Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Still Surging to Become New York's Next Governor
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- 0:00Speaker 1: My dear friend, Bruce Blakeman, Bruce E. Good Tuesday morning, buddy.
- 0:04Speaker 2: How are you.
- 0:05Speaker 3: I'm doing great, said, just got back from traveling all
- 0:09Speaker 3: around the state, and everybody's ready for change, and you've
- 0:13Speaker 3: got a tremendous amount of support. We're gonna win this thing.
- 0:15Speaker 1: You were great with Bararomo on Sunday. You know, I
- 0:18Speaker 1: watched Maria every Sunday. She's my favorite.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Show by a distance. I'm so happy to see you
- 0:22Speaker 2: on there. And you know she pressed you pretty hard.
- 0:24Speaker 1: You know, basically, what are you going to do to
- 0:26Speaker 1: fix what you think Kathy Hochel has broken? And I
- 0:30Speaker 1: think a lot of people are asking the same thing.
- 0:32Speaker 1: What makes Bruce better than lee'zelden who made it close?
- 0:35Speaker 1: And I believe you do a great job of answering
- 0:38Speaker 1: all those questions, whether it's taxes. You've done a great
- 0:40Speaker 1: job in Nassau County with that bringing back energy. You
- 0:44Speaker 1: always talk about that Pennsylvania. What a joke that is,
- 0:47Speaker 1: and of course maybe the most important of all and
- 0:50Speaker 1: part of the reason why Trump.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Is going to be here Friday, which is law and order.
- 0:53Speaker 1: I mean, you say it, Kathy Hochel, No one caddles
- 0:57Speaker 1: criminals in the country more than Kathy Hopel, Isn't that right?
- 1:02Speaker 3: Well, she's the most pro criminal governor in the United
- 1:06Speaker 3: States of America, said, think about this. Every major criminal
- 1:12Speaker 3: justice law that she signed or supported makes it easier
- 1:18Speaker 3: for criminals to pray on our communities, to our neighborhoods.
- 1:22Speaker 3: She has embraced cash list bail, the hal Deck, which
- 1:28Speaker 3: not only puts all of our corrections officers in danger
- 1:32Speaker 3: because now the prisoners are running to prison, but even
- 1:36Speaker 3: the prisoners now are complaining about it because it's unsafe
- 1:39Speaker 3: for them. They don't want to be mingled together with
- 1:44Speaker 3: nonviolent criminals and very violent criminals as the Hall Deck requires.
- 1:49Speaker 3: And then raise the age where there's no accountability for
- 1:53Speaker 3: a fifteen year old who commits an adult crime. Well,
- 1:56Speaker 3: guess what. Now the gang leaders are recruiting these young
- 1:59Speaker 3: people because there's no consequences. So now all these young
- 2:03Speaker 3: kids are involved in gang activity because of Cassy Hoko.
- 2:08Speaker 3: So we are meeting on Friday with President Trump. We're
- 2:12Speaker 3: going to show him our amazing, amazing law enforcement center.
- 2:16Speaker 3: They are the David S. Mac Intelligence and Training Center
- 2:19Speaker 3: and the Harry Bola sing Village that we had it's
- 2:25Speaker 3: a training village. It is the most state of the
- 2:28Speaker 3: art training village in the United States of America. We
- 2:32Speaker 3: have simulated banks, train stations, gas stations, churches, synagogues, homes
- 2:40Speaker 3: so that our police can have real time training before
- 2:43Speaker 3: they get out on the streets. He's coming to visit
- 2:46Speaker 3: that and talk about law enforcement, and he's bringing Cash Bettel,
- 2:50Speaker 3: the FBI director, who is a Nassau County guy who
- 2:54Speaker 3: grew up in Garden City. So we're really excited about that.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Chris Boyle was breaking my ball because
- 3:00Speaker 1: I was supposed to go out there when JD. Vance
- 3:02Speaker 1: was supposed to come and cut the ribbon, you remember,
- 3:04Speaker 1: So I never got out there because that didn't happen.
- 3:06Speaker 2: And he goes.
- 3:07Speaker 1: You know, your son's been out there to the new
- 3:09Speaker 1: police academy with pat Ryder, but you haven't.
- 3:11Speaker 2: I going.
- 3:12Speaker 1: No. I'm very much looking forward to seeing all this
- 3:15Speaker 1: on Friday. And not only is President Trump bringing Cash Pateel,
- 3:18Speaker 1: but I think he's also bringing Bruce Todd Blanch Right.
- 3:23Speaker 3: We're hoping that he brings Todd blanche they're talking about
- 3:27Speaker 3: it now, and there might be other cabinet members who
- 3:29Speaker 3: are going to join, and it's going to be, as
- 3:33Speaker 3: I said, a very enlightening discussion about law enforcement, about crime,
- 3:38Speaker 3: and President Trump has been incredibly supportive of law enforcement,
- 3:43Speaker 3: and I think that this will illustrate the contrast between
- 3:48Speaker 3: those who are pro criminal and those who want to
- 3:51Speaker 3: protect our communities. President Trump is one of them. We
- 3:54Speaker 3: work very closely together and I'm looking forward to his
- 3:58Speaker 3: visits very much.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Oh look, he's made right bottom line, He's made Memphis safer,
- 4:02Speaker 1: He's made Washington, d C.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Safer, he's made Chicago safer.
- 4:05Speaker 1: He give him the opportunity. He would make our city safer,
- 4:08Speaker 1: There's no question about it. I hope Man Howard Lutnick
- 4:10Speaker 1: comes into only because only a couple of weeks away
- 4:13Speaker 1: from nine to eleven. He's a New Yorker, his brother
- 4:15Speaker 1: was killed in those towers on that day, and Lutnick
- 4:19Speaker 1: usually does travel with President Trump anyway. But let's be honest,
- 4:23Speaker 1: all these people are coming, and you know a lot
- 4:25Speaker 1: of folks running on the island. They're going to be there,
- 4:27Speaker 1: I'm sure that day with us, Michael Petrie and Driscoll
- 4:30Speaker 1: and Lil Loder and Gobrino and all of them. But
- 4:33Speaker 1: the real reason why President Trump is coming to the
- 4:35Speaker 1: island on Friday, above and beyond law and order is
- 4:38Speaker 1: to once again give you a very public and deserved
- 4:43Speaker 1: let me hear that word, Bruce deserved ringing endorsement.
- 4:47Speaker 3: Yes, well, that's very kind of you. But Sid, I
- 4:53Speaker 3: think he's coming here because Nassau County is a model
- 4:57Speaker 3: of public safety. And I'm not just talking about our
- 5:00Speaker 3: great police officers, but our corrections officers, our deputy sheriffs,
- 5:05Speaker 3: our probation officers, and don't forget our volunteer firefighters and
- 5:08Speaker 3: our EMTs. They do an amazing job every day. So
- 5:12Speaker 3: President Trump is going to tour our facilities and he's
- 5:15Speaker 3: going to honor them. They're the ones that are on
- 5:17Speaker 3: the front line. You know, Politicians take credit for policies
- 5:21Speaker 3: that they have that make communities safer, and I certainly
- 5:27Speaker 3: do that as well, but I never forget that it's
- 5:29Speaker 3: actually the people on the front lines who are doing
- 5:32Speaker 3: the work. And I'm very grateful for all our law
- 5:34Speaker 3: enforcement and public safety personnel here in our county.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Books. How long have you known President Trump?
- 5:39Speaker 3: Now? For Oh, I guess, I guess well over twenty
- 5:43Speaker 3: five probably thirty years, forty.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Years and not just you, but he also loves your brother.
- 5:47Speaker 1: I mean, I told this story a couple of weeks
- 5:49Speaker 1: ago when you were being inaugurated for the second time,
- 5:51Speaker 1: when you won the Nashau County executive position, and I
- 5:54Speaker 1: was with you that night at the beautiful Aviation Museum
- 5:57Speaker 1: out there in Nashault County.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm waring.
- 5:59Speaker 1: When President Trump called you to congratulate you that night,
- 6:02Speaker 1: your brother was sitting right next to him.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Yeah, my brother worked in the West Wing for President Bush.
- 6:11Speaker 3: He was there during nine to eleven and after President
- 6:17Speaker 3: Trump received the Republican nomination, my brother was a very
- 6:22Speaker 3: very vocal advocate when some of the Bush people weren't
- 6:26Speaker 3: so supportive of President Trump. And President Trump is a
- 6:30Speaker 3: very loyal guy and he was very appreciative that my
- 6:32Speaker 3: brother spoke out in his favor. So, yeah, he has
- 6:36Speaker 3: a relationship with my brother, who at dinner last night
- 6:39Speaker 3: here on Long Island with my brother. He now works
- 6:42Speaker 3: for Frank Ziller in Tunnels to Talis.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Oh really, I didn't know that.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a consultant for Frank Pziller. And there's no
- 6:50Speaker 3: better American than Frank Siller. I'm telling you right now.
- 6:54Speaker 3: What he has done for our veterans, for our law
- 6:57Speaker 3: enforcement personnel, those who were in dire straits, those who
- 7:01Speaker 3: were injured, those who were killed in the line of duty,
- 7:05Speaker 3: and less families. Frank Stiller is a saint.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more.
- 7:09Speaker 1: That's why I do the tunalt to Towers every two
- 7:12Speaker 1: weeks on this show. And he is a wonderful guy.
- 7:15Speaker 1: His brother, Steven Siller, died that day, and as you
- 7:17Speaker 1: told us on this program, you've said a couple of
- 7:19Speaker 1: times since you lost your nephew that day, your sister
- 7:22Speaker 1: Linda's oldest son. If I remember correctly, Tommy Jurgens, is
- 7:26Speaker 1: that right?
- 7:28Speaker 3: Sergeant Tommy Jurgens died. A real hero was give me
- 7:32Speaker 3: first day to a woman who was severely burned in
- 7:34Speaker 3: the lobby of Tower Too when it collapsed on him
- 7:37Speaker 3: and two other court officers.
- 7:40Speaker 2: You know when.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Trump comes this week or when he leaves the right
- 7:45Speaker 1: before right after, you know your opponent, Kathy Hulkel, all
- 7:50Speaker 1: she's going to talk about is how Bruce Blakeman is
- 7:54Speaker 1: hanging out with President Trump, and President Trump's policies are
- 7:58Speaker 1: exactly what we don't want in New York. Even though
- 8:02Speaker 1: if New York ever had those policies, which they will
- 8:05Speaker 1: when you win, this would be a much better state.
- 8:08Speaker 2: She's gonna go nuts on you for days, you know that.
- 8:12Speaker 3: Well, you know what, it's not bad to be the
- 8:16Speaker 3: governor of the state and be able to pick up
- 8:19Speaker 3: the phone and call the President and have him answer
- 8:22Speaker 3: you immediately, all.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Right, and also send you some money if you need
- 8:26Speaker 2: a God forbid.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Right well, well listen, I'm just getting to that. So
- 8:30Speaker 3: President Trump and I have talked a lot about energy.
- 8:34Speaker 3: We talked about how we have one of the largest
- 8:37Speaker 3: natural gas reserves in New York, and Kathy Holkle would
- 8:40Speaker 3: rather buy it from Pennsylvania than extract it from New
- 8:43Speaker 3: York and create jobs, create prosterity, and lower our electric bills.
- 8:48Speaker 3: It's just insane her energy policy. So he's definitely going
- 8:52Speaker 3: to help New York with that. And of course economic
- 8:55Speaker 3: development create better jobs, higher paying jobs with better benefits.
- 9:00Speaker 3: That's how you make it more affordable by putting more
- 9:02Speaker 3: money in people's pockets. And I know President Trump is
- 9:05Speaker 3: going to help me and help New Yorkers. He loves
- 9:07Speaker 3: New York. You know, he grew up in New York.
- 9:09Speaker 3: He's a queen's guy, and he loves New York, but
- 9:12Speaker 3: unfortunately Kathy Hochel has been incredibly hostile to him. I
- 9:17Speaker 3: don't understand her reasoning, and so has Zoron Mndami, who
- 9:22Speaker 3: is just, you know, an anti American communist. So I
- 9:26Speaker 3: just feel that she can say whatever she wants. But
- 9:29Speaker 3: New Yorkers are smart. Did you hear what she said
- 9:31Speaker 3: about upstate New Yorkers said the sophisticated enough to make
- 9:36Speaker 3: important decisions. Did you hear what she said about black kids?
- 9:40Speaker 3: She said that black kids in the Bronx don't know
- 9:43Speaker 3: what a computer is. I mean, what a racially charred
- 9:47Speaker 3: statement that is. And it could not be further from
- 9:49Speaker 3: the truth. I can guarantee you right now there is
- 9:53Speaker 3: no ten year old black kid in the Bronx who
- 9:57Speaker 3: who would be worse on a can compter than me.
- 10:01Speaker 3: It all would be much better than me. They're technologically savvy.
- 10:05Speaker 3: To say that about people and stereotype them, I think
- 10:09Speaker 3: is just a disgrace. She's stereotyping Upstaters black people. She
- 10:13Speaker 3: can't She joined with Montdami in not attending the first
- 10:19Speaker 3: time in history that they didn't have a Puerto Rican
- 10:23Speaker 3: Day breakfast for the community leaders or of the Puerto
- 10:26Speaker 3: Rican American community. Uh, it's just one thing after other,
- 10:30Speaker 3: leaving little Italy off. Both of the Italy is the
- 10:33Speaker 3: one in the Bronx on Arthur Avenue and the one
- 10:35Speaker 3: on Lower Manhattan off the map of important tourist places
- 10:40Speaker 3: where immigration was important. It just goes line, chapter, and
- 10:45Speaker 3: verse of the things that Hochland Mandami have done to
- 10:48Speaker 3: make us more miserable and to divide us. This is
- 10:51Speaker 3: the most divisive mayor and governor that we've ever had
- 10:56Speaker 3: in New York. Instead of unifying people like I want
- 10:59Speaker 3: to do I've done in my county, they divide us.
- 11:02Speaker 3: Why can't we bring people together?
- 11:05Speaker 1: They are terrible people, both of them. And you know,
- 11:08Speaker 1: let's extend this to the mayor's wife. And I usually
- 11:12Speaker 1: don't talk about people spouses and all that.
- 11:15Speaker 2: And in fact I never do ever. But she is
- 11:17Speaker 2: such a vile, wretched creature.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Dating back to the days when she was liking stuff
- 11:22Speaker 1: on the Internet about Israeli girls being raped and little
- 11:25Speaker 1: boy baby's being thrown in an oven, she loved October seventh.
- 11:29Speaker 1: She thought the Freedom Biders did a great job. Now
- 11:32Speaker 1: now this lady, she's going to Lebanon and Syria. You know,
- 11:38Speaker 1: Lebanon and Syria. She's taking an NYPD detail with her.
- 11:43Speaker 1: You know what that means. I got a paper that,
- 11:45Speaker 1: you got a paper that who watched the paper that?
- 11:48Speaker 1: How in the world is that?
- 11:49Speaker 2: Okay?
- 11:51Speaker 3: Well, she's going to two countries where they are controlled
- 11:56Speaker 3: by terrorists, where they don't have human rights. They're not democracies,
- 12:01Speaker 3: they don't have an independent judiciary. If you're in the
- 12:04Speaker 3: political opposition, you settle your battles with bombs and guns,
- 12:09Speaker 3: not at the ballot box. These are people who throw
- 12:13Speaker 3: gay men and women off of rooftops and kill them.
- 12:19Speaker 3: They stone women for not dressing appropriately. How anybody could
- 12:24Speaker 3: glorify those two places is beyond me. And certainly she
- 12:32Speaker 3: is going there for the reasons that I say that
- 12:37Speaker 3: he is anti American. She is going there to support
- 12:41Speaker 3: people who want to destroy our values and our government
- 12:49Speaker 3: here in the United States.
- 12:51Speaker 1: You know, on the way out, every now and then, Bruce,
- 12:53Speaker 1: I have to admit I pinch myself because it's so
- 12:55Speaker 1: real to me that a million people wake up every
- 12:57Speaker 1: day and they listen to me and eat me at events,
- 13:01Speaker 1: and they go crazy, and you've seen it. These people
- 13:04Speaker 1: and to me, it's like I was just that you
- 13:06Speaker 1: know that kid from Brooklyn that you know I can
- 13:09Speaker 1: possibly be in this position, and you know, here you are.
- 13:12Speaker 1: The President of United States is coming to see you
- 13:14Speaker 1: on Friday, and you got a big event. I'll be
- 13:16Speaker 1: there too with you with Steve Whitcomb on Long Island
- 13:18Speaker 1: on Friday night, and you're running for governor and you
- 13:22Speaker 1: would just sit back and have a couple of copy
- 13:24Speaker 1: and go, Man, I can't believe I've gotten here. What
- 13:28Speaker 1: does it mean to you that you are our choice,
- 13:32Speaker 1: our Republican choice to be the governor of New York.
- 13:37Speaker 3: Well tell you every day I say that you do right.
- 13:40Speaker 3: You ask if you ask my teachers in high school
- 13:42Speaker 3: whether I would be in this position, I think they
- 13:45Speaker 3: would unanimously say.
- 13:46Speaker 2: You know, no, way right. You know what's funny about that.
- 13:50Speaker 1: When I was in high school with Joe Tacopina, there
- 13:53Speaker 1: was a yearbook. It was called the Polyglot at poly Prep,
- 13:56Speaker 1: and they would have these end of year, you know,
- 14:00Speaker 1: contest and they would rate people and the two guys
- 14:03Speaker 1: that will least likely to succeed. In the sixth grade,
- 14:07Speaker 1: with Joseph Tacopina, who is the most famous depends attorney
- 14:12Speaker 1: in the world and me, and now you're saying the
- 14:14Speaker 1: same thing. Right in high school, they would have said,
- 14:16Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, no way, it's amazing.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Right. Well, every time I talk to kids, whether it
- 14:24Speaker 3: be in high school or middle school, and I get
- 14:27Speaker 3: a chance to talk to him, I tell them, listen, guys,
- 14:30Speaker 3: it's not where you start, it's where you finish. You
- 14:33Speaker 3: always have an opportunity to do the things that you
- 14:38Speaker 3: need to do to advance yourself, to have a better life,
- 14:41Speaker 3: to have a better future. And even though you might
- 14:44Speaker 3: have been lazy in school, or you were too busy
- 14:47Speaker 3: playing basketball and you weren't paying attention to your studies,
- 14:52Speaker 3: there's always time to turn things around. I did it.
- 14:56Speaker 3: It took me a while, but now I've to come
- 15:00Speaker 3: probably the hardest working person in politics next to President Trump.
- 15:05Speaker 3: I work really hard. And I'll tell you why I
- 15:07Speaker 3: work hard, said because every morning, like you said, I
- 15:10Speaker 3: not only get up and pinch myself, but I get
- 15:13Speaker 3: up with a responsibility for this state, for the county
- 15:18Speaker 3: that I live in, for the people who are supporting me,
- 15:21Speaker 3: for the people who have vouched for me, for people
- 15:24Speaker 3: like you who stood up for me. Every day I
- 15:26Speaker 3: have that weight on my shoulders, and I say, I
- 15:30Speaker 3: have to do a really good job because people are
- 15:32Speaker 3: depending on me. Members of Congress who are running for election,
- 15:36Speaker 3: are depending on me, state centers, state assembly members, local
- 15:40Speaker 3: government officials, the public. Every day I wake up with
- 15:44Speaker 3: that burden. But you know what, I just pray to
- 15:47Speaker 3: God that God gives me the strength. And if God
- 15:51Speaker 3: gives me the strengths, I'll do what I have to do.
- 15:54Speaker 3: And wherever the chips may fall, that's within God's purview
- 15:58Speaker 3: and I will accept whatever happens. But my job is
- 16:02Speaker 3: to give one hundred percent every single day, every minute
- 16:06Speaker 3: of every hour.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Now, you're an amazing guy, Bruce you Willie Are You're
- 16:09Speaker 1: an amazing guy. I love you for folks who want
- 16:12Speaker 1: to help you out this morning, send you some money
- 16:14Speaker 1: and all that stuff.
- 16:15Speaker 2: What's the website?
- 16:17Speaker 3: Blakemanfromdew York dot com. Blakemanfromdewyork dot com. We could use
- 16:21Speaker 3: the contributions. I'm fighting Kathyhochels Democrat machine here and to
- 16:27Speaker 3: beat them, we got to be able to be on TV,
- 16:29Speaker 3: social media, radio, direct mail and streaming. Now we have
- 16:33Speaker 3: to pay for streaming. So please go and make a contribution.
- 16:37Speaker 3: Get along, sign volunteer, and make sure every member of
- 16:41Speaker 3: your family and all your friends get out to vote.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Blakeman from New York dot Com and my family all
- 16:46Speaker 1: loves you, Danielle Ava Gabriel. He works for you, he
- 16:49Speaker 1: loves He's actually saying he's gonna be leaving you in
- 16:51Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and I can't wait to see
- 16:53Speaker 1: you when President Trump and the whole crew on Friday.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman as always spectacular job.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Well God bless you. Thank you. Sitting by the way,
- 17:02Speaker 3: Gabriel's doing an amazing job.
- 17:04Speaker 2: You got a great kid, deb Thank you, Bruce, thank you.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I do love that little boy, and he is having
- 17:09Speaker 2: the time of his life. He loves you, he really does.
- 17:12Speaker 1: He gets so excited when you talked to him in
- 17:14Speaker 1: the office and shake his hand, you invite him to
- 17:16Speaker 1: a meeting.
- 17:16Speaker 2: He text me, by the way, he goes Doddy Daddy,
- 17:18Speaker 2: bruceusted this, Bruce shusted that.
- 17:20Speaker 1: So just see you know you've you meant a lot
- 17:23Speaker 1: to him this summer. He's a very impressional age now
- 17:26Speaker 1: seventeen years old. You meant a lot so thank you, Brucey,
- 17:28Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 17:29Speaker 3: My honor. We're happy to have him.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy, Bruce Blakeman right there, the Nashville County Executive,
- 17:34Speaker 1: the next governor here in the great state of New York.
- 17:37Speaker 1: And we got a big day coming up together on Friday,
- 17:38Speaker 1: President Trump in the daytime, and we'll go hang out
- 17:42Speaker 1: with Steve Whitcoff and the Haamptons on Friday night.
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