NewsMax Host and NY Post Columnist Betsy McCaughey

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Newsmax former Lieutenant Governor of New York Betsy McCoy.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks, Denny, I.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Appreciate you coming on this morning this morning, So that's
how you pronounced that. That's an interesting spelling for McCoy.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's scott Irish that I've lived in at my home.
I like that name. I'm really glad to join you
because most people, Vinny, including most people listening to us
this morning, have not gotten the truth about this so
called housing bill, and it's not really about housing that
the Democrats in Connecticut ram through in the dark of

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night last week, one o'clock in the morning, they voted
for it.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Do you know how many things I've reported here in
how many bills have been voted on between one and
three am in Connecticut in the fifteen years, have been
doing this show many times. Republicans later informing me, didn't
even know the vote was going wasn't even there, didn't
even know what was going on.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It was to see that the Democratic supermajority neared that
the Republicans, when Republican lawmakers asked the question, refused to
consider the amendments. There was no democracy with a small
D there. It was really an insult to the public

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that they refused to have a sincere debate. And let
me tell you, some of the things they were doing
were totally wacko, so far left extreme, so contrary to
the best instances of people in the state. But they
wouldn't even allow a debate on what the negative repercussions
of these decisions they were making would be. For example,

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the homeless under this new bill parked throughout the state.
Any town park has to make it possible for the
homeless to camp there and sleep overnight. You can't install
a bench with a divider or armrest because it's too
hard to sleep on it. Now, think of this. Most

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people aren't homeless just because they lost their home. What
we've learned over the years is that many people who
are homeless have drug addiction problems, or mental health problems,
or they have a criminal record that makes it very
hard for them to get a job. So just if
you have people coming into a town park and camping

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because they're homeless, it brings dangers with it. For example,
in Los Angeles, one percent of the population is homeless,
but they're responsible for twenty five percent of the homicides.
So who's going to let their teenagers go into that
park by themselves, as teenagers want to do. If they're
going to come across syringes and needles and crime, you know,

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real danger.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah. I actually received a message this morning too, Betchy
from a listener say, you know this passed with another
tax on our phone bills too? Can you can you
explain that to me? Because I didn't know what he meant.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
This is another outrage. This is what the Dems want
to do instead of admitting what they're spending money on.
And this money is well spent. It's on cancer programs
for firefighters. Nobody would not want to support that, But
instead of putting it in your tax bill, they're starting
to add things to your utility bills. Like you're not

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gonna notice, right, this isn't going to be counted as spending.
It's the process that's corrupt. But think about this. They're
also going to have piloted They're gonna have trucks that
roll up to these public parks with portable showers and
launching facilities to encourage the homeless to sleep through. So

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every little town with a beautiful park suddenly it's becoming
a homeless shelter.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
The bill. Yeah, and to the utility end of the equation.
We've got one of that. We've got on our utility bills,
our electricity bill. Yeah. Well that's right, you're.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, one hundred dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yep. And they give it, they give it these interesting names,
the public Benefits charge. But I forget you are a
Greenwich resident. How long have you called Connecticut home?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, I grew up in Connecticut. Oh okay, I grew
up in Milford As I went to kindergarten there. Then
I moved to Westport and that's where I went to
school most of my childhood. And then I came back
to Connecticut as an adult and I've owned a home
in Greenwich since twenty twelve. I love it there. This
bill is going to destroy the towns and then not

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just a tony town like Greenwich, but many of the
rural towns, sweet towns all around the state, because what
it says is you have to welcome these apartment buildings, right,
and you town, not the state. The town has to
build the infrastructure, the sewers, the water lines, the bus

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lines to make it possible for apartment living, right. And
so suddenly your property taxes are going to go through
the roof. This isn't a bill that makes housing more affordable.
It makes it less affordable.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I just got a message from a gentleman saying, even
our tenants are upset over this bill. They want affordable
single family options. I've helped guide others in the past
with their own purchase when they've outgrown my particular units,
and this just doesn't help anyone. But that's Ned Lamont
and his Democrat cronies. That's a message I'm receiving right now.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
And you know you're right. Ned Lamont is moving far
to the left. He's getting primary He wants to run
for a third term. I don't know why because the
first two terms, he says, now he's going to deal
with things like electric prices and energy costs. Why didn't
he do it in the first eight years? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Absolutely, And you must not You must not be too
far from where old Ned chopped down all of those
trees wetlands. Yeah yeah, whatever happened with that story too?
That that story just sty isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, Although I'm.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Not this bill has been misrepresented in the press, and
the people of Connecticut are getting lied to by Lamont
and also by the press. I have to tell you
the Connecticut mirror of the Hartford Current. He'll name them.
They're not doing their job actually reading this bill. If
you read this bill, you will see with precision that

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the law requires towns to provide housing for a specific
number of quotes, the very poor with median incomes less
than thirty percent of the state median uh and then
all these different it's like a cookie cutter template. Every
town has to have the same economic diverse city. That's

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Soviet style thinking. That is.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And like you mentioned too, there are a lot of
there are so many quaint off the grid Connecticut towns
that you know you work hard to get to treat
you know, you work your whole life to save up
the money to get to a particular town, a particular

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school system for your kids. To make it a one
size fits all for the entire state is just it's unfair.
It's unfair to everyone.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's that's what it is. It is so unfair. It
is highway robbery. You're right, you work for years to
buy a home and a leafy suburb with a quiet street,
and now they're telling you you can't have that unless
everybody can live there, including the homeless and people who
are just starting out and not earning enough. What's the
story here? Why work? Why work?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
And again Ron with Betsy McCoy, who's got a show
on news Max Calmness for the New York Have you
covered this?

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Have you covered today? My little fingers are going across
that keyboard as best as I can to tell people
the truth about this bill.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
How do you feel.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's shocking that Ned Lamont is going to sign it?
It's shocking because, let me tell you, years ago he
would not have signed it. But now, just like Kassi
Hochele in New York, he is cow telling to the
far left. He's afraid he won't get re elected. He
wants a third term. Kind of greedy of them since
he hasn't done such a great job the first eight years.
He has presided over the gradual decline of Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yea, as a Connecticut resident, do you feel this time around?
I liked Bob Stefanowski myself, and second time around I
thought he actually had a good chance, but geez, the
numbers don't lie, right. Do you feel like Lamont's got
any legitimate competition this time around?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know, it's hard to say, I don't see it yet,
but it could happen. You know, it's very early. Other
people could jump into this race because it's an outrage
that someone who has allowed Connecticut to steadily decline once
a third term, what does he wanted for?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, plus the timing of everything, he announced it days
after the blue wave came crashing ashore. Would he not
have if that wasn't the you know, the world played
out just like I would ask you, Betsy, would this
bill have still been? And I'm literally, you know, asking
you this right now. Was this a response to the
shutdown coming to an end because the Democrats didn't want

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the response.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
This is a response to his fear that he's going
to be primary from the left. He sees the Democratic
Party in Connecticut ELP moving radically to the left, and
he's going to towtalent Ben Denea of those lefties rather
than standing up for the people of Connecticut. That is
the sad.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Part, you know. And those on the left too, They
called him out when he vetoed the bill that would
have seen striking workers get paid to strike, so right
the left were suddenly deeming him not left enough. So
I think I think you might be honest to something. Yeah.
As a result of that, he's like, well, I'll show

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you just how left I can be while I eat
some pizza. Because all he talks about is pizza.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I don't know showing us how left he can be.
And by the way, this law goes into effect, the
number is dictating how many units the town must build
goes into effect right after the next subernatorial election. So
he's hoping he'll be scotch free and re elected before
we feel the pain.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
And is it one size fits all town to town
to town, no matter how small the town. What if
the town is so small it does it's well.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's proportional. As I said, every town must have twenty
percent affordable housing. That means apartments that are available to
people of a certain income or left right including and
they really, I mean this is in detail the bill
over one hundred pages. It specifies in detail how many

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at each income level. Right, there's no room for variation here.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah. I wonder how the bidding will play out, too,
Like I wonder how the bidding war will go for
the construction for these jobs. Will it be all out
of state construction workers or will I don't know it's.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Going to be a handout to the developers, that's sure.
I'd love to see how much money those developers are
paying those lefties. And also there's a I call it
the homeless industrial complex, homeless advocacy industrial complex. Those people
are thrilled with this because they want all of these

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apartment buildings to take in a certain number of homeless.
They're going to hand them a key, is if that's
the remedy. But we have so many years of experience
to so when you hand somebody who's homeless in apartment
without paying attention to whether the person is drug addiction
or mental illness, whether the person is going to assault
their neighbors in the building or set the place on fire.

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I mean literally, there's just so much documentation that this
quote housing first philosophy, give them a house, everything will
be fine, doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Is that the tax bringing that into.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Every town, Every town is going to be doing that.
Every town will have homeless people placed in those apartments.
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, and many of those people place in those apartments,
they'll be homeless because they just got here to the
United States. Oh yeah, with inside of a week, less
than a week in many cases, I think too. That's
another pipeline that has to be taken into consideration too.
But he would proudly say Lamont that we welcome everyone here.

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We've got the housing for you. We've got driver's licenses.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
By the way, we're supposed to pay the bill, yes,
players of the state are supposed to pay the bill.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
They several years ago they under La Monte pass something
called baby bonds.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Have you heard about that, baby bonds? Yeah? Ill, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Baby bonds. Okay, So if a child is born in
the state eligible for Medicaid right from birth, and this
includes a child born to people who have just walked
across the border from Mexico, right so you don't have
to be a citizen. Parents can walk into the state
of Connecticut. A day later, the mom can give birth,

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and this child is eligible for a baby bond, which
is a savings account set up by the state with
your tax money right to thirty eight hundred dollars I
think it is. I can't remember the exact figure, but
something like that deposited in that account for that baby.
So when the baby reaches Ajateen, the baby has a
nest nagg. Now, Benny, you know you and I. We

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work hard to give our kids a net egg. We
work hard to give our grandkids a nest egg. We
scrimp and save for that, right, but now we're being
told we have to give money for somebody else's kids
nest eggs. I mean, I can imagine paying tax dollars
for a baby's diapers, a baby's food, a baby's a
roof over their heads, but for us savings account.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
A nest eggs next day. I was just earlier this
morning talking about how my nineteen year old son's kind
of giving me a hard time that what I've saved
up for him isn't enough. Now wait until he finds
out that I'm actually I've got several nest eggs going, buddy,
not just yours.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Fords.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Unbelievable, kids. I look forward to reading the article and
watching the coverage on Newsmax. Again. It's Betsy McCoy, Greenwich,
Connecticut's own. I hope this can become a regular thing.
We could have you on on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I'd love to do that. Your show is a public
service