New York's Leadership and the Cost of Radical Policy Shifts

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well with us today is Jessica Proud and she is the senior advisor to Congressman Nick Langwathing, and she’s been around Washington and New York State for a while. And well, Jessica, give us your pulse of what the heck is going on. A lot of people are worried about what’s going on in New York City, New York State.

0:23 Speaker 2 And you tell us, Hi, John, it’s so good to be with you, Thanks for having me. They should be worried. Look, there’s a lot of angst right now over what’s happening in the city. Of course under Mom Donnie, and you have a governor that’s in reelection mode right now. But make no mistake, if she wins in November, I think

0:44 you’re going to see her, you know, go through drastically to the last again on energy and climate policies, the economy, raising taxes. You see what they’re doing with the pied de tear tax, trying to push that across the entire state right now, and of course in New York City as well, things are going in the wrong direction. I

1:01 was very intrigued this week when a Sienapol came out which you know, I always take with a little bit of grain assault because they oversample New York City. They use a registered voter model, which can tend to skew more Democrats. So when you have it showed that thirty three percent of Democrats showed New York City going in

1:24 the wrong direction, and that is just a very striking number. It should be a wake up call for everybody in Albany and New York City. They won’t, they won’t pay attention to it, but I think it should be tea leaves for what’s going to happen in November.

1:39 Speaker 1 Understood. And I speak to Paul Zuba from the New York State Merchants Association, and a lot of his members as business people are afraid and may want to leave.

1:58 Speaker 2 Yeah, And I think, look, we’ve earned see that happening over the last decade plus, right Florida even out to Tennessee, Texas. We are losing population at record clips. And every year that technology advances and the world becomes more global like that, it’s just going to keep happening. Like Wall Street isn’t what Wall Street used to be. You know, we are

2:24 no longer the financial capital of the world. When you have you know, these huge institutions picking up and bring jobs to Florida, to North Carolina. It’s very troubling, and I think we’re going to find ourselves in a place at some point that all the money that they want to spend on all these you know, programs, there’s going

2:45 to be no one left to foot the bill. And if you’re looking at retiring, if you have a small business, you see it in the numbers. The numbers don’t lie. People are leaving and it’s just going to keep getting worse if there’s not a change in direction.

3:00 Speaker 1 I mean, it seems like California, Illinois, a lot of the Blue states, the people are leaving. At what point today the politicians realize that so many people that are leaving could hurt the overalled state.

3:19 Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I don’t think they care so much. I saw a map recently of every state in the country and it showed population net gains and losses, and it was very striking how the quote unquote read states where you know, they have more business friendly policies have seen drastic population growth and with that economic growth. And

3:42 the states the Blue states, like New York, California, Illinois, as you said, they are losing population and we’re draining our own tax base. There’s nothing in this budget that you know, the state budget that’s currently being debated right now, it’s over a month late. They just another budget extender.

4:02 You know, there’s nothing that would reverse that tide. And so I think you’re just seeing a Democrat party that’s being pulled further and further left instead of a kind of more common sense, mainstream Democrat that’s to be winning these races.

4:21 Speaker 1 In New York City, in New York State. It seems like the Democratic Socialist Party, which if they ran on their own would get two percent of the vote, has successfully taken over the regular Democratic Party. What do you Inack do you do?

4:37 Speaker 2 It’s the tail that wags the dog right now, and until you have Democrats that will stand up to them, and you know, and it’s ultimately up to the voters in the business community, they have to demand something different.

4:51 I mean, we’ve you had a front row seat to watching this play out with the mayor’s race, and no one understands what it’s like to try to build a b business, you know, from scratch, more than you. So you know, I don’t think they get it. And I don’t think they care. I think they have adopted a

5:08 mindset that that is going to be the direction that they’re taking the party. And you know, they just don’t seem to care about the impact that it’s having.

5:19 Speaker 1 That’s so hard to believe because I mean it’s going to affect the entire party. What happened? They’re not enough common sense Democrats to stand up and say enough is enough.

5:31 Speaker 2 Well, clearly there wasn’t in the mayoral race this year. I mean, granted you had other factors at play with you know, some candidates that just weren’t able to take off. You’re seeing it at the national level as well, and in a lot of these congressional seats across the country where you’re having you know, these very extreme, far left

5:52 candidates that are winning primaries and then the candidates that you know, a lot of there’s this whole redishipping fight going on across the country and a lot of key states, and you know, when these seats are getting you know, very gerrymandered, like if you look at what’s happening in Virginia, when you have a seat that is built to be

6:14 so democratic, the only thing they’re going to worry about is the threat of losing a seat from a primary, so it just holds everyone further and further left, and so ultimately, you know, I think it’s bad for the country, it’s certainly bad for New York, but that they have allowed that ideology to metastasize inside the party and I

6:36 haven’t seen anyone who’s been willing to take it on and do it so successfully.

6:42 Speaker 1 Well, thank you so much for coming on this Sunday morning, and let’s catch up again.

6:47 Speaker 2 Real soup, that’d be great. Thanks John, it’s great to be with you.