Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the Hampton Sunday, and anytime
Speaker 1: I go to Long Island it's a tweat. I was
Speaker 1: there last week to speak, as you guys know, for
Speaker 1: the interns for Bruce Blakeman, who's running a tremendous campaign.
Speaker 1: My son, Gabriel doesn't want to leave. I'm like, gay,
Speaker 1: when is your last day of Blakeman? He goes, it
Speaker 1: could be August seventh, it could be August fourteenth, it
Speaker 1: could be Labor Day. I go, you're kidding me. The
Speaker 1: kid loves it and he loves Bruce Blakeman. So with
Speaker 1: that said, here he is our next governor. My great friend,
Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, good morning, buddy, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great Sitting by the way, Gabriel's doing a
Speaker 2: great job. He's a great kid. I have great interns.
Speaker 2: They come from all walks of life. They're really bright kids.
Speaker 2: They learn about government and we learn something from them.
Speaker 2: Because to know what's going on right now all across
Speaker 2: the state, you have to rely on young people. They're
Speaker 2: the ones that we're really fighting for their future. We're
Speaker 2: fighting to make sure that they can get a good job,
Speaker 2: that taxes don't kill them, that electric rates don't kill them,
Speaker 2: and that they have an opportunity to raise families in
Speaker 2: communities that have good jobs and that are safe. So
Speaker 2: I love having the kids around us. They do an
Speaker 2: amazing job. They learn from us, and we learn from them.
Speaker 1: I love what you just said, and you're right, and
Speaker 1: you're fighting for their future. But you're also, Bruce Blakeman,
Speaker 1: fighting for their votes because when you look back at
Speaker 1: this disgraceful mayor who are also running against I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to run against two people, the
Speaker 1: horrible governor and the horrible mayor, two people. But he
Speaker 1: won not because they flew in Muslim voters, not because
Speaker 1: they cheated in all the ballots. He won because of
Speaker 1: young people that were enthusiastic and couldn't wait to vote
Speaker 1: for him. So you have to deal with that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, But when you talk and communicate with these
Speaker 2: young people, it's very very interesting. So I talked to
Speaker 2: some kids at Washington Square and we talked about issues
Speaker 2: and I asked this woman, I said, young woman, she
Speaker 2: was an NYU student. I said, let me ask you
Speaker 2: a question. I said, do you like socialism? She said yeah?
Speaker 2: And I said, what do you like about it. She said, well,
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's spreading out the wealth and letting
Speaker 2: everybody you know, have a piece of the action. And
Speaker 2: I said to well, what about somebody who works really
Speaker 2: hard and achieves a lot and someone who's lazy. Do
Speaker 2: you take the lazy once you get the same She said, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, she said, is lazy something that's an affliction?
Speaker 2: Or I said, no, lazy is lazy? So I said,
Speaker 2: are you a good students? She said yeah, I'm a
Speaker 2: straight A student. I said, well, well how about we
Speaker 2: make you a B student and someone getting a C
Speaker 2: we raised them to a bee. We average it out.
Speaker 2: And she's like, well, I wouldn't like that. I said,
Speaker 2: oh that socialism.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so great. Oh that is great. Look at you.
Speaker 1: That is great. But what you're the story you just
Speaker 1: told that was great, Bruce, is the same story I
Speaker 1: heard on the ferry. I always bring this up all
Speaker 1: summer last year, same thing. Young girls on the way
Speaker 1: to the beach just went the Starbucks in Brooklyn or Manhattan,
Speaker 1: don't really have a job, live with their two girlfriends
Speaker 1: and a five thousand dollars apartment. By the way, their
Speaker 1: parents have plenty of money, plenty of money. They like money.
Speaker 1: They like going out at night, they like going a
Speaker 1: Starbucks for an eight dollar cup of coffee, they like
Speaker 1: going to the beach. And they couldn't wait the buff
Speaker 1: for mom Donnie, because he was gonna make it even Really,
Speaker 1: he's gonna take your money away. To your point, he's
Speaker 1: gonna take your good grades away. The point is they
Speaker 1: don't even know what the hell they're talking about. They're young,
Speaker 1: they're smart, they've got potential, they're certainly impressionable, but honestly,
Speaker 1: they have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, Sidle, let me tell you a story. I'm talking
Speaker 2: with some guys upstate in New York who have some
Speaker 2: pretty substantial businesses. And at the beginning of the summer,
Speaker 2: they had a summer worker. And the worker got his
Speaker 2: first paycheck and he goes to HR and he goes, h,
Speaker 2: there's a mistake on my check. And they said, well,
Speaker 2: what's the mistake. He said, well, I was supposed to
Speaker 2: earn eight hundred dollars for this week and I'm only
Speaker 2: getting six hundred and thirty nine dollars. You made a mistake.
Speaker 2: And they said, no, we took out for taxi and
Speaker 2: the kid goes, they take out for taxes, and he goes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: This kid's like, well that sucks.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, I know. They think they're getting eight
Speaker 1: hundred when they make eight hundred. And that goes right
Speaker 1: to the root of this race. And let me do
Speaker 1: the talking for you, because you deserve it, okay, far
Speaker 1: as I know, if I'm wrong, And now your second
Speaker 1: term as Nashau County Executive in a pretty applement area,
Speaker 1: you've never raised taxes once, not once. This guy, mom
Speaker 1: Donnie is taxing everybody up the s everybody. People are leaving.
Speaker 1: Ho goal is right there with them. Yeah, once in
Speaker 1: a while she says something people want to hear. But
Speaker 1: you know, if God rabitch wins, oh, just wait to
Speaker 1: watch what she does with taxes. So, in this story
Speaker 1: you told about taxes, there's only one person who does
Speaker 1: the right thing when it comes to taxes, and that's you.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't have a revenue problem, said, we have
Speaker 2: a spending problem. The State of New York's budget is
Speaker 2: twice the amount of the state of Florida, and there's
Speaker 2: four million more people in Florida. And the last time
Speaker 2: I went down to Florida. It looked like they got
Speaker 2: some pretty good services from government down there. So you
Speaker 2: look at New York, New York, eight million people, their
Speaker 2: budgets bigger than the state of Florida. And there's almost
Speaker 2: twenty five million people in the state of Florida. So
Speaker 2: where's the money going. It's going to fraud, waste, abuse
Speaker 2: programs that don't work. I want to deliver quality programs.
Speaker 2: I want to get people better services, but it's got
Speaker 2: to be cost efficient and it's got to be programs
Speaker 2: that actually produce results. And by the way, if we
Speaker 2: have a problem with revenue, why are we giving eight
Speaker 2: billion dollars of your tax money to people who aren't
Speaker 2: New Yorkers, to legal migrants who get free food, free transportation,
Speaker 2: free food, and a free cell phone, they get more
Speaker 2: than New Yorkers. It's insane. Kaffy Oakle's giving away your money.
Speaker 1: The other thing is what you guys did well in
Speaker 1: Nassau County, Well said you and Mazi Pillow right, you
Speaker 1: took the masks off the bad guys, And for some
Speaker 1: reason in New York, Kathy Hochel, she's okay with the
Speaker 1: bad guys wearing masks. Pohamosos are the bad guys, but
Speaker 1: the good guys, okay, And I know we got Minnesota
Speaker 1: and Maine, I'm aware, Okay, but that's four compared to
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of very dangerous people
Speaker 1: taking off the streets, maybe two hundred thousand to four,
Speaker 1: pretty good ratio. She wants to take the mask off
Speaker 1: of them. And we know that these cycles on that
Speaker 1: side are not afraid to show up at a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court judge's house. They're not afraid to shoot an ICE
Speaker 1: agent in the street, but try to kill the president.
Speaker 1: So you guys worked extra hard to take the masks
Speaker 1: off the bad guys. She wants to take the masks
Speaker 1: off the good guys. Thank god. A federal judge yesterday
Speaker 1: said no, no, we're not doing that. What are you nuts?
Speaker 1: But there it is, at the very core, she wants
Speaker 1: to protect the bad guys, you want to protect the
Speaker 1: good guys.
Speaker 2: Well, just in my county last months, someone who entered
Speaker 2: this country illegally stabbed two women to death. Remember yep, and.
Speaker 1: Not even in the same place. He went to like
Speaker 1: different places to do that.
Speaker 2: He went to two different places. And you rarely hear
Speaker 2: that in the mainstream. You got to listen to your
Speaker 2: show or some other conservative shows to hear about this.
Speaker 2: So they never they never talk about the illegal migrants
Speaker 2: who kill people, rape people, rob people, are dealing in drugs,
Speaker 2: are getting and recruiting our kids into gang activity. And
Speaker 2: Kaffi Hockel, this is why she's the worst governor in America.
Speaker 2: Kathy Hockel says that anti semi an anarchists who fight
Speaker 2: our cops should be able to wear a mask, but
Speaker 2: law enforcement officers who need to be undercover, who need
Speaker 2: to be covered up to protect their identity, she wants
Speaker 2: to unmask them. That's a disgrace. She doesn't back our cops,
Speaker 2: she doesn't back our law enforcement. She's not a governor
Speaker 2: that wants to make safer communities for our kids and
Speaker 2: our grandkids. So that's why I'm running for governor. Cut taxes,
Speaker 2: cut utility bills which are seven higher than the nation's average,
Speaker 2: and makes for safe for communities. And you know what,
Speaker 2: that's why I'm going to win sid because seventy percent
Speaker 2: of the people in New York State want the same
Speaker 2: exact thing.
Speaker 1: I think even more probably, and I got to tell
Speaker 1: you I know I told you this on the AAR
Speaker 1: last week, but I had a conversation and I was
Speaker 1: shocked actually how excited he was to talk to me
Speaker 1: with Ruben Diaz and I called him on your behalf
Speaker 1: and I said, Rubin, we want to come out. Bruce
Speaker 1: specifically wants to come out. He wants to spend time
Speaker 1: with the African American community, obviously the Latino community. And
Speaker 1: he said, we can't wait to have him. He said,
Speaker 1: just see a No, we're voting for him on two lines. Okay,
Speaker 1: he is going to end up with votes in vote
Speaker 1: the Republican on the conservative line. We can't wait to
Speaker 1: do something with Bruce Blakeman. I want to open my
Speaker 1: church to Bruce Blakeman any Thursday, you guys want to come.
Speaker 1: I want to pu my church to Bruce Blakeman. So
Speaker 1: the folks out there that are trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what you're doing on a daily basis, not only are
Speaker 1: you still running Nasau County and doing it great, you're
Speaker 1: all over the state Rochester, You're in Utica, you're in Syracuse,
Speaker 1: you're in Albany, you're in Binghamton, and now starts to
Speaker 1: push Latinos African Americans. You're gonna hit every one of
Speaker 1: these communities every week.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, Reuben Diaz is a wonderful guy, and he's
Speaker 2: a god loving guy. He cares about America. He loves America.
Speaker 2: So to have him on my side is truly a blessing.
Speaker 2: And yes, I've been in the Dominican community. I went
Speaker 2: to the Dominican Bronx Parade, where quite frankly, the Democrats
Speaker 2: banned me from speaking, because you know that's what they do.
Speaker 2: They're they're dictators, They're authoritarian, and I'm gonna be at
Speaker 2: the Dominican Parade in Manhattan. I've been endorsed by the
Speaker 2: Governor of Puerto Rico. I've gone to discuss issues with
Speaker 2: middle class African American and Caribbean Americans and Southeast Queens.
Speaker 2: I've been with Russian Americas in Brooklyn. I'm on my
Speaker 2: way up state right now. I had a rally with
Speaker 2: Italian Americans in Italy in Lower Manhattan to one on
Speaker 2: Mowberry Street.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I want to tell you about
Speaker 1: that because a lot of those guys here that day,
Speaker 1: As you know, all my friends, it was Friday. I
Speaker 1: was in Pennsylvania with Danielle and Ava. They loved you
Speaker 1: there in Italy on body they said you were amazing.
Speaker 1: You won Joe Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Well, you know they love me so much they changed
Speaker 2: my name to Bruno.
Speaker 1: I love it, love it. You're doing all these rallies
Speaker 1: and all these communities are everywhere.
Speaker 2: Wow, listen, this is a mission to save our state.
Speaker 2: We're in a death spiral right now. Said we're fifty
Speaker 2: out of fifty states and economic outlook. I mean, no
Speaker 2: wonder why our young people don't want to live here.
Speaker 2: And therefore I concerned things around. I know what needs
Speaker 2: to be done. We just got to get back to
Speaker 2: common sense principles, good judgment, American values, and create jobs
Speaker 2: and create prosperity for people. They get better jobs with
Speaker 2: better benefits, less taxes, lower utility bills. That's how you
Speaker 2: make people happy. They're miserable now under Kathy Hockel, I
Speaker 2: just want to make New Yorkers happy.
Speaker 1: You make me happy. You're so nice. I got one
Speaker 1: more for you. Did you not work for the Port
Speaker 1: Authority at one point?
Speaker 2: I know you did. I was a commissioner of the
Speaker 2: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for eight years.
Speaker 1: Eight years the Port Authority. So this is going to
Speaker 1: hit close to home for you. We're about to commemorate
Speaker 1: twenty five years. I know you listen to me every day.
Speaker 1: I am beating this drama I had earlier today, Bill
Speaker 1: Donnie you want from the Catholic League. He's written a
Speaker 1: long letter urging Mamdanie not to come. Nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: I brought on survivors, victims, the families. I brought on
Speaker 1: the guy that started the petition. I'm bringing on another
Speaker 1: lady tomorrow. I am on a mission to keep this
Speaker 1: mayor away.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know I can't do it, and I know the
Speaker 1: odds were stacked against me, but I also know that
Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority, not even the overwhelming majority of nine
Speaker 1: to eleven families don't want this anti American mayor there.
Speaker 1: So I'm not asking you whether you think he'll come
Speaker 1: or not. But if you a governor, I you would
Speaker 1: stop him from coming or not. I want, as a
Speaker 1: guy that worked with a port authority, who lost people
Speaker 1: that day, I want you to tell me do you
Speaker 1: think the mayor should show up?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, said, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: know this or not, but my nephew was murdered on
Speaker 2: that day. No, Sergeant Tommy Jurgens, my sister Linda's older boy,
Speaker 2: oldest boy. I'm twenty six years old, Army veteran, volunteer firefighter,
Speaker 2: New York State Court officer, was giving first day to
Speaker 2: a woman who was severely burned in Tower two when
Speaker 2: it collapsed on him. We never got a body or DNA.
Speaker 2: We only got his side arm and his badge. So
Speaker 2: it's very personal to me. I am a family member,
Speaker 2: and I don't think zorn Mondami should go. It's as
Speaker 2: if you know someone's having a wake and they asked
Speaker 2: you not to go to the wake for personal reasons,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't go. So I mean, I don't think he
Speaker 2: should go. But here's where I'm gonna say. If he's
Speaker 2: hell bent on going, I think people have a way
Speaker 2: to respectfully protest that. Turn your back on him. Don't
Speaker 2: say anything to him, don't make a ruckus, be solemn
Speaker 2: because it is a solemn day. Just turn your back on.
Speaker 1: Him, much like the cops did to bood the Blasio
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: Right, same thing, same thing. So that's a way to
Speaker 2: protest if he comes. But yeah, listen, you wouldn't pay
Speaker 2: a shiv of call. If you were told you weren't invited,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't intend to wake. If you were told that
Speaker 2: you weren't invited, that you weren't going to be welcome.
Speaker 2: But this guy just doesn't get it. He doesn't get it.
Speaker 2: He's got that stupid smile on his fay while he's
Speaker 2: saying terrible things about Americans, antisemitic things and anti Christian
Speaker 2: things with a smile on his face. So people think
Speaker 2: he's nice. He's not nice. There's something wrong with the guy.
Speaker 1: That is the best way to put it. Yet there
Speaker 1: really is something wrong with him, Like he's insane, he's nasty,
Speaker 1: and he's hateful, and the smile is phony. But you
Speaker 1: just nailed it. There is something wrong with that guy. Bruce.
Speaker 1: You're doing an amazing job. I love You're so proud
Speaker 1: of you. Keep up the great work. We are just
Speaker 1: a couple of months away from winning this race and
Speaker 1: you'll be your next governor. Bruce Plateman, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: God blessed, love you. I love you too. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I love that guy and my son loves him now.
Speaker 1: Gable just loves him. You just want to leave. He
Speaker 1: keeps asking can I say another weekend of the weekend
Speaker 1: of the weekend, he may say to Labor day. Now, Lott,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He has to go to college. No, listen.
Speaker 1: They're very good to him. The chief. Another chief is listening.
Speaker 1: He's great, and Chris Boyle's great, and obviously Bruce is great.
Speaker 1: Stap is great, and he want to stay. He loves Bruce.
Speaker 1: What's that he's gonna learn? He's learned so much Bro already,
Speaker 1: lewis so much. So thank you, Bruce Blakeman.
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