Democrats Must Unite and Embrace the Center

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, like every Sunday morning. Well, Governor David Patterson, who has common sense and talks about New York City, New York State, the country, the world. Well, Governor, give us you this is Sunday morning. What do you have in mind?

0:16 Speaker 2 Well, on Captain Cosby Monday to Friday at five o’clock, we’ve been talking about the Democratic Party. Where the Democratic Party is going. And you know, it’s a very important issue to talk about because a lot of Democrats, and particularly just in the past few days, James Carvill has really started to look at the situation the way you’ve

0:43 looked at it, John, and I guess the way I’ve looked at it for some time, which is that the Democratic Party is going through an insurgence. Now, I will say this, I don’t think the insurgence is quite as bad as other people do. Remember during the Vietnam War, and there was a long time ago they didn’t have

1:04 nightly talk shows and politics shows and that kind of thing. But in nineteen six Carson, Johnny Carson, that was the only good show you could watch at that hour. In nineteen sixty eight, Hubert Humphrey was considered an easy winner against President Nixon, but President Nixon kept up a campaign where he not only talked about Hubert Humphrey, but he

1:28 talked about the party. And the next thing, you know, nineteen sixty nine he was sworn in as president and again in nineteen seventy three. A lot of that was that the Republicans knew how to get to the weak centers of the Democratic Party. And what I’m trying to do, and a number of others is to try to stop

1:50 that so we can be more competitive in elections. Now, one thing, John that is shocking. I saw a Pew Research poll. I didn’t believe it, and it was a Democrats there you know, support or non support of President Trump right now. It was seventy six percent negative, five percent positive. Now, that might be the case if that’s

2:18 just the issue president Trump, but that doesn’t mean that that seventy six percent is all going to stick together when there’s unless a candidate against Trump reflects their values, and that’s something to watch as time goes on. So I went and looked at some of the other polling services and that statistic is pretty consistent. So I just

2:43 think right now that we Democrats have got to start organizing quietly, not you know having to be melodramatic right now, because there’s still time. This is the midterms, that the whole another two years before the president election. So what I’m saying is the houses are on fire, but there is hope understood.

3:08 Speaker 1 Sunday morning, What else would you like to talk about?

3:12 Speaker 2 Well, I think it’s kind of interesting just in that you know right here around New York that there is a mayor I mean a gubernatorial race, and Bruce Blakeman was on the program Thursday night and did a very good accounting of himself. But I think that Kathy Hokle will win that race. And the reason I feel that

3:41 way is that in New York, I think that the party preference is going to face the Democrat. And I think that had Blakeman actually moved a little more to the middle where he usually is, I think he would have had a better chance. But I’m pretty sure that Kathy Hockel will get a second term as governor.

4:07 Speaker 1 Right now, I would say you’re more right than wrong. I think that it does favor the Democrat and Kathi Hockel is the favorite in this And look, whatever I guess or whatever happens happens in November now let me ask you additional question. The Democratic Party believes most Democrats that voter I D. Except for the leadership of the

4:37 Democratic Party, the people that actually vote saying yes, it’s fair that we should have voter I D. What do you think?

4:45 Speaker 2 I think exactly the way you think, John. There’s so many things. You can’t go to different places without showing certain identification. If you get a driver’s license and then you go and do something else, they want to see your driver’s license. You have to do certain things in this country right now to be able to establish your citizenship.

5:10 And also the fact that you’ve you know, that you’ve been a citizen. It’s not that hard for people, when you know, to go out and register to vote so that now you don’t have to vote. But when you register to vote, you’re putting yourself on the rolls. And I don’t think we should be as some people are

5:33 pretending that this is big Brother and that this is you know, some George Orwelliam plot against Americans. I think it’s just an added protection to make sure that our elections are run properly. Now, there are some people who every time they lose an election, they claim that the you know, the the election is rigged, but the reality

5:55 is that ninety nine percent of the time the elections are fair and are conducted properly. And I also think that in those situations, the real winner will win based on how many people voted for them.

6:15 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred and ten percent. Governor David Pattison.

6:18 Speaker 2 Thank you for John Johna’s trying to get to one hundred and fifteen this week.

6:23 Speaker 1 Well, I agree with you one hundred and fifteen percent. Thank you for your thank you for your common sense, and we’ll talk again. Will soon. Take care