Money alone will not fix the migrant problem.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is former Governor David Pattison, and he is a common sense Democrat that loves our city, loves our state, loves our country, loves the world. And David Pattison, what are we doing to save the world.

0:17 Speaker 2 Well, I don’t know about the world, but we’ve got to try to save New York City. And there was a controversial town meeting up on the Upper West Side last Wednesday night where the mayor said that he has never been in a situation a crisis that he didn’t see the end of it, like how it would all

0:39 work out, and that right now he doesn’t know how this is going to work out. If we’re going to get ten thousand migrants every month, which is one hundred and twenty thousand a year, and we’re not going to get any assistance from the federal government other than minuscule, and the state has done as much as they can

0:56 actually do at this point before would probably have to go into special session to give more money. He doesn’t see an end and he was criticized to that for not being positive and talking about New York after September eleventh and that kind of thing. But I think he has been positive up to now. I saw it as

1:18 a rather surprising dose of honesty in the process. Yeah, sometimes even as a leader, you’re not exactly sure which way things are going. And so what I see it as is a call to arms that everybody in the city, in the state gets together and this is going to happen in other states, and the federal government’s going to

1:42 have to be accountable for this situation, which didn’t have to happen when it happened. There could have been time for planning and using some of the federal facilities to help with the migrants. A whole lot of things I could list that they could have done, but they just sent the migrants here and we have to live with

1:58 it for the time being.

2:00 Speaker 1 Well, I think it’s a little more challenging than that. I mean, uh, and me and you have always supported you know, the mayor, Mayor Adams, but it seems like he’s having a lot of challenges and uh, he has the people on the Democratic Party mad at him, a lot of people, and he has a lot of people

2:29 in the Republican Party mad at him, and he’s got a lot of independence mad at him. How does he solve that problem?

2:35 Speaker 2 Well, I think that a lot of Democrats have felt, and justly in a lot of cases, that immigrants came to this country. As soon as they got in and got citizenship, the first thing they did was turn it back on the immigrants who came in behind them. And there I mean, I remember a situation I read about

2:58 once where it was an immigrant community in Philadelphia in seventeen fifty five, not nineteen fifty five, seventeen fifty five, and someone wrote an article about them, saying that it was unsafe to be near them. They were unhealthy, they were criminals, they were violent, and that they were unacceptable for to live in this country. What’s more interesting than

3:23 the fact that that’s what the article said, was who wrote the article. And the person who wrote the article was Benjamin Franklin. So in other words, this kind of, you know, xenophobic attitude toward people who are coming into the country is something that many Democrats, including myself, have fought for years. However, when we start talking about large

3:46 numbers of people coming in and we don’t have the resources to support them, when you have twenty one thousand children coming to the Board of Education and then they got criticized for not being ready on time. I don’t see any way that they could have been ready on time.

4:03 I think that it’s the reason that the mayor is drawing this fire from basically both sides of the aisle. But I think it’s clear that he is trying. He’s trying to seek out solutions. But we’ve gotten a surprising silence from the entities that caused this problem in the first place, and I think it’s a shame understood.

4:30 Speaker 1 What else would you like to talk about this Sunday morning. I’m having my strong cup of coffee and you know, and I worry about our city or state in LA Country.

4:42 Speaker 2 Well, I think since it’s Sunday morning and you’re having a really good cup of coffee, John, that you probably are very elated about the event that was held honoring Tony Orlando and obviously WABC on Thursday night, seventh of September.

5:02 It was spectacular. I mean, it was right on part of all the major events you know that people almost scalp tickets to try to get into. So I have a question for you, and the question is, you’ve been an entrepreneur, You’ve been a store owner, you have been an investor, you’re now a president of a communications service.

5:26 You know, WABC, what gives you the most joy in life?

5:32 Speaker 1 I enjoy communications. I enjoy telling the American people the truth. You know, I tell people I wanted to, you know, I always admired Walter Cronkite because ninety two percent of the people in America at that time believed in Walter Cronkite and whatever he said, they believed. And right now we are down to what eleven percent, David that of

5:56 anybody believing anybody, And I am afraid of that, and I just want to be I worked very hard to make sure that that w ABC and and but I think we both do the same thing, that both that people know the truth. What say you?

6:17 Speaker 2 Well, I think the event itself was a reflection of the city. Every race, religion, national origin, uh, older people, younger people, disabled people were in attendance, and they’re different feelings that people have. But I think that what this country needs right now is a little bit of understanding and for some of us to put ourselves in the

6:48 shoes of other people. I mean, I didn’t I did not see this crisis coming, but a lot of people didn’t. I have to tip my hat to the fact that they recognized that we would have this problem that we’re having right now, which is also impinging upon our ability to educate children. Also, there are healthcare risks with people

7:11 coming in even though the children have two weeks two a month based on where they’re coming from, to be vaccinated when they come into the public school system, and Chance of Banks has made that clear. I think a lot of people were thinking the children would come in and never be vaccinated. They have to be. But at

7:33 the same time, I think listening to each other, listening to shows like this would give all of us, you know, maybe raising some of our points of view to a little higher spiritual level where we understand that we probably disagree about a lot of things. But if you ask most New Yorkers and most Americans what they would love

7:55 most about this country, they would describe a country that basically the same. So thank you for your service, and it’s great to have you on every Sunday.

8:06 Speaker 1 God bless you and God bless America. I enjoy working with you and maybe work together always and have a great have a great Sunday,