Albany about to adjourn. Work left undone.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is the Star reporter from the New York Post on Aubany News. Nothing happens in Albany without Zach Williams knowing about it. Zach, Sunday Morning, give us an update, what the heck is going on?

0:15 Speaker 2 Well, John, thanksgen for having me. There’s just one week left until state lawmakers adjourned for the year on June eighth, and the big item on the agenda is this so called clean slate legislation. This would allow people to seal their records after they’ve served the prison terms, parole probation and three years for misdemeanors in seven years for filmies

0:39 have gone by, and it would cover all criminal offenses up to murder, with one big caveat sex offenders would not qualify for this, So you know, big business has gone behind this idea. Progressives obviously are all for it.

0:53 Labor Union, yeah, Zach.

0:56 Speaker 1 Yeah, if you were in jail for sex offense because you touch somebody, uh, that’s a higher crime than murdering somebody.

1:07 Speaker 2 Well, there’s a long list of sex offenses that are specifically exempted. And I have to go and check about forceful touching, but certainly uh, you know, it’s a very broad piece of legislation. And other than those sex crimes, you are correct, you know, murder, people convicted a murder who serve their time, probation, et cetera, would be able

1:28 to apply to have their records sealed. And the way that people have So what I’m.

1:34 Speaker 1 Saying is we should not check into them. So if one of our companies, Christiitis or Gagostino wants to hire somebody and we do a background check and the guy’s a murderer, I’m going to put him in my stories.

1:49 Speaker 2 That very well could happen. There are exceptions, law enforcements, the courts, district attorneys, and certain professions would be able to access records. So like say, if you were wanting to be a teacher or a cop, they’re going to be able to say that you were convicted a murder in the past. Now at a grocery store, No, unless

2:09 it were some like say you had a delivery driver for driving related jobs, say, you know, the DMV would be able to say, note that you were convicted of particular homicide in the past. But that said, you know, for your everyday job that don’t have like kind of a you know, a special reason, if you will, or

2:27 at least not one recognized by all many Democrats like grocery stores. Yeah, you would, You wouldn’t be able to act with those records.

2:36 Speaker 1 Wow, what what? What else is concerning you? In Albany. I talked to Tom DiNapoli last month. He was concerned about Moneys coming into this coffer on tax revenues. Have you heard anything different?

2:54 Speaker 2 Well, I think I bet Tom Danapoli, or like everybody else, had a deep sigh of relief now that in Washing can they have a debt ceiling deal, which certainly would affect state revenues to a big extent, if you know the economy had gone south. But you know, right now, it’s actually very quiet in the state capitol, which is

3:13 you know, it’s quiet here. You got to worry the most because nothing makes things happen in Albany like a deadline. And there’s still a bunch of other bills for twenty one an expansion, that tax being the suffordable housing largely scene as tied to the fate of that good cause eviction bill. Doesn’t look like either will pass. But you know,

3:32 there’s a certain type of magic that hangs in the air of the capital in the final days, and things can suddenly happen on a whim. Those are two things to look at. And then there’s just you know, a long list of other progressive bills and kind of more technical things that very well could affect the cities, such

3:52 as that proposed twenty the proposed legislation that would allow the city to impose a twenty mile per hour speed on it the five boroughs.

4:02 Speaker 1 And it’s just uh, well, the other big question is, you know, I have the Tom DiNapoli question, which I’m going to try to reach them. The other big question is is the exodus continuing?

4:19 Speaker 2 Well that you know, there is that long term decline in the population, particularly in upstate, although you will note that you know Manhattan’s population grew over the last year, why well to in large part because of the migrants coming into this from the southern border.

4:36 Speaker 1 I don’t pay me taxes.

4:39 Speaker 2 Well, they will not pay any taxes till they get those work permits. And you know, about forty thousand of them are still dependent on New York City for their housing, their lodging, and obviously, with Mayor Adam’s efforts to kind of move them to different areas of state. You know, just a lot of local fights, you know, between the

4:58 city and other counties have erupted, and the governor, for her part, Governor Kathy Hokeel, that kind of just sat back on this, you know, waiting for the court to intervene. And some might say, you know, the governor’s got to step up a bit more because you know, right now we just got local governments fighting all over the place

5:16 with you know, what to do with the migrants.

5:19 Speaker 1 Zach City City University of New York was called Cuney. A lot of anti Semitism going on. Uh, Governor Hokeel has not said anything yet. Have you heard anything.

5:36 Speaker 2 So par For the course of the governor is usually not immediately responding to issues like this. At one point, spokeperson said she was again against anti semitism. Okay, what about Cuney. The following day, our reporter caught up with her at an event I believe this Wednesday, where she said, uh, you know, basically called it hate speech. You know, after

5:58 a bunch of people had done the same. She got called out by her former gougernatorial race rival, Lee Selden. And you know, if you go and watch the speech, I watched all thirteen minutes of it. It’s not a bad speech, you know, liberal lusty, you bet, but there are just certain parts where you just you know, you

6:16 just kind of WinCE, where you know there there was some truth to what the speaker said. But you know, when you’re talking about fighting Zionism internationally, fascist NYPD and the US military running up murdering people, you know, you’ve got to expect you’re going to upset people, especially that Zionism mark, because you know, a place femicism is not

6:39 always explicit. Often it comes down to how Jewish people themselves perceive it. And you know, there were just some things in that speech where you knew people were going to be up and arms. And this is a second year in a row this has happened at CuNi, and you know now people are calling for changes either on

6:56 the board, fire the dean, full funding. You know, we’ll see where everything lands. But not a good look for Vircini Law School where this commencement happened, especially after all the hub up from last year.

7:09 Speaker 1 Well, thank you, Zach Williams, thank you so much for bringing all New Yorkers up to Dayton. We pray for our city, We pray for us Dyton.

7:18 Speaker 2 Thank you so much, Thanks so much, John anytime, Thank you