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Nassau County Exec. Bruce Blakeman (R-NY) | 05-25-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: With us this morning. Bruce Blakeman, Well, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people are pushing for him for governor of the State
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  Speaker 3: of New York. And Bruce Blakeman, you have the safest
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  Speaker 3: county and in the country. Out of twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 3: counties in the out there in the country, we saw
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  Speaker 3: a county as the safest county. Do you want to
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  Speaker 3: make New York State the safest county, the safest state
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  Speaker 3: in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. John. I hired six hundred new law enforcement professionals
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  Speaker 4: just in my first four years in office, and just
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  Speaker 4: in the last six months, I have hired two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and eighty new law enforcement professionals. We are hiring more cops,
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  Speaker 4: more corrections officers, deputy sheriffs. We are investing millions of
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  Speaker 4: dollars in our intelligence and training center, and we have
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  Speaker 4: the most state of the art training village for our
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  Speaker 4: police department in the world. So I am investing. I
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  Speaker 4: am working with ICE to make sure that we get
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  Speaker 4: illegal migrants with criminal records out of our county, out
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  Speaker 4: of our state, out of the region, without raiding schools,
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  Speaker 4: without raiding daycare centers or hospitals or churches. We go
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  Speaker 4: after the illegal migrants who have committed crimes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what I originally said to President Trump in
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  Speaker 3: that dinner in Suffering Suffolk County is let's go after
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  Speaker 3: Let's go after the drug dealers, Let's go after the murderers.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go after the people hurting our children. And let's
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  Speaker 3: worry about Let's worry about the more low love rowers
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  Speaker 3: and the bus boys and the Yuba drivers later on,
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  Speaker 3: but let's worry about the murderers. Lets get them out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand how eighty percent of the
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  Speaker 3: people say, yes, you're right, let's get the murderers out
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  Speaker 3: of here, and you tell us what, how do you feel?
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, I agree, and in my county that's exactly
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  Speaker 4: what we do. You know. One of the things I
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  Speaker 4: think we need, John, is a comprehensive immigration program where
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  Speaker 4: if you've been in the country for seven or eight
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  Speaker 4: years or more and you overstate your visa, you're gainfully
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  Speaker 4: employed and you haven't gotten in any trouble, there should
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  Speaker 4: be a path to legality. I'm not saying citizenship, but
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  Speaker 4: a path to legality. Let's get a guest worker program.
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  Speaker 4: Restaurants need workers, farms need workers, hotels need workers, you
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  Speaker 4: name it. There are businesses that need workers and this
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  Speaker 4: would be a good way to fill their need. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, be capassionate. So I'm not just
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  Speaker 4: a tough guy, John, I'm a thoughtful person who has compassion.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, I want all the criminals out. I want
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  Speaker 4: the criminals out in New York State. They don't belong here.
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  Speaker 4: But while I'll tell you one thing I want to John,
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  Speaker 4: I won't give eight billion dollars of taxpayer money to
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  Speaker 4: legal migrants because they got to earn what they get
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  Speaker 4: they've got to be gainfully employed. They've got to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that they have values, their comport with American values.
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  Speaker 4: Because too many of the migrants that came in illegally
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  Speaker 4: from Mexico and other places, they don't have American values.
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  Speaker 4: Those we should get out if they don't love America,
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  Speaker 4: if they're not happy to be here, like probably your
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  Speaker 4: parents or grandparents did. I know my grandparents They loved America.
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  Speaker 4: So that's another thing. We've got to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: the people who are here actually share our values and
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  Speaker 4: love America.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Bruce, I agree with you in one more thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I was vice chairman of Ellis Island and
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  Speaker 3: both Pagazi was chairman. Lei Tolko was honorary chairman, and
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  Speaker 3: we brought in zillion immigrants. But the immigrants were bringing
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  Speaker 3: in had no diseases. We made sure they were all
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  Speaker 3: checked at the border, not to hurt our kids, not
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  Speaker 3: the way it's been happening under the Biden administration. They
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  Speaker 3: came in to work eighty hours a week. When my
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  Speaker 3: father came in, guess what if he didn't pay the rent,
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  Speaker 3: then his brothers had to pay the rent. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's a difference. Between immigrants, the traditional immigrants America got
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  Speaker 3: and the migrants that Joe Biden brought in. They emptied out.
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  Speaker 3: They emptied out the jails in Venezuela, the hospitals in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: And guess where they sent them. They sent them to
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  Speaker 3: New York. And guess what we gave. We paid them.
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  Speaker 3: We gave free telephones, free rooms, free hotel rooms. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 4: Bruce, eight billion dollars of our money given to legal migrants.
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  Speaker 4: All we have to do is show up to New
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  Speaker 4: York State and sign up. And that's why we've become
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  Speaker 4: a magnet for legal migrants all over the country. And
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  Speaker 4: that's why when Kathy Hochele says she doesn't have money
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  Speaker 4: for union workers, she doesn't have money for infrastructure, she
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have money for our hospital, she doesn't have money
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  Speaker 4: for our schools, then stop spending it on illegal migrants
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  Speaker 4: who haven't earned a thing, and start spending it on
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  Speaker 4: New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 3: We want people to want to be here. Dominic Carter,
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  Speaker 3: you have a question for Bruce, Yes, I do, County Executive.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning on this Memorial Day. I gotta tell you, Tom,
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  Speaker 5: some of us have institutional history. To remember the last
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  Speaker 5: time a Republican was elected governor of New York State.
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  Speaker 5: Some of us can remember PATACKI well, some of us
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  Speaker 5: can member ABC anybody but Cuomo And so I've been
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  Speaker 5: watching you very closely and you don't know it for
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  Speaker 5: the last several months and County Executive. You got the look,
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  Speaker 5: you got the sound, you got the charisma, You connect
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  Speaker 5: with many communities outside of what is your traditional base,
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  Speaker 5: and you've got the record. So I see a path
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  Speaker 5: to victory for you. I really do see you as
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  Speaker 5: as the next governor. You tell me how you pull
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  Speaker 5: this thing off. So so you deliver upstate traditionally vote
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  Speaker 5: Republican and if there, what does it take is a
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  Speaker 5: lowering of the vote in New York City. How do
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  Speaker 5: you win this thing? Because I'm telling you you've got
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  Speaker 5: an excellent shot at being the next governor of New
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  Speaker 5: York State, just like Pataki came out of nowhere and won.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're going to build a coalition of voters that
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  Speaker 4: traditionally don't vote Republican. We're talking about middle class African
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  Speaker 4: Americans who own a single family or two family home
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  Speaker 4: in Brooklyn, are queens or the Bronx. We're talking about
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  Speaker 4: Hispanic Americans that are entrepreneurs, Asian Americans that want better
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  Speaker 4: schools for their kids. I go into those neighborhoods in
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  Speaker 4: my own county and I get record numbers as a Republican.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Dominic, I won reelection in a county with
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and ten thousand more Democrats in a landslide,
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  Speaker 4: because I got a majority of Hispanic and American voters.
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  Speaker 4: I got independent women. I got African Americans to vote
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  Speaker 4: for me in numbers that they never voted for a
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  Speaker 4: Republican before. Typical Republican in Mike County gets nine percent,
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  Speaker 4: only nine percent of the African American vote. I got
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  Speaker 4: thirty two percent of the African American vote because they
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  Speaker 4: trust me, they know me. Take a look at the
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  Speaker 4: Asian American community, what do they care about. They're also entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 4: small business people. They are people who just want to
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  Speaker 4: be left alone. Lower taxes, lower utility rates, and they
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  Speaker 4: want better schools for their kids. So we're building a coalition.
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  Speaker 4: I hope the turnout is big in New York City
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  Speaker 4: because I think people are miserable under Kathy Hockel. They
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  Speaker 4: now know that Zoah and Mundamie is a complete phony
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  Speaker 4: that he hasn't been able to deliver on anything, and
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  Speaker 4: they're disgruntled. And I feel very confident that we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get record numbers in New York City, that we're
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  Speaker 4: going to get big numbers in west Chester, of course,
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  Speaker 4: Long Island and then the Hudson Valley and all of
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  Speaker 4: upstate New York. I feel very confident. I believe on
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  Speaker 4: January first, very strongly, that I will be the governor
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  Speaker 4: of this state.
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  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman, this is Jake Novak, your constituent in Merrick
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  Speaker 6: Along Island. Thank you for all you're doing there. I
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  Speaker 6: also went to high school with your wife, Sigal, so
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  Speaker 6: tell her. I said, Hi, we'll do yeah, Bruce. It's
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  Speaker 6: another issue, of course, and this is a big issu
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  Speaker 6: in Nassau County, and it's a big issue in this area.
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  Speaker 6: And you just mentioned Mayor mom Donnie. Obviously the rise
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  Speaker 6: of anti Semitism, and you know my theory as a
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  Speaker 6: student of this, my entire life unfortunately has been anti
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  Speaker 6: Semitism actually doesn't have anything to do with the Jews.
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  Speaker 6: They're the target of it, but it's got nothing to
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  Speaker 6: do with what Jews do or don't do. It's actually
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  Speaker 6: a law and order issue. And when you have a
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  Speaker 6: governor who continues with these ridiculous no cash bail laws,
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  Speaker 6: when you have a mayor who's in favor of that
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  Speaker 6: and also emptying the jails, the first thing that people
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  Speaker 6: like me say, this will lead to anti Semitism soon enough,
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  Speaker 6: because if you have someone who doesn't respect the law.
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  Speaker 6: We've already talked about that in regards to Ice, but
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  Speaker 6: if you have someone who doesn't respect the law when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to things like bail, when it comes to
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  Speaker 6: things like there was a video going around on social
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  Speaker 6: media this weekend, someone with the bag going into a
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  Speaker 6: home depot in the Five Boroughs and cleaning out the
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  Speaker 6: home depot, putting into their bag and then going to
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  Speaker 6: a bakery because none of those business owners can really
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  Speaker 6: do anything about shoplifting anymore. This is really a law
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  Speaker 6: and order issue that go beyond Ice. Talk about some
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  Speaker 6: of the things that you're going to push back on on,
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  Speaker 6: Kathy Hokle when it comes to just regular law and
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  Speaker 6: order over and above the illegal immigration issue.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, Jake, it's not only just law in order.
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  Speaker 4: And you're absolutely right, because law in order creates the
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  Speaker 4: atmosphere for anti semitism. Law in order creates the atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: on attacking small businesses and taking what you want from
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  Speaker 4: their stores without consequences. That's all true, but I think
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  Speaker 4: there's a bigger game at play here, and that's what
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  Speaker 4: worries me the most. Is you have a rise in
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  Speaker 4: people who are denigrating those who make jobs, those who
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  Speaker 4: are successful, trying to bring them down, using the Jews
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  Speaker 4: as a scapegoat, and then as a precursor to taking
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  Speaker 4: people's property rights away. First you tax them so high
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  Speaker 4: that they can't afford to keep their businesses, and then
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  Speaker 4: government takes their businesses, and then government is running everything.
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  Speaker 4: They're using this lawlessness to create an atmosphere of fear.
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  Speaker 4: And you have a mayor in the City of New
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  Speaker 4: York who doesn't believe in property rights and is a
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  Speaker 4: via and anti Semite, and we need a governor that's
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  Speaker 4: going to keep him in check, because not only is
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  Speaker 4: that anti Semitism, that is anti American. First it'll be
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  Speaker 4: the Jews, then it'll be the Christians, that it'll be
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  Speaker 4: somebody else. We've got to make sure we stop it. Now.
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  Speaker 6: You know another issue that we're seeing throughout the state.
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  Speaker 6: Is you mentioned it is the tax situation, and we
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  Speaker 6: talked about the eight billion dollars in the bailout that
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  Speaker 6: Kathy Hokel provided to New York City County Executive Blakeman.
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  Speaker 6: I think you have one of the greatest messages possible
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  Speaker 6: ever in the history of any downstate candidate. You can
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  Speaker 6: go to Buffalo and Anianta and Rochester and all those
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  Speaker 6: places and say, I'm the guy who's going to protect
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  Speaker 6: the rest of the state from Zorah Mamdani. This is
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  Speaker 6: not just a five bureau issue. He's taking away your
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  Speaker 6: tax money. Also, you have a great message there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know that was a real eye opener for
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  Speaker 4: people upstate because when I went upstate, originally a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people didn't feel the effect of Zoron Mundami as mayor.
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  Speaker 4: They certainly didn't like him, but they didn't think it
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  Speaker 4: affected them. And then when last month Kathy Hokl gave
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  Speaker 4: one point five billion dollars to New York City without
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  Speaker 4: any strings attached, that started to open up their eyes.
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  Speaker 4: And then they were shocked when she gave them another
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  Speaker 4: four billion dollars in this budget. So that's five point
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  Speaker 4: five billion dollars in just two months, no strings attached,
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  Speaker 4: no control board. And let me tell you something. New
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  Speaker 4: York doesn't have a revenue problem. They've got a spending problem.
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  Speaker 4: They spend on programs that don't produce results, that don't
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  Speaker 4: benefit anybody. Somebody's making money, probably the contributors to Kathy
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  Speaker 4: Hokland Zoro on Mundami, and it's not benefiting the people.
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  Speaker 4: It's costly, and people are getting taxed out of their
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  Speaker 4: homes and that's got to stop. And that's one of
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  Speaker 4: the big reasons why I'm running for governor. As well
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  Speaker 4: as cutting utility costs. Our utility costs in New York
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  Speaker 4: State are seventy percent higher seven zero percent higher than
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the country. That is a disgrace. As governor,
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  Speaker 4: I can stop and I can cut the utility bills
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  Speaker 4: in half by getting rid of the green energy scam,
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  Speaker 4: excessive fees and taxes on your utility bill.
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  Speaker 5: As governor, if necessary, would you think twice about removing
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  Speaker 5: Mom Donnie from office?
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  Speaker 4: Well, dominic, That's the question that I'm asked virtually every day,
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  Speaker 4: and here's my response. It is very drastic to remove
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  Speaker 4: a duly elected office holder after they've won an election,
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  Speaker 4: and it would be the last resort that I would do.
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  Speaker 4: He would have to do something that was really unlawful
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  Speaker 4: and diletarious to the health and well being of the
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  Speaker 4: people of the city of There's incremental discipline that I
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  Speaker 4: could give to Zoah Mondami to get him to behave
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  Speaker 4: and I'm willing to do that. Whether it be pur strings,
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  Speaker 4: whether it be taking over various aspects of city government
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  Speaker 4: by the state. Those are things that I would be
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  Speaker 4: willing to do if he doesn't modify his behavior. But
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  Speaker 4: right now, he's hurting himself more than anything else. Because
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  Speaker 4: he's hurting New Yorkers. They've lost confidence in him. They
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  Speaker 4: now see him as a phony. He hasn't been able
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  Speaker 4: to keep his promient. Think about this dominant. Here's a
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  Speaker 4: guy who ran on free bus rides, okay, and a
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  Speaker 4: week after the election they raised the bus fairs. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if that isn't hypocritical, I don't know what is.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 6: County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee to run against
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  Speaker 6: Kathy Hochel and the governor's racist year in New York State,
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  Speaker 6: a race that the entire country is watching to see
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  Speaker 6: if maybe we can get some sanity in one of
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  Speaker 6: our most important states in the United States. Bruce, good
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  Speaker 6: luck to you. We'll speak to you again. Sum Thank
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  Speaker 6: you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you all. Have a meaningful Memorial Day. Remember and
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  Speaker 4: keep Bruce.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: All right, we come back. We're gonna have doctor Mark
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  Speaker 6: Siegel a lot of health issues to talk to him about.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that, I think we got Chusanbler and
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Moslims coming on, a.
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  Speaker 6: Lot of big names to stay with us.
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