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NYS Budget Will Not Give New Yorkers of All Kinds One Leg Up In the Empire State 5-5-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, all eyes are on
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  Speaker 1: Boston and New York. The rivalry renewed on the court tonight,
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  Speaker 1: as is the Knicks and Celtics. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it's a series we did not get to have last
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  Speaker 1: week last year, as the Knicks were bounced by the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers even before the conference finals. This is a big hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if the Knicks can get over that hump
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  Speaker 1: of not winning the second round. And if they can,
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  Speaker 1: Thibodeau's job is saved. But I digress from that because
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  Speaker 1: across from the garden is the Empire State building, and
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  Speaker 1: the Empire State is catching my eye here on the
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  Speaker 1: one leg up on news because because for all the
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  Speaker 1: times and all the people that are trying to guard
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  Speaker 1: the doors from ferry evasion, the state is stealing our
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  Speaker 1: money to fund the empty even more. Governor Kathy Hokel,
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  Speaker 1: according to Barbara Russell Lennon at am N Y Rights,
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  Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hockle has said funding for the MTA sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight billion dollar plan will come through a higher payroll
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  Speaker 1: mobility tax for the New York metro area. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: more taxes as we continue to fund an MTA that,
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  Speaker 1: instead of having guards that protect those disabilities, actually guard
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  Speaker 1: to guard them from coming in unless they pay a
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  Speaker 1: fair while watching fair jumpers and ferry vaders go on through. Yeah, MTA,
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  Speaker 1: the target should not be the disabled community. It should
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  Speaker 1: be actual ferry vaders. And I've often thought fair affares
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  Speaker 1: is a little two leftists, But now after seeing how
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  Speaker 1: much people are getting away with on these transit systems,
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  Speaker 1: disabled people should be able to ride for free, damn it.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're hard working Americans. We don't want to jump
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  Speaker 1: turned styles to make a living. We want to live
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  Speaker 1: life and be able to travel, and if making disabled
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  Speaker 1: faares free will help us do that, that should be enabled,
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  Speaker 1: not the fact that the guards are watching over these
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  Speaker 1: ADA doors like we're the criminals. We're not, damn it,
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  Speaker 1: we're not. So when I see a sixty eight billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar plan for the MTA on our backs and our backs,
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  Speaker 1: meeting taxpayers and companies that are working hard to contribute
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  Speaker 1: to the state, I then say, well, then make things freer,
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  Speaker 1: because it's not right that a system like the MTA,
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  Speaker 1: which brings in billions already, should be able to get
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  Speaker 1: more funding while literally literally allowing ferry vaders to steal.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's gonna be the case, then let's move
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  Speaker 1: all the guards away from the ADA doors and let
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  Speaker 1: the ADA folks, disabling people ride for free on any
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  Speaker 1: mode of transportation. I'm saying it here, well, Alex, I
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  Speaker 1: don't make the MTA crumble bowl crap. It won't make
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  Speaker 1: the MTA crumble when I see the state is going
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  Speaker 1: to fund the MTA through this plan, and then put
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  Speaker 1: the strain on businesses large and small, which because she says, well,
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  Speaker 1: this plan on taxpayer payroll mobility won't be affecting small business,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that either. I think it will. I
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  Speaker 1: think it will have an effect on both the large
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  Speaker 1: and the small business. And you wonder why companies are
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  Speaker 1: leaving the state. You wonder why. So here she is
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  Speaker 1: punishing the disabled community in general because CDPAP is a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second. And then she's
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  Speaker 1: telling businesses, hey, you're gonna have to pay this tax
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  Speaker 1: so we can fund the MTA. And what is the
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  Speaker 1: MTA doing. They're letting fery vaders go and guarding over
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  Speaker 1: the ADA door, like where are the enemy? Like those
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  Speaker 1: who need the ADA door are the enemy. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this podcast is gonna make this, hopefully bring it
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  Speaker 1: to an end the insanity, because I believe the MTh
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  Speaker 1: have one leg up for people with disabilities and people
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  Speaker 1: who genuinely want to commute the right way, not sneak
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  Speaker 1: under a turnstile, ar jump the turnstile, five hundred more
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  Speaker 1: guards or whatever, and what are they doing. They're not
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  Speaker 1: looking at the ferry vader. They're looking at those of
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  Speaker 1: you the ADA door that could be considered discrimination, that
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  Speaker 1: really could. And then overall there's a two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty four billion dollar budget, two hundred and fifty four
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars to fund what so I believe I believe
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  Speaker 1: that this funding is gonna do nonsense nothing. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to just let the MTA continue what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. They're gonna charge nine dollars for congestion pricing.
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  Speaker 1: Then they're gonna also charge for the LR riders. And
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  Speaker 1: that pissed me off too, because again they have to
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  Speaker 1: have incentives for this congestion pricing to work. If you
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  Speaker 1: really want to scare off drivers, which you're never gonn
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  Speaker 1: to do, you make MTA r more affordable. And they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do that either. So this whole idea of
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  Speaker 1: funding the MTA on our backs as hard workers, as
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  Speaker 1: had hard working entrepreneurs, small business owners, big business owners, corporations,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to drive more people out of this state.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope people understand that. And instead of funding
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  Speaker 1: for guards that literally do not let the disabled community
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  Speaker 1: go in but watch the ferry vader go by, that's
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  Speaker 1: not what I want to fund. To fund an MTA
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  Speaker 1: that sees still sees panhandling, sees a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: on subways and does nothing about it. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to fund that. I want to fund an NDA MTA
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  Speaker 1: that's for the riders, not for those that want to
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  Speaker 1: skirt the law and want to cause trouble on the
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  Speaker 1: MTA lines. So I can't really applaud this, especially if
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  Speaker 1: it's on taxpayer payer backs. I'm sorry, Governor Hockle, I
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  Speaker 1: just cannot. But what I can applaud is two members
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  Speaker 1: of Assembly who are trying to undo your disaster, Governor
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  Speaker 1: Hokele of cd PAP, of cd PAP, because I know
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  Speaker 1: from personal experience and seeing it firsthand, that there are
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  Speaker 1: healthcare workers not getting paid right now because Governor Hockle
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  Speaker 1: decided to punish the disabled community with this overhaul. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Empire report
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  Speaker 1: talk about this that there are legislative health chairs eyeing
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  Speaker 1: action to address cd PAP by Kate Lisa of State
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  Speaker 1: of Politics, New York Legislative Health Chairs I action who
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  Speaker 1: address CDPAP issues. State Senate Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivers
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  Speaker 1: at his office continues to hear from disabled, our elderly
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  Speaker 1: people who have lost care after personal assistants left the
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  Speaker 1: program due to pay DeLay's, low wages or inadequate healthcare
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  Speaker 1: benefits offered by the new company. Governor Hokeel, you're punishing
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  Speaker 1: the disabled community. Now. You want to punish tax paying
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  Speaker 1: companies to fund an MTA that also punishes the disabled community.
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  Speaker 1: That's not having one leg up for New Yorkers at all.
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  Speaker 1: Rivera called this a boneheaded mistake and that the governor
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  Speaker 1: owns it, he wrote. He told Spectrum News one the
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  Speaker 1: decision to switch to one FI was an enormous mistaken
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  Speaker 1: It was something the Iministration and the Governor insisted need
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  Speaker 1: to be done. We're talking about workers weren't sure they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get paid way to leave their consumers, consumers
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  Speaker 1: who are going to have access to care anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: Rivera said he's going to look at all options as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the budget's done and that we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about. Amy Paul in, the State Assembly
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  Speaker 1: Health Committee chair, also opened to legislative action, but not
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  Speaker 1: sure what that would look like. What they want to
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  Speaker 1: do is they want to submit what they did with
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  Speaker 1: submit a freedom of information law or FOIL to get
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  Speaker 1: the state Health Department's nine billion dollar contract with PPL
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  Speaker 1: announced last year. Paul And said to hopes it will
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  Speaker 1: provide insight into how the legislator can step in to
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  Speaker 1: improve the program. So, Governor Hoco, you don't only have
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  Speaker 1: the federal level stepping in on the cd PA, you
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  Speaker 1: have these local legislators stepping in also. You are screwing
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  Speaker 1: New Yorkers. And I hope someone takes you on in
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  Speaker 1: the gubernatorial election because because this is really not good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say unfair because I want to
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  Speaker 1: sound like I'm gonna say, but it's not fair. It's
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  Speaker 1: not fair that now you're gonna roll out of tax
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  Speaker 1: on payroll, hurting employers to fund an MTA that guards
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  Speaker 1: that has people guarding the AD eight or punishing disabled
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  Speaker 1: people that way, and then you pull this stunt with
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  Speaker 1: the cd PAP punishing disabled people that way, and we
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  Speaker 1: as New Yorkers, able body or not, should not stand
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  Speaker 1: for it. We should have one leg up four air
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  Speaker 1: disabled community and tell the MTA stop guarding the ADA
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  Speaker 1: doors and do your damn job and watch the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the gate. And we should also step up and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Governor Hokele, fix cd PAP. You've got the federal level
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  Speaker 1: and you've got the local level the Assembly saying we've
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  Speaker 1: got to get something done about this, and that should
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  Speaker 1: be an alarm bell to you. So I applaud Rivera
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  Speaker 1: and Paullin for their actions to help have one leg
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  Speaker 1: up for New Yorkers with disabilities as they look to
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  Speaker 1: get answers and action done to fix this, as Rivera
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  Speaker 1: called it enormous mistake by Governor Hokel. And thank you
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  Speaker 1: JP at Empire Report for reporting on that bit of
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  Speaker 1: news that I can report to those on the adapting
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  Speaker 1: side and the one leg up on news side of
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  Speaker 1: the one leg Up network. She's running a disaster class
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  Speaker 1: up in Albany. Is Governor hokel And if she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fix anything, you're gonna see more businesses run because I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get these taxes on their backs to
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  Speaker 1: fund an MTA that's already ballooned. And then you'll see
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  Speaker 1: more lobbying outside of her office and blocking you know,
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  Speaker 1: escalators and everything for the right to have home health Aids.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see more of that if she doesn't fix this
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  Speaker 1: and allow help to fix it. So that's my little
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  Speaker 1: thought today on the one lie up on news. Don't
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  Speaker 1: punish disabled people at the G eight of the MTA,
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  Speaker 1: of the subways, and don't punish them by threatening home
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  Speaker 1: health aids secure, you know, job security. That's not having
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  Speaker 1: one leg up for disabled people. And if we can't
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  Speaker 1: and if you won't have it, well like someone else
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  Speaker 1: who I'll have one leg up for disabled New Yorkers
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  Speaker 1: and New Yorkers of all backgrounds. That should be the
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  Speaker 1: goal of twenty twenty six because this budget, these plans
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  Speaker 1: to fund the MTA through payroll taxes and then to
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  Speaker 1: also say, well, you know you don't need home health Aids, right,
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  Speaker 1: you could just deal with this overhaul, right, wrong? Wrong,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't believe in marching and I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the type to step out and block hallways
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  Speaker 1: and all that. I don't do that. But I do
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  Speaker 1: have this podcast, and I'm gonna utilize it to benefit
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  Speaker 1: all New Yorkers, able bodied, disabled and what not. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Governor Hockel is not a governor that's looking
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  Speaker 1: out for her people. She's dealing in contracts and not
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  Speaker 1: in real life. And that's not having one leg up
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  Speaker 1: for New York, is it.