WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.519 It's nice with Dan Ray Undells Boston's News Radio. 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.199 All right, we are talking about a piece in the 3 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.599 Boston Globe today which is extraordinary, a great piece of journalism, 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.399 number one, number one, number two. It is a piece 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:20.800 of journalism that you might not expect from the Boston 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:26.760 Globe because it calls to task the Healthy administration. And 7 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.120 for those of you who live in Boston, or for 8 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.119 those of you who live in New England, you understand this. 9 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:36.479 But this is a newspaper which is primarily very friendly 10 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:42.119 to Democratic incumbents and even Democratic candidates. And I say 11 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.240 hats off to the Boston Globe for basically saying that 12 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:50.159 this administration, the Healthy administration, has not been forthcoming, has 13 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.560 not been transparent, has held up information that the public 14 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:58.240 should have about the migrant crisis here in Massachusetts, about 15 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.439 where they are being housed, much money is being spent. 16 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.200 Information can be released without putting anyone in danger. I 17 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:13.879 guarantee you that people in communities like Rockland and communities 18 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:19.280 like Taunting, where there are in Norfolk, for example, where 19 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.680 there are shelters, people know where those shelters are. In 20 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:28.439 those shelters, they need to have adequate security and protection 21 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.920 and no one is suggesting that those individuals who are 22 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:36.200 taking advantage of that generosity should be in any way 23 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:40.040 harassed or bothered. However, the people who are paying for 24 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.280 that generosity, taxpayers in Massachusetts, have a right to know 25 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:45.719 how the money's being spent, in what way it's being spent, 26 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.519 who it's being spent on, who's benefiting it from it, 27 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.280 Because the people who are benefiting it from it beyond 28 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.400 the migrants are the owners of the hotels, either individuals 29 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.319 or corporations, the owners of the taxi cab companies who 30 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.799 are benefiting for the no bid contracts, the owners of 31 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:03.319 the restaurants we're providing food, the owners of the laundry services. 32 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.719 That's what we're talking about. Okay, it's as simple as that. 33 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.120 Hats off to the Globe, Hats off to Stephanie Ebert, 34 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.360 or Ebert and Dedre Fernandez, the two writers on the 35 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.520 Globe staff who wrote this piece in the Globe today. 36 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.360 I can be critical of the Globe, as you know 37 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.680 I can be, but at the same time, in fairness 38 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.199 and in the spirit of honesty, you got to take 39 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.000 your hats off to them. We're going to get back 40 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.039 to the calls we now have Pauline who has joined us, 41 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.039 and I'm sure she is off the speakerphone. Pauline, welcome back, 42 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:34.719 Good evening. 43 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.039 Dan, thank you for taking my call. 44 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:37.319 You are more than welcome. Thank you. 45 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.080 This is what I want to share, Pauline. I don't think. 46 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.680 Pauline, I'm sorry I missed what you said. There for 47 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.759 a second, slow down, did you say you've gotten can? 48 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.240 I can barely hear you up, very hard of hearing, 49 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.199 so I'm sorry I don't hear you. I want to 50 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.360 share with you in irony that you might not know about. 51 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.479 Has a motel which is housed by migrants. It was 52 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:10.840 one of the first residents anywhere. It's probably been going 53 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:14.159 on for over a year. But earlier this evening. In 54 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.639 the last two days, you've talked about Nashova Valley Medical Center, 55 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.800 which is also an air The governor is paying for 56 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:27.319 the hotels the residents in the motel, but can't come 57 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.319 up with the same amount of money to save our hospital. 58 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.039 And I think that's an important irony that I would 59 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:37.960 like more coverage about. 60 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.319 I agree with you. I hope you can hear me. 61 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:47.280 I agree with you. It is ironic that the Nashova 62 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.520 Valley Medical Center is likely to be closed by the 63 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.680 end of the month, while millions of dollars are probably 64 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.879 being spent at the hotel and air to house people. 65 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.159 I couldn't agree with you more and I'm so glad 66 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:01.599 you called. Is this your first time calling? 67 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:04.560 It's the first time I've called you. I've talked to 68 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:09.479 your predecessors of things I thought I would share because 69 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:11.439 I think you are. The three first time callers were 70 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.800 all man, and I thought you needed a female in there. 71 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.600 Well, I must tell you the four callers before you 72 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.519 were named. I lean from wal Dam, I leaned from 73 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.360 how Pauline, yourself and Kathy, and now you're coming back. 74 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.360 So we're running a streak here of four female callers, 75 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.079 and we had we have a very good share of 76 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:37.199 females who call nightside. We get about thirty five percent 77 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.959 of our callers are female. I wish it was fifty 78 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.839 to fifty. But I think a lot of women callers, 79 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:48.040 for some reason, aren't as anxious to talk about politics 80 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.319 as guys are. It's like guys at the bar. They're 81 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.639 always ready to jump in and talk about politics or sports, 82 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.519 and women are a little more refined. In many respects 83 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.399 and even I would say more intell than a lot 84 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:07.279 of men. But I want I encourage people of all backgrounds, 85 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:12.199 of all you know, all types of backgrounds to participate 86 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:12.600 in the call. 87 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.399 I certainly appreciate the compliment for our women out here. 88 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.759 We do listen to you all the time. I'm sure 89 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.120 a very good friend of mine has been in touch 90 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:26.160 with your producer about the Nashoba Valley Medical Center issue 91 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.240 several times. Yes, but I think if you could have 92 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.360 lightning look into the motel thing and link them up, 93 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.319 that would make for a most interesting discussion. 94 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.879 Well, I agree with you, and I'm glad we've opened 95 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.680 it up. And I hope there are more people who 96 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.920 are up in your neck of the woods right now, 97 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:49.600 up in the air Orange, you know, Fitchburg area, Lemonster area. 98 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.279 That affects more than people just from air, but all 99 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.480 those surrounding communities up there, and I hope they will 100 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.920 call in and support what you're saying, because you're right, 101 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:03.879 it is it's it's almost well, it is sad. It's 102 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:07.560 almost tragic that money that could be used could have 103 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.439 been used to save that medical center. And the Connie 104 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.199 Hospital by the way in Boston has been spent on 105 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.959 people who we have encouraged to come here and we 106 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.959 didn't have the wherewithal to take care of them. We're 107 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:26.639 now evicting people. So the Healey administration has upset people 108 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.879 like yourself by inviting people to come here, and now 109 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.360 people who are huge advocates for the migrants are upset 110 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.759 with the Healthy administration because they're starting to evict these 111 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:42.519 poor people. I mean, it's like inviting someone to come for. 112 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:48.800 Any will be transporting injuries or necessary services for anyone 113 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.360 living at the motel two far away hospitals, making those 114 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.639 ambulances not available for the taxpayers of air. It's such 115 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.000 a quagmire, it really is. I don't know who let 116 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.959 this happen, but it needs to be addressed. 117 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:06.439 I'll tell you who let it happen. 118 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:11.279 Dement of public health at Devon's. Hopefully there will be 119 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.959 some resolution. They met with the Carnie folks the other 120 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.439 night and it didn't go well. But I think we 121 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.720 will have a different representation tomorrow. 122 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.439 I hope you do. But I will tell you who. 123 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.000 I hope you can hear me. I will tell you 124 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:26.639 who let it happen. The leadership, the political leadership on 125 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.920 Beacon Hill, a Democratic governor, a Democratic Senate president, and 126 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.759 a Democratic House speaker. They should have amended that law 127 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.800 a couple of years ago and should have should have 128 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.759 been small enough to say, look, eventually, this wave of 129 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.040 migrants is going to come to Massachusetts and it's going 130 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:48.560 to adversely affect our citizens. Can we provide some help 131 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.959 for individuals to find their way here? Maybe? Maybe, but 132 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.480 they're not going to be given the priority, and they're 133 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.319 not going to be living in hotels that we're paying 134 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.720 three hundred or three hundred and fifty dollars a night 135 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:04.680 for or forever, simple as that. I hope, Pauline, you 136 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.600 continue to call the program, and I hope you tell 137 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.680 your friends about Night Side. I have spent three nights 138 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:14.279 this week talking about the Stewart crisis. I'm happy I 139 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.879 have done that, and I'm happy that you have linked 140 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.879 the crisis as it impacts air on the Nishoba Valley 141 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.759 Medical Center with what we're talking about this hour. Thank 142 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:24.639 you so much for calling. 143 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.879 Thank you so much, Dan, appreciate your your time. 144 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:29.560 You bet youa we'll talk again. 145 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:30.079 Call again. 146 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.320 Thanks very much. We'll take a break. There's one line 147 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.759 at six one seven two five, four, ten thirty, and 148 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:37.000 there are two lines at six one seven, nine, three one, 149 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.440 ten thirty. I would like to see these phone lines 150 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.559 just lit up. It's easy to get in right now. 151 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.360 But this is an important subject. And please please realize 152 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.879 that the Globe has done a story today that involved 153 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:57.279 real journalism, real journalism, and I commend them for it. 154 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.440 And I hope you'll join me, whether you're a Globe 155 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.120 subscribe are not. The fact of the matter is this 156 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:09.600 is great journalism. It is it was necessary, it's it 157 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:15.000 is something that I am very happy to see and 158 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.519 pleasantly surprised by. And I suspect that in the Governor's 159 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.879 office tonight they are not very happy realizing we're talking 160 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:27.080 about this, and that the Globe has informed their readers 161 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.320 of this. A lot of the readers on the Globe, 162 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:31.320 some of them probably going to be upset with the Globe. 163 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.279 But that's fine. That's what happens when you're a real journalist. 164 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.720 We'll be back on Night's Side. Got some lines open, 165 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.360 Feel free, We're coming back right after this. 166 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.840 Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 167 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.120 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 168 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.960 We just had two lines drop off. I don't understand 169 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.039 why people seem to be so impatient. I'm trying to 170 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:58.559 give people an opportunity to express themselves, but some of 171 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.240 you who are on the line have seemed to drop off. Now, 172 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.399 if you've lost contact with us, call us back as 173 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.519 Pauline did, and we will put you back at the 174 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.279 head of the queue. Six one, seven, two, five, four 175 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.240 ten thirty six one seven, nine, three ten thirty. Let 176 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.960 me go next to Dawn in Arlington. Gone, you were 177 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.080 next on nice side. Go right, a hit, sirup and darn. 178 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.639 Just a question. I'd use you for an example. I 179 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.679 live in Abington. I would like to go to the 180 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:34.919 MOTECH school. You live in the shelter. They got an 181 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:41.200 opening one who's going to get it? You from the 182 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:45.039 shelter on me? That's a regular resident. 183 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.120 That's a good question. By the way, do you actually 184 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.000 live in Abingdon Yeah, I misread it. And by the way, 185 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.879 my mistake I introduce you is down from Arlington. I 186 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:59.279 don't want to confuse people, that's my mistake. Well, I 187 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:05.360 would hope, I would hope that if you're a fourteen 188 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:10.600 year old kid, obviously you're not and you're applying to 189 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:14.159 to go to a voke tech school in Abington, that 190 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:19.000 you would get priority over some student who has arrived 191 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.639 here two months ago. 192 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:22.080 But I must be. 193 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:25.320 Honest with you, I have no confidence that that is 194 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.320 the way it would work out, because I think they 195 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.960 might say, well, they're all students, now, they're all unequal footing, 196 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.480 let's let's put their names in a hat and see 197 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:35.879 whose name we draw out. 198 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.879 But the name didn't go in the hat. They were 199 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.519 told that they have to take this one. 200 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.279 Really. Oh, now you're you're not asking me about a hypothetical. 201 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.559 You're you're telling me about I know that. 202 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:55.000 Wow, And it wasn't in Abington. I did change some locations. 203 00:11:55.080 --> 00:12:00.960 That's okay, that's okay. That is that's that's legitimate. In Kingston, 204 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.159 well I Kidston, if I'm not mistaken, does have a 205 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.720 shelter and so hear of the. 206 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.120 Old Howard Johnson's Wow. 207 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.399 Wow, you know there's an example. Look, can you imagine 208 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.399 if you're a kid in high school, or for that matter, 209 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.480 a kid in middle, middle school or elementary school, and 210 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:23.200 all of a sudden you have a lot of these 211 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.279 these students who are now going to become your classmates, 212 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.480 and they don't speak English. It's not their fault that 213 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.200 they don't speak English, they've never been taught English. But 214 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.559 the class is going to the classes are going to 215 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:40.080 be slowed down, and the amount of subjects that, you know, 216 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.279 subject matter that can be taught, obviously is going to 217 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.080 have to be slowed down. So students who live in 218 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:52.080 these communities, they they will suffer the consequences. 219 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.440 And the shell is going to be short term shelter 220 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:58.440 five days. 221 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.799 Yeah. Yeah, a lot of them they say it's short term. Uh, 222 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.279 and they just don't know that. Look, in some cases, 223 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.919 the the the the bureaucrats, if you will, they don't know, 224 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.120 and so they're guessing. And in some cases the bureaucrats 225 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.960 lie because if they're facing a hostile crowd, as they 226 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.080 faced in Norfolk and elsewhere, there's a lot of bureaucrats 227 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.360 will say, oh, this is only gonna be tempory. It'll 228 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.960 be thirty days and everything will be back to normal. No, 229 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.720 they know, down deep, this is this is so unfair. 230 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.720 And by the way, you won't have you will find 231 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.639 there will be no shelters in places like Dover and 232 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:44.240 Sherbourne and Weston and Whaland and Wellesley, all of the 233 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.759 upper crust communities are going to be spared this. It's 234 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.240 going to be in places like Taunted and places like Quinsy, 235 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.600 and places like Rockland and places like Abington. 236 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.399 And no, no, we won't get it, Dan, we will 237 00:13:59.440 --> 00:13:59.960 not get it. 238 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.600 Well, maybe you're you're lucky. What I'm saying is. 239 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.440 The hotel. We don't have public transportation and we don't 240 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:10.720 have one hotel one. 241 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.120 Okay, well you're fine, but you're you're fine. Let's let's 242 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:15.919 hope that they don't find that there's some sort of 243 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:21.159 public building to use them. All right, don look, I 244 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.120 I appreciate, I appreciate your call. And it's good to 245 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:30.639 know that this this it does really unfair injustice we've 246 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.120 talked about. And whoever, if there is, if that student's 247 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.159 family wants to be on this show and talk about it, 248 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.200 if they happen to be listening, give me a call, 249 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.000 tome On. We'll have them on, simple. 250 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:44.360 As that, because it isn't me but my family. 251 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.960 Okay, well have that person call, Have that person call 252 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.039 me and and and we'll put them on and we'll 253 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.279 talk about it, as simple as that. Because if they 254 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.159 don't call their their their son or daughter, whoever's been 255 00:14:55.200 --> 00:15:00.000 denied admittance. Uh in you know, and and we're based 256 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.759 he said, Hey, you you, as a citizen, are a 257 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.720 second rate applicant for a vote for position in a 258 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.879 vote tech school. That's just one. 259 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.919 Things are going different now than when with the kid. 260 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.720 Now, well you know what, they always seem to go different. 261 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.679 But but if we don't stand up and address them, 262 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.039 don Thank you so much for your call. It was excellent. 263 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:22.720 I appreciate it. Thank you so much. 264 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.120 And that that is the truth to him, I didn't. 265 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:28.799 Get I got it done. I really do appreciate your call. 266 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.679 Thank you much. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty, 267 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.440 triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. I have wide 268 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:36.240 open lines here, and I'll tell you what I'm going 269 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.200 to do. If you are not interested in talking about 270 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.799 this subject, and you're not interested in, uh in commending 271 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.799 the Globe for taking a position which I'm sure is 272 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.120 going to put them at odds with the Healy administration, 273 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.200 then we'll go to open lines at eleven thirty. It's 274 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:55.639 as simple as that, this is a really important subject, okay. Uh. 275 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:58.559 If if you are sitting at home tonight and saying, 276 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.360 you know, I really agree with what Dan's saying, but 277 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:05.080 I don't want to call, or or maybe Mommy. Someone's 278 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.360 gonna hear my voice and they're gonna look at me 279 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.879 differently tomorrow because they've called. No, this is the time 280 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.720 to join a chorus and say, first of all, the 281 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:21.279 Globe did real journalism today. Okay. I don't think the Globe. 282 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.679 Not too often do I commend the Globe. But this 283 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.039 is on the front page of the Globe, page one 284 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:32.120 above the fold, and it's a great piece of journalism 285 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.200 that I would not expect to find in the Globe. Frankly, Okay, 286 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:42.120 So I'm asking you to express your opinions. We've had 287 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.960 a whole bunch of people in the last hour. I 288 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.000 don't know if we're having trouble with our phone lines. 289 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.080 Maybe we are. People have called, they've been up, and 290 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.879 they drop off. I want to give people a chance 291 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.360 to express themselves. That's the purpose of Nightside. If this 292 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.559 subject is boring to you, if this subject is not 293 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.559 something that's of interest to you, oh that's fine. We 294 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.319 can go ahead and we can we can go open 295 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.519 lines in the next half hour. I prefer not to 296 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.000 six point seven, triple eight, nine, ten thirty. Let me 297 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.720 go to Jim in Vermont. Jim, we don't get many 298 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.400 calls from Vermont. I am thrilled to hear your voice tonight, 299 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:18.160 Gorett Ahead. 300 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.920 Jim, how's missive voice of sensibility doing tonight? 301 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.079 The voice of reason is what my moonicer is. 302 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.119 Well, I think you have the most sensible show on 303 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.720 the radio. But anyway, so Discipilia, we didn't. We're not 304 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.839 dealing with as much of the migrant problem up here 305 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.359 as you ride down there. We are dealing with transparency problems. 306 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:37.960 We've had a homeless problem up here for many years. Sure, 307 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.279 Vermont is a very very lucrative welfare state. People come 308 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.440 here for all the handouts. We always rate ranked top 309 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.000 ten in the country for the dollar value which you 310 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.359 can get with all your benefits. And christ you know 311 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.039 we have a drug problem. In like Massachusetts, we have 312 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:57.319 a very liberal state management. And you know they're all 313 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:58.119 about the handouts. 314 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.160 But yeah, you're you're the home of Brunie Sanders and 315 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.240 uh and and Patrick Lahey. 316 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.160 I think don't hold against me. Now we have a 317 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.640 Becka ba Lant for a congresswoman who's she's all about 318 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:11.880 the typical you know, left agenda. Well, you know, at 319 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.799 the Punch, the punch list of climate, climate action, homelessness, 320 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.839 portable housing, the same thing they always talk about all 321 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.240 of that. Absolutely anyways, So you know, we we spent 322 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:25.680 seventy five million dollars last year housing, uh, housing the homeless. 323 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.559 And you know it's a big burden on the state 324 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.160 because they don't just get to They just don't get 325 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.799 a hotel room. They get their meals, they get the 326 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:35.359 EBT card, they get if they can, get a free 327 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:37.440 cell phone if they have to, the state will give 328 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.599 them iPads, you know, so they can look for jobs. Supposedly. 329 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.240 Yeah, right, I'm sure there's a lot of jobs seeking 330 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.319 going on there. I don't think so. What about free laundry. 331 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:48.160 I hope they get their laundry done at the hotel. 332 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:50.799 Well I'm not sure about that part, but I. 333 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.319 Know Massachusetts they get free laundry. So I'm telling you 334 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.880 right now you should tell everybody and vermant who's up 335 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:58.960 there as a migrant that they're missing out on free laundry. 336 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:01.799 Come down to Massachuset. We got great hotels down here. 337 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.680 We give them food, we give them ABD cards, we 338 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:07.079 give them a cell phone, and we do their laundry. 339 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.200 For them, you know, help the bird. 340 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.519 There are a big burden on services up here because 341 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:16.640 you know, they just do ache the drug problem, the overdoses. 342 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.640 I mean in Burlington, for example, the fire department has 343 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.880 full time crews sitting downtown just to deal with the overdoses, 344 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.720 sitting at the park, you know, they on overtime. And 345 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:27.680 then the police, you know, the hotels that are housing 346 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.839 these people, they're they're you know, they're nothing but trouble 347 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.759 the police between the drug dealing, the fighting, the prostitution, 348 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:38.319 all that stuff that's happened in these hotels. Well, one 349 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:40.359 thing the state is doing and again we don't have 350 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.000 the money to fix the roads. We just got a 351 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.599 fourteen percent property tax increase across the board everybody, which 352 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.480 you know they will overwhelmingly voted for him and high 353 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:51.759 five each other. That under the dome is that they're 354 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.720 buying hotels and they're converting them into permanent housing for people. 355 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:58.319 And I don't know what the money is coming from 356 00:19:58.400 --> 00:19:59.960 to pay for it, but they're doing it. 357 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.680 I'll tell you we have found in Massachusetts our governor, 358 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:09.079 Governor Healey has said, you know, this is not our problem. 359 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.920 It's the federal government's problem to some extensions, correct there, 360 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.759 But she has a Democratic president in the House, in 361 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.960 the in the White House who has maintained and a 362 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:24.119 vice president and you know in the Naval Observatory who 363 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.880 who has said for years the borders are secure. Their 364 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:32.920 borders aren't secure, They're wide open. And Governor Heally has 365 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.400 asked for some financial help from the federal government and 366 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:38.680 the answers have been crickets. And as a matter of fact, 367 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:40.759 the federal government has said, no, we've run out of money. 368 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.839 We have no money. We in Massachusetts have to balance 369 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.839 the budget. Eventually, taxes will be going up. Well they 370 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.640 have gone up in Massachusetts. We have the millionaires tax 371 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:51.920 now and it will be going up across the board. 372 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.240 And what will happen is more and more people who 373 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:59.119 are who contribute workers, they're going to get up and leave. 374 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.000 They're going to go to place is like Tennessee and 375 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.440 South Carolina, Texas and Florida. That's that's the trend in 376 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.119 this country. 377 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.960 Well, it's all it's all intentional, Dan, you know that. 378 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:10.480 I mean, if it wasn't, but they wouldn't be flying 379 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.559 these migrants in the middle of the night when flights 380 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:15.599 normal don't come into Logan. Okay, this is all planned. 381 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.480 Well, they were all upset with Governor DeSantis of Florida 382 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.920 who flew I think it was about thirty six migranes 383 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.000 up and and and did it openly and publicly. They 384 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:27.960 will they prosecutors, the one who would try to indict 385 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.559 the governor of Florida, and yet they do it under 386 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:34.119 the cover of darkness and they don't tell anyone. Again, 387 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:39.400 no transparency, and there's no criticism. This article in the Globe, 388 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:41.640 If if you have access to the Global article, the 389 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.880 headline is, you can just go to Google Boston Globe. 390 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:49.640 Heal the administration withholds key information about hotel contracts. 391 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:52.279 And they're all doing it. You know, they're all They're 392 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.000 all all the all these left UH states are doing it. 393 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:58.240 And I said it's intentional. So one things this is interesting. 394 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:00.720 If they really care about secure board. You take Governor 395 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.680 Abbert Texas, he took measures to prevent them from crossing 396 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.000 the rivers. Okay, he put in those bullys. Why would 397 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.119 if he's taking measures to prevent illegal immigration across his 398 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.960 state in New Mexico, why would Why would Biden I 399 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:18.720 threaten him if he did not remove this. If Biden 400 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.920 really cared about border security, he should be patting them 401 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:21.079