Low Primary Turnout Is Reshaping New York Politics

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0:27 Speaker 2 I Sunday morning. Well with us today’s Governor David Pattison. Well, you know every Sunday he’s with us and he tells us the way he feels, and he’s one common sense, a.

0:41 Speaker 3 Friend and governor. The other day on Thursday, me and you, we.

0:47 Speaker 2 Had lunch with the Mayor of the City of New York during the Police Athletic League. And you spoke right after the mayor and give us your pulse of the situation.

1:00 Speaker 4 Well, I think the mayor was very pleased to be invited, particularly by the Police Athletic League. He made plenty of historical references to the Athletic League, which was founded one hundred and twelve years ago. He talked about how at one point, you know, the kids would open up the fire hydrants, as would happen in a lot of neighborhoods,

1:21 and then the police would come and either take the kids downtown or shut the fire hydrant off or something like that. And now the police athletically intervened and got the kids and the police to work together. And now you don’t see that. You actually see streets that are called play streets where the fire hydrants are on. They’re

1:40 not as strong as they are in the other streets, and there’s something for the kids to do. So he really talked about some of the really thoughtful ways that the Police Athletic League, run by yourself and some really wonderful people, have done for the children of New York City.

1:59 He did not talk about anything about the city or the budget or that kind of thing, and I thought that was a wise thing for him to do. He didn’t want to go into what could theoretically have been a hostile territory and start talking about some of the activities that the candidates that he supported talked about, like

2:21 the candidate that suggested that what we’re beginning to see is the end of Western culture and it I.

2:32 Speaker 2 Mean the candidate that won the primary that ran against Espilot, who represented the Hispanic community in Congress lost and then the candidate that beat him went on and said to set some ridiculous things.

2:50 Speaker 4 What do you say, Yeah, when you beat somebody, you don’t dance on their grave. You just tell them listen, sorry that this had to happen, but the people have That’s how you talk about that. And John, I’m glad you brought that up, because this is coming up more and more. I remember that fierce battles that we would

3:11 have politically back in the eighties when I first got elected to office and different candidates ran and that kind of thing. But there was always kind of a civility even when we as Democrats brought the Republicans were going too far and vice versa. But now you’ve got these people, even when they win, they’re yelling and screaming about something

3:32 that it is that they don’t like. And you know, we had Bill O’Reilly on the Morning Show on Thursday, and he was talking about this lack of civility that occurs not just in politics but in everyday life, and he’s basically blaming it on the way we’re raising children.

3:53 That we need to raise children to respect their elders, to respect the teachers, to respect people they work with, and now we have situations where maybe the children aren’t getting that right education. But I think that what goals me the most is these people who go on television and say these things that are so horrifying even when

4:17 they won. And I will say this, the amount that the candidate will beat espayat God was thirty two thousand votes. She had thirty two thousand votes. There are seven hundred thousand people who live in that district, which means that she got five percent of the people that live there to vote for her. I would suggest that within two years,

4:44 a real organized campaign gets put together and she can take her five percent and go back to wherever she was before she ran the first time.

4:53 Speaker 3 Gotcha and Socialism.

4:58 Speaker 2 Maya Mondami won a big victory in New York, three congressional candidates running as you know socialists.

5:08 Speaker 4 Well, John, I think one of the problems is when we vote. So we voted you know, this past Tuesday, but the primaries used to be in September, and that was a much better reading of where the public is.

5:23 Right now, we’re in late June. People making vacation plans. The weather’s nice, they don’t want to go out and leaflet for their candidates and that kind of thing. If this election had been held in September, it might have had a different outcome. But leaving the outcome as it is, it’s it’s definitely a message and in the Democratic Party

5:48 we better get that message and turn it around before we become extinct.

5:55 Speaker 3 Understood and anything else. Who want to tell us talk to people on this Sunday morning.

6:04 Speaker 4 Well, I think that as we look at the political landscape for the next few months, it’s going to be very interesting how things go. The President wants to substitute the Housing bill for his bill that requires citizenship to be a voter in the country, and it’ll be interesting to see how that all works out. I think that

6:33 he will back down on the Housing bill, but I also think he’ll get his proof of citizenship for anyone who’s voting in an election. Understood.

6:48 Speaker 2 Governor David Pattison, thank you for your your I guess your your common sense, and thank you for always being on on Sunday, and we’ll catch up with you again.

7:00 Speaker 4 I’m just following you. John