Governor Hochul promises to help NYC budget shortfall.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Governor David Patterson, and I hope Governor Patterson, you had a great Thanksgiving week and today’s Sunday and give us your evaluation. Where the heck is our city, our state, our country in.

0:19 Speaker 2 Well, this past week we learned that Mayor Adams is interested in trying to restore the resources to the New York City Police Department, in New York City Fire Department and the Department of Sanitation in the second round of cuts.

0:41 They will be held harmless, which is very good because this is what he wanted to do from the outset. I think the reason that the NYPD got on the list in the first place was that the Mayor wanted it, and that there were a lot of other objections to cuts in other areas. I mean, these areas are are

1:06 very important. I mean the libraries, obviously, the transportation issues, They’re all important. But what I think last week really teaches us is that when it comes to budgeting, you have to account for any item that you want to restore by cutting in another area. And I think this is something that not only do the elected officials have

1:38 trouble dealing with, but even the media does that. In other words, you can say, yes, we don’t want to cut the libraries. We don’t want to lose the summer sessions for the younger people that don’t have, you know, opportunities to go places. But if we do put that money back, we have to take it from someplace else.

2:06 And you read these stinging newspaper articles about how bad it will be if you cut this and you cut that. But the reality is that if that’s the case and we agree, then we’ve got to find another area to use for that restoration. And that doesn’t seem to be something that only the executives seem to understand that when

2:32 it comes byget.

2:33 Speaker 1 Time, absolutely correct on that. Now, Mayor Adams, I did a zoom call with him last week with three hundred business people and people like him when they talk to him, and he’s got a challenge of talking to people. Tell us, you know why the FBI has never gone after a major city like New York for the mayor, I mean,

3:09 what say you, what, what are your thoughts?

3:13 Speaker 2 Well? Seems very unusual because for instance, in this case, they’re saying that when he was pro president, he asked the fire Department to look into the the consulate, the Turkish consulate and maybe he did do that. It’s not a crime. It’s not a crime.

3:40 Speaker 1 I agree, it’s not a crime. It’s like saying, and look, it’s up to the fire department to do their job, and you say that, you make it. You tell the fire department make sure you do the right job.

3:53 Speaker 2 That’s not a crime exactly. And I mean, you know, it’s all the time people have called elected officials asked them to you know, fast tracked particular situations. But the one thing you can’t do in you know, in government, is to move people up on the list to the point that there is an advantage for the party that

4:22 has the friends with stronger political connections. So I can understand how you can’t do that. But then they they bother the mayor with you know, going to his fundraisers home on the same day he’s coming to Washington to talk to the about the migration situation. And then they run up on him at some event and say that

4:49 they want a security to get out of the way. They get in the car with him, they take his cell phones and elector equipment. That is sounding a little more orwellian to me than what has gone on in the past. I mean, I’ve heard about people at all kinds of problems and maybe eventually they did get in trouble,

5:07 but there wasn’t this focus on them. And as the mayor points out, if you want to be angry about the budget, it really a lot of this money that is being spent is on the migration situation that was brought to us by Washington d C. And that’s why he said, don’t blame me, blame DC. You know, it’s catchy,

5:31 but it really onearthed a stronger point that unless there’s some political issue, which I would be stocked to find out that they did this because the mayor was criticizing their policy or migration and where they were sending the migrants, that’d be an all time low. And so, you know, we continue to hope that in his position, that he’s

5:58 strong and that he’s able to address these particular issues. And you know, you could clearly tell that he was kind of surprised at what’s going on in the last few weeks. But I think that he has a very good chance to get through all this.

6:15 Speaker 1 I agree, Governor Pattison. We got a minute left, Well, what else would you like to tell talk about New.

6:21 Speaker 2 York well, we’re coming up on a new year, and this will be our quadrennial referendum on issues and presumably leadership, and so what goes on on these local levels, like what we’ve talked about here in New York City, will go on all around the country in different places, and it will inevitably lead to our election. And hopefully this

6:52 process will go in a way that there isn’t the kind of controversy that there was after our election in.

7:00 Speaker 1 Twenty agreed, Governor David Pattison. Thank you for giving us your input every Sunday on the Cats Round Table, and God bless you, and God bless Marka.

7:11 Speaker 2 Oh, thank you John, and I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.

7:15 Speaker 1 Yes, it was very nice. Thank you,