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Ken interviews Minority Leader of the NYC Council, Joann Ariola. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: On sevent ten, WOI inn from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 1: Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
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  Speaker 1: She is a Republican New York City council woman representing
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  Speaker 1: District thirty two, which includes Glendale, Wood Haven, OZP, Howard Beach,
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  Speaker 1: Broad Channel in parts of Rockaway Peninsula, Queens. Previously, she
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  Speaker 1: was the chairwoman of the Queen's Republican Party, and she's
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about the mayor's race and what a
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  Speaker 1: possible Mamdani mayoralty would mean to New York City. We say,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
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  Speaker 1: the rare Republican council member out, I always say ask,
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  Speaker 1: does do you need like a giant bottle like the
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  Speaker 1: thousand bottle of Toms to be on your desk to
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  Speaker 1: get through your day?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. I'm used to fighting the good fight,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm the minority leader at the New York City
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  Speaker 2: Council and I work very well with my more moderate
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  Speaker 2: colleague on the other side of the aisle, and we
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  Speaker 2: have been able to get things done. So, yes, we
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  Speaker 2: have days they are more challenging than others, but most
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  Speaker 2: days we get things done.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you look at you look at a
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Adams, and as much as Mayor Adams is a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat for sure, but Mayor Adams there because he was
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  Speaker 1: a police captain. There is an adult side of Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Adams who when he did things, you kind of trusted him.
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  Speaker 1: He was a mayor. When you have a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Zornmumdani potentially coming in as mayor, what goes through your
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  Speaker 1: mind as a Republican on the city Council.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you make a good comparison. You say
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  Speaker 2: that Mayor Adams, who had government's experience, who was a
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  Speaker 2: police officer and came in and is you know, is
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  Speaker 2: quite possibly going to go down as the worst mayor
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  Speaker 2: and with the most corruption in his administration of any
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  Speaker 2: mayor in the history of New York City. And then
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  Speaker 2: you have Zora Mumdani, who you know has even less experience.
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  Speaker 2: He's a member of the DSA. He is not a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And and it's sorry to say that the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: has been devoured by the Democratic Socialists of America. So
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  Speaker 2: I always make the analogy of Mayor Adams is walking
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  Speaker 2: out of City Hall and lighting the match. And if
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  Speaker 2: Zoram Mamdani should God forbid, when that New York City
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  Speaker 2: will fall to ashes. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Of the promises that Mamdani has made, you know how
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  Speaker 1: many of them could actually be done by the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, a rent freeze. He can't freeze
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  Speaker 1: the rent, right you have a rent control board in
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  Speaker 1: New York City.
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  Speaker 2: This is all speaking to a demographic that wants everything
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  Speaker 2: for free. So he's telling people what they want to hear.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't realize. Well he does realize, I'm sure he does.
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  Speaker 2: But people want to say, oh, yes, we can free
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  Speaker 2: the rent. No he can't free the rent. We can
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  Speaker 2: give you a free tuition. No, he can't give you
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  Speaker 2: free tuition, free, free, free, free, free. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: most younger voters would say, hey, if it's free, it's
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  Speaker 2: for me. But you know, he can't do that. That
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  Speaker 2: has to come from a state, in a federal level.
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  Speaker 2: There's very little that he can do on any of
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  Speaker 2: his policies as a mayor. And that's why I believe
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  Speaker 2: that he just doesn't have the competency to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, every time you say free, I think
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  Speaker 1: people don't understand that nothing is free. That the reality
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  Speaker 1: is somebody somewhere, somehow has to pay for it, because
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  Speaker 1: in society, somebody has to do the work to produce
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  Speaker 1: the product that you are talking about giving away free,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be freezing the rent. Now we talked about
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  Speaker 1: this earlier.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is the city and the state imposed so
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  Speaker 1: many regulations on landlords. You have to maintain an active
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  Speaker 1: heating system, air conditioning in some cases, paint has to
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  Speaker 1: be done, You get inspected all the time. You have
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  Speaker 1: to have the exterminator in. You have to have windows replaced.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have the case of kids or or some
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  Speaker 1: vandal type people in a lot of the lower income
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  Speaker 1: housing that destroy things. You could have an elevator replaced.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when I was a Channel seven, there was one
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  Speaker 1: building I went to and the people were complaining the
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  Speaker 1: elevator's broken. And I went there and there were other
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  Speaker 1: residents who came up to me and said, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: landlord has the elevator fixed every Tuesday and by Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: There is such and such who lives in an apartments, such
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  Speaker 1: and such who intentionally breaks it. So this is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: You can't now tell a landlord, well you got to
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  Speaker 1: freeze the rent, but you still have to come up
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  Speaker 1: with the money for all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's true. What he's doing is he's giving some
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  Speaker 2: type of fantasy. That's what he's doing, like straight out
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  Speaker 2: of Central Casting and none of the camping done. But
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  Speaker 2: no one's thinking about who are you said it right? Ken?
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  Speaker 2: Who are the economic engines here? Your small landlords, your
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  Speaker 2: business owners, your tax payers, your city workers, your people
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  Speaker 2: who go to work in our hospitals, the people who
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  Speaker 2: go and grind it out every day and pay their
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  Speaker 2: taxes and keep this city going. And that's exactly who
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  Speaker 2: will leave if there is a mayor Mom Donnie. And
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't care about that. That's not what his focus is.
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  Speaker 2: His focus is to destroy or this city. He will
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  Speaker 2: not change the bail reform laws, he will not lower
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  Speaker 2: the age, he will he will not change the discovery laws.
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  Speaker 2: And even Janel Lieber from the MTA said he will
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  Speaker 2: not be able to give free fairs. So even people
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  Speaker 2: who may agree with him on some level of ideology
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  Speaker 2: are saying, no, you can't do that, that's not within
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  Speaker 2: your purview. He should be talking about raising the age
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  Speaker 2: so that young criminals are held accountable. He should be
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  Speaker 2: talking about bail reforms so people can go and have
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  Speaker 2: consequences for the crimes they commit. He should be talking
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  Speaker 2: about about bringing police on instead, he's just dancing around
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  Speaker 2: it with his public safety ambassadors. I don't want a
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  Speaker 2: public safety ambassador. I want a police officer on the street.
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  Speaker 2: And we're not going to get police officers to take
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  Speaker 2: the test and become officers if the reforms that were
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  Speaker 2: made stay in place, and with Mamdani, you will advocate
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  Speaker 2: for even more dismantling of our public safety system.
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  Speaker 1: Seven ten wo R The Voice of New York. This
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  Speaker 1: is the Mark Simon Show. Ken rozottowin from Mark on
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  Speaker 1: Halloween Friday, and with us right now is New York
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  Speaker 1: City Republican councilwoman, the minority leader of the City Council,
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  Speaker 1: Joanne Ariola, who's from Queens. It's good to have you
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  Speaker 1: here again. Let's talk about one statistic that really frightened me,
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  Speaker 1: and that is that sixty nine percent of all New
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  Speaker 1: York City residents age fifty and under support Mamdani. How
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  Speaker 1: the hell do we arrive at that? What is going
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  Speaker 1: on in our education system in this city. That's sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of people not under the age of twenty,
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  Speaker 1: not under the age of thirty, councilwoman, under the age
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  Speaker 1: of fifty. You would think that by the time you
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  Speaker 1: hit forty forty five you were mature enough to understand
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  Speaker 1: things are not free.
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  Speaker 2: You would think that, But you're going to schools, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to colleges, they're going to universities where the instructors,
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  Speaker 2: the professors, the people who are there, the mentors they
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  Speaker 2: are indoctrinating, are young and telling them that you're room.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to pay your taxes, you shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay your tuition, you shouldn't have to pay your loans,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have to pay for anything. You shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay to ride the bus. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why because and this is something that was talked to
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  Speaker 2: to Mamdani from a little child. Both his parents, who
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  Speaker 2: are megal wealthy, you know, reach the free ideology and
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  Speaker 2: this is what he was raised on and that he
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  Speaker 2: can if you can tell me can anywhere that socialism
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  Speaker 2: or communism works, that I say, great, but it has
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  Speaker 2: never worked. It's always fallen. And we are America and
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  Speaker 2: we're a capitalist country and we thrive on entrepreneurship and
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  Speaker 2: people going to school and getting their degrees and paying
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  Speaker 2: their taxes. And yes, loans can become very different cult
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  Speaker 2: to pay if you become a doctor or a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: or a teacher, but that is something that you've chosen
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  Speaker 2: to do and there are ways to help you pay that.
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  Speaker 2: But free, that's an impossibility. That is, that's just a fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: And to be able to keep this city going when
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  Speaker 2: we can't support our subway system as it is, and
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  Speaker 2: people are jumping the fairs all the time anyway, and
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  Speaker 2: we're not enforcing that. So so you know, in a way,
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  Speaker 2: we do have free transit system, but what did that
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  Speaker 2: get us? Congestion pricing to make up the difference, and
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  Speaker 2: we still.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't made it up. We're billions in the hole in
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  Speaker 1: spite of that. If you take a look, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean to step on your councilwoman, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at all the free that the fair jumpers, the people
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  Speaker 1: who walked on buses. And when I was a Channel
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  Speaker 1: seven we had bus drivers. There were two who used
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  Speaker 1: to call and say, yeah, the mayor will not allow
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  Speaker 1: us to do what we used to do. If somebody
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  Speaker 1: walked on the bus and didn't pay their fare, bus
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  Speaker 1: driver would pull aside and say I'm not moving until
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  Speaker 1: you get off, or I'm going to call a cop today,
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  Speaker 1: or at that point then the mayor, I guess it
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  Speaker 1: was Mayor to Blasier at the time. Marriedor Blasio said,
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  Speaker 1: can't do that, let them on for free, and so
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  Speaker 1: nobody was paying for the bus. So you're right that
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  Speaker 1: was happening. They lost about four hundred million a year
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  Speaker 1: in fairs. Well if you can't keep doing that, what
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  Speaker 1: happens after four or five years, you're two billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in the hole, which is exactly what they were.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And even in today's administration, police officers
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  Speaker 2: that are in the subway are asked to hands out
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  Speaker 2: literature to educate people that they should be paying when
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  Speaker 2: they go onto the bus or in the subway. And
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  Speaker 2: I really it blows my mind because I think that,
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  Speaker 2: first our police officers have a lot of better things
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  Speaker 2: to do than handout literature. And secondly, everybody knows you
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  Speaker 2: have to pay a fare when you go into the
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  Speaker 2: subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences
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  Speaker 2: and that's what brings me back to Mom Donnie and Cuomo.
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo started this. He started this bail reform, he started
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  Speaker 2: no castles bail, he started raising age. He gave people
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  Speaker 2: license to permit crimes without impunity and without consequence. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why you can and I have to ring a
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  Speaker 2: bell and have a woman come or a man come
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  Speaker 2: with a key to give us the dorance. It's just
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  Speaker 2: not right. But who's thinking for all the shoplifting that's
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  Speaker 2: going on. You and I are because we're standing on
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  Speaker 2: the line and paying sixty and eighty dollars at the
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  Speaker 2: cashier while people who are coming in and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them our used because there are no consequences filling
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  Speaker 2: up a knapsack and running out the door. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a vicious cycle that will turn into an absolute chaos
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  Speaker 2: if Mom Donny wins. And that's why I so strongly
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  Speaker 2: support Curtis Lee. Well, he's the only one saying the
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  Speaker 2: things that we're talking about at our kitchen tables and
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  Speaker 2: what we're afraid of that's going to happen to the
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  Speaker 2: city and what would make us move if the city
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  Speaker 2: continues in this particular progress, It just can't go on
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  Speaker 2: like this. People are moving that I never thought would.
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  Speaker 1: Nah and like and even getting back to the CVS
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  Speaker 1: is and the Walgreens and whatnot. When you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard people say on the left, well insurance pace for that,
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  Speaker 1: no insurance pace for it, once or twice, and then
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  Speaker 1: they cancel. You. People don't realize that they can cancel
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  Speaker 1: the individual stores and that they have dropped stores. And
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  Speaker 1: then CBS, Walgreens their self insured at that point, which
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  Speaker 1: means it comes out of their pocket, you know where
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  Speaker 1: they get it from. You and me. Prices go up
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  Speaker 1: so we all pay for it one way or the other. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: we could talk about it forever. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: get out and vote, that's the important thing.
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  Speaker 2: And out and vote, and if you want to still
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  Speaker 2: have a voice with your representatives in city Hall, vote
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  Speaker 2: no on the propositions.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. New York City Republican Councilwoman joe Ane Ariola, It
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  Speaker 1: is such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks you
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  Speaker 1: for coming on this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Same here, pleasure to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Likewise, good to have you. And this is Candra's outawin
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  Speaker 1: from Mark on your Friday. When we come back, we'll
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