Growing unrest with Democrats questioning border policy.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today, is Governor David Patterson to give us the evaluation. What is happening. Well, it’s almost October, Governor Patterson. There’s so many things happening. There’s an election in five weeks, a lot of things happening in New York. Where do you want to start.

0:16 Speaker 2 Well, John, it is October. Today’s October first.

0:19 Speaker 3 And we got a visitor in late September right here in New York City, and he’s Governor Abbot from Texas.

0:29 Speaker 1 Well. He was here on Thursday.

0:31 Speaker 2 Yeah, and he went to the Manhattan Institute, and.

0:34 Speaker 1 He came to the w ABC office, and he.

0:37 Speaker 3 Came to the wa ABC office, that’s right, and he’s talking about what should be done about the migrant crisis. Now. When he sent the migrants the last time instead of himself, it.

0:48 Speaker 2 Was a political stunt. It was so you know, everyone who likes.

0:52 Speaker 3 Governor Abbot or his politics is going to like that. But none of this rhetoric is really contributing to any way that we’re going to stop the migrant crisis.

1:03 Speaker 2 It’s good to see that.

1:04 Speaker 1 There was one interesting thing, Governor, and I don’t know if you heard us, and Governor Abbot said he was sending all the migrants to Washington because his fight was with President Biden, not necessarily New York. But when the New York politicians and I won’t mention any names, started attacking him, he said, how do you say it, Screw them,

1:30 I’m sending him to New York too. Well, that’s a true story, he said it to me out of his own mouth.

1:37 Speaker 2 Well, I think that.

1:40 Speaker 3 The New York politicians, and I think it was the leaders of the city and the state, were offended that he sent the migrants the first time, and they wanted to get their point of view across. And really what we really need is the two parties to come together and really try to negotiate how we’re going to address

2:00 the border.

2:01 Speaker 2 Now this is October.

2:04 Speaker 3 Of twenty twenty three, I want to go back to October of.

2:08 Speaker 2 Nineteen seventy five.

2:11 Speaker 3 Were we born that Well, I was, and you were, but not too many other people listening probably were. And in nineteen seventy five, in October, New York was suffering from a severe fiscal crisis and they asked Washington for help and President Ford, they had a headline on the daily news to forward.

2:31 Speaker 2 To New York dropped dead it’s.

2:34 Speaker 3 The Republican I remember that. Remember that the Republican leaders were furious. I mean, I’m sorry, the Democratic leaders were furious that the president would would it.

2:46 Speaker 1 Was it was President Gerald Ford.

2:49 Speaker 2 Gerald Ford, Yes, Jerald R. Ford.

2:51 Speaker 3 And what I’m saying now is that basically, this is what the federal government has said to New York. Now they’ve only given us one hundred and forty seven million dollars. That’s eight percent of what the state under Governor Hokel was able to do for us.

3:09 Speaker 2 And we just can’t.

3:12 Speaker 3 Continue to have mounting numbers of people coming to the city and having no place for them to go. And I think that this is why some of the elected officials are getting a little frustrated.

3:26 Speaker 2 Governor Hokeel really stayed calm.

3:29 Speaker 3 She didn’t call out the federal government the way Mayor Adams did. She went to Washington, even though she didn’t get to see the president, and then basically they pushed her.

3:41 Speaker 1 Well. President Biden has refused to see.

3:45 Speaker 2 Adams as well.

3:46 Speaker 1 Mayor Adams, and he refused to see Governor Hokee. Yeah and so and then he handed it over to somebody. Uh, And don’t forget that’s one of the states that votes big Democratic and votes big big for Biden.

4:00 Speaker 3 Government relations person met with Governor Hokeel, but Governor Hokeel was not critical.

4:06 Speaker 2 She stayed above the fray.

4:09 Speaker 3 She’s looking very good at this point because she’s called out what the problem is, has not wanted to get into a rhetorical fight with the White House. Mayor Adams is far more willing to do that. And I think the combination of what the mayor and the governor are doing, regardless of how they’re feeling about each other, is really

4:30 very good for the city, and it is putting pressure. Here’s what I want to tell you, John, More and more Democrats who did not really agree with some things that I’ve said on this show over the past few.

4:45 Speaker 2 Months are now saying to me, this crisis is getting out of hand.

4:50 Speaker 3 And I wouldn’t be surprised in the very near future that you hear more and more Democrats start to speak out the same way Governor Hokell and Mayor Adams did.

5:02 Speaker 1 And there’s a lot of Democrats, and you know, I have a lot of Democratic friends in ninety percent of them have common sense. But the ninety percent that have common sense are afraid of the ten percent that common sense is not so common.

5:20 Speaker 3 Well, I’m not one of them, and I am more than willing to call out the individuals who promote these socialist policies. Have they ever read history to see that every time there’s a socialist movement that takes over a country and inevitably becomes tyranny and becomes a dictatorship. And I don’t know why they think it would be any

5:43 different here. And because of the that sort of emphasis in this conversation, we’re not getting anywhere, and there’s there’s no way that we can continually pay. I believe we’re up to one hundred and thirty thousand migrants right now.

6:01 We have twenty thousand migrant children in trying to go in the school system, and I don’t mean to put any of them down, because they’re really searching for freedom. Some of them have come from Venezuela, some from Ecuador, the different places, and I just think that we can do better than what we’re doing now.

6:24 Speaker 1 I look forward to it because I love our city, I love our state, I love our country, and all I want is that we don’t turn into Venezuela. Yeah.

6:34 Speaker 3 Well, I’ve always really liked our president through his career, but I don’t know what the endgame is, and unfortunately I don’t think he knows well.

6:46 Speaker 1 Senator Demotto, who is a common sense guy most of the time, is a friend of ours, and Senator to Motto says Joe Budden was at his wedding, the best man at his wedding, and he has changed a little bit.

7:01 Speaker 2 Yeah. I guess we all change in some ways as we get older.

7:05 Speaker 3 But this has put a lot of other cities now starting to rebel the same way New York City has.

7:12 Speaker 1 San Francisco is a mess, Right is a mess. Philadelphia is out of control. So I don’t know what’s going to happen. Governor, I’m really concerned. We have fifty one city council seats coming up in November, a little over five weeks, and I’m saying to a real loud, I don’t care if people vote Democratic. I don’t care if

7:40 they vote Republican, as long as the people they vote for, and we’ve got to create a list for common sense.

7:48 Speaker 3 And the city council jown is overwhelmingly Democratic, but the large number of the Democrats really would want to be accommodating to people coming from other countries. There was no law that said this was a sanctuary city. It was just something that people understood. But for this number of people to come in this fashion, and also at times

8:13 when we still have illnesses that are unchecked, and you know, it’s thirty days before the migrants have to be We need eli before.

8:25 Speaker 2 They go to school.

8:26 Speaker 1 We need Ellis Island again.

8:29 Speaker 2 Well, Roosevelt Hotel, I guess is the new Ellis Island?

8:33 Speaker 1 Well, you know, as long as they got enough doctors to check everybody, and as long as they have enough customs people to make sure we’re not getting terrorists and not getting drug dealers. Right. Well, Governor Patterson, thank you for coming on. And we pray for our city or stay in our country, and we me and you agree on ninety nine point nine

8:59 percent of of the things. And I pray for the whales that they’re killing.

9:04 Speaker 3 Well, John, it’s a new month, and hopefully it will be a better month than the few months we’ve had just recently.

9:13 Speaker 1 Thank you so much, Governor