Vickie Paladino, NYC Council member Interview

Vickie Paladino speaks with Mendte in the Morning about the future of NYC with the far-left City Council working alongside Zohran Mamdani.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now we bring in Vicky Palladino, New York City council
member represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens with us every
Wednesday at this time. Hey, Vicky, let me ask you
a question. Have you ever eaten at Carlos Bakery? No? Oh, man,
you gotta take good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
By the way, good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
You gotta going good morning. I'm sitting here Carlos Bakery.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
There. You know he's the guy that is the is
the cake what do you call him? The cake cake Boss,
the cake boss on TV?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
The cake Boss. Oh. Now, if you mentioned it like that,
I might have Yes, I might have had his. I
might have had it because whenever I do something, somebody
brings me and then all this from the cake Boss,
I go the cake Boss. Very nice. No, I've never
had it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh I have. I have an apple pie parfe in
front of me right now, and it is the best
thing I have ever eaten in my life. I'm not
a big cake person, but I love pies either. Oh,
this apple pie parfe. I wish you were here.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
We would give you one, and I'd be happy to
set you and a piece of apple pie. Hey. Thanksgiving
in ten days. Okay, what's cook in the IRI? How's
it going.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's going pretty well for me. It's gonna go really
well for talk radio because we have something to talk
about over the next four years. But let's not talk
about zorin Mom Donnie for a second, because we all
know what to expect from him. The problem is there's
no gate because it seems the city council is worse
than Mom Donnie, so there's gonna be no filter anymore.

(01:37):
There's no mayor to stop the city council. There's no
city council to stop the mayor. It's going to be
a socialist city, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And this is like, you know what I found out
for sure. As I've said before, you know, we are
eighteen in the Progressive Caucus and that is now increased
to twenty two, so out of fifty one. That's just
something to be extremely concerned about. And when we talked
about even during the mayor's run that how these my

(02:10):
council keeps the rain on the mayor. So this guy
is their dream, so they're going to do whatever he wants.
And we've got some legislation coming up about the Bread
and Breakfast turning your home into a bread and breakfast.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
He let me jump in for a second because we
just got breaking news and I don't want you to
react to this. Jessica Tish has announced she's going to
stay on as police commissioner.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I just read that. Also, right before Natalie gave me
the buzz to click in, I was reading the Post article.
I'm friendly with Jessica Tick. She's lovely, she's wonderful. She's
been good at her job. For me as a council member,
to have someone from the prior administration still around is

(02:57):
extremely important, and especially to have the police missioner. You know,
we were kind of floating. We're not sure who the
new commissioners are going to be. This is a slam dunk.
Here's the question. How long is Jessica going to stay?
Don't know? Is she going to stay on for three
months and be transitional because she's gonna be on tough road.

(03:22):
She's got a guy who doesn't believe in police as mayor.
It's obvious he wants to disband the police. Will she
be able to put her finger in the dam and
stop him from doing that? Is he going to be
able to be controlled in that way? Now? Remember he's
with Linda Sousaur. He's got everything pushing him to stick

(03:46):
to his people, to make him stick to his DSA agenda.
She won't stand for that and she will leave. But
if she took this on and said yes right now,
I think that's awesome for us as the city of
New York. I know it's great for me personally in
District nineteen. I'm looking forward to it. But she cannot

(04:10):
be forced to and I don't think she can be
at all.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, I agree with you. Let me tell you, Becky,
Here's what I think happened. Here's because I fully expected
her to leave. I did not think she was going
to make this job. And it seemed that way, didn't it.
It seemed that way, especially after the meeting when there
was no resolution. After the meeting, she must have received
some promises about how things are and how things will stay.

(04:35):
If that is the case, this is one and I'm
not sure that's true. But if that is the case,
this is great for New York City.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's terrific for New York City. It's terrific for all
of us. So he is my worry? Is he good
for his word? I don't know that seems like an
oxymoron to me at this point. But Jessica's smart and
she knows exactly what she's doing, so I think it
went more towards yes, I will stay after much negotiation,

(05:07):
only if but if you cross this line, I'm out.
And that's what I fear can happen because she can't
go against her cops. He can't, you know, And he
wants to sit up there and he wants to set
up what's known as this community safety department, which is

(05:27):
separate from the police department, which is made up of
all his own people, separate from the.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Cops there there on the other end on everything, Vicky,
it's not just that. I mean, that's what I don't
get that. That's how I don't understand how this works.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I'd like to be the fly on that wall.
I'd like to be the fly on the wall. So
maybe what I will do is I will shoot Jessica
a congratulations text with a question mark, and you know,
maybe I could get more information and find out, you know,
but she'll play things close to the vest. Right now,

(06:09):
he might have taken on this position to protect your cops,
to try to be a firewall between him and the cops.
How that's gonna work. I don't know. When you've got
the likes of every radical left wing lunatic out there
pushing him to do and remember donated to his campaign

(06:32):
big money. So you know we're going to hear the
sound of the prayer horn five times a day? Are
they going to be allowed to protest? Because she fought
against that. You know, she set her cops in. She
took care of that. When the Columbia Universities and all
the universities were protesting, she stood up against that. She's

(06:52):
also of the Jewish faith. So I don't know. I mean,
there's a lot of things. Yes them, Jeff had to
have strings attached to it because she's too smart, not
too The whole thing is is you're going to stick
to that.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, We're all gonna find out together, Vicky. But I'm
glad you were here for us to talk about it
as this story broke. I appreciate it. Counselwoman Vicki Palladino
with us every Wednesday at ed O five.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Talk to you next week, Vicky sangs Flyer, Take care