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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Project Hotline right now is Betty McCoy. You
must forgive me Betsy as we get ready for our
latest chat. I'm really giddy. I'm getting two hundred dollars.
I'm getting a two hundred dollars rebate. I mean, oh, BET's, Oh, well,
perhaps we can finally meet in person. I'll take you
out tonight and with that two hundred dollars we can
(00:22):
each get a drink and an appetizer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know, when I heard about that two hundred dollars rebate,
I thought, well, I'm really in the money. It's not
even enough to register a new car in Connecticut, not
that you could afford one in Connecticut. I couldn't believe
it when he said that, obviously, the best affordability plan,
Denny is a good job and a growing paycheck. Money
(00:45):
Bags doesn't seem to understand that a good job and
a growing paycheck. And that's why I'm going to eliminate.
I'm underscoring the word eliminate, not just tram around the edges,
eliminate the state income text.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Now you've said that before on the show. You're tweeting
that's on X often. If that is so easy to do,
Why is he loathed to do it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Because he's one of the tax and spend Democrats who
wants government to have all the money you were in.
Send it up to him, he says, and he'll decide
how to hand it out. And by the way, in
that speech the other day, what did he say he
was going to do with our money? He asked for
an additional eighteen point seven million of Who's it going to?
(01:36):
Illegal immigrants?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And welfare freeloaders who refuse to work. Those are the
two groups that are getting that money. I tell you,
in a Betsy McCoy administration, not one dollar will go
to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I just don't know how there's not somebody orbiting his
universe who didn't speak to the optics of it all.
He did a State of the state last year? Where
was the two hundred dollars? Then he did a state
of this state the year before that? Where was it
then to do to offer up a two hundred dollars
rebate the year you're seeking re election. It's it's paying
(02:14):
for a vote. How did nobody say to him me,
this is gonna look bad.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It is it is both flying, That's clearly what it is.
And think how cynical it is that he thinks he
can buy us for two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That was the other thing. Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hesitated talk real money here.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, no, I mean I had said as much on
the air the other day, which I felt a little
silly saying. But it's like, if you're gonna buy my vote,
because I don't want to make it sound like it's
for sale, but it would cost.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
A whole lot more than two hundred dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know what they say once you're negotiating the place.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, now I know, first of all. I want
to say to you also, and again, wrong with Betsy McCoy.
She's she's running for governor, and I'm all about it
hitting the I think you said in a recent text
you hit the road this week. I want to find
out what that's about.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Every week I'm in my band going across the state
alle hundred and sixty nine towns. One of the things
that really got me in the speech, though, was when
he announced that he wants ice ice out of Connecticut.
I don't call it ice, finny, I call it nice.
National Immigration and Customs Enforcement we had to call those
(03:27):
men and women who are serving us nice, not just Ice.
They are nice and they are keeping us safe. He
just a couple of days ago in New Haven, some
ICE agents picked up six known drug traffickers and real
thugs picked them up off the street. Right. They're posing
(03:49):
a danger at all of us, especially our team kids.
They picked them up. And what does Lamont say? No,
he wants them out of the state. He says out out,
And I'm telling you it's it's Lamont who's out. He's
out to lunch. He ought to realize that we want
to be safe. Crime is high on those towns, and
part of it is due to these illegal migrants. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's that's pitch perfect, and it's funny to hear you
zero in on the same moments in his speech that
I did, because that was the second moment that I
latched onto. He wants Ice out of here? Where are they?
I haven't I'm a New Havener, I'm downtown New Haven
every day. I have not seen I haven't seen a
cop in New Haven and I don't know how long.
(04:33):
Never mind an ICE agent. When's he talking about. He's
watching the national news and making it. He's trying to
make it sound like you know Connecticut is no different
than Minnesota. Look in a lot of ways we are
and Ice is probably going to get to us, and
they need to, but they're not now. So don't make
it sound like you did something you didn't do.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Imagine Ned Lamont, he's parroting, he's mimicking, he's aspiring to
be Tampunk and Walls.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You're on fire, Betsy. This is the other question I
have for you, though. I you know, I'm a morning
morning radio guy. I go to bed early, I get
up early, so I missed your text last night, which
came in fairly late. I responded this morning, you know,
like four in the morning. I was telling Jimmy Jay,
my producer here, and I'm like, well, you know she'll
(05:22):
see this intimes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You got back to me in a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's four.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It was four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What hey, when you get a test from Vinnie.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Penn, you in you smoothed all the radio hosts.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I see it, and I don't really like it, but
I really do want to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I see you as the hungriest for this. I mean,
I you said that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
La when I'm going to win Vinnie, There's no question
about it. I have fire in the belly. I am
a fighter and I'm going to win because ned Lamont
has put our state into a depth biral and I
take it very personally, having grown up or when Connecticut
was a real opportunity state. I'm doing this for my dad,
my long past dad, my twin brother who just passed away,
(06:09):
uh spent his life in Connecticut. I loved him dearly,
and for my grandkids who live right next door.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, you had mentioned that last time too, And that's
one of the main reasons why I still rage the
way I do. Is how although I think it's got
I told this to you before, I say it on
the air all the time too. I think that ship
has sailed. My kids do not deem Connecticut estate. They
want to stay in. Do I want that to be
(06:36):
the case. No, I want my kids to close. But
I don't know how much longer I can stay here.
I don't know where we'll wind up. And that's heartbreaking
because you and I both are of the generation where
you know, when I was growing up, the girls who
got married, they bought the house next to their mom.
They didn't want to leave. They lived next to the
We all had you know, my grandmother was lived in
(06:58):
the house across the st that my mother was raised in.
Like you didn't all scatter? Maybe that's society now, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, it's because I see the kids talking. They're leaving
only because there are no opportunities here. We lost fifty
two hundred jobs last year. I see the kids in
their twenties. I'd started to call them kids young people
in their twenties and thirties, saying, well, they're just aren't
any important career opportunities here. I want to make a
(07:28):
life for myself and my future family. So we it's
our job to turn things around. And that's why I am.
As you can tell, you can hear it in my voice.
I am fighting as hard as I can.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, and again Ron with Betty McCoy. You know, since
the last time we spoke, I had seen something. I
was reading an article about you, and it said Betty
McCoy formerly known as Betsy McCoy ross American Politicans, And
I'm like, wait a minute. At one point in time
her name was Betsy raw right, Why that's right?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, But I want to give everybody the website because
there's so much great information up there, I know it.
That's the twenty twenty six dot com. That's the twenty
twenty six dot com. If you want to see me
on the ballot, if you want to vote for me
in November, you need to come onto the website and
make a small contribution, chip in, sure, ken Bucks, whatever.
(08:24):
Because it's the number of donors I have to qualify
to get on the ballot. That's part of the Connecticut rule.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, and I've heard from plenty of the rules. I've
heard from plenty of politicians my thirty years in broadcasting,
both sides of the aisle, who have said to me
before that the parameters as far as running a campaign
in Connecticut are very difficult as opposed to others. And
that's Democrats and Republicans alike. Like they're tricky, they're they're confusing,
they're convoluted, and they're hard.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Right. They discourage Canadas.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I want to tell you something that's really sinister, Yeah,
really sis. The Black and Hispanic Caucus in the legislature,
thirty seven members. They get each gets to have one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash of our taxpayer money
to distribute to their favorite local charities, No questions asked,
(09:18):
no reports, no hearings. But only the members of the
Black and Hispanic Caucus and now four members of the
Southeast Asian Caucus. What about? First of all, it's a
terrible thing to allow legislators to hand out both buying money,
walking around money. You can call it what you want.
That's our money, right, it should be spent very responsibly
(09:39):
with all kinds of public accountability. But what's this thing
about only the Black and Hispanic Caucus and the South
Asian Caucus. Is if the white legislators don't I thought
this era of reverse racism was over.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh of what's the uh what's the word? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
My confirmative VACU.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, Norm pattis used to go based.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
On skin color in our legislation.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, reparations Like that's reparations all over again.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Why aren't the Republican lawmakers raising holy hell about this?
This is un American and it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I I I also received from somebody this morning when
I told them that you were going to be when
I announced that you were going to be on there, like,
please bring up to Betsy McCoy about Lamont's bill HB
five zero four to four, giving his Public Health commissioner
unchecked authority to mandate vaccines against this, Yeah, bypassing I'm sorry, no,
(10:42):
go ahead, bypassing legislative oversight entirely, they're out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, commissioner could unilaterally.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
How about just government can only go so far. The
fact is most dates, except for a handful like five
Connecticut and a few others, most dates allow not only
a medical exemption but also a religious or personal exemption right,
and that should be the way in Connecticut as well.
(11:09):
The fact is that way back in nineteen ten, the
Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson versus Massachusetts that states have
the authority to mandate vaccines. So it would require going
all the way to the Supreme Court to fight that.
It's still precedent from nineteen ten. But states have gotten
around it to give people enough liberty by offering a
(11:31):
religious or personal exemption. They're not often taken, but they
are when people really want them. It has not endangered
the efficacy of vaccines, and Connecticut should show the respect
for the individual to do that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They say too that this would be a radical departure
from Connecticut law.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
First and foremost, Yes, it would but it's also impinging
on individual region. That's what we care about it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And I would imagine parents again on both sides of
the aisle, would be like, I'll make the decision as
to what vaccines, what vaccinations my kids get. This should
alarm the left as well. Why it won't is beyond me.
But in Connecticut, I worry that it won't.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, you know, it's very unfortunate. I have to say
that in this polarized time, the left just walks in
lockstep instead of talking about the fundamental principles the Bill
of rights, right, they're just walking in lockstep. They're against dice,
there are four vaccines. Whatever the guys at the top say,
they just prot it. They have to think for ourselves.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
That's exactly right.
On the Project Hotline right now is Betty McCoy. You
must forgive me Betsy as we get ready for our
latest chat. I'm really giddy. I'm getting two hundred dollars.
I'm getting a two hundred dollars rebate. I mean, oh, BET's, Oh, well,
perhaps we can finally meet in person. I'll take you
out tonight and with that two hundred dollars we can
(00:22):
each get a drink and an appetizer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know, when I heard about that two hundred dollars rebate,
I thought, well, I'm really in the money. It's not
even enough to register a new car in Connecticut, not
that you could afford one in Connecticut. I couldn't believe
it when he said that, obviously, the best affordability plan,
Denny is a good job and a growing paycheck. Money
(00:45):
Bags doesn't seem to understand that a good job and
a growing paycheck. And that's why I'm going to eliminate.
I'm underscoring the word eliminate, not just tram around the edges,
eliminate the state income text.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Now you've said that before on the show. You're tweeting
that's on X often. If that is so easy to do,
Why is he loathed to do it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Because he's one of the tax and spend Democrats who
wants government to have all the money you were in.
Send it up to him, he says, and he'll decide
how to hand it out. And by the way, in
that speech the other day, what did he say he
was going to do with our money? He asked for
an additional eighteen point seven million of Who's it going to?
(01:36):
Illegal immigrants?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And welfare freeloaders who refuse to work. Those are the
two groups that are getting that money. I tell you,
in a Betsy McCoy administration, not one dollar will go
to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I just don't know how there's not somebody orbiting his
universe who didn't speak to the optics of it all.
He did a State of the state last year? Where
was the two hundred dollars? Then he did a state
of this state the year before that? Where was it
then to do to offer up a two hundred dollars
rebate the year you're seeking re election. It's it's paying
(02:14):
for a vote. How did nobody say to him me,
this is gonna look bad.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It is it is both flying, That's clearly what it is.
And think how cynical it is that he thinks he
can buy us for two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That was the other thing. Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hesitated talk real money here.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, no, I mean I had said as much on
the air the other day, which I felt a little
silly saying. But it's like, if you're gonna buy my vote,
because I don't want to make it sound like it's
for sale, but it would cost.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
A whole lot more than two hundred dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know what they say once you're negotiating the place.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, now I know, first of all. I want
to say to you also, and again, wrong with Betsy McCoy.
She's she's running for governor, and I'm all about it
hitting the I think you said in a recent text
you hit the road this week. I want to find
out what that's about.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Every week I'm in my band going across the state
alle hundred and sixty nine towns. One of the things
that really got me in the speech, though, was when
he announced that he wants ice ice out of Connecticut.
I don't call it ice, finny, I call it nice.
National Immigration and Customs Enforcement we had to call those
(03:27):
men and women who are serving us nice, not just Ice.
They are nice and they are keeping us safe. He
just a couple of days ago in New Haven, some
ICE agents picked up six known drug traffickers and real
thugs picked them up off the street. Right. They're posing
(03:49):
a danger at all of us, especially our team kids.
They picked them up. And what does Lamont say? No,
he wants them out of the state. He says out out,
And I'm telling you it's it's Lamont who's out. He's
out to lunch. He ought to realize that we want
to be safe. Crime is high on those towns, and
part of it is due to these illegal migrants. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's that's pitch perfect, and it's funny to hear you
zero in on the same moments in his speech that
I did, because that was the second moment that I
latched onto. He wants Ice out of here? Where are they?
I haven't I'm a New Havener, I'm downtown New Haven
every day. I have not seen I haven't seen a
cop in New Haven and I don't know how long.
(04:33):
Never mind an ICE agent. When's he talking about. He's
watching the national news and making it. He's trying to
make it sound like you know Connecticut is no different
than Minnesota. Look in a lot of ways we are
and Ice is probably going to get to us, and
they need to, but they're not now. So don't make
it sound like you did something you didn't do.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Imagine Ned Lamont, he's parroting, he's mimicking, he's aspiring to
be Tampunk and Walls.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You're on fire, Betsy. This is the other question I
have for you, though. I you know, I'm a morning
morning radio guy. I go to bed early, I get
up early, so I missed your text last night, which
came in fairly late. I responded this morning, you know,
like four in the morning. I was telling Jimmy Jay,
my producer here, and I'm like, well, you know she'll
(05:22):
see this intimes.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You got back to me in a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's four.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It was four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What hey, when you get a test from Vinnie.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Penn, you in you smoothed all the radio hosts.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I see it, and I don't really like it, but
I really do want to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I see you as the hungriest for this. I mean,
I you said that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
La when I'm going to win Vinnie, There's no question
about it. I have fire in the belly. I am
a fighter and I'm going to win because ned Lamont
has put our state into a depth biral and I
take it very personally, having grown up or when Connecticut
was a real opportunity state. I'm doing this for my dad,
my long past dad, my twin brother who just passed away,
(06:09):
uh spent his life in Connecticut. I loved him dearly,
and for my grandkids who live right next door.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, you had mentioned that last time too, And that's
one of the main reasons why I still rage the
way I do. Is how although I think it's got
I told this to you before, I say it on
the air all the time too. I think that ship
has sailed. My kids do not deem Connecticut estate. They
want to stay in. Do I want that to be
(06:36):
the case. No, I want my kids to close. But
I don't know how much longer I can stay here.
I don't know where we'll wind up. And that's heartbreaking
because you and I both are of the generation where
you know, when I was growing up, the girls who
got married, they bought the house next to their mom.
They didn't want to leave. They lived next to the
We all had you know, my grandmother was lived in
(06:58):
the house across the st that my mother was raised in.
Like you didn't all scatter? Maybe that's society now, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, it's because I see the kids talking. They're leaving
only because there are no opportunities here. We lost fifty
two hundred jobs last year. I see the kids in
their twenties. I'd started to call them kids young people
in their twenties and thirties, saying, well, they're just aren't
any important career opportunities here. I want to make a
(07:28):
life for myself and my future family. So we it's
our job to turn things around. And that's why I am.
As you can tell, you can hear it in my voice.
I am fighting as hard as I can.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, and again Ron with Betty McCoy. You know, since
the last time we spoke, I had seen something. I
was reading an article about you, and it said Betty
McCoy formerly known as Betsy McCoy ross American Politicans, And
I'm like, wait a minute. At one point in time
her name was Betsy raw right, Why that's right?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, But I want to give everybody the website because
there's so much great information up there, I know it.
That's the twenty twenty six dot com. That's the twenty
twenty six dot com. If you want to see me
on the ballot, if you want to vote for me
in November, you need to come onto the website and
make a small contribution, chip in, sure, ken Bucks, whatever.
(08:24):
Because it's the number of donors I have to qualify
to get on the ballot. That's part of the Connecticut rule.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, and I've heard from plenty of the rules. I've
heard from plenty of politicians my thirty years in broadcasting,
both sides of the aisle, who have said to me
before that the parameters as far as running a campaign
in Connecticut are very difficult as opposed to others. And
that's Democrats and Republicans alike. Like they're tricky, they're they're confusing,
they're convoluted, and they're hard.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Right. They discourage Canadas.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I want to tell you something that's really sinister, Yeah,
really sis. The Black and Hispanic Caucus in the legislature,
thirty seven members. They get each gets to have one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash of our taxpayer money
to distribute to their favorite local charities, No questions asked,
(09:18):
no reports, no hearings. But only the members of the
Black and Hispanic Caucus and now four members of the
Southeast Asian Caucus. What about? First of all, it's a
terrible thing to allow legislators to hand out both buying money,
walking around money. You can call it what you want.
That's our money, right, it should be spent very responsibly
(09:39):
with all kinds of public accountability. But what's this thing
about only the Black and Hispanic Caucus and the South
Asian Caucus. Is if the white legislators don't I thought
this era of reverse racism was over.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh of what's the uh what's the word? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
My confirmative VACU.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah, Norm pattis used to go based.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
On skin color in our legislation.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, reparations Like that's reparations all over again.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Why aren't the Republican lawmakers raising holy hell about this?
This is un American and it's illegal.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I I I also received from somebody this morning when
I told them that you were going to be when
I announced that you were going to be on there, like,
please bring up to Betsy McCoy about Lamont's bill HB
five zero four to four, giving his Public Health commissioner
unchecked authority to mandate vaccines against this, Yeah, bypassing I'm sorry, no,
(10:42):
go ahead, bypassing legislative oversight entirely, they're out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, commissioner could unilaterally.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
How about just government can only go so far. The
fact is most dates, except for a handful like five
Connecticut and a few others, most dates allow not only
a medical exemption but also a religious or personal exemption right,
and that should be the way in Connecticut as well.
(11:09):
The fact is that way back in nineteen ten, the
Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson versus Massachusetts that states have
the authority to mandate vaccines. So it would require going
all the way to the Supreme Court to fight that.
It's still precedent from nineteen ten. But states have gotten
around it to give people enough liberty by offering a
(11:31):
religious or personal exemption. They're not often taken, but they
are when people really want them. It has not endangered
the efficacy of vaccines, and Connecticut should show the respect
for the individual to do that as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They say too that this would be a radical departure
from Connecticut law.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
First and foremost, Yes, it would but it's also impinging
on individual region. That's what we care about it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And I would imagine parents again on both sides of
the aisle, would be like, I'll make the decision as
to what vaccines, what vaccinations my kids get. This should
alarm the left as well. Why it won't is beyond me.
But in Connecticut, I worry that it won't.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, you know, it's very unfortunate. I have to say
that in this polarized time, the left just walks in
lockstep instead of talking about the fundamental principles the Bill
of rights, right, they're just walking in lockstep. They're against dice,
there are four vaccines. Whatever the guys at the top say,
they just prot it. They have to think for ourselves.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
That's exactly right.
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