New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino joins The Karol Markowicz Show for a candid conversation about standing as one of the city’s most prominent Republican voices, winning over voters in a heavily Democratic district, and why she believes New York City is at a critical turning point.
Paladino discusses her opposition to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda, her concerns over the direction of the Democratic Party, the future of New York politics, sanctuary city policies, and her fight to protect free speech amid a legal battle with the City Council. She also shares how her background as a small business owner, PTA parent, and community activist shaped her approach to public service.
Karol and Vickie also reflect on why so many families have left New York, whether the city can return to what it once was, and the importance of staying optimistic, building trust, and taking on challenges one step at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
My guest today is New York City council Woman Vicki Palladino.
Councilwoman Palladino is one of the few Republican members of
the New York City Council and arguably the highest profile
Republican in the city. She's held office for five years now,
winning re election twice by twenty point margins in her
(00:25):
D plus eight district in Queens, and maintained an unapologetic
conservative record. She's one of Zornmumdanni's biggest critics in city government,
with a recent Free Press profile calling her the leader
of the anti Mamdani resistance. She's been targeted by Democrats
for her stance on everything from Drag Queen's Story Hour,
and immigration to her most recent legal battle, where she
(00:48):
sued the City Council on First Amendment grounds after they
brought ethics charges against her for quote islamophobia on social media.
Prior to politics, We're going to hear all about it,
she was a small business owner, pta parents, and local
community activist. So nice to have you on, counsel Woman Palladino.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you, Carol. Pleasure to be here. I just got
done telling you how nice it is to do a
feel good piece. Now it's a lot of fun. The
sun is shining. Finally we have warm temperatures up here.
I know by you it's always shiny, but it's just
great to have.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're welcome, So you're welcome to visit at anytime your
values along with my state.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I have two relatives now that live down there in
a very best friend who moved down there. A little
discouraging gets a little lonely for me now, but it's
only two hours away.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So how is it being a very prominent Republican politician
in New York City? What does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, for me, it feels fine. It seems to bother
a whole lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
More than it bothers me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The funny thing is I did win big in a
democratic district. As we know, you know, we're a bluestk
So I'm only the second Republican in the Italian borough
of Queens. Joanne Ariolas on the south side and I'm
on the north side, so the northeastern side. I have
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a beautiful district or water line with the Long Island
sound and I go west from College Point east to
right to the national country border. Okay, so it's a
beautiful district, and yet I've it's maintained a certain amount
of hard core Democrats. But what makes them nice and
(02:41):
makes it nice is that many of us have been
in have been here for a very long time. And
I believed when I ran my first time in twenty one,
which was a narrow wind, I believe when I put
myself out there in twenty one, myself in a semi
safe place. In twenty three and twenty five, though, I
(03:05):
chose to go to a very democratic part of my
district because I really wanted to be in the belly
of the beast, for lack of a better word, so
that more importantly, they could get to know me who.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I am as a human being.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And by doing that, I always open myself to conversation,
because I'm always willing to have conversation. And before you
know it, I had Democrats coming in. I was in
a shopping center, had democrats coming in, first a little
skittish and then very nicely, and they I said, to
have a seat. You know, let's talk about what's bothering you.
(03:47):
You know, if you could change anything, what would it be?
So through that I got a lot of wow. I
never voted for a Republican before, and that was I
think the getting to know you process in.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All politics are local.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And one thing that was very important is that my trustworthiness,
Like I've built trust because nobody trusts politicians, right and
I never called myself a politician ever, so and I
still don't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't like it. You know, it's a brand now,
and what are you.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'm a woman who serves her constituents. I am employed
by the City of New York. I am an elected official.
My job is to serve you the people. My constituents
love it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So would you say that your base are moderate Democrats?
I feel like that's almost like an extinct you know
thing now that is that what you have in Queens?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I believe I have in my district a lot of
very common sense, middle of the road Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Don't be fooled. Though they're hardcore Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm the only Republican in a lot of their minds
that they've ever voted for. I was extremely flattered by
that because I know that they trusted me. However, with
the new electure coming up, now. And trust me, there
are a lot of Trump haters here. Trump bad, bad,
bad bad.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But with all.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's going on, I have a great deal in my
community that is Jewish and they don't like what's going on,
and they are praising Trump though they're choking on it.
To give them credit where credit is due, and like
I said, hey, look, you know what, We're in a
bad situation here. And I'm not a person who walks
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on the dark side of the street.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I always try to give.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People some positive but to tell you the truth, Carol,
we are in bad shate.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We run, we are very bad shape.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is what's your top concern?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, right now it has to be well, Zoe Ran
ranks top and foremost. However, he's he got elected.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
He's in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So we got another three years and.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Seven months to go. Well, less than five months to go,
was I guess a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Come June first, we'll have three and a half years
to go. So he is, because I live here, my
top priority. But I'm wise enough, as are so many,
to understand the importance of the governor's race. Bruce Blakeman,
for everybody out there, he must win. He needs money,
(06:45):
he needs to get the ground game really shifting to
sixty one counties in New York, Carol, fifty seven of
those sixty one are red, but New York.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is one of those Chorks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, they need he needs thirty three and a third
of New York five boroughs right to pull it for him.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very very tough, especially because so many people have left.
And you know, well.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, we lost during COVID when COVID first blew over,
sort of kind of blew over because now they're looking
at other shit, other stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's okay, yeah, huh.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And uh, what we're doing is they lost four hundred
and thirty five thousand people in the last one of
the year.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You oh really is that when you left?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah? Oh yeah, I left January twenty twenty two. And
you know, Lifelong Brooklyn. My husband was raised in Queens.
We both lived.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Wow, you know where Wheazy is he?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Forest Hills?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is his mom a former politician here in New York?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No, no, no, okay, because you have a very similar
last name.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Sorry, how this cosmic?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
She's a lovely, lovely lady, lovely lovely lady and again
old school somebody that we could actually see the conversation
we're having now, right, conversations were able to be had.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Nobody and that was that was my Brooklyn. My Brooklyn
was the one where you could disagree and that was okay.
And you know, the Brooklyn that I left to, the
Brooklyn that I fled from Park Slope was you could
only have one opinion, and it was you know, it
had to be far left. And look, I'm I'm I
was born in the Soviet Union. I'm not going to
be a liberal, so right exactly. Yeah, Well, we need
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more people like you speaking up.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's problem too, That's a very big problem now, being Jewish,
being coming from a moderate understanding background as far as
aletics go.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Right, we need so many more of you. But we
lost you all now in the left year. We lost
another five thousand in one year.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right, right, So how do you stop? I mean, I
know you're just one person, but how do you stop
that bleed? I know that you're you know your posmon
Donnie and all that he does, But it gets tougher
and tougher to elect Republicans. If Republicans are like, you know,
I have kids and my childhood is short. I have
to get them to sanity. What do you do about that?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Very difficult question because sadly, you don't have enough Republicans.
We got five, that's it, five, all right, and Staten
Island's got the bulk. But we're only five in the council.
And what I don't like what I see happening is
that people become complacent.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
People worry about h breaking bread with the mayor. I don't.
I don't worry about breaking bread with the mayor.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Uh. And you know people have a tendency. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't like to use this phrase at the moment.
I can't think of what sell out.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You know, it's all cater to cater to power, a
very popular thing.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To do, and and and you ask what can we
do about that?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We need to elect more people. You know, the Democrats
are funded by non for profits. A lot of people
don't realize that and a lot of are non for
profits here. I really hope nimit Oz comes. He's here
right now, he was here over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Uh. We really need a nosedive into.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Where are they getting funded? How are they funded? How
are these people funded? And you know, there's an old
expression and it's about a snake and is not Joe
tread on me. It's if you cut the snake's tail off,
it'll grow another tail. If you cut the snake's head off,
it cannot grow another pad.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Right, So you need.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Honestly enough people to understand and Bruce needs to get
out some more and understand the difference of changing a governor.
Even though we're one party rule up state, we have
some state senators that can they said, are running and
I'm sure they're going to do okay, but will they win?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't know. And right now we're blue blue, blue blue.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But if we could change the top of the ticket
from blue to rest and huge, huge, because here we
come with the power of the pen, like you see
what the President has been able.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
To do with the power of the pen. There's a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know, Ko wants to Honker down stronger yet on
sanctuary city, sanctuary state. They've come out to about coming
out after ice and federal But the big thing, get
the funding. These these massive anti cynemic things that we
(12:17):
just had in Brooklyn on Thursday. On Wednesday, I was
out on media or funded. How are they being funded?
These are organizers, This is not just a pop up movement. Hey,
let's get together know and people should not be fooled
by any of this. So between the non for profits
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that this city is basically run on non for profits,
between non for profits and getting to the thick of
it as to where is this money coming from to
to establish these organizations. It's a takeover. And I said
that in one of my tweeks this is definitely a
takeover New York City that the Democrats, Carol.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Have made New York a stronghold. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now, I now to be fair to my Democratic friends
out there, because I've been corrected many times, and I
will apologize for that. The Democrat Party that they knew,
have taken a knee to the DSSA.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh yeah, they're done. Yeah. I don't even know that
that Democratic Party exists anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I said that back on Fox on Sandra Smith
Show way back in the early spring, late spring whenever
it was, and I said, the Democratic Party is going
to cease to exist, and Everybody's like, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Is happening? Why? Cow?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because they allowed DSA who's got their awn legitimate line
on the ballot. Why did the Democrats allow a certified
DSA person to run on the.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Airline to be on their line. Mm hmmm, huge.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, because it's over for them. Yeah right, What would
you be doing if you weren't a councilwoman.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'd be in business for myself. I would go back
to working with my sister Joanne. And I say that
happily because my love is interior decorating.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
My passion is.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Old movies and museums. I noticed that was on oney
of things I love. I love fun, I love life,
I love that. I love creating things. So and I
like fixing what's broke, which.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Is where I met got me here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know, give me an old antique and I'll make
it look beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So consider myself an antique. And I I'm working different.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm working very hard to try to get New York
back on track.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, back to the shiny place that it was.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That's right, beacon on the hill, the shining beacon on
the all.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What's your favorite restaurant in your district? This is the
toughest question I asked.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I could get in trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can name a few, you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Just let me name a few.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I eat it. Erin's Island Islands aisle course a lots
of times. A new one is my Ritzios that's on
the water. That's beautiful. Then of course there's the old,
reliable Albaco and Douglaston. I eat at Leola's in white Stone.
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I eat it some very older established places. What is
in Middle Village And I absolutely love that. There's a
lot London ladies, Oh Lon, London London Ladies.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Fish. That's the only place I trust unless I go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Up to City Island eat my clams fresh or out
on Long Island.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'll have to check those out when I'm visiting.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What are you most proud of in your life?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think the life we built when I well, let
me start first with my childhood. My mother was a
widow at thirty nine years old. I'm most proud of
my mom and the way she raised us.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
All wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
My strength comes from my mother and my sister Patty,
who's twelve, was twelve years older than me. She's no
longer here. My brother Alfred, he's no longer here. My proudest,
my children, and my life that I built with my husband.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. Give us a five
year out prediction, and it could be about anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't usually like to plan that far ahead when
it comes to anything in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right, give us a New York five year out predication.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All right, New York five year Zoran must not ever
be re elected. Five year hope that would be a dream,
would be to be able to have good health for
the rest of my days. I want to be around
a lot longer. I'm far from done. I'm only just
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getting started.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Don't let the gray hair. Don't let the gray hair
fool you.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, you seem very much like you're just getting started.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm only just getting started.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So the five year outlook would be hope that I
have good health, so that I'm able to pursue what
I need to pursue in the near future, because plans
have got to start to get me and get and
getting rid of Mandannie, getting Blakeman in. I hope as
governor and full steam ed common sense down the middle,
(18:12):
not too far left, not too far right, get us
back economically and really, leadership needs to come back in
every form. Leadership needs to come back sense and sensibility
must come back or we are surely we are surely done.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I love that. I think that that's the version of
New York that a lot of people want to see return.
And I'm rooting for you guys all the way.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Thank you Carol, thank.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You Counsel and Palladino. This has been such an interesting conversation.
Thank you so much for coming on. Leave us here
with your best tip for my listeners on how they
can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Get up every day.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Don't think about what happened yesterday. It up every day
and deal because people ask me all the time, Vicky,
how do you do it?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How do you do it? You don't? You know about it,
You don't think about it. You just do it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Because if I was to look at my list of everything,
it's overwhelming. Don't let life overwhelm you. Take it in
baby steps. Accomplish one small thing, move on to the next,
move on to the next, and never give up, never
give in, never take a knee. Be true to yourself
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and be trustworthy and be honest, and you'll be and
you'll be surprised. You get all that back tenfold. But
that's that's my advice, and just about everybody out there.
It's just take it one step at a time. Every
day is a new day. And a long time ago,
there was a DJ on AM FM because there was
(19:52):
no FM back.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
In the day. And he said, unrip, unwrap every single
day as.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
If it is is a gift, because it truly is
a gift.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So one thing at a time, everybody take. Is it
gonna be okay?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We're gonna be okay. She is New York City Councilwoman
Vicki Palatino. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thanks Cale, pleasure to be here.
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
My guest today is New York City council Woman Vicki Palladino.
Councilwoman Palladino is one of the few Republican members of
the New York City Council and arguably the highest profile
Republican in the city. She's held office for five years now,
winning re election twice by twenty point margins in her
(00:25):
D plus eight district in Queens, and maintained an unapologetic
conservative record. She's one of Zornmumdanni's biggest critics in city government,
with a recent Free Press profile calling her the leader
of the anti Mamdani resistance. She's been targeted by Democrats
for her stance on everything from Drag Queen's Story Hour,
and immigration to her most recent legal battle, where she
(00:48):
sued the City Council on First Amendment grounds after they
brought ethics charges against her for quote islamophobia on social media.
Prior to politics, We're going to hear all about it,
she was a small business owner, pta parents, and local
community activist. So nice to have you on, counsel Woman Palladino.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you, Carol. Pleasure to be here. I just got
done telling you how nice it is to do a
feel good piece. Now it's a lot of fun. The
sun is shining. Finally we have warm temperatures up here.
I know by you it's always shiny, but it's just
great to have.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You're welcome, So you're welcome to visit at anytime your
values along with my state.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I have two relatives now that live down there in
a very best friend who moved down there. A little
discouraging gets a little lonely for me now, but it's
only two hours away.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So how is it being a very prominent Republican politician
in New York City? What does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, for me, it feels fine. It seems to bother
a whole lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
More than it bothers me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The funny thing is I did win big in a
democratic district. As we know, you know, we're a bluestk
So I'm only the second Republican in the Italian borough
of Queens. Joanne Ariolas on the south side and I'm
on the north side, so the northeastern side. I have
(02:19):
a beautiful district or water line with the Long Island
sound and I go west from College Point east to
right to the national country border. Okay, so it's a
beautiful district, and yet I've it's maintained a certain amount
of hard core Democrats. But what makes them nice and
(02:41):
makes it nice is that many of us have been
in have been here for a very long time. And
I believed when I ran my first time in twenty one,
which was a narrow wind, I believe when I put
myself out there in twenty one, myself in a semi
safe place. In twenty three and twenty five, though, I
(03:05):
chose to go to a very democratic part of my
district because I really wanted to be in the belly
of the beast, for lack of a better word, so
that more importantly, they could get to know me who.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I am as a human being.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And by doing that, I always open myself to conversation,
because I'm always willing to have conversation. And before you
know it, I had Democrats coming in. I was in
a shopping center, had democrats coming in, first a little
skittish and then very nicely, and they I said, to
have a seat. You know, let's talk about what's bothering you.
(03:47):
You know, if you could change anything, what would it be?
So through that I got a lot of wow. I
never voted for a Republican before, and that was I
think the getting to know you process in.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All politics are local.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And one thing that was very important is that my trustworthiness,
Like I've built trust because nobody trusts politicians, right and
I never called myself a politician ever, so and I
still don't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't like it. You know, it's a brand now,
and what are you.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'm a woman who serves her constituents. I am employed
by the City of New York. I am an elected official.
My job is to serve you the people. My constituents
love it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So would you say that your base are moderate Democrats?
I feel like that's almost like an extinct you know
thing now that is that what you have in Queens?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I believe I have in my district a lot of
very common sense, middle of the road Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Don't be fooled. Though they're hardcore Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm the only Republican in a lot of their minds
that they've ever voted for. I was extremely flattered by
that because I know that they trusted me. However, with
the new electure coming up, now. And trust me, there
are a lot of Trump haters here. Trump bad, bad,
bad bad.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But with all.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's going on, I have a great deal in my
community that is Jewish and they don't like what's going on,
and they are praising Trump though they're choking on it.
To give them credit where credit is due, and like
I said, hey, look, you know what, We're in a
bad situation here. And I'm not a person who walks
(05:49):
on the dark side of the street.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I always try to give.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
People some positive but to tell you the truth, Carol,
we are in bad shate.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We run, we are very bad shape.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is what's your top concern?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, right now it has to be well, Zoe Ran
ranks top and foremost. However, he's he got elected.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
He's in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So we got another three years and.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Seven months to go. Well, less than five months to go,
was I guess a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Come June first, we'll have three and a half years
to go. So he is, because I live here, my
top priority. But I'm wise enough, as are so many,
to understand the importance of the governor's race. Bruce Blakeman,
for everybody out there, he must win. He needs money,
(06:45):
he needs to get the ground game really shifting to
sixty one counties in New York, Carol, fifty seven of
those sixty one are red, but New York.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Is one of those Chorks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, they need he needs thirty three and a third
of New York five boroughs right to pull it for him.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Very very tough, especially because so many people have left.
And you know, well.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, we lost during COVID when COVID first blew over,
sort of kind of blew over because now they're looking
at other shit, other stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's okay, yeah, huh.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And uh, what we're doing is they lost four hundred
and thirty five thousand people in the last one of
the year.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You oh really is that when you left?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah? Oh yeah, I left January twenty twenty two. And
you know, Lifelong Brooklyn. My husband was raised in Queens.
We both lived.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Wow, you know where Wheazy is he?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Forest Hills?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is his mom a former politician here in New York?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No, no, no, okay, because you have a very similar
last name.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Sorry, how this cosmic?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
She's a lovely, lovely lady, lovely lovely lady and again
old school somebody that we could actually see the conversation
we're having now, right, conversations were able to be had.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Nobody and that was that was my Brooklyn. My Brooklyn
was the one where you could disagree and that was okay.
And you know, the Brooklyn that I left to, the
Brooklyn that I fled from Park Slope was you could
only have one opinion, and it was you know, it
had to be far left. And look, I'm I'm I
was born in the Soviet Union. I'm not going to
be a liberal, so right exactly. Yeah, Well, we need
(08:44):
more people like you speaking up.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's problem too, That's a very big problem now, being Jewish,
being coming from a moderate understanding background as far as
aletics go.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Right, we need so many more of you. But we
lost you all now in the left year. We lost
another five thousand in one year.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right, right, So how do you stop? I mean, I
know you're just one person, but how do you stop
that bleed? I know that you're you know your posmon
Donnie and all that he does, But it gets tougher
and tougher to elect Republicans. If Republicans are like, you know,
I have kids and my childhood is short. I have
to get them to sanity. What do you do about that?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Very difficult question because sadly, you don't have enough Republicans.
We got five, that's it, five, all right, and Staten
Island's got the bulk. But we're only five in the council.
And what I don't like what I see happening is
that people become complacent.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
People worry about h breaking bread with the mayor. I don't.
I don't worry about breaking bread with the mayor.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Uh. And you know people have a tendency. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't like to use this phrase at the moment.
I can't think of what sell out.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You know, it's all cater to cater to power, a
very popular thing.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To do, and and and you ask what can we
do about that?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We need to elect more people. You know, the Democrats
are funded by non for profits. A lot of people
don't realize that and a lot of are non for
profits here. I really hope nimit Oz comes. He's here
right now, he was here over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Uh. We really need a nosedive into.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Where are they getting funded? How are they funded? How
are these people funded? And you know, there's an old
expression and it's about a snake and is not Joe
tread on me. It's if you cut the snake's tail off,
it'll grow another tail. If you cut the snake's head off,
it cannot grow another pad.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Right, So you need.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Honestly enough people to understand and Bruce needs to get
out some more and understand the difference of changing a governor.
Even though we're one party rule up state, we have
some state senators that can they said, are running and
I'm sure they're going to do okay, but will they win?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't know. And right now we're blue blue, blue blue.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But if we could change the top of the ticket
from blue to rest and huge, huge, because here we
come with the power of the pen, like you see
what the President has been able.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
To do with the power of the pen. There's a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know, Ko wants to Honker down stronger yet on
sanctuary city, sanctuary state. They've come out to about coming
out after ice and federal But the big thing, get
the funding. These these massive anti cynemic things that we
(12:17):
just had in Brooklyn on Thursday. On Wednesday, I was
out on media or funded. How are they being funded?
These are organizers, This is not just a pop up movement. Hey,
let's get together know and people should not be fooled
by any of this. So between the non for profits
(12:40):
that this city is basically run on non for profits,
between non for profits and getting to the thick of
it as to where is this money coming from to
to establish these organizations. It's a takeover. And I said
that in one of my tweeks this is definitely a
takeover New York City that the Democrats, Carol.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Have made New York a stronghold. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now, I now to be fair to my Democratic friends
out there, because I've been corrected many times, and I
will apologize for that. The Democrat Party that they knew,
have taken a knee to the DSSA.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh yeah, they're done. Yeah. I don't even know that
that Democratic Party exists anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I said that back on Fox on Sandra Smith
Show way back in the early spring, late spring whenever
it was, and I said, the Democratic Party is going
to cease to exist, and Everybody's like, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Is happening? Why? Cow?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because they allowed DSA who's got their awn legitimate line
on the ballot. Why did the Democrats allow a certified
DSA person to run on the.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Airline to be on their line. Mm hmmm, huge.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, because it's over for them. Yeah right, What would
you be doing if you weren't a councilwoman.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'd be in business for myself. I would go back
to working with my sister Joanne. And I say that
happily because my love is interior decorating.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
My passion is.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Old movies and museums. I noticed that was on oney
of things I love. I love fun, I love life,
I love that. I love creating things. So and I
like fixing what's broke, which.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Is where I met got me here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know, give me an old antique and I'll make
it look beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So consider myself an antique. And I I'm working different.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm working very hard to try to get New York
back on track.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, back to the shiny place that it was.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
That's right, beacon on the hill, the shining beacon on
the all.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What's your favorite restaurant in your district? This is the
toughest question I asked.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I could get in trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can name a few, you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Just let me name a few.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I eat it. Erin's Island Islands aisle course a lots
of times. A new one is my Ritzios that's on
the water. That's beautiful. Then of course there's the old,
reliable Albaco and Douglaston. I eat at Leola's in white Stone.
(15:49):
I eat it some very older established places. What is
in Middle Village And I absolutely love that. There's a
lot London ladies, Oh Lon, London London Ladies.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Fish. That's the only place I trust unless I go.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Up to City Island eat my clams fresh or out
on Long Island.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I'll have to check those out when I'm visiting.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What are you most proud of in your life?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think the life we built when I well, let
me start first with my childhood. My mother was a
widow at thirty nine years old. I'm most proud of
my mom and the way she raised us.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
All wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
My strength comes from my mother and my sister Patty,
who's twelve, was twelve years older than me. She's no
longer here. My brother Alfred, he's no longer here. My proudest,
my children, and my life that I built with my husband.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. Give us a five
year out prediction, and it could be about anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't usually like to plan that far ahead when
it comes to anything in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right, give us a New York five year out predication.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All right, New York five year Zoran must not ever
be re elected. Five year hope that would be a dream,
would be to be able to have good health for
the rest of my days. I want to be around
a lot longer. I'm far from done. I'm only just
(17:38):
getting started.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Don't let the gray hair. Don't let the gray hair
fool you.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, you seem very much like you're just getting started.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm only just getting started.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So the five year outlook would be hope that I
have good health, so that I'm able to pursue what
I need to pursue in the near future, because plans
have got to start to get me and get and
getting rid of Mandannie, getting Blakeman in. I hope as
governor and full steam ed common sense down the middle,
(18:12):
not too far left, not too far right, get us
back economically and really, leadership needs to come back in
every form. Leadership needs to come back sense and sensibility
must come back or we are surely we are surely done.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I love that. I think that that's the version of
New York that a lot of people want to see return.
And I'm rooting for you guys all the way.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Thank you Carol, thank.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You Counsel and Palladino. This has been such an interesting conversation.
Thank you so much for coming on. Leave us here
with your best tip for my listeners on how they
can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Get up every day.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Don't think about what happened yesterday. It up every day
and deal because people ask me all the time, Vicky,
how do you do it?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How do you do it? You don't? You know about it,
You don't think about it. You just do it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Because if I was to look at my list of everything,
it's overwhelming. Don't let life overwhelm you. Take it in
baby steps. Accomplish one small thing, move on to the next,
move on to the next, and never give up, never
give in, never take a knee. Be true to yourself
(19:31):
and be trustworthy and be honest, and you'll be and
you'll be surprised. You get all that back tenfold. But
that's that's my advice, and just about everybody out there.
It's just take it one step at a time. Every
day is a new day. And a long time ago,
there was a DJ on AM FM because there was
(19:52):
no FM back.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
In the day. And he said, unrip, unwrap every single
day as.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
If it is is a gift, because it truly is
a gift.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So one thing at a time, everybody take. Is it
gonna be okay?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We're gonna be okay. She is New York City Councilwoman
Vicki Palatino. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thanks Cale, pleasure to be here.
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