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Frank Morano | New York City Councilwoman | 06-02-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Moving to the Office of Community Safety, the executive plan
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  Speaker 2: included transfers of funding from existing departments and new funding
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  Speaker 2: to create the Office of Community Safety. Have any program
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  Speaker 2: shifted from the NYPD's purview to OCS. No, To what
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  Speaker 2: extent is NYPD engage with the administration and what specific
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  Speaker 2: roles and coordination will occur between NYPD and OCS.
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  Speaker 3: Those conversations have not yet commenced.
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  Speaker 2: So the administration's announcement of an approximately two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty million dollars for the creation of OCS, there have
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  Speaker 2: been no conversations with NYPD about the agency and who
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  Speaker 2: will be doing what.
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  Speaker 3: Not at this time. I believe, I mean, I expect
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  Speaker 3: that those conversations will begin to occur. But as I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned before in response to the last question, no program,
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  Speaker 3: no programmatic responsibility is being shifted from the NYPD. Two.
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  Speaker 4: So here's what you had Tish spent four hours four
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  Speaker 4: before the City Council defending the NYPD budget. She talked
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  Speaker 4: about all the success the NYPD is having major drops
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  Speaker 4: in murders, shootings, robberies and other crimes. But according to
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  Speaker 4: Frank Morano, the amazing city councilman and former colleague here
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  Speaker 4: at WABC, the biggest story was not crime statistics. It
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  Speaker 4: was Tish revealing that despite Mayor Mamdani spending two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and sixty million dollars on a new Office of Community Safety,
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  Speaker 4: the NYPD has not yet had any substances, maybe not
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  Speaker 4: at all, no discussions about how it would work, while
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  Speaker 4: also announcing plans to hire hundreds of additional police officers,
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  Speaker 4: putting I believe Tush Tish, I should say, and odds
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  Speaker 4: again with the mayor's original campaign promises. So it does
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  Speaker 4: look like despite Mam Donnie the boss, he's the boss, right,
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  Speaker 4: He's Tish's boss. Bottom line, he's her boss. It looks like,
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  Speaker 4: despite the fact that Mam Donnie is the boss, that
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  Speaker 4: Tish is running the show here he is City Councilman.
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  Speaker 4: Frank Morano, the great one. Frank, Good morning, buddy, How
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  Speaker 4: are you?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Sid. It's great to be back. Thank you
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  Speaker 5: for having me. As always, I had the privilege of
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  Speaker 5: attending the Republican Jewish Coalition event. That's run by your
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  Speaker 5: cousin Norm Coleman. The other night. It was a great night,
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  Speaker 5: but it struck me because almost everybody in the room
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  Speaker 5: was talking about you that you definitely are one of
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  Speaker 5: the most prominent Republican Jewish folks in New York City.
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  Speaker 5: And then Friday there's the Talker's Conference and it's down
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  Speaker 5: in Long Island. I don't know that you're going to
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  Speaker 5: make it there. I think you're at a different stage
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  Speaker 5: in your radio career these days. But everybody who's coming
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  Speaker 5: in from out of the country to be at that
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  Speaker 5: event is talking about you, Sid Rosenberg, and I was thinking,
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  Speaker 5: there are so few people in radio or politics that
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  Speaker 5: could not even be in the room and they're still
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  Speaker 5: dominating both conversations, and hats off to you. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I know what it takes to do a good radio show,
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  Speaker 5: especially for one for four hours, and we'll at least
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  Speaker 5: I know what picks to do a radio show. I
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  Speaker 5: know the amount of work that goes into it, and
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  Speaker 5: people should make no mistake that just because you make
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  Speaker 5: it sound effortless, you're putting in a ton of work.
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  Speaker 5: And it's amazing to me that you're at as many
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  Speaker 5: places as you are so it's a real treat. You'll
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  Speaker 5: be talking to you again.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, I appreciate that. I know that Heavy
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  Speaker 4: one hundred list is. That's very nice, Frank, and you're
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  Speaker 4: a very talented guy too. That list is coming out.
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  Speaker 4: I think next week. I'm not going to be there
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  Speaker 4: on Friday. Tomorrow is tomorrow. Michael Harrison's upset with me.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I know you kind of you kind of
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  Speaker 4: went past us. But I'm not doing that. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: treating Michael Harrison with any disrespect. I love him. I
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  Speaker 4: love that conference. In fact, I'm gonna be on Joe
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  Speaker 4: Pegg's Big Time radio show in Texas tomorrow. He's number
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  Speaker 4: seven on that Heavy one hundred list. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: at Hofstra on Friday. And the funny thing about the
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  Speaker 4: RJC dinner is, as you mentioned, my first cousin, Norm Coleman,
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  Speaker 4: who I love desperately, he runs out with my friend
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  Speaker 4: Matt Brooks. So they send out a bunch of flyers. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: after you watch, I'm on the flyer, right, I'm on
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  Speaker 4: the fire. But not one person from the RJC called me,
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  Speaker 4: contacted me, asked me to speak, So I didn't go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was shocked. I figured, you know, you had
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  Speaker 5: something else to do a long day because it was
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  Speaker 5: the parade, and no.
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  Speaker 4: I did. I mean the Jerusalem Post where I spoke yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: That was a big deal. They also mobbed me like
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  Speaker 4: I'm Trump. The people go nuts when I walk in.
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  Speaker 4: They had a Gallas Sunday and I didn't go to that.
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  Speaker 4: I would have gone to the RJC. You were there,
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  Speaker 4: Bruce Blakeman, my cousin Norm, but no one contacted me.
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  Speaker 4: But nevertheless, I know it was a great night, Glenn.
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  Speaker 4: You were there. Let's get to this meeting yesterday. Now
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  Speaker 4: you are you part of one of these committees? What
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  Speaker 4: is your role in all this?
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  Speaker 5: So yesterday there was so this is the budget. We're
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  Speaker 5: negotiating the budget now and I'm on the Finance Committee
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  Speaker 5: and I'm proud that Staten Island has a spot on
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  Speaker 5: the Finance committee. And I'm proud to be a Republican
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  Speaker 5: on the Finance committee. And so I'm there every day
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  Speaker 5: and the Finance Committee is doing joint committee meetings with everybody.
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  Speaker 5: After I hang up with you, I'm heading into city Hall.
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  Speaker 5: We're doing a finance committee and Criminal Justice, which I'm
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  Speaker 5: also on. We're going to question the correction commissioner. But
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  Speaker 5: yesterday was a big, big day, the day that all
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  Speaker 5: the council members want to mug for the cameras. Even
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  Speaker 5: the co chair of the Public Safety Committee, Oswald Police, said,
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  Speaker 5: we almost have enough city council members yere two, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to have a full city council meeting, And that's true.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people showed up, so any city council
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  Speaker 5: member can participate in these hearings. So the Finance Committee
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  Speaker 5: has to be there basically so does the Criminal Justice Committee,
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  Speaker 5: but that any council member can go. And because Jessica
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  Speaker 5: tish was there in all of the drama involving the
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  Speaker 5: police department and everything else, everybody made sure to show
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  Speaker 5: up so the speaker she could certainly participate. And when
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  Speaker 5: she's there, she usually gets the not usually she always
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  Speaker 5: gets the opportunity to ask the first question, and you
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  Speaker 5: know she did, and the headline in yesterday's hearing and
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  Speaker 5: I put your friend Commissioner tishan. I'm a great admirer
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  Speaker 5: of hers as well. She did very well. She came
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  Speaker 5: in and made a very strong case that the NYPD
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  Speaker 5: is doing its job, that murders it down shootings are down,
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  Speaker 5: robbery's are down, and she announced was something that I
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  Speaker 5: didn't think we'd be seeing in the Mom Donni era,
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  Speaker 5: quite frankly, that the department is actually going to be
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  Speaker 5: hiring more officers, which is good news. But speaker men in.
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  Speaker 5: She did exactly what a speaker is supposed to do,
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  Speaker 5: especially one that's at odds with the current mayor, and
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  Speaker 5: she asked the tough oversight questions. And I think one
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  Speaker 5: of the most revealing moments was what you has played
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  Speaker 5: when she pressed the commissioner about Mayor Mam Donnie's new
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and sixty million dollar Office of Community Safety,
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  Speaker 5: and the answer was, I think the only description for
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  Speaker 5: it is startling. There really hasn't been meaningful coordination yet
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  Speaker 5: between the NYPD and this brand new office.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you say you say meaningful coordination. As far
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  Speaker 4: as I heard good about meaningful even not meaningful, there's
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  Speaker 4: been none.
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  Speaker 5: Zero. So you got to ask yourself the question, if
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  Speaker 5: you're spending a quarter billion dollars on a public safety initiative,
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  Speaker 5: you'd think the police department would know exactly how it
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  Speaker 5: fits into the picture. So this whole department, which Mam
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  Speaker 5: Donnie's campaigned on. It's a disaster even before it gets
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  Speaker 5: started to use it, said Rosenberg. Favorite. The other issue
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  Speaker 5: is the numbers. And if there's one issue where maybe
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  Speaker 5: I thought there was one weakness in Commissioner Tish's testimony,
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  Speaker 5: it was to be this. The commissioner testified that hate
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  Speaker 5: crimes are down, but the NYPD's own CompStat website, which
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  Speaker 5: people can look up for themselves, shows that hate crimes
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  Speaker 5: are up more than seven percent year to day, and
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  Speaker 5: Speaker men and I thought was right to ask for
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  Speaker 5: clarification because New Yorkers, you know, we deserve one set
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  Speaker 5: of numbers, not different numbers depending on which reporting period
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  Speaker 5: you're looking at. So my takeaway was that Jessica Tish
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  Speaker 5: is doing a solid job running the police department politically
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  Speaker 5: putting on my commentators at She did really the impossible yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: which she made herself and the department look good while
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  Speaker 5: making the mayor look bad, which many police commissioners have
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  Speaker 5: tried to do. Bratton tried to do it with Juliani,
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  Speaker 5: was not successful. And this is the first time in
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  Speaker 5: modern history that I've seen a commissioner acquitting themselves and
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  Speaker 5: their department very well while making clear that their mayor
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  Speaker 5: is totally out to lunch, and I think the speaker
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  Speaker 5: is doing a solid job conducting oversight. And the person
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  Speaker 5: who didn't come out looking great yesterday was obviously zoron
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  Speaker 5: Mam Donnie. The hearing raised real questions about whether city
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  Speaker 5: Hall has a coherent public safety strategy beyond just letting
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  Speaker 5: Jessica Tish do her thing. And to me, the answer
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  Speaker 5: is that it doesn't. And you could tell that by
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  Speaker 5: the coverage today you've seen in the left wing publications
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  Speaker 5: like Hellgate, they're killing Mom Donnie because they're allowing more
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  Speaker 5: police officers to be hired. The right leaning publications and
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  Speaker 5: the so called, you know, unbiased publications like AM New York,
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  Speaker 5: they also don't paint a good picture of what Mom
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  Speaker 5: Donnie's doing with policing. So not a good day for
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  Speaker 5: Mayor Mom Donnie. But the fact that by and large shootings,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera are down is a good day for New York.
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  Speaker 4: No question about it. And you know, you get these
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  Speaker 4: moronic X cops who do lousy podcasts and nobody listens.
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  Speaker 4: Soon they're out there every day on Twitter saying Titi's
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  Speaker 4: quitting and she's not. You know, I speak to Jessica
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  Speaker 4: a lot. Spoke to her Sunday. I think I spoke
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  Speaker 4: to her yesterday, but definitely Sunday. It's not quitting any
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  Speaker 4: time soon, but she is clearly not operating this about
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  Speaker 4: her from a place of intimidation. Go back to last
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  Speaker 4: week when the mayor stitt up there and said I'm
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  Speaker 4: not marching in Sunday's parade. I campaigned on that I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to do it, and then Jessica Tish speaks
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  Speaker 4: right after the mayor. She could have just said, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: he's not marching, but I am. But no, no, if
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  Speaker 4: you really listen, camp I pointed this out on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: She said he's not marching, but I am. And she
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  Speaker 4: threw in the word proudly. That word, as I said Friday,
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  Speaker 4: and people copied me, was sticking it up my Donnie's ass.
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  Speaker 4: So she stuck it up his ass about the parade
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday. She went out him yesterday about this two
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  Speaker 4: hundred and sixty million dollar office with no conversation. So
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  Speaker 4: don't tell me that Jessica Tish is intimidated or scared
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to working with the mayor. It seems
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  Speaker 4: to me like these days, she's got the upper hand.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean politically, I think she's in a very
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  Speaker 5: strong position because if she were to make decision to
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  Speaker 5: leave one, you know, she still has every opportunity to
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  Speaker 5: run for mayor herself. She's still got upwards of a
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  Speaker 5: billion dollars which has never paid a place to be.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, she takes away a crucial aspect of
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  Speaker 5: Mam Donnie's cover. Now, almost everything that Mamdanie does, whether
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  Speaker 5: subtly or overtly, he does something against the Jewish people,
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  Speaker 5: and it's a great thing for him to be able
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  Speaker 5: to say, well, look, I have a Jewish police commissioner
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  Speaker 5: who's proudly wearing a Jewish star on her neck every
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  Speaker 5: single day. If she goes, that cover for him is gone. Also,
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  Speaker 5: all of the people, you know, including in the podcast
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  Speaker 5: Spear like you mentioned, who want to bury Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 5: on policing issues, he can't point to the fact that, look,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I kept on you know, Jessica Tisha police
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  Speaker 5: commissioner for another administration. So yeah, she's really she's really
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  Speaker 5: in the driver's seat politically and in terms of public safety.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're right about the mayor thing. I think
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  Speaker 4: she is going to run, and of course, the longer
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  Speaker 4: she sticks in, you know, in this sector is the
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  Speaker 4: police commissioner. She sticks with that, I think the better
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  Speaker 4: her chances are of winning a mayor's race, especially when
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  Speaker 4: these numbers continue to favor what her and the police
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  Speaker 4: department is doing. I joke around about the mayor's race.
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  Speaker 4: And we've even heard, you know, John Shell, the former cop,
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna run. I love John Shell, love him. He's
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  Speaker 4: not gonna win. Michael Rappoport has put his name out there.
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  Speaker 4: Even Julie Mennon, you know, you're your speaker. Although I
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  Speaker 4: did hear a couple of weeks ago she said she's
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  Speaker 4: not going to run. But I do think Jessica Tish will,
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  Speaker 4: and I think she'll have a good chance. Are you
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  Speaker 4: surprised to hear that guy that you actually endorsed and
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  Speaker 4: so did I for the better part of six years,
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  Speaker 4: after two really miserable finishes, I mean, all time low finishes.
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  Speaker 4: Are you surprised to hear old buddy Curtis Sliwa is
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  Speaker 4: going to run again.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, I don't believe that that is real, honestly, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think you know Curtis as well, or better than
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  Speaker 5: most people.
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  Speaker 4: Ever, we'll tell you if he's doing that to get ratings.
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  Speaker 4: Last week was a five to one to nine, So
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  Speaker 4: that's not.
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  Speaker 5: Paying attention, right. You know, Curtis has had some issues
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  Speaker 5: to work out with the Republicans of the city. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you had a lot of Republicans that were soured him
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  Speaker 5: for the choosing to focus on Andrew Cuomo rather than Mamdana.
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  Speaker 5: You had a lot of people that were soured him
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  Speaker 5: for not dropping out. But I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of folks that stuck with him are not
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  Speaker 5: happy that a lot of his campaign workers who are
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  Speaker 5: not exactly wealthy and in some cases left jobs that
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  Speaker 5: they were being paid for that that they haven't been
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  Speaker 5: paid yet. So until Curtis is able to work that out,
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  Speaker 5: which he says, and you know, I believe he's trying.
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  Speaker 5: Until he's able to work that out and make sure
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  Speaker 5: those folks get made whole, I don't see that going
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  Speaker 5: anywhere on in Republican circles. So I mean, look, Curtis is,
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  Speaker 5: for all the criticisms of him, he is a master showman,
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  Speaker 5: and I think he knows the best way to make
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  Speaker 5: sure that he stays in the headlines is to imply
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  Speaker 5: that he's going to run again. I think even he's
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  Speaker 5: politically astute enough to realize that it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: a tough road to hope. But we'll see. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the problem isn't necessarily with Curtis for wanting to be mayor, right,
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people want to be mayor. The problem
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  Speaker 5: is a Republican Party vacuum that made it so that
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  Speaker 5: there was no other meaningful candidate that could coalesce support
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  Speaker 5: two times in a row. I mean, what were the alternatives,
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  Speaker 5: the guy from Junior's chief case yea or Rostea right.
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  Speaker 4: No, that was two times ago. So just so you know,
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  Speaker 4: I saw Ed Cox at that rally, Mike Lawler's rally
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  Speaker 4: were President Trump motioned me over and I told him that.
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  Speaker 4: I said, you know, I'm not going to run at
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  Speaker 4: all likelihood, but I'm considering it because I can't allow
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  Speaker 4: Curtis to do it just going to embarrass the Republican
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  Speaker 4: Party even more. And until I see some names that
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  Speaker 4: are real, decent names, I may have no choice. And
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  Speaker 4: he didn't disagree with me. So there is some onus
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  Speaker 4: on the Republican leaders here in New York to find
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  Speaker 4: some decent candidates, and I'm talking about every race.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I love Bruce Blakeman, and I like his chances against
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  Speaker 4: Kathy Holkle. Look I'm biased, he's a dear friend of mine.
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  Speaker 4: But in all these races, the Republican candidates seem to
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  Speaker 4: come up short of somebody that this town, which is
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  Speaker 4: mostly Democrat, is going to flip to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, look, I think a lot of it is
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  Speaker 5: outside the individual candidate's control. Right. If people were not
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  Speaker 5: going to vote for Leez Elden because of the Row
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  Speaker 5: versus Wade decision, that's not leees Elden's fault. Right. If
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  Speaker 5: people aren't going to vote for Bruce Blakeman because they
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  Speaker 5: don't like the job Donald Trump is doing, that's no
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  Speaker 5: reflection on the job he's doing. Kindy executive. And you
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  Speaker 5: have a situation where, in part because of reforms under
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  Speaker 5: the Giuliani era, to some extent the Bloomberg era and
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  Speaker 5: some of the things that were changed in terms of
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  Speaker 5: parole by Governor Pataki and others, crime has been so
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  Speaker 5: good for so long that people have forgotten how bad
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  Speaker 5: things can be. Now you are starting to see things
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  Speaker 5: go the other way, whether it's subway climb, which is
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  Speaker 5: definitely going in the wrong direction, or whether you know
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  Speaker 5: it's the fact that, as you know, Speaker Men had
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  Speaker 5: pointed out on the rape numbers, rates are going in
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  Speaker 5: the wrong You know, you do have a situation where
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  Speaker 5: you're starting to see the canary and the coal mine emerge.
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  Speaker 5: But it's really an artful thing that some of the
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  Speaker 5: Democratic politicians in the city and state have been able
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  Speaker 5: to do is they've been able to take the issue
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  Speaker 5: of affordability, which has been driven not solely but in
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  Speaker 5: large part by their policies, taxes, spending, energy prices, a
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  Speaker 5: whole bunch of other things, and they've been able to
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  Speaker 5: somehow blame Republicans for that. Now, Mam Donnie was very smart,
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  Speaker 5: I think to run on the issue of affordable because
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  Speaker 5: nobody can afford to live in this city. But the
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  Speaker 5: people that are getting squeezed the most are the middle class. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the solution to that, I don't think is socialism. You
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  Speaker 5: had a great interview with Randy Fine yesterday and you
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  Speaker 5: pointed out that you know, Texas and Floridas, by the
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  Speaker 5: fact that they have a lot more people, they have
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  Speaker 5: a lower budget to New York State and yet all
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  Speaker 5: we do is cry poverty and mayor Mom, Donnie. It's
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  Speaker 5: almost like he's holding the taxpayers hostage in order to
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  Speaker 5: raise taxes until people are able to go back to
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  Speaker 5: the days of separating. You know, these sal All politics
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: is local. It's the old tip O'Neil expression, until they're
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: able to go back to voting for a Democrat for
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  Speaker 5: president and a Republican for governor. I think Republicans are
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: going to have a tough time in the city, even
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: if we run a candidate as great as a Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, in the sixties and seventies and even
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the eighties, it was not unusual to see people voting
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: straight Democrat for president and then voting for Republicans wife
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay, Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, al
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Domato for statewide office, city office. And now it's unthinkable
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  Speaker 5: because you're a partisan Democrat who hates Trump. You're not
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: voting for you know, Bruce Blakeman. You're not voting for
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  Speaker 5: even non political offices like attorney general, where Republicans have
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: a very good candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Tarita, Yeah, sweet is a nice girl. Yeah, I've met her.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of times, and we had Michael Henry. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: like him too.
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  Speaker 5: Oh he's great, he's Staton elder, a great guy.
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  Speaker 4: And all be honest, I'd be all the same way.
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  Speaker 4: I could never envision myself voting for any Democrat but
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Julie Menin, right, I'm guilty too. On the way out,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Julie Menin, will she one FA mayor?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know, I mean, I think, I
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: mean again putting on my commentator's hat, the politician's hat.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: There's clearly I don't think loom In the Democratic primary
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: for both men and men tish right. So they both
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: occupy much the same lane, which is the non socialist
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Democratic Party lane. It's Cuomo without the baggage and with
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: you know, a much better record in both cases quite honestly,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: so I think only one of them is going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: be in a position to run. Now, the luxury that
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: they both have is that they're both well connected financially,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: and they both have a lot of money, so they
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: don't need to spend like a Curtis Leewa Wood or
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Frank Brana Wood three years trying to raise money running
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: you know, running for city wide office. They can have
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: the luxury of jumping in ten months before. The difficulty
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: that Julie Mennon has is that she's got to negotiate
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: a budget for the next three years with the guy
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: that she might want a running against. And the difficulty
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: that Jessica Tish has is that she's got to work
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: for the guy that she would be poised to run again.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: So I think there's some practical concerns, But the truth is,
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think that there's a lot of people.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: I guess to you, she hears it every single day.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: There's maybe eighteen non crazy Democratic colleagues that we serve
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: with I guarantee you every single one of them is
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: begging her to run every single day against Joron Mamdani
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: because the lot of the Democrats are not happy with
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Mamdani's dewey. And I'm not just talking about governmentally, this
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: two hundred and sixty million dollar community safety Boomdogo, threatening
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: to raise property taxes, the Piana terror tax, doing these
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: insane videos outside Ken Griffin's house, this constant barrage of
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: anti Semitic conduct. But politically, a lot of the Democrats
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: are not happy with him. They're not happy that he
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: endorsed in the Democratic primary against Aleano Spayat, who's a
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Liberal Democrat running in Manhattan. They're not happy that he
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: endorsed against Antonio Renoso running in Brooklyn. They're not happy
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: that he endorsed against this fellow, Carl Wilson that just
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: got elected in Manhattan. So he's been a disruptive force
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: even within the Democratic Prime Party. And you have a
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: lot of liberal Democrats, including a lot of people you
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: can't stand. And I was watching a little bit of
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: the clips of the Brad Lander, Dan Gold and me
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: too thinking of you, because for you, that's like alien
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: versus President. No matter who wins, we love, right, But
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: you know, they view they view Mondani as a very
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: negative force within democratic circles. And I think a lot
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: of people view either Tish or men and as you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: as the antidote to that, I mean, the So we'll
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: see what happens. I don't know.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: It is a long answer, all right, But you were
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: great this morning, man. You are You're great every time,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: and no disrespect to the other guys that do the
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Overnight show, but you're the best by far, and you're
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: doing a great job in the City Council. And I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: love you to pieces. Thanks for hopping on this morning.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: That was really great. Rank, thank you so much.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm grateful for your friendship. And whenever you always
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: list the potential Shid Rosenberg. For mayor supporters, I hear
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Laura Trump mentioned I, Katy McFarland mentioned Bruce Blakeman, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: maybe I haven't been overt enough, but you've always supported
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: me and everything I've done radio wise and politically. So
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: absolutely listening at the top of the list.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: You're on the list, Frank Morano, Thank you, buddy, You're terrific.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I love it. Thank you. Pot all right, there are
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: a city councilman, Frank Murrano, and he knows his stuff. Man.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Nobody knows more about city politics in him. We got
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: a lot of great guys, Hanks shin Coffee's terrific. He's
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: on the show. He knows a lot. But in terms
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: of the daily metrics and the folks that are involved
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: in every party in this city, you'd be hot pressed
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: to find anyone who knows more than Frank. So thank you, Frank.
• 22:30
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