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Senator George Borrello | 06-23-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: On the line of this right now, Senator George Burrello,
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  Speaker 2: He's a Republican state senator from Chautauqua, where I spent
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  Speaker 2: the summer and I lost a lot of my stuff.
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  Speaker 2: My mother's still angry about me for losing my stuff
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  Speaker 2: at the day camp there Jamestown, Chautaqua. Listen all kidding aside,
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  Speaker 2: Senator Berna Burrello. We had a guest on Jenia Butler
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  Speaker 2: just now, and Fernando is also saying this, We've got
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  Speaker 2: to get the Republican Party to really make an effort
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  Speaker 2: with these minority communities, and there may never be a
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  Speaker 2: better chance now because the Democrats are giving them socialism
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  Speaker 2: and anti Israel hatred. That's not going to pay the bills,
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  Speaker 2: is it.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're correct. And by the way, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: have been false promises made to many communities. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that we have made inroads as Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee. We've
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  Speaker 3: made inroads with many communities because it's about quality of life.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're trying to sell someone on you know,
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat versus Republican, liberal versus conservative. But you've got
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats in charge that want to you know, put
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  Speaker 3: in a migrant shelter in your neighborhood, or are forcing you,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to pay more for less services. That resonates
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  Speaker 3: with the communities. And that's what and that's the message
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  Speaker 3: we're pushing. And I will tell you that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman are candidate for governor. He has made this point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he has done better in Nassau County, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the minority communities. I believe he got thirty seven
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  Speaker 3: percent of the African American vote in Nassau County, which
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  Speaker 3: is unprecedented for Republican So we can make that case.
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  Speaker 3: This is not about politics. It's about quality of life,
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  Speaker 3: it's about public safety, it's about affordability. And for the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats in charge, refordability is just a work. They've done
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  Speaker 3: nothing to make New York more affordable.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to get in there, you know, Senator Burrella.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you my favorite Republican New York State congressman
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  Speaker 2: of all time, Jack Kemp, And one of his famous
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  Speaker 2: lines was, don't fear the voters. This is a man
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  Speaker 2: who walked those streets and was willing to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And when he was the HUT Chairman Housing Urban Development,
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  Speaker 2: he created these enterprise zones. He and Charlie Wrangele were
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  Speaker 2: all over Harlem all the time. Republicans need to be
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  Speaker 2: walking the streets of Harlem, walking the streets of the
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  Speaker 2: South Side of Chicago, showing up. And you know President
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  Speaker 2: Trump did that in twenty sixteen. Remember when he went
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  Speaker 2: to Detroit just before the I think that helped clinch
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  Speaker 2: Michigan for him. Actually, we got to walk the streets, right,
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  Speaker 2: You got to walk the streets. Jack camp the great
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  Speaker 2: New York you know again, he ran for president two
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  Speaker 2: great quarterback, but his tenure as a congressman, a Republican
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  Speaker 2: congressman from New York, I think was the most impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I agree. And by the way, the republic Bigans
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  Speaker 3: that are making inroads and being successful in blue or
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  Speaker 3: purple districts are the guys walking the streets like Mike Lawler.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's a perfect example that he's winning in
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  Speaker 3: a district that is, you know, is more Democrat than Republican.
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  Speaker 3: And there are other examples. And it's about again, it's
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  Speaker 3: about selling the message of common sense and quality of life.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Ronald Reagan said it very famously. Are you
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  Speaker 3: better off than you were four years ago? Well, in
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  Speaker 3: New York State under Kathi Hochel, I don't know anybody
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  Speaker 3: other than a criminal that can say they're better off
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  Speaker 3: than they were four years ago under the under the
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  Speaker 3: whole administration. And that is the case for every New
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  Speaker 3: Yorker you know. And the bottom line is this, we
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  Speaker 3: do have to get the message out there. What are
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats doing right now? They're deflecting away, They're talking
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  Speaker 3: about things that you know, they want to yell Trump
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  Speaker 3: and Maga and just keep throwing red meat to their base,
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  Speaker 3: hoping that they'll ignore the fact that their quality of
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  Speaker 3: life has declined, that's now no longer affordable to live
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  Speaker 3: in New York State, that they don't feel safe. You
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  Speaker 3: know that more than fifty percent of New Yorkers in
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  Speaker 3: a poll recently said that within the next five years
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  Speaker 3: they're considering leaving the state. And by the way, that's
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  Speaker 3: not theory, it's reality. People are fleeing the state more
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  Speaker 3: so than any other state in the nation. So people
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  Speaker 3: have to understand the correlation. What we Republicans, as Republicans
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  Speaker 3: have to do. We have to draw that line between
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  Speaker 3: your miserable life in New York State and the people
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  Speaker 3: that are running it. And that's really the challenge that
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  Speaker 3: needs to be taken up by every common sense person Republican, conservative, Independent,
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  Speaker 3: and Democrats who feel that the party that they belong
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  Speaker 3: to no longer supports their values. Socialism is the lie.
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  Speaker 3: It's been told for nearly a century. It's never been
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  Speaker 3: successful anywhere in the world. And you think some guy
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  Speaker 3: that smiles nice and speaks well is going to somehow
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  Speaker 3: make socialism work in New York, It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, he his smile and his walk, his talk
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  Speaker 4: is making it happen, you know, and we need an
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  Speaker 4: intervention by the GOP. We need to show a little effort.
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  Speaker 4: We can't give up and say, you know what, we
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  Speaker 4: don't stand the gents.
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  Speaker 5: What's the schoolboard? And give us the schoolbboard in the
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  Speaker 5: State Assembly and the State Senate. On the GOP versus Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, well, you know, two years ago we made
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  Speaker 3: a significant gain. We broke the super majority of the
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  Speaker 3: New York State Senate, which means that the Democrats no
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  Speaker 3: longer have the ability to override the governor's veto. What
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  Speaker 3: you need, though, is a governor with a spine, and
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  Speaker 3: we don't have that. You know, someone who's willing to
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  Speaker 3: stand up and say, I'm not supporting these radical agendas
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to I'm going to veto the bills
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  Speaker 3: that do so.
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  Speaker 5: Has she vetoed any any bills like that?
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  Speaker 3: She's not vieting anything significant, you know. But again, this
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  Speaker 3: is a sword that you wield as the governor. That's
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  Speaker 3: why people have to understand if you want to restore
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  Speaker 3: balance to New York City government, electing Bruce Blakeman with
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  Speaker 3: us continuing to hold where we are and gain ground.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need to take the majority back. We just
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  Speaker 3: have to prevent them being able to override the governor's veto.
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  Speaker 3: So that's where we are right now, and electing Bruce
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  Speaker 3: Blakeman will help us restore that. But keep in mind, folks,
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  Speaker 3: we also need other people out there speaking the truth.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, look way back, Rudy Giuliani was
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  Speaker 3: first elected mayor of New York City. It was by
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  Speaker 3: a raisers and margin. But people said, look, look, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a Democratic, lifelong Democrat, but I can't I don't feel
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  Speaker 3: safe walking the streets of the city. So they held
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  Speaker 3: their nose, if you will, and voted for a Republican
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  Speaker 3: And then they saw their quality of life dramatically change
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  Speaker 3: in New York City. That has to happen again. The
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  Speaker 3: people have to decide themselves that it's not just going
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  Speaker 3: to be this visceral reaction to something that's happening in
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  Speaker 3: Washington or somewhere else. It's about the quality of life
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  Speaker 3: where you live, where you spend your time every day,
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  Speaker 3: where your family lives. That's what you have to vote for.
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  Speaker 3: Send you for some national or international issues.
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  Speaker 5: Santa Barrella, you live in Chataqua County, and I see
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  Speaker 5: I could say finally amazing, it's awesome, and you know
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  Speaker 5: upstate very well. I think Bruce Blakman can win Nassau County,
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  Speaker 5: Suffolk County, Staten Island maybe you know, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: have a few more counties around here, but give us
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  Speaker 5: your pulse of upstate because a lot of people upstate
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  Speaker 5: never heard of him, and he's depending on the lieutenant
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  Speaker 5: governor he's selected who I don't know up he's a
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  Speaker 5: sheriff up in the upstate in.
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  Speaker 3: New York, Madison County, Yes, tell us about yeah, yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Todd the Tidehood an excellent, you know, lifelong law enforcement member.
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  Speaker 3: But what I will say is this Bruce is getting
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  Speaker 3: out there. But it's a big state. You know, geographically,
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  Speaker 3: it's a huge state. You know, you got You've got
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  Speaker 3: sixty two counties and nearly twenty million people. And he
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  Speaker 3: has to shake hands with as many as possible because
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  Speaker 3: when you hear Bruce speak, you understand that he knows
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  Speaker 3: he is the guy that can run this state. Because
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  Speaker 3: he's running Nassau County incredibly well, you know, voted the
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  Speaker 3: safest county in the nation, one and a half million people,
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  Speaker 3: nearly he can do the job. So we are trying
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  Speaker 3: to do what we can to amplify that voice. I
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  Speaker 3: was with him in my district doing a tour with him,
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  Speaker 3: talking about things like being able to harness the natural
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  Speaker 3: gas that's under our feet in the southern tier where
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  Speaker 3: we have a high level of poverty, and yet we
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  Speaker 3: are importing, you know, power from other states and in
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  Speaker 3: Canada instead of harnessing the energy that's right under our
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  Speaker 3: feet and employing people and creating economic prosperity. That's the
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  Speaker 3: message that Bruce Blaker.
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  Speaker 5: Can you get the message? Make Upstate is rich again.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take middle class again, by the way, ye, Senator Barrello.
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  Speaker 2: But that's you know, that's the crux of the matter.
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  Speaker 2: Do people in Upstate New York understand how much of
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  Speaker 2: a threat to them somebody like a Zora Mamdani who
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  Speaker 2: has pushed Hopel to raise taxes and it's not just
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  Speaker 2: on us, it's going to be on everyone in the state.
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  Speaker 2: Do they understand how much New York City residents like
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  Speaker 2: Yoko Ono are the ones who are stopping fracking from
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  Speaker 2: happening in Upstate New York. Meanwhile, across the border in
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania incredible jobs for thirty years because of fracking. Do
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  Speaker 2: they understand that Bruce Blakeman is running to protect them
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  Speaker 2: from Zorn Mamdanie and these people. It isn't just about oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's another downstate candidate, we don't care. Do they understand
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  Speaker 2: how much of a threat this guy in New York
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  Speaker 2: is to them? And how do you get how do
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  Speaker 2: you if they don't, how do you get them to
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  Speaker 2: realize this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I've been saying to people, the analogy that
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  Speaker 3: I'm using is that this is a cancer that has
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  Speaker 3: metastasized in New York City that is spreading throughout the
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  Speaker 3: state and it's happening, and we see evidence of that.
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  Speaker 3: So that is the message, and that's what really people
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  Speaker 3: have to understand. This is a you know, a cancer
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  Speaker 3: that is spreading misery across the New York City and
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  Speaker 3: it's spreading to upstate New York. So the biggest challenge
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  Speaker 3: we face upstate is people feel their vote doesn't count.
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  Speaker 3: They feel that they're outnumbered by New York City. But
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  Speaker 3: that's really not the case. You know, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, we vote at a higher percentage outside
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  Speaker 3: of New York City than New York City than the
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  Speaker 3: Five Boroughs. That's just a fact and quite frankly that
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  Speaker 3: people are not happy with Kathy Hochel. They particularly even
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  Speaker 3: in the Five Boroughs. You know, her appropriating is is
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  Speaker 3: dismal throughout the state. In the state that's more than
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  Speaker 3: two to one Democrats. Republicans can't even break fifty percent
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  Speaker 3: in her job approval rating. So that is an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: and it also is a sign of the frustration that
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  Speaker 3: we have here in New York State with how things
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  Speaker 3: have been governed under one party Democrat rule. The key
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  Speaker 3: is restore balance. I don't care if you're a lifelong
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  Speaker 3: Democrat or you're an independent. You should look at your
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  Speaker 3: life and decide do I feel that the government is
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  Speaker 3: serving me and my needs. And there's really only one
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  Speaker 3: constituency right now that is being served by the policies
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  Speaker 3: of the Democrats in charge, and that's criminals. Okay, everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a teacher, you know, if you're a construction worker, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you do for a living, tell me, tell me
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  Speaker 3: how the policies of this governor and the Democrats in
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  Speaker 3: charge have made your life better and the answers they.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't Senator, I have a question for you, Fernando Matteo here,
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  Speaker 4: why doesn't the GOP jump on the affordability bandwagon. You know,
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  Speaker 4: people you know that can't afford to live in New
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  Speaker 4: York are listening to affordability because it makes sense to them. Right,
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  Speaker 4: If affordability is the trick word, why aren't we jumping
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  Speaker 4: on there and just simply saying we can create affordability
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  Speaker 4: without hurting the risk takers, right, without hurting capitalism, because
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  Speaker 4: that's what's not being delivered affordability. Yes, but on the
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  Speaker 4: backs of the small business people, on the backs of
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  Speaker 4: taxing the rich, on the backs of driving people out
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  Speaker 4: of New York. Right, we can create affordability without doing
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  Speaker 4: any of that. But we are just not doing anything
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  Speaker 4: to deliver our message. You know, I'm sorry, but that's
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  Speaker 4: a sad story.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is we have to amplify that voice, and
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  Speaker 3: we need more people out there. We do our Republican
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  Speaker 3: conference in the State Senate. We have a platform. We
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  Speaker 3: have a plan to cut taxes to essentially eliminate income
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  Speaker 3: tax for people making under one hundred thousand, which is
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  Speaker 3: most of the middle class, particularly upstate New York. We
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  Speaker 3: were talking about the fact that the governor is talking
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  Speaker 3: about these little tricks, you know, sending you one hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars check, But what is she doing to actually make
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  Speaker 3: New York more affordable. We have a plan again lower
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  Speaker 3: those taxes, not just income taxes, but taxes on energy, taxes,
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  Speaker 3: on our healthcare plans, which New York taxes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everything else that we that we tax. You look at
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  Speaker 3: other states where we are losing our populations to Florida
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  Speaker 3: and Texas in particular, they have no income tax, zero
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  Speaker 3: and yet somehow they have a prosperous economy and they're
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  Speaker 3: able to, you know, to provide services without an income tax.
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  Speaker 3: So it can be done. And that is our platform
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate Republican Conference that we have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to make real change and make life really affordable for
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  Speaker 3: those folks who want to remain here and there. But
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  Speaker 3: there's no question about it. We have to amplify that
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  Speaker 3: voice and that means more people understanding that this is
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  Speaker 3: not the visceral reaction to Democrat versus Republican. This is
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  Speaker 3: about how your life personally is, on how you and affordability.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a word to the Democrats, you know, Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hokele's idea of affordability. I'm gonna send you one hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars check make up for the thousands of dollars that
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  Speaker 3: you're spending, Edison.
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  Speaker 5: We want. The number one item we want in our city,
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  Speaker 5: in our state is law and order.
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