  Speaker 2: one side of the border on Pennsylvania, they're driving brand
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  Speaker 2: new Cadillacs. On the New York side, they're driving out
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  Speaker 2: driving around with rusty, old five year old pickup trucks.
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  Speaker 2: So we need economic development in this state. We need
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  Speaker 2: to create job, we need to create prosperity. That's how
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  Speaker 2: you make it more affordable, putting more money in people's
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  Speaker 2: pockets so they can make choices on how they want
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  Speaker 2: to spend money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Bruce Blackman would be the best governor. You
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  Speaker 1: can go to blakemanfrom New York dot com if you
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  Speaker 1: want to help. Blakeman from new York dot com. Now
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  Speaker 1: they talk about affordability, yet the MTA just raised the
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  Speaker 1: fair which has upset a lot of people. Congestion, pricing,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know how the MTA works, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it just a lot of waste? Instead of raising fares,
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  Speaker 1: can't you just cut the costs.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you can cut the cost you can make
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  Speaker 2: it more efficient, and you make it work for people.
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  Speaker 2: There's something going on here that you know, basically is
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  Speaker 2: a scam. The MPa gets three revenue sources lotly four.
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  Speaker 2: They get federal money, they get money from sales tax revenue,
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  Speaker 2: they get money from employer a roll taxes, and they
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  Speaker 2: have the revenue streams in addition to their fares and
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  Speaker 2: they're always broke. They have a system that's broken. They
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  Speaker 2: have railroad stations here on Long Island that are falling
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  Speaker 2: into terrible disrepair. Nobody's riding the subways because unsafe. They
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  Speaker 2: want to cut back on things like having two conductors
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  Speaker 2: on a subway train, when two conductors on a subway
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  Speaker 2: train would bring more people into the subways because they
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  Speaker 2: would feel safer. And they don't invest in their equipment.
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  Speaker 2: They don't invest in their railroad and subways, and they
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  Speaker 2: are bloated bureaucracy with these big revenue streams and where
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  Speaker 2: does the money go. And Governor Hopell can't explain that
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  Speaker 2: it's her job to make sure that our transportation system
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  Speaker 2: runs efficiently. But people don't want to go on the
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  Speaker 2: subways because they're not safe. People out on Long Island
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  Speaker 2: or in the Hudson Valley they don't want to use
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  Speaker 2: the railroads because the stations are falling into terrible disrepair.
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  Speaker 2: And we have to have a governor who understands transportation
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  Speaker 2: like I do. Understands that you have to market these
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  Speaker 2: transportation sources. They have to be safe, they have to
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  Speaker 2: be cleaned, they have to be inviting to people. Otherwise
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  Speaker 2: people are just going to get in their car, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why we have a traffic problem the way we
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  Speaker 2: do in the metropolitan area.
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  Speaker 1: And Bruce Blakeman has done all this stuff and NASA
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  Speaker 1: County has been it's basically being a governor when you're
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  Speaker 1: a counting executive. And he's cleaned up everything, crime and budget,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Now we only got like a minute left.
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  Speaker 1: What a chance does the report are going to have
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  Speaker 1: to win? Is the demographic makeup and party makeup of
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  Speaker 1: the state.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I won reelection in a county that's larger
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  Speaker 2: than eight to ten states in population, with one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ten thousand more Democrats, which meets in order for
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  Speaker 2: me to win, I have to depend on not just
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  Speaker 2: Republican and conservative voters, but independent voters and crossover Democrats
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  Speaker 2: what I call common sense Democrats. We want in the
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  Speaker 2: landslide and the last election because we built a coalition
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  Speaker 2: not based on what we disagree upon, but what we
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  Speaker 2: agree upon. Everybody wants safer communities, everybody wants more jobs,
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  Speaker 2: everybody wants more pay, everybody wants better benefits and healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not getting it from our state. So they
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  Speaker 2: like what I've done here in Nasau County. It's the
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  Speaker 2: safeties county in America. Each magazine said we're the most
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  Speaker 2: desirable place to live in New York State. I can
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  Speaker 2: take those principles and bring it statewide, including the City
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  Speaker 2: of New York, and make it an affordable place to live,
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  Speaker 2: place where you're safer, and a place where your kids
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  Speaker 2: and your grandchildren are going to want to stay here
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  Speaker 2: and raise there.
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  Speaker 1: This here, well, Bruce Blakeman would be a great governor.
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of anybody better for it. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to help, and you should go to blakemanfro new
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  Speaker 1: York dot com. You want to donate, volunteer, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to do, go to Blakeman for New York dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, good luck, congratulations on winning the last election,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll see you on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, Thank you so much. Happy New Year. Make God
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  Speaker 2: bless you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, thanks for being with us. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Bruce Blakeman who I think I know he
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  Speaker 1: should be the governor. I think he will be the
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  Speaker 1: next governor of New York. Hey, don't forget tonight Jimmy
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