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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nairol Moore, West Haven zone. A political newcomer. They described
you as a new Haven register I mean at twenty seven,
guess to a degree, how could you not be? But
you've probably been civic minded your whole life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You strike me? Is that way right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And taken on of all people Gary Winfield, who's not
necessarily a fan of the Vinny Benn project the race
for the tenth district. You know one thing that frustrates
me about Winfield and his brethren, if you will, is.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know you had a horrible thing happened him.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm sure you probably requo it about a year year
and a half ago. House shot up in New Haven.
His kids are in the living room, they all got
to drop on the floor, and you know you certainly
wouldn't wish that on anyone. But then the ability to
you know, speak like the governor does and Chris Murphy does.
That crime's wildly low. It's at an all time low.
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It's Plummeted's like, man, you had to, you know, lay
on the floor with your children in.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Your living room.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's your windows shattered. How can you not call for change?
How can you not walk back that police reform exactly?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You know, how do you feel about all those things
about the state of West Haven, the state of Connecticut,
and the race.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So it's good that you bought the police reform up
because I agree, especially him being an ex police officer
from New York. It really doesn't make sense for us
to work or look at defunding the police or having
a reform on the police when our communities are not
the safest they need to be. So New Haven, for example,
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our senator that represents District ten, his house got shot at.
That's not that's not an environment that we need to do.
We need to have our children living in. Because he's
actually creating policy for the people of New Haven, but
he was in danger in the environment that he's actually
creating policy for the.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Middle of the day too.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's just important to note, and this is crazy stuff
you have to say on the radio, but like he
wasn't even the target, Like it's crazy, but if he
was to target some political decisions, I mean, this is
a drive bud, Yeah, tried and true drive by, And
that shows you that police presence is necessary exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And they try to use they try to use racism
against us. Yeah, I'm as a black African American man,
it's I understand the media ploy and how they try
to manipulate my generation to go against the police and
try to take protection or power from the police. And
that's not what we need because the more power you
take from the police, the more power you give to criminals,
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the less likely criminals are going to be susceptible to
getting arrested or thinking that they shouldn't be doing something.
And that's a problem for the youth because once the
youth gets into an environment where they believe that they
can do whatever they want, we're going to have peopleeole
that are truly doing whatever they want, and that can
come at the cost of the everyday person, me and you.
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As I grow, I'm going to be happy to live
in the world, or one day I'll be fifty and
there may be children or twenty five year olds at
that time that believe that what is morally wrong is
actually emotionally correct. Yes, and we need to get past
a lot of that stuff and get past the emotional
part about it and go back to the logic and
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the police reform that's logical, especially in places like New
Haven and urban communities where the crime rates have been
increasing for the last thirty forty fifty years due to
the War on drugs, due to the poverty rates increasing
and people trying to figure out a way out in
certain communities. Unfortunately, that has brought more crime into the communities.
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But a police reform bill and defunding the police is
not going to be the route to better the community.
Put in the more protection and then worried about the
mental health at that community is actually the smartest way
to go about things. But that's something that people don't
want to have a conversation on because mental health has
to play on how you interact with people, and if
you don't want to change yourself, then you don't want
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to change how you think. And if you don't want
to change how you think, then you can't change your environment.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, it's interesting you bring up mental health too, because
we were talking about memes before. We're talking about social
media and people feel like they can get their their
self love and their mental health adjustments via these They're
powerful little you know, it's a nice little saying you
a little little yates you got right there posted on
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your wall.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's not the same as really looking inward. But people
feel like social media is where you get your candidate
where you and I don't want to be dismissive. You
probably got all sorts of pages. I've got your page
up right here more for ct dot com. It's great
page too. I love the use of the surname too.
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More truth, more free, the more.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Life m oo r e. I think that's great stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But we were talking about my kids too, Like my
son spews some stuff and I'm like, where did you
get that one from? Oh, TikTok? And when I say
to them, how come I don't see it on TikTok.
We're on different sides of TikTok, Yeah, because there's sides
to them.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's an algorithm, yeah, yeah, and it feeds you it's dopamine,
and you know, it gives you what it thinks you're
looking for exactly, and then it runs a mark.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Are you using social media and anyway for the campaign?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Of course it's I am using social media.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean it's tough to navigate.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, and I've I got off social media for a while,
and of twenty seven, your mental health probably yeah. Yeah,
it's hard to believe that a twenty seven year old
can get off social media. But I dig get off
of the facebooks, the snapchats because I saw it was
a distraction. It's almost like you would be sitting there
and zombie scrolling I would call it, where you're just
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your mind is just going and you're just not really
looking at what you're looking at or it was in
fun of you. You're more just scrolling and just letting
things go past your mind. And that's distracted, and that
really defeats the purpose of what we need to be
doing here. I think on just in terms of just
our space or our position, our purpose on the planet.
And I know social media is very distracting for in
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the next generation. We have to figure out a way
to combat what they have or what they're trying to
tell us is true and what is actually reality, because
we can't if we can't discern.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We don't know where we're going. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Windfield, he's got bedfellows, he's got people who've been around
for Farlow. I mean he screams term limits. You know,
he's got the laurel probably or at least very at
least did it one time. He's got law or you know,
he's he's got the governor. I mean, we talking to
you now, Row, It's like Connecticut. We've actually got a squad.
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Remember the squad, Like there is a squad in New Haven.
That squad needs to be disrupted. I've had two Republicans
in here this week who were duking it out in
a primary next week, I think to take on Chris
Murphy taunting task. So's Winfield. Will you be debating him?
So that's that should happen. You're well spoken, you'd give
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him a run.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That's a conversation I just had with somebody. We'll come.
We'll get there when it gets there. Yeah, I'm sure
we'll We'll have that conversation. And I will love a
debate because the people would I think they would need
to understand both sides of the party. And that's one
that's another problem that we have with the Republican Party.
I became Republican because I just studied history. I love
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I love history. I love being a historian and looking
at just how we started just here in America and
where we're going. You got to understand where things were
in the past in order to understand how things could
be in the future. And unfortunately, it seems to me
just in our community or my community alone, that we've
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been tricked into aligning with people that never really served
us any benefit historically. So and they've done things just
throughout social welfare programs and giving us things that make
us feel good that in that moment in time, it
looks like they're doing something for us.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But when it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Comes to thirty forty years down the line, if you
look at the mentality of the community, it is actually
a detriment and has been a detriment for us for
a very long time. But that's something that I believe
that a lot of people, I have a lot of
people on one side of the party have been trying
to push onto us. And it comes to the it
comes to the ignorance of the every day, every day
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person in society.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, the average dreg sure.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, and there's deterioration. Deniers people are like, what, everything's
good great?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I struggled with that as somebody born and raised in
New Haven, It's like, this is not the New Haven
I you know, I grew up and as a West
Haven guy, born and raised, Yes, and I went to
high school in West Tave and I went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, I've got a lot of fun Metas, So I'm
not being trying to come at you. You probably got
a love for your hometown. But a friend of mine
opened up a restaurant there right on the water Oak.
I never remember the name of event, but he's killing
it so because he keeps saying to me, why can't
you get the name right? It's right on the water
right across from Savin Rock Oak something. It's a great
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rest rant, and he's killing it there. But the first
time that I went, which was last summer, you know,
I drove through by the Green and down at campbell Ab.
I'm like, wow, west Haven has changed. Yeah, how do
you feel about the streets of West Haven right now?
Because that's one of the biggest things in that race there.
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I'm like, you know, the violence, the crime in New
Haven and in West Savn and the deniers. All right,
we're not going to get anywhere as long as you
keep saying, oh, it's as beautiful as it ever was. Nah,
it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah it was Haven. It gave me a hotspot for
a lot of economic development, and that's what people don't see.
I study economics, and I've kind of realized that people
don't have the mentality, the micro macro mentality that comes
with that. So it has the biggest shoreline in Connecticut,
for example, that can bring in so much attraction to
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whats Haven, so much leisure to west Haven. So who
is in those positions of power to actually implement this
stuff and to look at the shoreline being the biggest
in the in the state, trying to use that to
their advantage. Yeah, and it's like who is creating this stuff?
But then you start you have to look at the
land trust and a lot of the nepotism that has
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unfortunately been passed down in west Haven. So you have
people that have been had that had these land trusts
for thirty forty years that unfortunately don't want to give
it up and you can't find any middle ground with them.
So that's another problem that's also happened in west Haven.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
On top of the identify that that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, and then on top of the taxes and everything
going up and the cost of living going up, it's
very hard to live in west Haven as the average
west Haven or thirty years ago. If you've been a
resident for a long time, you've seen the decline and
you want to bring it up and the people of
west Haven. They want to bring the community up, but
nobody's doing really anything for them up in Hartford, and
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I think that's where it starts. And we got a
new We have a new I would say, regime in office.
Durinda's been doing pretty well, but I'm just gonna take
that for a grain of saltware.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I'm seeing what she's doing is great for the community.
I want her to keep doing that. But she's also
on that other side, and I can't really say much
about her specifically, but I know how as you go
higher up, there's less and less that's that's been done
for our communities, and I just don't want that to
continue to happen.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, I mean, I have such fun memory. I have
night chicks, yeah, you know, etched in my mat and
the Captain's gallery right next to that, and walking back
and forth, a bit of a tiny little crawl, if
you will, back and forth, and you watch the slow deterioration.
Now the thing's all but gone, I mean it is gone. Yeah,
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nothing back in its place, I don't think yet.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, they have a new project that's that's coming about,
and hopefully that that actually falls through and everything goes
well with that and it looks like it's everything's been
mean comes through. It's something you want to yes, yes, yes,
everything has been approved. It's just naturally get to fruition.
It's like a bar that'll be right across or where
Chicks used to be, kind of where the skatepark was
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that has a rooftop. People can go there, play games.
It's it would be a nice environment shot in the
little shack essentially for the shoreline, which I think that'd
be great. But it has to happen and once people
can talk, people can improve things. But things have to
again come to fruition. And if we're not going to
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have the right people applying the applying the right effort
and to the project, then we're not going to have
something that's going to be actually developed.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We need to have the development great stuff now real, Maur.
I appreciate you coming in.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Again.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's more than just West Staven, but we've got to
focus on West Staven first and foremost. The website again
is more the number four ct dot com. You can
make donations I see right on there. Do you have
any fundraisers coming up? Anything you need to announce us
The clock ticks like where people can meet in talk
to you. So if Dynamic Speaker.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
If you do want to reach out to me, you
can reach out to me at my website as you
said more for CT dot com as m O O
R E the number four CT dot com. You can
also reach out to me via Instagram or just look
up my name on Facebook. I'm sure you can find
me and I'm an open path of communication. I want
the people to understand where I am and where I
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want to bring the future of the country. But I
am looking for donations right now and all in city
donations would would be beneficial as I am looking to
get to a threshold so we can make the race
against Gary financially or yeah, financially.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Equal, we can bring it to them. Yes, and I'd
love to afford, you know, offer up the studio right
here for a debate too. I'd love to have the
two of you sit in here and say you've done
that before in the past. If you're looking for a venue,
that exchange should happen. I hope it does. Niral Moore
from wes Dave and again thanks for coming in. I
wish you the best luck and we'll have you on again,
as we get closer, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Thank you.