October 8, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of The Tudor Dixon Podcast, Tudor sits down with New York Republican Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz to examine the growing influence of socialism in New York City politics. They take a close look at the controversial campaign of Zohran Mamdani—his positions on sex work, public safety, and the role of government—and what his rise signals for the city’s future. Tudor and Jake also unpack how Democrats are drifting away from their base, the messaging challenges facing Republicans, and why crime and safety remain defining issues for New Yorkers heading into the next election. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you guys know that we hate socialism on this podcast,
like totally hate it, and yet we are hearing that
it is coming to our beautiful city of New York.
We can't believe it. We've seen what's happening with the
zoron Mamdanie. He's out there like spouting that he wants
this crazy socialism and people are jumping on this bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So we found one of his colleagues in the New
York Assembly, New York Republican State Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz. Thank
you so much for coming on the program. What is happening?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tudor? Thank you so much for having me on your program.
And it is pretty unbelievable to see the momentum and
the trajectory of this election thus far with my colleague
zoron Mondami and the way he's been able to captivate
New Yorkers. I think it speaks volumes for the way
the Democratic Party has become so detached from their own
base in New York and the fact that we as
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Republicans have not been messaging correctly in cities like New York.
But most importantly, it's it's scary to see the way
that the message that he holds, the ideals that he
hopes to espouse throughout this campaign and as Mayor, have
captivated so many.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think what totally shocks me about this guy is
he's like a real scumbag when it comes to women.
He was one of the few people that voted against
the revenge Porn law to protect women against revenge porn,
and he's come out and he's been a huge advocate
of I'm going to use air quotes sex work, which
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is prostitution, and that to me is horrifying because you
have somebody who doesn't want women protected. He's actually voted
against laws to protect women against being abused by men.
And when you legalize prostitution, like he wants to do
in the City of New York, you essentially create a
slave system where women are the slaves to whoever decides
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to become a pimp. I just am like, how does
this happen? How do people jump on? How does he
have so many women that follow him when he has
this terrible policy for women.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't think it even comes down to just women,
and I think it comes down to a little bit
more of the way he's been campaigning. So he speaks
to two audiences at a very high volume. He speaks
to the ultra left, the DSA as they're called to
in New York, to the Democratic Socialist which is the
party that he ran with along with running as a Democrat,
And he also has a bit of a religious conservative
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islam focused group that has a large population here in
New York as well, and he speaks to both at
the same time but delivers very different messages. So he
is a sponsor on legislation in the New York State
Assembly to legalize sex work in a much much greater
capacity than we've ever seen in any proposal ever in America,
while he also speaks to this religious group as he's
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going to bring you a more conservative blend, this first
Muslim in office in New York City in the way
that he'd be serving, and it doesn't make any sense.
And you see that in some of the I think
there's a viral moment where Cuomo says, this guy's going
to legalize sex work and these Islamic cleric is like, well,
that's absolutely not true. I've bet my life on it.
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When he's a sponsor on in the Assembly. I think
what he's leaving behind and his message one New York
has been leaving behind is systematically we think that, you know,
these individuals in the left are going to protect women
in a greater way than those on the right. But
New York, the statistics have not been lying. New York
has in the last decade only one hundred and thirty
two cases where convictions of sex trafficking statutes were applied
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out of the two hundred and thirty three of those
same try those same cases that were pleded down, So
we have a sixty percent lower rate in which we
are convicting than the federal government. The federal government is
consistently doing better than the state when it comes to
these convictions on sex trafficking crimes. And there is no
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plan in place under Zoron's leadership, or under state leadership
under Artist James or any of the das or AG's
in New York State on the left who are not
actually tackling this issue. So we really need to focus
on if we are going to even have a conversation
about what we're going to do when it comes to
sex work, if we're not talking about trafficking in the
way trafficking what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
A problem, But okay, so what is the plan?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What is the plan for what they will do using
New York City because we know a lot of immigrants
are coming there.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They're like calling the illegal immigrants there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We know that that is a huge area where we
have a big sex trafficking problem. How do you manage this?
Is this going to be the hub for them to
abuse children? Because we're trying to figure out how this
is happening, and it seems like they're just zoron.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Donnie is just calling all the scumbags to New York
to say, hey, we want to make sure that kids
are as unsafe as they possibly could be.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, Tutor, I don't know if you saw recently there's
a viral moment in which someone was pulled over in
another state with a New York state license with a
name on the license as no name that was their
name and the license. The green light laws have allowed
for individuals here in New York to basically get access
to services, access to licenses without virtually any identification as
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all so a form of protection to them, but the
people they leave behind are those who will end up
being trafficked like this, are people who will end up
being forced into work, forced into sex work. I worked
when I was younger in a district court, in a
county court rather here, where we had an adolescent diversion program,
and we would just systematically see individuals who've been stuck
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in this cycle, who are just being let in, they
were let out to services were not being provided in
the way they needed to. And that entire system has
just become institutionalized by the state, and you'll see it
spread because if you can come in here, get a license,
get legitimacy in New York State, and then spread around
the country. These programs are toxic, then they lead to
people going everywhere with the backing of New York State.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How did he go from nobody knowing him to suddenly
being the Democrat candidate for mayor.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's a great question. I think that he hit a
nerve because in New York City, party boss system of
politics has allowed for there to be a festering discontent
with the democratic process and Democrats in general. So in
a lot of these races for Assembly and senator state houses,
we're seeing less than a corter of one percent electing
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the individual who's going to represent them because there's so
much fatigue towards politics without any real representation, and so
you're having the DSA run against Democrats in a primary.
The Republicans aren't even putting up a candidate against them
because we don't even have the institution to run candidates
in the way that we could. And they can either
defeat incumbents with just a few hundred votes, or they
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can win races unimpeded and they're able to go to
the State House and just wreak havoc on the institutions
that we hold dear well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, even Schumer is afraid of AOC right now.
So we're talking about a statewide race for a federal office,
and you've got someone who I guess in this world
is a more moderate Democrat who's now afraid of them.
I would say, one of the most radical Democrats in
federal office right now. And people are saying in New York,
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we think that she could actually win. I mean, Hakim Jeffries,
he doesn't even know what to say. He's like at
a complete loss because he doesn't want to lose his race.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But your state has become like in love with socialism.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
How is this possible? Well, it's kind of an interesting
dynamic here in New York. You have the very very
moderate Democrats who exist in the suburbs, and then you
have the very very radical far left Democrats and DSA
members who are in the cities. Not unlike many other states.
I just say that that scale has been tilted through
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legislation on a state level that has sort of dis
in framedranchise the voter, whether it be through jerry mandering
on New York State's level, which has been very robust,
or it's been the way that they have used the
courts to eliminate moderate candidates and to silence moderates who
are trying to win in at risk districts. They've done
so in such a way that New Yorkers are left
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with a race to the race to the left with
no finish line, and that race to the left will
continue to hurt New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We've got more coming up with New York Republican State
Assemblyman Jake Blumenkranz. But first I want to tell you
about my awesome new partner rough Greens. It was like
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Speaker 1 (08:45):
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Speaker 2 (08:49):
He had flaky skin, he had a terrible smell, and
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Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (08:57):
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I have taken him to vet after vet after vet.
He's on a steroid, he's been on medications, He's on
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How can we learn from this out Because I mean,
obviously I'm looking at this from a Michigan perspective. I
just don't get it at all. Because I look at
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I mean, New York has become so much more dangerous.
I lived there in the nineties and now I look
at New York City today, it's totally different than when
I live there. It's because way more dangerous. You have
a massive amount of crime, and that seems to be
something that people aren't even concerned about you've got hotels
have been taken over by illegals. I mean, my gosh,
you even kill people's family squirrel. I like, how is
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this possible that everybody's like, Oh, it's lovely here.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah. I mean New York has always been a bastion
of the capitalist ideal. New York has been the come
with nothing and you can make everything place. It's a
place where you can bootstrap your way from nothing to everything.
That has been the American dream has been the New
York dream, and New York has been the stepping stone
to go anywhere in the country and do anything you want,
or to make it here. And if you can make
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it here, you can make it anywhere, right, as they say.
But what has happened is we've systematically forgotten history. And
I think while Zorn at his time in college, I
guess this is only experienced before running for the Assembly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's another thing. How does somebody I mean, just the
fact that you just pointed that out.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
This is like a college graduate going to run the
biggest city in the country.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Not just the biggest city, one of the largest armed
forces organizations in the cut in the world, one of
the largest standing armies and doing so with what I
would say is and what I was trying to say
is that he must have gotten an a in pr
because he delivers his message in a way that he
really speaks to people. And I think minus and F
minus in history. He does not look at the way
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New York has been run in the past, the way
New York progressives have done well and have done poorly
in the past. One of his biggest positions he wants
to do is he wants to liberate the ability for
New York to debt spend now. In the seventies and
the Dinkins era when they did that before they bankrupted
the city services were eliminated, they started with good ideals
and they ended with you know where we're where subsidies
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are going to be cut, where we're going to start
cutting services. That is the New York that he inherited
is one that has financially sound as much as it
struggles today, and he helps to liberate that. He needs
the state to open the coffers up to let him
spend as much as he wants to solve today's problem
with tomorrow's money. And if you look at Chicago, if
you look at some other inner cities that are just
in a downward spiral. You could see America's greatest city
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fall into the same category if we don't stop him
now in his tracks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I think you give him too much credit by saying
he doesn't know history. I actually think that this guy
has a nefarious plan. I don't think that he's naive.
I think he comes from a family of Marxists and
his plan is to disrupt and destroy.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'd say you're not incorrect in that his plan is
nefarious and he is not someone to be undermined that
he doesn't understand. I think what I always say about
Zorin is he means what he says, and he says
what he means. When he says he's going to legalized
sex work, he's going to legalized sex work. When he
says that he's going to freeze rents and stop construction
of housing or seize the means of production, those are
tactful virtue signaling language mechanisms that he's using to speak
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to certain audiences. That's how he's attracting the Soros money
of the world. That's how he's attracting the outside funds
he's getting from nefarious sources. It is totally calculated play.
And if he gets his foot in the doors round
a city like New York, this guy is the limit
for someone like him with his tactle messaging.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I mean, and he's been groomed since college. Obviously he's
not very old, but he has been groomed in college.
I mean, he was a part of the Democrats Socialists
in college. He started this his parents, as I noted,
his parents have this same ideology, if not worse, and
potentially he is the same and he will take this
to a different level. But I just think that it's
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so bizarre to me to watch how he goes into
one group and he's got a different accent, he's got
a different style of dress. He's like, I mean, people
are calling him sham Donnie because he's just not even
we don't even know who this guy is. You talk
about him getting a great grade in PR. I mean,
I think it's just acting. I think he just puts
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on a great show. And his mother is an actress
and filmmaker. I think they've been able to pull the
wool over the eyes of New Yorkers, and I just
can't understand how it was possible, but I think that
the outcome will be detrimental for all of us.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Tutor For me, I think what's scared to do is
look at his record in the State Assembly. So what
has he introduced? What work has he done there to
try and make New York a better place. Now, I'm
a Jewish New Yorker like many here. There's a lot
of us in New York State and in New York City.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Watch out, I don't think he likes you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And no, and I'll tell you why. He has a
piece of legislation called not on Our Dime. Now it
may sound you know, what does this do? What is
exactly this going to do to the Jewish community here?
His idea was in order to stop the support of
the State of Israel. He wants to allow the AG
to be boots on the ground closing institutions with tax
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exemp status who do support the State of Israel in
any capacity. So, for me, my temple, if you go
on birthright, if you're just a Jewish person who supports,
you know, programs that allow for planting trees in Israel,
which almost every single synagogue does, you may fall into
the scopes of government to close your religious institution. Now,
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that is one of the scariest pieces of legislation I
had to encounter. And when I saw a room full
of legislators who I never thought would actively fight against me,
my religion, who I am, and what I stand for
on a religious basis, it's a scary time to be
combating messaging on a political standpoint, because now it's transcended
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into what's inherently against her constitution. I mean, what would
our founders wait, he sponsored this legislation. This was his
He is the prime sponsor of this. Not on our dime,
is his legislation. It would empower the AG to close
religious Jewish institutions if they supported something he doesn't. He
is a person who wants to end the conversation if
he doesn't agree with you, and he wants to do
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so in a way where he will use the power
of the state, the same way many other socialist and
ideology driven populist candidates have so many times, time and
time again. I mean, you can look at so many
examples on history and.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That did pass or is not that has not passed.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Thankfully, a lot of forces in the state level thought
that there was no way that anyone would ever believe
that this would be even possible to pass with any
sort of public support. What scares me is with a
Zoron victory in November, when we meet in January, I
can see that coming to the forefront of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I don't think that New York mayor is the
end for this guy. I think that his plan is power.
His plan is to change how the state operates. I mean,
the New York has what the largest population of Jewish
Americans in the entire country, and so if you can
go in and you can destroy the religious the religious buildings,
the religious operations of the Jewish people in New York
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and in the state, then you have a plan to
really hurt Judaism across the country. So if this is
his plan as a state assemblyman, and then he goes
to become mayor, I don't think that mayor is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The ultimate goal.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I think that he goes on to be governor and
he goes on to continue to try to destroy I mean,
I really believe that this guy is a destructive force.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I would agree, and I think it's imperative that everyone
on either side of the isle who seeks to protect
the institution of capitalism, the institution of the American way,
and the way that we love our country. This is
a race with an antithesis of that, and candidates who
stand to hope and support and facilitate that, whichever side
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of the aisle you're on, whether it's and look, I'm
not a Cuomo fan by any means. I did not
think I'd be in a world where I'd see Cuomo
as an ideal candidate until you look at the inverse
of that. In every every single way, I mean, Cuomo
has helped create so many of the problems that we
have and are experiencing today in trying to deal with
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Zorona and his faction and trying to satisfy them, only
for them to be consumed with a candidate like Zoron
who will not only destroy anyone who tried to be
moderate and sit at the table with him and anyone
who tries to get in his way.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's what I think to myself.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm like, what kind of a world do we live
in where the actual rational people are saying, Okay, he
resigned in disgrace as governor, but you know what, he's
a heck of a lot better than what we have coming.
If New York ends up with a Mom Donnie Mayor,
I mean, this could be catastrophic. So now we're forced
to go with the guy that none of us would
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ever choose, And yet it is still hard to get
people to coalesce financially around him. There's a month left,
there's time. There is time to educate the people of
New York City on who Zoramandannie actually is. However, there
doesn't seem to be the money to do.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I see these real estate moguls in New York going
this can't possibly happen because he will destroy our businesses well,
I mean any business that is successful in New York City.
He has listed you as a target. He has said
he will go after you. He has said he wants
to take your money and make it hard for you
to live there. And yet they're not investing in the
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campaign against him. I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, New York is a kind of a tricky place
because right now you're stuck with a lot of pretty
poor choices, and that's kind of been a through line
in New York. Yet I can't make fun of Zorn
so much as being a young guy who entered the ring.
In the elected world, I'm a younger elected myself, but
the system itself is broken here. I entered because the
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system was broken. Young people were not being hurt. Young
people on our side of the aisle, the young people
who here and understand the call of freedom and democracy
and the call to liberate our markets and allow the
state to actually do what needs to be done to
make sure we can have that era of success and
of prosperity again, of allowing for more housing to be
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built in places where it should be allowed, for free
markets to do what they have to do to make
sure we can bring down prices, and to have someone
like him come into this this picture and call for
government expansion as a way to not limit freedoms. But
inherently that's what he's doing. The way to expand. I
think he wants public housing to be built by the government.
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We've seen Nicha now the worst and largest worst landlord
in the history of the country and continues to systematically
hurt its residents. People who live in Nischa buildings are suffering.
The government is the slowest and least responsive. There is
no real litmus test to whether or not they're doing a
good or bad job, and they've allowed the buildings to
fall into a decay that we can't escape. And they
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think throwing good money after bad is a way to
fix a broken system when it just simply has proven
in New York it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
One of the things that has made me very concerned
for New York City is his rhetoric against the police.
He is very anti police. See he's trying to walk
that back. I would agree, I would believe what he
says at the beginning. He's been anti policing since the
days of George Floyd. He is about having a social
workers show up to a domestic dispute. One of the
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most dangerous places to send somebody in the midst of
a domestic dispute, to not have a police officer with
a weapon that can defend himself and the other person
in that situation. But he is totally against policing, and
that also is not getting enough attention.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Why.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I mean, the police force alone, if they came out
and voted against him, would have a massive impact in
this election. Where are people when it comes to public safety.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Unfortunately, I think you have a lot of people who
just feel sick at the system to the point where
they don't want to hear the rhetoric coming from the
Democrats anymore that yes, I support the police, but you
have had, even in this administration, relatively supportive one when
it comes to Eric Adams for our police institutions in
some capacity, and it won't change or move the need
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unless you have full throttled support for increasing our police
force in a way that is not based on any
sort of litmus test of diversity or anything else that
the programs that we've seen in place, but really just
trying to go back to the fundamentals the Giuliani era
of policing, the era in which in Bloomberg's time we
were talking about the nineties the early two thousands, when
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New York was a place where you can walk around
with your doors open, essentially, and those days are gone.
And in a post COVID era, you need a really
really strong signal and force to say we're not only
going to solve the problems of the past, but we're
going to create structural changes for the future to make
sure that we can actually make a New York City
safe again.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It's not even just that you want to be able
to feel safe in your homes. I mean we have
watched over the past few years these attacks in the subway,
these attacks on the street. It becomes so bad, and
then you have Eric Adams who said, I'm going to
put police down in the subway, and it was interesting
to me that did cut down quite a bit. Having
just the presence, as you've seen in Washington, d C.
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And now in Memphis, having just the presence of the
National Guard there has significantly reduced the amount of crime.
I mean, Washington, D C. Has had no murders, no carjackings.
Just the presence of a police force around has a
massive impact. We've seen that in the subways. Like I said,
Eric Adams as mayor of New York has put a
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police presence into the subways.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
People didn't love that.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I will say there was pushback from New Yorkers like,
we don't want to see cops down here totally. I
think that's totally insane because it has certainly cut down
on a crime. We were seeing people being pushed in
front of the trains, We're seeing people being attacked on
the subways. Certainly that's not ended, but it has improved
with Eric Adams making more of a focusing more on
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a police presence once that all gets taken off the
streets hou quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Do you see the fall of New York City?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, let me reframe it for you. And this is
where I think it's imperative and why why you vote
and who you vote for is important. I met with
a shop keep in an outer borough relatively recently. He
was arrested and put in jail. The situation he was
in was he had someone in his store who was
stealing his merchandise, and they were stealing high value merchandise.
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This is a merchant who needed this merchandise to survive,
who was a small business owner, and because this individual
was stealing his food, he ran out onto the street.
He spoke to an officer. He said, officer, I need
your help. Someone is trying to rob my store. They said,
we cannot answer your call on the street like this.
You need to call it in. He called it in.
They said they won't be there for a long time,
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if they are going to be there at all, because
that's the protocol under this small kind of theft that
they're having, so what does he do? He and his
individuals who work in his store. They held the guy down.
He got arrested that day for imprisoning this person in
intil waiting for the police officers. That guy walked away.
That man was facing serious charges and we needed to
step in and make sure that he was going to
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be okay and that real justice was served. But our
laws are what let that man down that day. It
was not the fact that the police were not there
to do their job. It was not the fact that
there wasn't a policeman standing on the corner. It was
the fact that the laws had supported the thief and
not the ShopKeep. And that's the kind of trajectory that
Zorn wants the city to be on. And that's the
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scary part about having all the police, the largest standing
army in police force in America, doesn't matter if you
don't have laws that support them handcuff our police from
doing their job.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This is what This is what I tell Republican Republicans
across the country who invest in these races, be aware
of what is happening in Blue and purple states, because
those people are getting elevated their bad ideas are being elevated.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
These laws local elections. When you have some of these
radicals that are.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Running for Congress or even state Senate and state House.
I mean in Michigan we have the same situation. We've
got this radical state senator. It's never met attacks she
doesn't like. Now she's running for Senate, for US Senate.
These people always get elevated.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
This is why I.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Cannot understand why there is not a massive funding movement
against or on Mamdani right now. But they're just the
Republicans are not paying attention to Once these people grasp
a little bit of power, and here he has in
the State Assembly, created this campaign that has launched him
into potentially managing one of the most important cities in
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the world. And then what will be next? I mean,
that's the crazy part. Do you find it frustrating that
you don't see the type of investment in the opponents
on the good side that you do on.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
The back, Well, of course it's frustrating, but it's also
important that we look at where successes are coming from
in Azor and Mandami. In many of these candidates in AOC,
what are they doing They're talking to people where they're
at they are meeting people online in platforms, in parasocial
relationships that are important. I myself have been trying to
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operate in a way where I can do something similar.
I think many young candidates are. How do you when
I see issues when it comes to trafficking, I'm going
to speak to people about it online, in person, anywhere
I can, until they listen and they hear when I
talk about We've tried to audit our education system here
in New York. We have an issue where Holocaust education
is one of three topics that are acquired teaching here,
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and you're seeing the city kind of neglect to teach
it in many places because people are graduating, they don't
know about the Holocaust. We want to audit it. They
tell us nothing's wrong, and you can't. You can't say that.
You can't say that they're not teaching, because then you're
going against teachers. We're not going against teachers. We're going
against the system that's ignoring the law, which is you
have to teach about Holocaust. And we need to make
sure we're ordering every single school so if there's a
deficit there, we can help understand where the deficit is
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coming from. We're not making any accusations. We just want
to know why when someone graduates high school and they
don't know what the Holocaust is and it was one
of three required teaching units, what happened? Right? How do
you get that message to people when they're they're not
less necessarily listening in the way they used to a
news cycle. We need to think differently, we need to
act differently. We need a couple of different messages for
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different parts of the country. Tix isn't one size fits all.
I think you see in Michigan, it's a unique space.
You're seeing a very unique political environment that is meeting
a very very unique geography and a very unique demographic environment.
We have the same kind of system in New York.
You can't just say, you know, red blue politics makes
sense in a one size fits all fashion.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So, all right, the last thing, tell us what you
think is the future of New York City?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Does he win? Give us your your best guess.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well, I think if you even two way race between
Assemblymen Mandami and former Governor Cuomo, I think there's a
world in which a last minute change can happen. New
York City is notorious for an eleventh Hour Shift. You
saw it was on you saw it with the Blasio,
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you saw it with Mayor Adams at times, and you
saw it time and time again in different elections. So
as long as the race is not split amongst the
never zoron camp, which very well, maybe if we still
have a Republican candidate in the race, and we still have, well,
now the mayor has aptly departed from the race very recently,
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you can see a consolidation that could put up a
real fight and think then you'll see money start to follow.
When the math starts to make sense.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, we'll be praying here that we don't lose New
York City. But I guess there are some people that
feel if we do, then people will really learn about socialism.
I'd rather we not learn that way. But I appreciate
having you on today. State Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz, thank you
for what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Tutor, thank you absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Speaker 1 (31:19):
Join us next time and have a blessed time.
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you guys know that we hate socialism on this podcast,
like totally hate it, and yet we are hearing that
it is coming to our beautiful city of New York.
We can't believe it. We've seen what's happening with the
zoron Mamdanie. He's out there like spouting that he wants
this crazy socialism and people are jumping on this bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So we found one of his colleagues in the New
York Assembly, New York Republican State Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz. Thank
you so much for coming on the program. What is happening?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tudor? Thank you so much for having me on your program.
And it is pretty unbelievable to see the momentum and
the trajectory of this election thus far with my colleague
zoron Mondami and the way he's been able to captivate
New Yorkers. I think it speaks volumes for the way
the Democratic Party has become so detached from their own
base in New York and the fact that we as
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Republicans have not been messaging correctly in cities like New York.
But most importantly, it's it's scary to see the way
that the message that he holds, the ideals that he
hopes to espouse throughout this campaign and as Mayor, have
captivated so many.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think what totally shocks me about this guy is
he's like a real scumbag when it comes to women.
He was one of the few people that voted against
the revenge Porn law to protect women against revenge porn,
and he's come out and he's been a huge advocate
of I'm going to use air quotes sex work, which
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is prostitution, and that to me is horrifying because you
have somebody who doesn't want women protected. He's actually voted
against laws to protect women against being abused by men.
And when you legalize prostitution, like he wants to do
in the City of New York, you essentially create a
slave system where women are the slaves to whoever decides
(02:00):
to become a pimp. I just am like, how does
this happen? How do people jump on? How does he
have so many women that follow him when he has
this terrible policy for women.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I don't think it even comes down to just women,
and I think it comes down to a little bit
more of the way he's been campaigning. So he speaks
to two audiences at a very high volume. He speaks
to the ultra left, the DSA as they're called to
in New York, to the Democratic Socialist which is the
party that he ran with along with running as a Democrat,
And he also has a bit of a religious conservative
(02:34):
islam focused group that has a large population here in
New York as well, and he speaks to both at
the same time but delivers very different messages. So he
is a sponsor on legislation in the New York State
Assembly to legalize sex work in a much much greater
capacity than we've ever seen in any proposal ever in America,
while he also speaks to this religious group as he's
(02:55):
going to bring you a more conservative blend, this first
Muslim in office in New York City in the way
that he'd be serving, and it doesn't make any sense.
And you see that in some of the I think
there's a viral moment where Cuomo says, this guy's going
to legalize sex work and these Islamic cleric is like, well,
that's absolutely not true. I've bet my life on it.
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When he's a sponsor on in the Assembly. I think
what he's leaving behind and his message one New York
has been leaving behind is systematically we think that, you know,
these individuals in the left are going to protect women
in a greater way than those on the right. But
New York, the statistics have not been lying. New York
has in the last decade only one hundred and thirty
two cases where convictions of sex trafficking statutes were applied
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out of the two hundred and thirty three of those
same try those same cases that were pleded down, So
we have a sixty percent lower rate in which we
are convicting than the federal government. The federal government is
consistently doing better than the state when it comes to
these convictions on sex trafficking crimes. And there is no
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plan in place under Zoron's leadership, or under state leadership
under Artist James or any of the das or AG's
in New York State on the left who are not
actually tackling this issue. So we really need to focus
on if we are going to even have a conversation
about what we're going to do when it comes to
sex work, if we're not talking about trafficking in the
way trafficking what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
A problem, But okay, so what is the plan?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What is the plan for what they will do using
New York City because we know a lot of immigrants
are coming there.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They're like calling the illegal immigrants there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We know that that is a huge area where we
have a big sex trafficking problem. How do you manage this?
Is this going to be the hub for them to
abuse children? Because we're trying to figure out how this
is happening, and it seems like they're just zoron.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Donnie is just calling all the scumbags to New York
to say, hey, we want to make sure that kids
are as unsafe as they possibly could be.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, Tutor, I don't know if you saw recently there's
a viral moment in which someone was pulled over in
another state with a New York state license with a
name on the license as no name that was their
name and the license. The green light laws have allowed
for individuals here in New York to basically get access
to services, access to licenses without virtually any identification as
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all so a form of protection to them, but the
people they leave behind are those who will end up
being trafficked like this, are people who will end up
being forced into work, forced into sex work. I worked
when I was younger in a district court, in a
county court rather here, where we had an adolescent diversion program,
and we would just systematically see individuals who've been stuck
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in this cycle, who are just being let in, they
were let out to services were not being provided in
the way they needed to. And that entire system has
just become institutionalized by the state, and you'll see it
spread because if you can come in here, get a license,
get legitimacy in New York State, and then spread around
the country. These programs are toxic, then they lead to
people going everywhere with the backing of New York State.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How did he go from nobody knowing him to suddenly
being the Democrat candidate for mayor.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's a great question. I think that he hit a
nerve because in New York City, party boss system of
politics has allowed for there to be a festering discontent
with the democratic process and Democrats in general. So in
a lot of these races for Assembly and senator state houses,
we're seeing less than a corter of one percent electing
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the individual who's going to represent them because there's so
much fatigue towards politics without any real representation, and so
you're having the DSA run against Democrats in a primary.
The Republicans aren't even putting up a candidate against them
because we don't even have the institution to run candidates
in the way that we could. And they can either
defeat incumbents with just a few hundred votes, or they
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can win races unimpeded and they're able to go to
the State House and just wreak havoc on the institutions
that we hold dear well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, even Schumer is afraid of AOC right now.
So we're talking about a statewide race for a federal office,
and you've got someone who I guess in this world
is a more moderate Democrat who's now afraid of them.
I would say, one of the most radical Democrats in
federal office right now. And people are saying in New York,
(07:21):
we think that she could actually win. I mean, Hakim Jeffries,
he doesn't even know what to say. He's like at
a complete loss because he doesn't want to lose his race.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But your state has become like in love with socialism.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
How is this possible? Well, it's kind of an interesting
dynamic here in New York. You have the very very
moderate Democrats who exist in the suburbs, and then you
have the very very radical far left Democrats and DSA
members who are in the cities. Not unlike many other states.
I just say that that scale has been tilted through
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legislation on a state level that has sort of dis
in framedranchise the voter, whether it be through jerry mandering
on New York State's level, which has been very robust,
or it's been the way that they have used the
courts to eliminate moderate candidates and to silence moderates who
are trying to win in at risk districts. They've done
so in such a way that New Yorkers are left
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with a race to the race to the left with
no finish line, and that race to the left will
continue to hurt New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
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Assemblyman Jake Blumenkranz. But first I want to tell you
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How can we learn from this out Because I mean,
obviously I'm looking at this from a Michigan perspective. I
just don't get it at all. Because I look at
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I mean, New York has become so much more dangerous.
I lived there in the nineties and now I look
at New York City today, it's totally different than when
I live there. It's because way more dangerous. You have
a massive amount of crime, and that seems to be
something that people aren't even concerned about you've got hotels
have been taken over by illegals. I mean, my gosh,
you even kill people's family squirrel. I like, how is
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this possible that everybody's like, Oh, it's lovely here.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah. I mean New York has always been a bastion
of the capitalist ideal. New York has been the come
with nothing and you can make everything place. It's a
place where you can bootstrap your way from nothing to everything.
That has been the American dream has been the New
York dream, and New York has been the stepping stone
to go anywhere in the country and do anything you want,
or to make it here. And if you can make
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it here, you can make it anywhere, right, as they say.
But what has happened is we've systematically forgotten history. And
I think while Zorn at his time in college, I
guess this is only experienced before running for the Assembly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's another thing. How does somebody I mean, just the
fact that you just pointed that out.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
This is like a college graduate going to run the
biggest city in the country.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Not just the biggest city, one of the largest armed
forces organizations in the cut in the world, one of
the largest standing armies and doing so with what I
would say is and what I was trying to say
is that he must have gotten an a in pr
because he delivers his message in a way that he
really speaks to people. And I think minus and F
minus in history. He does not look at the way
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New York has been run in the past, the way
New York progressives have done well and have done poorly
in the past. One of his biggest positions he wants
to do is he wants to liberate the ability for
New York to debt spend now. In the seventies and
the Dinkins era when they did that before they bankrupted
the city services were eliminated, they started with good ideals
and they ended with you know where we're where subsidies
(12:47):
are going to be cut, where we're going to start
cutting services. That is the New York that he inherited
is one that has financially sound as much as it
struggles today, and he helps to liberate that. He needs
the state to open the coffers up to let him
spend as much as he wants to solve today's problem
with tomorrow's money. And if you look at Chicago, if
you look at some other inner cities that are just
in a downward spiral. You could see America's greatest city
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fall into the same category if we don't stop him
now in his tracks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I think you give him too much credit by saying
he doesn't know history. I actually think that this guy
has a nefarious plan. I don't think that he's naive.
I think he comes from a family of Marxists and
his plan is to disrupt and destroy.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'd say you're not incorrect in that his plan is
nefarious and he is not someone to be undermined that
he doesn't understand. I think what I always say about
Zorin is he means what he says, and he says
what he means. When he says he's going to legalized
sex work, he's going to legalized sex work. When he
says that he's going to freeze rents and stop construction
of housing or seize the means of production, those are
tactful virtue signaling language mechanisms that he's using to speak
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to certain audiences. That's how he's attracting the Soros money
of the world. That's how he's attracting the outside funds
he's getting from nefarious sources. It is totally calculated play.
And if he gets his foot in the doors round
a city like New York, this guy is the limit
for someone like him with his tactle messaging.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I mean, and he's been groomed since college. Obviously he's
not very old, but he has been groomed in college.
I mean, he was a part of the Democrats Socialists
in college. He started this his parents, as I noted,
his parents have this same ideology, if not worse, and
potentially he is the same and he will take this
to a different level. But I just think that it's
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so bizarre to me to watch how he goes into
one group and he's got a different accent, he's got
a different style of dress. He's like, I mean, people
are calling him sham Donnie because he's just not even
we don't even know who this guy is. You talk
about him getting a great grade in PR. I mean,
I think it's just acting. I think he just puts
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on a great show. And his mother is an actress
and filmmaker. I think they've been able to pull the
wool over the eyes of New Yorkers, and I just
can't understand how it was possible, but I think that
the outcome will be detrimental for all of us.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Tutor For me, I think what's scared to do is
look at his record in the State Assembly. So what
has he introduced? What work has he done there to
try and make New York a better place. Now, I'm
a Jewish New Yorker like many here. There's a lot
of us in New York State and in New York City.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Watch out, I don't think he likes you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And no, and I'll tell you why. He has a
piece of legislation called not on Our Dime. Now it
may sound you know, what does this do? What is
exactly this going to do to the Jewish community here?
His idea was in order to stop the support of
the State of Israel. He wants to allow the AG
to be boots on the ground closing institutions with tax
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exemp status who do support the State of Israel in
any capacity. So, for me, my temple, if you go
on birthright, if you're just a Jewish person who supports,
you know, programs that allow for planting trees in Israel,
which almost every single synagogue does, you may fall into
the scopes of government to close your religious institution. Now,
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that is one of the scariest pieces of legislation I
had to encounter. And when I saw a room full
of legislators who I never thought would actively fight against me,
my religion, who I am, and what I stand for
on a religious basis, it's a scary time to be
combating messaging on a political standpoint, because now it's transcended
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into what's inherently against her constitution. I mean, what would
our founders wait, he sponsored this legislation. This was his
He is the prime sponsor of this. Not on our dime,
is his legislation. It would empower the AG to close
religious Jewish institutions if they supported something he doesn't. He
is a person who wants to end the conversation if
he doesn't agree with you, and he wants to do
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so in a way where he will use the power
of the state, the same way many other socialist and
ideology driven populist candidates have so many times, time and
time again. I mean, you can look at so many
examples on history and.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That did pass or is not that has not passed.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Thankfully, a lot of forces in the state level thought
that there was no way that anyone would ever believe
that this would be even possible to pass with any
sort of public support. What scares me is with a
Zoron victory in November, when we meet in January, I
can see that coming to the forefront of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I don't think that New York mayor is the
end for this guy. I think that his plan is power.
His plan is to change how the state operates. I mean,
the New York has what the largest population of Jewish
Americans in the entire country, and so if you can
go in and you can destroy the religious the religious buildings,
the religious operations of the Jewish people in New York
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and in the state, then you have a plan to
really hurt Judaism across the country. So if this is
his plan as a state assemblyman, and then he goes
to become mayor, I don't think that mayor is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The ultimate goal.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I think that he goes on to be governor and
he goes on to continue to try to destroy I mean,
I really believe that this guy is a destructive force.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I would agree, and I think it's imperative that everyone
on either side of the isle who seeks to protect
the institution of capitalism, the institution of the American way,
and the way that we love our country. This is
a race with an antithesis of that, and candidates who
stand to hope and support and facilitate that, whichever side
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of the aisle you're on, whether it's and look, I'm
not a Cuomo fan by any means. I did not
think I'd be in a world where I'd see Cuomo
as an ideal candidate until you look at the inverse
of that. In every every single way, I mean, Cuomo
has helped create so many of the problems that we
have and are experiencing today in trying to deal with
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Zorona and his faction and trying to satisfy them, only
for them to be consumed with a candidate like Zoron
who will not only destroy anyone who tried to be
moderate and sit at the table with him and anyone
who tries to get in his way.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That's what I think to myself.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm like, what kind of a world do we live
in where the actual rational people are saying, Okay, he
resigned in disgrace as governor, but you know what, he's
a heck of a lot better than what we have coming.
If New York ends up with a Mom Donnie Mayor,
I mean, this could be catastrophic. So now we're forced
to go with the guy that none of us would
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ever choose, And yet it is still hard to get
people to coalesce financially around him. There's a month left,
there's time. There is time to educate the people of
New York City on who Zoramandannie actually is. However, there
doesn't seem to be the money to do.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I see these real estate moguls in New York going
this can't possibly happen because he will destroy our businesses well,
I mean any business that is successful in New York City.
He has listed you as a target. He has said
he will go after you. He has said he wants
to take your money and make it hard for you
to live there. And yet they're not investing in the
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campaign against him. I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, New York is a kind of a tricky place
because right now you're stuck with a lot of pretty
poor choices, and that's kind of been a through line
in New York. Yet I can't make fun of Zorn
so much as being a young guy who entered the ring.
In the elected world, I'm a younger elected myself, but
the system itself is broken here. I entered because the
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system was broken. Young people were not being hurt. Young
people on our side of the aisle, the young people
who here and understand the call of freedom and democracy
and the call to liberate our markets and allow the
state to actually do what needs to be done to
make sure we can have that era of success and
of prosperity again, of allowing for more housing to be
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built in places where it should be allowed, for free
markets to do what they have to do to make
sure we can bring down prices, and to have someone
like him come into this this picture and call for
government expansion as a way to not limit freedoms. But
inherently that's what he's doing. The way to expand. I
think he wants public housing to be built by the government.
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We've seen Nicha now the worst and largest worst landlord
in the history of the country and continues to systematically
hurt its residents. People who live in Nischa buildings are suffering.
The government is the slowest and least responsive. There is
no real litmus test to whether or not they're doing a
good or bad job, and they've allowed the buildings to
fall into a decay that we can't escape. And they
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think throwing good money after bad is a way to
fix a broken system when it just simply has proven
in New York it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
One of the things that has made me very concerned
for New York City is his rhetoric against the police.
He is very anti police. See he's trying to walk
that back. I would agree, I would believe what he
says at the beginning. He's been anti policing since the
days of George Floyd. He is about having a social
workers show up to a domestic dispute. One of the
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most dangerous places to send somebody in the midst of
a domestic dispute, to not have a police officer with
a weapon that can defend himself and the other person
in that situation. But he is totally against policing, and
that also is not getting enough attention.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Why.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I mean, the police force alone, if they came out
and voted against him, would have a massive impact in
this election. Where are people when it comes to public safety.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Unfortunately, I think you have a lot of people who
just feel sick at the system to the point where
they don't want to hear the rhetoric coming from the
Democrats anymore that yes, I support the police, but you
have had, even in this administration, relatively supportive one when
it comes to Eric Adams for our police institutions in
some capacity, and it won't change or move the need
(23:00):
unless you have full throttled support for increasing our police
force in a way that is not based on any
sort of litmus test of diversity or anything else that
the programs that we've seen in place, but really just
trying to go back to the fundamentals the Giuliani era
of policing, the era in which in Bloomberg's time we
were talking about the nineties the early two thousands, when
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New York was a place where you can walk around
with your doors open, essentially, and those days are gone.
And in a post COVID era, you need a really
really strong signal and force to say we're not only
going to solve the problems of the past, but we're
going to create structural changes for the future to make
sure that we can actually make a New York City
safe again.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It's not even just that you want to be able
to feel safe in your homes. I mean we have
watched over the past few years these attacks in the subway,
these attacks on the street. It becomes so bad, and
then you have Eric Adams who said, I'm going to
put police down in the subway, and it was interesting
to me that did cut down quite a bit. Having
just the presence, as you've seen in Washington, d C.
(24:04):
And now in Memphis, having just the presence of the
National Guard there has significantly reduced the amount of crime.
I mean, Washington, D C. Has had no murders, no carjackings.
Just the presence of a police force around has a
massive impact. We've seen that in the subways. Like I said,
Eric Adams as mayor of New York has put a
(24:27):
police presence into the subways.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
People didn't love that.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I will say there was pushback from New Yorkers like,
we don't want to see cops down here totally. I
think that's totally insane because it has certainly cut down
on a crime. We were seeing people being pushed in
front of the trains, We're seeing people being attacked on
the subways. Certainly that's not ended, but it has improved
with Eric Adams making more of a focusing more on
(24:54):
a police presence once that all gets taken off the
streets hou quickly.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Do you see the fall of New York City?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, let me reframe it for you. And this is
where I think it's imperative and why why you vote
and who you vote for is important. I met with
a shop keep in an outer borough relatively recently. He
was arrested and put in jail. The situation he was
in was he had someone in his store who was
stealing his merchandise, and they were stealing high value merchandise.
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This is a merchant who needed this merchandise to survive,
who was a small business owner, and because this individual
was stealing his food, he ran out onto the street.
He spoke to an officer. He said, officer, I need
your help. Someone is trying to rob my store. They said,
we cannot answer your call on the street like this.
You need to call it in. He called it in.
They said they won't be there for a long time,
(25:47):
if they are going to be there at all, because
that's the protocol under this small kind of theft that
they're having, so what does he do? He and his
individuals who work in his store. They held the guy down.
He got arrested that day for imprisoning this person in
intil waiting for the police officers. That guy walked away.
That man was facing serious charges and we needed to
step in and make sure that he was going to
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be okay and that real justice was served. But our
laws are what let that man down that day. It
was not the fact that the police were not there
to do their job. It was not the fact that
there wasn't a policeman standing on the corner. It was
the fact that the laws had supported the thief and
not the ShopKeep. And that's the kind of trajectory that
Zorn wants the city to be on. And that's the
(26:31):
scary part about having all the police, the largest standing
army in police force in America, doesn't matter if you
don't have laws that support them handcuff our police from
doing their job.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This is what This is what I tell Republican Republicans
across the country who invest in these races, be aware
of what is happening in Blue and purple states, because
those people are getting elevated their bad ideas are being elevated.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
These laws local elections. When you have some of these
radicals that are.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Running for Congress or even state Senate and state House.
I mean in Michigan we have the same situation. We've
got this radical state senator. It's never met attacks she
doesn't like. Now she's running for Senate, for US Senate.
These people always get elevated.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
This is why I.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Cannot understand why there is not a massive funding movement
against or on Mamdani right now. But they're just the
Republicans are not paying attention to Once these people grasp
a little bit of power, and here he has in
the State Assembly, created this campaign that has launched him
into potentially managing one of the most important cities in
(27:46):
the world. And then what will be next? I mean,
that's the crazy part. Do you find it frustrating that
you don't see the type of investment in the opponents
on the good side that you do on.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
The back, Well, of course it's frustrating, but it's also
important that we look at where successes are coming from
in Azor and Mandami. In many of these candidates in AOC,
what are they doing They're talking to people where they're
at they are meeting people online in platforms, in parasocial
relationships that are important. I myself have been trying to
(28:23):
operate in a way where I can do something similar.
I think many young candidates are. How do you when
I see issues when it comes to trafficking, I'm going
to speak to people about it online, in person, anywhere
I can, until they listen and they hear when I
talk about We've tried to audit our education system here
in New York. We have an issue where Holocaust education
is one of three topics that are acquired teaching here,
(28:45):
and you're seeing the city kind of neglect to teach
it in many places because people are graduating, they don't
know about the Holocaust. We want to audit it. They
tell us nothing's wrong, and you can't. You can't say that.
You can't say that they're not teaching, because then you're
going against teachers. We're not going against teachers. We're going
against the system that's ignoring the law, which is you
have to teach about Holocaust. And we need to make
sure we're ordering every single school so if there's a
deficit there, we can help understand where the deficit is
(29:06):
coming from. We're not making any accusations. We just want
to know why when someone graduates high school and they
don't know what the Holocaust is and it was one
of three required teaching units, what happened? Right? How do
you get that message to people when they're they're not
less necessarily listening in the way they used to a
news cycle. We need to think differently, we need to
act differently. We need a couple of different messages for
(29:27):
different parts of the country. Tix isn't one size fits all.
I think you see in Michigan, it's a unique space.
You're seeing a very unique political environment that is meeting
a very very unique geography and a very unique demographic environment.
We have the same kind of system in New York.
You can't just say, you know, red blue politics makes
sense in a one size fits all fashion.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So, all right, the last thing, tell us what you
think is the future of New York City?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Does he win? Give us your your best guess.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well, I think if you even two way race between
Assemblymen Mandami and former Governor Cuomo, I think there's a
world in which a last minute change can happen. New
York City is notorious for an eleventh Hour Shift. You
saw it was on you saw it with the Blasio,
(30:19):
you saw it with Mayor Adams at times, and you
saw it time and time again in different elections. So
as long as the race is not split amongst the
never zoron camp, which very well, maybe if we still
have a Republican candidate in the race, and we still have, well,
now the mayor has aptly departed from the race very recently,
(30:40):
you can see a consolidation that could put up a
real fight and think then you'll see money start to follow.
When the math starts to make sense.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, we'll be praying here that we don't lose New
York City. But I guess there are some people that
feel if we do, then people will really learn about socialism.
I'd rather we not learn that way. But I appreciate
having you on today. State Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz, thank you
for what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Tutor, thank you absolutely, and.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Thank you all for joining us on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (31:19):
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