Outrage Over a Campaign Tactic and the Battle for the Midterms

0:00 Speaker 1 Governor David Patterson is with us. And, well, it’s how many days to the midterms? Nine days. Well, Governor David Patterson, nine days to the midterms. Give us the pulse of what’s going on.

0:12 Speaker 2 Well, first, John, I want to give you the pulse of what went on last Wednesday night when the Blue Square Alliance, this is the alliance to fight anti-Semitism and hate all over the world, had an event at the Waldorf Astoria and raised $ 32 million. million, $ 180, 000. And you were there, I was there, and I just think it

0:34 was a tremendous event. And the speakers were so passionate, not about just anti-Semitism, but just how people treat other people. Now, to the midterms, I think, John, the Republicans listening in should take a deep breath. I don’t think that Mike Rogers is going to lose in Michigan. I think they’re on to the candidate there who says he’s not part

0:56 of the Muslim Brotherhood. And he’s to be fair to him no one has ever proved that he had an association but he definitely has a thought pattern that seems to be antagonistic to what would really be governance and fairness to other people so I think around the country things are leveling off from maybe about a week ago

1:20 when it started to look like the Democrats were taking a clear margin ahead and so I think that that’s one of the things that people can think about. And, you know, as we were at that dinner, John, I was thinking about how they’ve told people, you know, when something happens, say something, stand up, do something. Well, in

1:42 my case, that was what I was thinking about this morning when I found out that one of the candidates running in one of the elections in one of the states is a woman who apparently, when she was 12 years old, was raped by her stepfather. And this was aired by the other candidate now that’s horrible enough but

2:04 unfortunately too many people sat back and didn’t say anything so if the candidate she was running as yaga swami whatever his name is he was never raped so he should win the election i just thought it was outrageous i think it’s about the worst political ploy i have ever viewed in my time in politics.

2:24 Speaker 1 Wow um You know, listen, I was a Democrat, like you. But what happened, you know, I was a Brooklyn Democrat. I was a... But it seems like the Democrats right now are prisoners of the socialists.

2:45 Speaker 2 Well, it certainly has seemed that way up to, I’d say, the past couple of weeks. In the same way, I think the Republicans are... pulling together at the end to make this work, the Democrats are starting to see that we don’t want to be in this position where we’re losing all these races, not because of our differences with

3:08 the Republicans, but because the socialists pulled enough votes to help the Republicans win. And I think that for the socialists who are doing it, they’re going to pay for what they did.

3:19 Speaker 1 I agree. Governor David Patterson, thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and let’s catch up again real soon. Absolutely, John.