Governor Hochul writes scathing letter to Mayor Adams.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today’s former governor David Pattison. And he’s always been a spokesman for common sense in our city, our state, our country, and there’s so many things going on that don’t have common sense. We’re going to David Pattison this morning, Sunday morning. Well, Governor Patterson, what the heck is going on?

0:20 Speaker 2 Well, we had an interesting situation this week where a court order compelled the state, meaning Governor Hokeel to write a letter to the city meaning Mayor Eric Adams about compliance with some of the shelter laws. And I won’t go into this specifics is too boring, but the point is that the letter was publicized and the media made

0:45 a little bit about that, you know, the mayor and the governor, you know, you know, like the honeymoon is over and that kind of thing, and that’s not really the case. So I thought I would kind of just try to explain it. New York obviously, New York City, New York State have always had this little tension between

1:03 the mayors and the governors. This goes back to Mayor Wagner the Democrat, and Governor Rockefell, the Republican. Mayor Lindsay the Republican and Governor Rockefell the Republican, and governor carried the Democrat, and Mayor cost the Democrat. So it didn’t really it wasn’t a party issue. It was more of a territorial issue. When I was in office, I never

1:23 really had any problems with Mayor Bloomberg. As a matter of fact, an hour and a half before I was sworn in in two thousand and eight, Mayor Bloomberg came to my office and he asked me how I was feeling.

1:33 I said I had a splitting headache. So he said, well, why don’t you go there and take a nap on the couch. I’ll work on my cell phone. I’ve got to return a lot of messages. Everybody else will think we’re meeting, and then you can get some rest. And I was able to get to get up from there

1:47 and give my inauguration speech. But more than that, it created a little bond between the two of us, so we never really had any big problems. But in this particular situation, I don’t think this is a problem that’s being caused by the city or the state. I think it’s being caused by the federal government that has shipped

2:05 one hundred and sixty thousand migrants when they get done, at least in their current venture. And there is no municipality on this planet that could handle that number of people coming in at the same time. Even if Mayor Adams said that he welcomed immigrants, immigrants who always welcomed the New York’s city, that’s getting thrown back in his

2:26 face now. But how could he have envisioned at that time that we’d have so many people coming from New York City that were migrants that if there are too many more, they’ll have their own congressional district. No.

2:39 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred percent. You know, it’s not really a law. And the migrant thing was supposed to be you know, for maybe a thousand, maybe five hundred, maybe a few thousand, but not for one hundred and fifty thousand people. It’s out of control. And you know, I spoke to Congressman King before and it’s, uh, we’re

3:04 worried about the diseases they’re coming in because they’re coming in unchecked. That we’re worried about the kids going into the schools with the diseases unchecked, and we’re worried about terrorists and uh, and uh, dope dealers coming across the border is unchecked. I mean, it’s just it doesn’t make any sense at all. Governor.

3:27 Speaker 2 Another unchecked problem, John, is that in upstate New York, there is a terrible teacher shortage, but there may be a greater number of young students and they just don’t have the number of teachers to keep up with the students.

3:41 This is the kind of plan that should never have been enacted within a year. In other words, I think it would have taken a year to try to adjust the facilities and the capacity of a city or a town or wherever you’re sending migrants to adjust her. And the federal government has decided they sending the people in

4:04 and you know, we should just be, you know, happy that I don’t know what it is that they expect, and they and they sent really no money. Governor Huckell, to her credit, at the end of session explained to the legislative leaders how serious this was, and without any long debate or discussion, they sent a billion dollars. Now,

4:29 the the issue is going to come up again because when they sent that money, they were about eighty thousand people who are migrants in that adjustment moved to the city. That number is going to double by the time they can get back into session next year.

4:46 Speaker 1 Well, with you know this money, what was Governor hokell she was very upset that there were no checks and balances on this money or what was she upset about.

4:58 Speaker 2 What it is is that there were are some actions that the city had to take to be in compliance with the shelter law. The state didn’t think that the city did that the state has to answer in court itself, and that’s why they were compelled to write the letter.

5:15 I see situations like this, it’s often better to call someone because once you put something in writing, you never know who’s going to read it. And it really isn’t that bad, but it just looked bad because of the nature of the fact that a letter was actually written.

5:33 But I think both the governor and the mayor Wednesday afternoon spoke and it’s clear they’ve done very well together, and after what went on over the last ten years between the mayor and governor at that time, it’s welcome that the two of them have an ability to work together.

5:52 Speaker 1 Understood. What else are you worried about on our city? I mean, it’s out of control. Now when we talked to Congressman King, besides, he’s worried about the Creed Moore situation on the same on the border of Nassau County that they’re gonna start going into Nasau County.

6:12 Speaker 2 Well, Congressman King is always has something important to say, and he’s a member of the ABC family. And another member of the ABC family was so taken aback that they were going to put these migrants on Rikers Island that he decided to chain himself to the fence. And that would be my former broadcasting partner from years ago,

6:33 Curtis Leev. So he you know, he as he always is able to do capitalized.

6:42 Speaker 1 Yesterday when he was in the studio yesterday, we played his new theme song, They’re coming to take Me Away Away, They’re coming to take me away.

6:53 Speaker 2 From nineteen sixty five.

6:55 Speaker 1 Now his ex wife, his ex wife is the DA of Queen’s County.

7:01 Speaker 2 Yes, I hope it’s not coming to a point where she has to prosecute him. But you know, it really in the middle of the summer with really these really difficult situations going on, usually when the summer is a lot more peaceful and the city being overwhelmed with new migrants into the place. I think it was great to

7:24 have a lighter note and a little demonstration of civil disobedience.

7:32 Speaker 1 Yeah, it’s I mean, he wanted to prove a point, and I think he did prove a point. Anything else you want to talk about, well.

7:43 Speaker 2 I think as we get into September, October, November, this same discussion that we’ve had is just going to intensify, and it does not seem to be any willingness or ability on the part of the federal government who stuck this problem on us, and I really think it was out of line and it could in some ways backfire

8:11 when other cities have the same problem as New York City, that there might be a kind of city versus country revolt, which we probably need at this point, because I think most people are very sympathetic to the plight of the migrants and would like to help. But as in any situation, you know, even when you’re giving to charities, you give

8:32 as much as you can, not as much as they think you should. And we’ve hit that tipping point. Mayor Adams said that about a week ago, and we’re getting even further into it.

8:45 Speaker 1 Well, thank you, Governor David Patterson, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon.

8:49 Speaker 2 Thank you so much, thank you John