Mayor Adams and his executive order was ignored.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is former Governor David Patterson and he is one common sense ex governor. I hate to say the word X and he’s one smart guy. Governor Pattison.

0:14 Speaker 2 Happy new Year, Well, Happy new year to you, John, And I think a lot of us are glad to be out of twenty twenty three. It was a tough year. The whole situation with the migrants all over the country, the horrible attack on Israel by Hamas, and you know, really very disturbing statistics about education in the United States

0:40 and otherwise. However, one person who I think quietly had a very good year in twenty twenty three was Governor Kathy Hochel and she’ll probably be telling us a lot about that in a couple of days on Tuesday when she delivers for State of the State address, and it will really magnify the fact that when she came in

1:04 in twenty twenty one, the first thing she had to do was run for reelection, and you know, that was very hard thing to do, to come in and then run the next year. But she wins the reelection. She had, you know, a number of battles with the legislature that didn’t work out for her. But she has kept her cool.

1:26 And here in twenty twenty three we go into twenty twenty four, we recognize that that crime around New York State is down about seven to eight percent. Crime in the city is down twelve percent. And really, if not for the migrant situation, it would be a good reason to really lad the work of Mayor Adams, who had

1:54 some definite plans that he put into effect where the crime is concerned. But I would say that the Governor Hokeel’s priorities, I think this year are to try to get the legislature to understand that we’re in an election year federally, that New York lost some congressional seats in twenty twenty two, and the Democrats would try to wanted

2:21 to win them back, and it might seem like more of a problem than it might actually be because Governor Hochel has worked very well with Andrea Stuart Cousins, the majority leader of the Senate, and Carl Hasty, the Speaker of the Assembly, and they have gotten a lot done.

2:40 And I think on a lot of occasions Suner has acceded to their interests and it really has been a three way leadership as opposed to just one person dominating. And I can’t think of another governor, including myself, that had this good relationship with the legislature. Certainly Governor carry didn’t.

3:01 Governor Cuomo didn’t. Both Governor Clomo’s had tough times with the legislator government. TACKI had his entire all of his vetos overturned by the legislation in two thousand and three. Then I came along and I fought with him to the extent that I vetoed all of the member items at the end of my term, and they couldn’t actually

3:23 get them back and didn’t get them back on the Governor Cuomo.

3:26 Speaker 1 So well, Governor Pataki was with us the other day and he says, there’s there’s there’s a hole in the uh in the budget somewhere where if he could he puts in certain items at a certain point in the budget, they can’t veto it and they can’t overturn it.

3:47 Speaker 2 Yes, well, what it is, So let’s tell the truth, okay. So the way that works is the legislature obviously participates in putting together the budget, but it is the governor that can After that period of time, the governor can then recommend what the governor wants, and the legislature has to vote it up or down, and if the legislature

4:21 doesn’t vote it up, they shut down the government. And I did that to the legislature in twenty ten. It was crafted by Governor Carried in nineteen eighty one. But I don’t think you ever realized, nor did governors after him, what a powerful weapon that could be. And so Governor PoCl if she gets into a big squabble with the

4:45 legislature’s budget, could do that. But she’s managed to pass these budgets the last two years without that problem, so it should be, you know, a pretty good year for her. And I think if she tries to pull the party back a little bit from where the extremists, the Democratic Socialists are going, that the Democrats could pick up a

5:07 few seats for Congress.

5:09 Speaker 1 You mean, we hopefully she can get that done. But before everybody else moves out, I mean, tell me about tell me about Mayor Adams and his executive order on the bus situation from Texas. Now, I understand that the buses are going to New Jersey and then they’re putting him on a railroad car to go into back into Manhattan.

5:37 I mean, that’s a way around the executive order. New Jersey doesn’t want him. What the heck is going on, Governor.

5:48 Speaker 2 It’s a very tough thing. It worked critically if you live in Texas. For Governor Abbott, it was kind of a brilliant idea he had to ship the migrants to other states. But while it might have been politically feasible for him, it was not a really cooperative effort that he has waged with the other states. And Mayor Adams

6:14 finally got tired of it and rightly decided that he would have issued these executive orders that New York City must be notified when migrants are coming in within thirty two hours, and so this was sort of a way around it send them to New Jersey and then have them come in on the train. So there’s a lot

6:31 of disingenuinous going on in terms of how to house the migrants. I think that Mayor Adams is laudable in the fact that he stood up to the federal government and challenged them why they have picked New York out really more than any other states to ship migrants now, why they haven’t sent any money to help try to

6:54 place them or any of the services that people need when they move to a new territory. And then they had a problem with the fact that after sixty days, some of the children that were in school would have to come out if they had to move, because there was a limit of time that they could stay at

7:09 certain facilities that was set up. But I think you know, Mayor Adams, it has to be understood, has probably had the toughest job, including the President, in the last year, because New York has really been the focus of where the migrant situation is understood.

7:29 Speaker 1 And I understand they’re continually shipping people to Chicago, and the Chicago mayor has stood up and said, well, did you say send me more? I mean? And the mayor from Boston said, send me more, I mean. This is control.

7:53 Speaker 2 Governor Mayor Adams said that in the beginning, and I think what he meant was that he was not going to oppose the fact that people want to come in this country and that they live in New York. He probably never amended that. As soon as said that, everybody started sending my risk of New York, so Denver, Chicago,

8:15 anyplace else. Boston included Beware of what you wish for because you might get it.

8:22 Speaker 1 Governor David Pattison, thank you for your input and thank you and we’ll see you again real soon. Thank you so much.

8:29 Speaker 2 Thank you, John. Take care,