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Bruce Blakeman Nassau County Executive; nominee for Governor

New York Needs Lower Taxes and Stronger Leadership

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Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, let’s pass over weekend and it’s Easter Sunday. Will us today is Bruce Blakeman, the county executive of the safest county in America, National County, and he’s running for governor of the state of New York. Well, Bruce Blakeman, I hope you’re enjoying the holiday with the family. Tell us what you feel.

Speaker 2 Where are we? Well, first of all, I want to wish everybody a happy pace, a happy Easter. May this blessed time of year for Jews and Christians be a time where we get together with our families and we enjoy our religious freedom here in America. And we’ve got to guard that religious freedom very carefully against those who

try to take it away from us.

Speaker 1 And hopefully, I mean, I’m looking forward to a better New Year. I mean a better New Jewish Year, because the New Jewish Year began.

Speaker 2 Now, no, that was Russia Shana. But it’s a time of renewal. It’s a time of renewal anyway for the Jewish people. It’s a time of reflection, as it is for Christians. You know, this is probably the most serious holiday for the Christian religion on Easter. So we are blessed to live in a country that was formed on

Judeo Christian principles and the religious freedom that we’ve been given, and we have to continue to adhere to those principles that they provide the backbone and the foundation for our American values. So we should never forget that. And you know, as I run around the state and talk to people, they’re really miserable under Kathy hochel leadership or lack of leadership.

I should say we are the highest tech state in America. We are the highest regulated to date, with the bottom economic development. Our utility bills are fifty percent higher than the national average. So we have a governor that has failed everybody. She promises one thing and does the opposite after she’s elected. So I want to be the governor

for the people, someone who cares about them, doesn’t spend their harder and tax dollars on illegal migrants, and someone who will cut taxes, cut their utility rates in half, and be the kind of governor that puts New Yorkers first, cares about New Yorkers, and really takes care of their families, which Kathy Hockle has failed miserably.

Speaker 1 At and I guess. I mean, we’re having I guess, the most important governor’s race of the century, because the governor of the State of New York gets to have the checks and balances on the City of New York, which is the most important city in the world.

Speaker 2 I mean, what do you say, It’s not only the most important city in the world, it’s very important to the economic well being of the whole state. If New York City is doing poorly, then the rest of the state.

There will be a ripple effect that will materially hurt places like Binghamton and Jamestown and Rochester and Buffalo and Utica and Rome and Syracuse, all along Newburgh, all along the borders of New York State. So this is an incredibly important election. Zo run Mondami is a communist. He doesn’t believe in Judeo Christian values. He speaks against them,

and we need a governor that’ll stand up to him and not endorse him as Kathy hoche has done. Kathy Hockel endorsed him for mayor, and he endorsed Kathy Hockel for govern Ourselves. They’ve got a secret plan to raise your taxes. They’re talking about a nine and a half percent tax increte on property owners in New York City

of death tax that will have a threshold of seven hundred two thousand dollars, with basically means that they will be stealing the equity in your home, stealing the equity in your business, your small business, your family business. They will take that money, they will use it in a way that does not help New Yorkers but helps illegal migrants.

Because together between New York and New York City, it’s over ten billion dollars in the last four years that we’ve given away to illegal migrants. Some say that it’s at the.

Speaker 3 Levels of eighty one thousand dollars per illegal migrant. That’s your taxpayer dollars. It could have been used to cut taxes. It could have been used to create new jobs, to renew our infrastructure, repair our roads, build better hospitals.

Speaker 2 You could use the money for education. So we have a government that doesn’t care about New Yorkers. She only cares about bringing illegal migrants to New York and they’re coming here like a metal to magnet because basically, why not everything here in New York is free at tax payer extent.

Speaker 1 Well, Bruce Blakeman have a great weekend with your family, have a great Passover, and and thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon.

Speaker 2 You got it, John, And an especial Happy Easter to you, which I know the Greek Orthodox will they will celebrate next week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Absolutely, And we buy the chocolate a half price.

Speaker 2 We love it. John Doe, wank you, Thank you, God bless you.

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