Vickie Paladino, New York Council member Interview

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to Vicki Palladino, New York City council woman
represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens. Vicky, anti Semitism is
all over the news, and look, I know I've heard
the chance in New York. But when those two, that
young girl and that young man were killed in Washington, DC,

(00:23):
that made it all very real. And there has to
be a crackdown on anti Semitism. I know Donald Trump's
doing it in colleges. Do you have concerns here in
the city.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course, We've had concerns in the city since October seventh,
two years ago. That was when we started to see
what took place in Israel and the reaction here in
the United States of America and especially in New York City,
more New York City, because we've got the largest Jewish
population in the entire country outside of Israel, and when

(00:58):
we saw the rising up of what was happening just
general in general, we couldn't believe it. You know, it
took a little while for us to understand that there's
not not too many people who are going to be
sympathetic to this, and that there was actually going to
develop a movement and that's what we have developed here.

(01:20):
This is an anti Semitic movement. I also said that
it's also anti West, anti Americans. So we've got a
real problem of these these the young people that were
murdered in cold blood on US soil in Washington, d C.

(01:41):
Was by far, like you said, I mean that was
that was a real wake up call. If nothing happened
prior to that, that would have been a wake up call.
Which I don't see how this is just for me.
I hate to use this term the icing on the cake.
It has become blatantly clear. Uh. And I think Trump

(02:05):
needs to do whatever Trump needs to do. The federal government,
pull the fund from Harvard, stop financing me for these
foreign kids from coming here. I'm sorry if people don't
like that, but that's just the way. And that president
of Harvard, come on, enough is enough. We are condoning.

(02:29):
We are condoning this, and on a very broad scale,
not on the federal level and not with people with
some sort of balance in their brains. But this is uh.
And keep in mind to Larry, as we know, we've
got that guy Zoran running and he hates Jews. He

(02:52):
hates Jews. He's made very clear he hates Jews, and
he takes meetings with and the leaders are harmosity and
has blocked and we're not doing anything about this. And
there are actually people who worshiped this sitting assemblyman. They
think he's great, they think the way he thinks is great. No,

(03:17):
deport them, deport them. They do not belong on our soil,
disrupting our campuses, disrupting our way of life, and killing innocent,
innocent people.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you know, you called it a wake up call.
Another wake up call was that police officer being beaten
in the Bronx over the weekend. It was just horrific.
It was just stunning. But I know when they get
this guy, Trayvon Hargrove back to New York, we're going
to find out that he's been arrested before and let
out again and again and again. And so I think

(03:58):
the politicians have them sells the blame for this. They
should be looking in the mirror because this is on.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Them one hundred percent. I say it all the time,
We've been saying it. Now. You know, when de Blasio
was mayor for those eight years, we saw the startup
of this. Okay, twenty twenty, the burning of the city
and going up now to twenty twenty five. We are
to blame for every politician that is sitting in office

(04:30):
right now in the city and the state government for
us not to take hold of what is actually going
on here instead of continuing to see the lunatics run
the asylum by making these laws and bail reform up
there in Albany, and the Discovery laws taking putting these

(04:54):
liberal judges into place. The das are handcuffed. It's we've
got ourselves, We've got ourselves a predicament. But here's another thing.
The people of the city and the people of the
state of New York need to wake up, need to
understand that they must go out and vote when you

(05:19):
have a mayor's race, and there's over eight million people
living in this city. And when Dublasio ran in twenty seventeen,
eight hundred and eighty thousand people, that's it, that's what
came out to vote for the mayor of the City
of New York. And when we ran in twenty one,
we had one point one million people come out and

(05:43):
vote out of eight hundred okay, excuse me, out of
eight million. This is pathetic. The people control the needle
on the record. Which way you're going to go? Folks
you're going to say I've had enough of you. Are
you going to stop listening to their lives?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
When I completely agree and that was extremely well said.
Sorry that I even interrupted you a little bit at
the end because that was perfectly said. Thanks so much,
Vicki Palladino. I appreciate your time today. I can't wait
to talk to you again next week. You got to
run for mayor. By the way, you have to run
for mayor. I want to see you in a debate.

(06:25):
You would be so much.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'd love to be in a debate, even if I
don't run for maya. I just would love to have
one in it. In my right is my course hands.
Just give me one for five minutes.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Vicky, New York City, you too. New York City Council
member represents District nineteen of Northeast Queen

Speaker 2 (06:47):
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