Key aides of the Mayor face criminal charges.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning with us every Sunday morning is Governor David Patterson, and so many things are happening in our city, our state, our country. Well, Governor Patterson, three four days before Christmas, ten days before the New year, where did New Yorker stand?

0:16 Is it going to be a good place to live?

0:20 Speaker 2 Well, John, I would say that the MTA raising prices at the same time congestion pricing comes in isn’t going to be particularly helpful. What is helpful is that Governor Hochel has announced that she’s going to send state troopers to assist on the subways, where passengers are obviously far more nervous and you know, upset by certain situations in

0:50 that subway, such as the one that Daniel Penny had to get involved in. And so in that respect, it’s good to see that someone’s responding.

0:59 Speaker 1 Well. I think finally, I think the governor’s finally realizing because everybody was telling you everything was how do you say it, hunky dorry, And I guess you realize is not everything is hunky Dorry.

1:14 Speaker 2 No, it’s certainly not. And it is a kind of a you know, misleading the publics for all that to go on And in addition, you know, not just here in New York, but in New Jersey. Now the FAA has issued a warning that it will eliminate flights into certain areas covering a major part of New Jersey like

1:42 Jersey City, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Mayonne, North and South Brunswick, and the whole of other places. This is long overdue, and this is before anyone else seems to have gotten the idea that you can’t keep telling the public everything’s fine when even you don’t know whether it is or not.

2:05 Speaker 1 Yes, I am disturbed about that. You know. I don’t let my kids go to in the subways because we’re still not sure what’s going on in the subways. And you know, and the other day I had the Police Athletically lunch with Chauncy Parker, whose deputy mayor of the Police Department, Fire Department, and I said to him, it’s

2:29 the quality of life that we have to fix, because it’s the not it’s the perception that people are scared to to to ride the subways. And he doesn’t feel that state true. The National Guard is the way to go, but I don’t know what else where the choices do we.

2:51 Speaker 2 Have, Well, I have to give a shout out to Chauncy Parker. I’ve known him a long time and a lot of different positions where he has served, and I am very happy to see that he’s Deputy mayor. And I think that that’s a good point because state troopers really it’s National Gold National Guard, right, it’s a completely

3:18 different environment. You can’t we do.

3:21 Speaker 1 You can’t go down your machine guns.

3:24 Speaker 2 No, and uh you know it’s uh possible. I mean, I commend the governor for wanting to do something, but you know, now that you bring up what mister Parker’s saying, I have to give it a second thought because that’s been suggested by a lot of people, but it usually gets shot down because part of the problem is the

3:51 same problem that in the Penny situation, where he wasn’t actually a member of the police force or anything like that, but he instinctively used his marine training to try to stop a situation. He might have gone too far, but it certainly was not something that he should have been convicted for. And this is the reason why that whole

4:17 idea probably needs to be rethought.

4:20 Speaker 1 Well, I guess we let things sort themselves out and see which way he does. Now, I understand me that the FEDS may want to take over that case because maybe they feel it’s going to be a federal terrorism case.

4:35 Any feelings about that.

4:38 Speaker 2 Which case? Is this the Luigi case? Oh? I think they should take it over. Actually, I mean the New York prosecutors are vexed by what happened, and the Feds would really have a better idea to track all the places he was. He wrote letters, and he’s getting a reaction, which I think nothing galls me more right now than

5:07 to find out that there are people marching in support of a cold blooded killer. Now that’s what he is. He has a right to his day in court, he has a right to an attorney, he has all the rights until he’s convicted. But you see him on the video.

5:24 He’s a cold blooded killer. And I’m wondering what is happening to our society. We’re on the lower frequencies of interaction. People actually think it’s great to march and support of him. If they want to write letters about what’s wrong with the healthcare system, they can do that, they can protest, they can march, but it’s kind of mimicking his behavior

5:44 and also his understanding that there would be enough people out there to create this kind of reaction is horrible. And I thought that Jessica Tish, the new police commissioner, really stated it very firmly last Wednesday at a press conference about these people who are marching in support of them.

6:04 Speaker 1 I agreed on that Let’s see what happens. I mean, it’s it’s a mess. Whatever I mean, it’s Are you looking forward to a better Unix.

6:15 Speaker 2 Your governor, Yeah, I’m trying to be optimistic. This was a very interesting year. A number of things happened that, you know, just complicated the ability of people to go to work and spend time with their families and and or go to school and manifest their education. But hope is brings eternal, as they say, and so I’m going

6:45 to try to really enjoy Christmas and hope that Santa Claus leaves something under the tree for me. When I say something, I mean a gift, not something like a subpoena or something like that, and hoping that everybody else enjoys all the holidays that coincide during this particular time.

7:02 It’s a wonderful time in the city, and we should pay more attention than that. You gave a great party at WABC, which I was under the weather and couldn’t attend, but everybody there really enjoyed it.

7:16 Speaker 1 Well, Governor Patterson, I have a very very merry Christmas, and hopefully it’ll be a happy, great new Year for all New Yorkers. And God bless you and God bless America.

7:27 Speaker 2 Thank you so much, Thank you, John