The state is still reeling from Governor Hochul's congestion pricing ruling.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is this Sunday morning. He’s Governor David Pattison, and he’s with us every Sunday morning and wants to know what the heck is going on in our city or state, our country. Governor Patterson, there’s so much going on. You’re so knowledgeable, so I’m not going to limit it to city and state.

0:19 Speaker 2 Well, John, let’s start with this state.

0:21 Speaker 3 Last Monday, I went to Albany County at the behest of our dear friend, Judge Richard Weinberg, and endorsed David Sores, who has been the District Attorney of Albany since two thousand.

0:35 Speaker 2 And four, for re election.

0:38 Speaker 3 Mister Sores ran in two thousand and four as a progressive because all of us at the time, we’re trying to get rid of the inhumane penalties created by the Rockefeller drug laws. Now President George W. Bush actually was the first governor to not punish all of the drug abusers but try to find medical ways to get them

1:00 back into society. And Sores won that election by sixty two percent to thirty eight percent. He’s never been challenged that much since Crime and Albany since he became the DA went down twenty five percent. But recently a number of progressive leaders have frozen Sores out and will not even talk to him because of his criticism of the

1:24 Raise the Age law, meaning that teens who commit crimes will only be charged with a penalty with a penalty if they reach a certain age. In addition, the bail reform laws, which we’ve talked about time and time again.

1:39 Sores now has an opponent who is lauding the Raise the Age law and the bail Reform bill as a great movement for society, when in fact, since two twenty and nineteen, the crime rate in Albany has gone up to eight percent, and that’s not because of the DA It’s because youth gun violence is up, has doubled, youth

2:09 victimization from gun violence has tripled, and most of these cases john are being discharged in the family court, not the in a criminal court as they should be.

2:23 Speaker 2 And the result has been that there were.

2:25 Speaker 3 Five hundred and eighty eight people who were in Albany jails in twenty nineteen. By twenty twenty one, that number fell to two hundred twenty eight people. So the crime rates going up and the number of people in jail is going down, that’s a mathematical equation that I think neither Sir Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein.

2:45 Speaker 2 Could figure out how that could actually be occurring.

2:48 Speaker 3 And that’s the reason I endorsed him, because he is one of the few leaders who stood up and called out the inappropriateness of these laws, many laws that we passed in Ormani. John had very good intentions, and many of those bills I supported, But as a responsible elected official or even a responsible person that’s you know, close

3:11 to politics, should understand the data drives the action, and the data is going the wrong way.

3:19 Speaker 1 Now. You also endorsed in Westchester County the county executive against Congressman Bowman and the county executives is way ahead right now, and the election is I guess the primaries is Tuesday.

3:37 Speaker 3 Yes, Well, George Latimer, who is the County executive Westchester and has been a very strong advocate in that county and also in the legislature when he was there. This is a person I think we’d better lead the district from an individual who has intelligence, has had opportunity, was elected to Congress, but apparently became emboldened with the idea

4:02 that he could say anyone anything he wants and offend any group of people that he chooses to and then not pay the price for it. Now, a lot of the progressives in that area are very angry that he’s down seventeen points. If I were them, this should be an alarm, the same alarm he sounded in Washington in

4:18 the middle of a vote to them that if they don’t get that, the public has had enough of this acrimony and negativity and horrible treatment of other people just because they have a different point of view.

4:30 Speaker 2 And I think that it’s going to come to an end, at least for a.

4:34 Speaker 3 While for Congressman Bowman, who maybe will go back and reconsider and come back at a later date with a better plan than he has. Now.

4:44 Speaker 1 That’s two important endorsements. How do you see how many any other primaries on Tuesday in New York that are very important?

4:57 Speaker 3 I think that those two primaries are particularly important. One is an Albany, so people aren’t going to pay as much attention to it, but it really demonstrates what I think is a movement in the Democratic Party itself toward moderation and also away from way out ideas that will cost a whole lot of money, and they’re no statistics

5:22 that they’re going to work.

5:24 Speaker 1 Okay, let’s move on from the primary. What else do you see in New York that’s bothering you right now?

5:31 Speaker 3 Well, I think we still have, you know, a real issue right here in New York City in terms of these.

5:43 Speaker 2 So called smoke shops.

5:46 Speaker 3 Most of them are illegal, and very little is being done about it, even though they’ve been condemned by the mayor, of the governor and and everyone else. But I think it’s just time to start shutting them down.

5:57 Speaker 2 And the worst thing.

5:58 Speaker 3 About it is that the product that they’re selling now is not the marijuana people were smoking at Woodstock. It’s far far stronger, and you actually have had ods from marijuana, which would have been unheard of at that time.

6:12 Speaker 2 I understood.

6:15 Speaker 1 Quality of life. I was on with a chief shood before you see any improvement in the quality of life in New York.

6:27 Speaker 3 You know, I think that when you get to this time of year, people are finding other things to do and that kind of thing. But you know, there was some horrible crimes. Just this past week. Somebody shot three people up in Harlem. Two of them passed away. They finally were able to rest that monster in Queens who

6:49 now admits that he raped a thirteen year old girl while holding her male friend kidnapped at the same time. And there have been, you know, these isolated incidents that tear at your heart. But I think I’m starting to sense that the Adams administration is had a few years to work on this and they’re finally getting some results.

7:17 Speaker 1 Understood, Governor David Rockefeller. Rockefeller, No, you’re not as rich as Rockefeller.

7:23 Speaker 2 No, not nearly.

7:24 Speaker 1 Okay, Governor David Patterson, thank you so much for everything you’ve done for our city and continue to speak out for our city, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon.

7:33 Speaker 2 Thank you. John