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Craig McCarthy | 06-25-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: He is the City Hall Bureau chief of the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post and Craig you know, obviously the election was
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday night and we're here Thursday, but the reverberations are
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  Speaker 2: still shaking. Not to make a a comparison with Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: but this is still shaking throughout the city and throughout
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  Speaker 2: the country, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, thanks for having me today. Yeah, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: this is this shocked the political world. We have a
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  Speaker 3: three you know, very far left candidates who you know,
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  Speaker 3: got elected to the House on Tuesday night, from one
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  Speaker 3: of whom you know, unseated a long standing incumbent in
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  Speaker 3: Adrian Leslaya.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was also the head of the Spanish contingency.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was the was the chair in the his
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  Speaker 3: Hispanic Caucus. I mean, he was a very powerful member.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we saw Hakeem Jeffries even get into the race.
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  Speaker 3: He came down, he broke it a truce between Adriano
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  Speaker 3: and Jordan Wright, you know, hoping to mend fences with
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  Speaker 3: the black community, gets you know, the black vote out
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  Speaker 3: for him. But you know that that didn't happen. And notably,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Right is the only one that was challenged by
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  Speaker 3: DSA member in the city and state, in federal in
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  Speaker 3: New York City who who actually came out and won. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of anecdotally, we're believing that it seems like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, those votes would have split the ticket. He
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  Speaker 3: would have voted for you know, Daria Liza on the
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  Speaker 3: federal side and Jordan on the state side.
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  Speaker 4: Judge Weinberg, Craig, good to talk to you. See, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not surprised. In fact, if you look at it carefully,
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  Speaker 4: you can understand exactly how it happened. You have the
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  Speaker 4: breakdown of the old political organizations, also known as the machines,
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  Speaker 4: is replaced by a new machine, which is working families
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  Speaker 4: parties in the DSA. You have a lot of out
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  Speaker 4: of state indeed perhaps foreign national money coming in they
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  Speaker 4: target blue districts with a certain demographic, so they're not
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  Speaker 4: targeting swing districts. So all of that combined, it's not
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  Speaker 4: it's not an impossible thing to do. And sometimes incumbent
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  Speaker 4: stay too long and they take for granted the historical
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  Speaker 4: built in advantages which no longer exist. The machine in
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party today is the left wing radical socialists,
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  Speaker 4: not the old time Tammany Hall clubhouse types.
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  Speaker 3: Your thoughts, well, I mean, I think there's two parts here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just just taking the DSA and Working Families
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  Speaker 3: at this point, I mean, this could be the end
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  Speaker 3: of the Working Families Party. The DSA is. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Manzani was elected with a coalition between the two.
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  Speaker 3: But if we if we look at it, you know
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  Speaker 3: Antonio in the New York seven races, Jery Renoso, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna gain Clare Valdez who won. You know, Antonio was
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  Speaker 3: the Working Families nominating. You know, that was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be the coalition. They don't have the ground game anymore,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have the infrastructure that the DSA has now.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, separately, when it comes down to the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic machine or that kind of thing, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: Adriano was they were not ready for this. Let's put
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  Speaker 3: it that way. They were not they were not prepared
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  Speaker 3: for a far left challenge. The mayor had shook his hand,
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  Speaker 3: said he was going to endorse him. He went back
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  Speaker 3: on that word and back and you know, endorsed dar
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  Speaker 3: Eliza here. But I think too, you know, if we
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  Speaker 3: look at take you know, take take the thousand foot view,
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  Speaker 3: here is you know, Democrats, Tyke Keem Jeffries, the party
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  Speaker 3: leaders are are are looking at other things. They're looking
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  Speaker 3: at the big picture of trying to win the house
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  Speaker 3: back for them in November. They were trying to broke
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  Speaker 3: or peace so they didn't have to face the challenge
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  Speaker 3: on the far left. I mean, this is just this
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  Speaker 3: is democratic infighting. And you know, I think when we're
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  Speaker 3: talking to people the last few days, if you know,
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  Speaker 3: Republicans could use just to capitalize to maybe kind of
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  Speaker 3: stave off any of the of the losses they'll have
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  Speaker 3: in November, because this is what they're going to paint
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, as you're saying, as being that far left,
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  Speaker 3: which is what people like Jeffrey's Hokal the modern contingent
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  Speaker 3: that are trying to do. But again, they're lost a
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  Speaker 3: big time on Tuesday. So if that's seemingly where the
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  Speaker 3: party is, at least the momentum of the party is Craig.
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  Speaker 5: This is Fernando Matteo. Thank you for being being here. Hi, listen.
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  Speaker 5: I just believe that the dynamics of the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 5: is changed. I believe that the older Democrats are not
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  Speaker 5: paying attention anymore. I think they're fed up. I think
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  Speaker 5: they just simply aren't coming out to vote. And if
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  Speaker 5: we don't get the forty fifty, sixty seventy year olds
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  Speaker 5: coming out to vote, this is what's gonna happen. You're
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  Speaker 5: gonna have these young, white, crazy social young people coming out.
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  Speaker 5: Only ten percent of the people voted in these regions.
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  Speaker 5: Ten percent of the people voted, and they were the crazies.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't your typical Democrat. So what is happening? You know,
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  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party is crumbling.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that.
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  Speaker 5: Schumer and Hakeem I think are past tense. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think they're going anywhere. And that's what's going on in
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  Speaker 5: New York City. I remember growing up, never would a
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  Speaker 5: Democrat challenge another Democrat an incumbent until Locasio Cortes came
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  Speaker 5: in and crumbled, brought Crowley right. Then the movement started
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  Speaker 5: and it hasn't stopped, and people are not coming out
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  Speaker 5: to vote. What do we do your.
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  Speaker 3: Opinion, Well, I mean, I think, just for the record,
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  Speaker 3: Adriano did challenging it and in coming back.
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  Speaker 4: And towards wrangle.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so does happen. But I see your point.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think when we look at this and
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  Speaker 3: we take a step back and we can you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of this is riding on Zora Mamdani, right,
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  Speaker 3: riding on his name recognition, riding on that and this
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  Speaker 3: this new movement within the Democratic Party to push free
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  Speaker 3: Palestine in this anti Israel contingent and getting people motivated
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  Speaker 3: to vote through through basically one or two issues here, right,
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  Speaker 3: like telling people to get out to vote for free
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  Speaker 3: Palestine or you know, we want to make the city
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  Speaker 3: more affordable. It's very small digestible things to get people motivated.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. We are not seeing the older Democratic voters
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  Speaker 3: coming out there. But this has always been These have
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  Speaker 3: always been low voter turnout races. So what they are
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  Speaker 3: doing is they're capitalizing these things. This is what the
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  Speaker 3: DSA does throughout the city, they move people into districts,
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  Speaker 3: they get residency in areas where they know that they're
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  Speaker 3: either you know, uh, gentrified areas, younger population that they
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  Speaker 3: can go in and they can you know, and it's
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  Speaker 3: not a competitive district and try to get a seat.
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  Speaker 3: And then that's that's what they're looking at here and
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  Speaker 3: what the party has to do, and it's I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: this is what they've been doing for the last two days.
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  Speaker 3: Last day, he is trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: motivate people to come out to vote. Because if even
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  Speaker 3: if you don't like his arm, Mom Donnie John, I
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  Speaker 3: know you've sat with him. He's a very good politician.
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  Speaker 3: He's very charming, he's going to he's very good, he's
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  Speaker 3: a very good oratory like he's he's his great presence.
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  Speaker 3: And they're all riding off of this. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: would not say that about Darli Liza, I would not
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  Speaker 3: say that about Claire belfas you know, I would not
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  Speaker 3: say that about Brad Lander, which Bradlander was going to
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  Speaker 3: win regardless of a Mom Donnie endorsement. But as he
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  Speaker 3: said that, you know, they're riding off of this, this
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  Speaker 3: great politician in this of being able to convince people
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  Speaker 3: to get out to vote, having good ads, having good
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  Speaker 3: political people around him. It's kind of why I see
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  Speaker 3: that this won't be cannot be replicated at least as
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  Speaker 3: of now outside of New York City. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we have they're riding this momentum of zorn here
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  Speaker 3: and the question that what needs to happen for the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic sallis is they need to find somebody like that,
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  Speaker 3: which they have not, and they've been told this for years.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking to Craig McCarthy. He is the bureau chief
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  Speaker 2: City Hall bureau chief at the New York Post, and Craig,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we should follow up for our listeners because
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  Speaker 2: yesterday we were talking about when we were asking will
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  Speaker 2: people show up to this coffee shop protest in Williamsburg
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  Speaker 2: against this coffee shop Poetica coffee that discriminated and against
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  Speaker 2: Dan Goldman and boasted that he was a genocide supporter
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  Speaker 2: and they wouldn't serve him a clear civil rights violation.
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  Speaker 2: And that does seem like there was a decent turnout there.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to ask you a question to someone
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  Speaker 2: who understands City Hall and the City Council, when we
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  Speaker 2: talk about these anti Semitic things going on in the city. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: do people in this city council and city Hall look
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  Speaker 2: at it as something that they need to fix or
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  Speaker 2: are they looking at it very intriguingly and thinking, Gee,
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  Speaker 2: if just a few thousand voters in a primary can
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  Speaker 2: get us a victory, maybe we can use anti Symitism
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  Speaker 2: as a carrot and a stick to get people. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to me like some people are taking advantage
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Craig Well, I think that we could talk. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this has been the conversation because we don't have I
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  Speaker 3: mean people, let's start off with saying, people in the
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  Speaker 3: city council, Yes, they're taking very seriously. I mean the
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  Speaker 3: speaker is Jewish, Julie Mennon. I mean she's taking very seriously.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have a police commissioner who is Jewish,
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  Speaker 3: who is taking this very seriously when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: actually crossing the line into crimes. But I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we take a step back, it's the again, the
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  Speaker 3: rhetoric that's coming out, and I think you know what
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  Speaker 3: the allegations are coming out of. When Zoron had the
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  Speaker 3: rally about two weeks ago on a Thursday, and he
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  Speaker 3: referred to Apak as monsters and using some of the
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  Speaker 3: terminology people thinking it's a dog whistle, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: mean like for anti Semitism that you know, to rile
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  Speaker 3: up the base. And you know, I think it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's as I was saying. I mean, this is basically
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  Speaker 3: what these campaigns are. They've been riding on vibes and
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  Speaker 3: this Free Palestine movement, you know, I mean there's little
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  Speaker 3: there's little to no policy behind these people. But Darla,
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  Speaker 3: Liza Claire and even Brad, I mean it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: going I mean, you know, if we're looking at somebody
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  Speaker 3: that as a partner to get stuff done, you know,
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  Speaker 3: those two people are not going to get anything done
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  Speaker 3: in the House because they've just angered the you know,
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  Speaker 3: to establishment the next Speaker of the House, well likely
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  Speaker 3: the next speaker.
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