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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm signing the Housing Build Special shout out to Jason
Rojas and Bob Duff for getting this over the finish line. Personally,
I want to thank the bipartison group of First Selectment
and mayor's taking the lead here we call it towns
take the lead. I think they appreciate more than anybody
how important it is we get housing. If you believe
in economic opportunity and affordability, we need more housing in

(00:21):
those downtown areas.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's sign the bill. Oh show us, yeah, Oh, he's
showing us signing it. And now thanks for getting it
done and now and then the governor held it up
to it and there it is. There's my signature. So
it's signed, and it's somehow bipartisan, even while there is
zero Republican support. Eight Democrats voted no. If I'm remembering correctly,

(00:44):
I need some assistance. We go to the Project hotline
right now. Welcome back to the show, Betsy McCoy, News
Max's own also columnists. And you did write the article
on this housing bill too, did you not, Betsy?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's right, but I'm not calling it the housing bill.
This is rich boyd Lamont's Economic Diversity Law. He's trying
to think make everybody think this is a housing law.
But I'm going to tell you that right here on
page twenty five, line seven oh one, it says the
purpose of this bill is economic diversity. Let me translate

(01:20):
that for everybody listening, Vinnie. If you worked your butt
off and save to buy a single family home in
a quiet neighborhood, this bill says, you can't have that.
You can't have that unless everybody else can live there too.
And Lamon's going to put a trailer park next door,

(01:40):
or an affordable housing a building next door, because you
can't have more than somebody else, even if you worked
your whole life to get it.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, and he's not even in Connecticut that much anymore
for it to really care about the huge decisions he
makes that affect all of us who do live here
or plan either want to stay here or kind of
forced to. Ye, you have nowhere to go to would
like to retire here. It's unaffordable already. I feel. That's

(02:11):
another problem is he's got property gatases either in Maine
or his wife's got business in Nashville and Tennessee. So
I don't even know if he's here to see what
this is going to cause. Will be here to see
what this is going to cause. And I think that's
part of the decision is I won't even be around,

(02:32):
you know, when in its wake, I won't be here
for it.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, rich Boordlamon is naive about this. He hasn't fought
the battles. He hasn't seen what homeless encampments do to
Tompkins Square Park in New York or the neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon.
I'm going to tell you he doesn't understand that you're
going to be stepping over human waste and syringes and

(02:58):
fearful of walking down the street in your hometown because
they are vagrants sleeping in the park, and vagrants bring
very high crime rates.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, that's such an important thing you said right there.
I did a story right before the Thanksgiving holiday of
the Christmas tree being delivered to the New Haven Green
here the city where I was born and raised, and
they had to move out a homeless encampment, six tents
people living there and had why the police chose, and

(03:31):
the mayor that morning, so children were there with their
parents to watch because they knew the tree was being delivered.
They had to watch. Why they didn't do it the
night before is beyond me, But that he never once visited.
We've got homeless encampments all over Connecticut. Visit one of them,
see it up close and personal. See the problem you're exacerbating.

(03:55):
But he doesn't even. I gotta at least give it
up to New Haven's crappy mayor he at least goes
there and sees it. He only makes it worse, but
at least he goes. That's how low my bar is, Betsy,
that's how low my bar is.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well. Rich boy Lamont wants a homeless encampment in every
town because this new bill, unfortunately I have to call
it a law now because it's been signed. Lamont's economic
diversity law says that towns must welcome the vagrants. They
are not allowed, under the new law to discourage vagrancy

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by having park benches, for example, with a divider in
the middle so people can't sleep overnight in them. Oh no,
they have to encourage the vagrancy, encourage the encampments. Right,
and here's the wind offer.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Are we buying pillows too? Will we be supplying pillows
as well?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, we're going to supply showers. Listen to this. The
state is piloting a program now with trucks with mobile
showers and wash machines on them that will pull up
to your local town park so the vagrants can come out,
take a shower, right, launder their clothes, and then go
back and continue to live in their encampments on your

(05:13):
town green. That is in the bill. In fact, I'm
going to tell you the page number because it makes
me so furious when I look when I when I
read it, I can't. I can't believe that while.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
You seek out that page, Betsy, you don't think any
drug use will take place in those showers? Do you
are sexual?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Don't imagine?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
You don't think anything like that will happen here?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
It is it's sixty one, that's right. Yes, this The
whole point here is that he's going to make every
town suffer the same problems as inner cities. This is
not a bill to provide housing. It's a bill to
provide what he calls economic diversity. Line seven oh one.

(06:01):
Look at it yourself. They're shoving it down your throat.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, that's it, that's and that's it. One of the
silliest terms I've ever.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Heard he's going to get on a private plane and
fly somewhere else. But the rest of us are going
to have our little towns impacted by this. You know,
I give my grandkids spending money, and I say walk
around town like a rite of passage. You can't tell
your kids are grandkids to walk around town when there
are vagrants living in the local park because the crime

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rates are going to shoot through the roof. I'll give
you one statistic that shows you how dangerous this is.
In Los Angeles. The homeless or one percent of the population,
twenty five percent of the homicides.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, and to your point, and again, wrong with Bencha McCoy.
Right now, you can catch her on Newsmax and her
work is it New York Post? Colin is New York Post.
It's a New York Post. And I read that art
fantastic article. I read it, but I think word for
word here on the air after you were on us.
You know, no, it's fantastic. It's an important service. And

(07:07):
I have now a nineteen year old son. He began
going downtown New Haven for school lash after graduated high
school at eighteen, So a little over a year ago,
you know when it began, and why wouldn't it. It
was kind of exhilarating. He was driving down there in
his own car, parking, taking his college classes. He loved
walking around downtown New Haven. And I would say to him,

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you know, that's not the same New Haven from when
I was a kid, But I loved it too, And
I would say on the air here he does love it.
And there were days near missus. One day he was
parked right on the street where three hours later somebody,
you know, there was a shooting. I think a fatality.
Even now here it is a little over a year later, Betsy,

(07:49):
and several days he just thinks it's a dump. He
just sends me pictures of syringes in elevators that he's using,
and people sleeping in doorways. It took him one year
for all of you know, the enthusiasm of youth and
the ambition that and excitement that he was feeling. It

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took him one year for it to all dissipate. Now
he's scared and just wants to get the hell out
of there.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
That's right. And the fact is nobody can raise a
family in an environment like that. So if you live
in a nice town, and I say nice where people
behave themselves, where they take their toys in at night,
where they keep the garbage out of the front lawn.
You don't want this stuff coming. You don't want it.
And yet this new law, the Economic Diversity Law, by

(08:39):
signed by rich Boy Lamont, is going to force you
to have a trailer park next door to you, an
affordable housing building right down the street. And by the way,
they Lamont subscribes to something called housing First. He has
joined a lawsuit along with another real lefty to James.

(09:01):
They're suing the federal government because the federal government now says,
before you get money to help house the homeless, there
have to be strings attached the homeless. People have to
agree to mental health treatments or addiction treatment or job
training programs, something to get them out of this predicament. Right,
Lamont says, no, no, no strings. We're going to just

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take people who are currently homeless and put them in
these new affordable units in your town, right and hope
for the best. Well, it's not going to be the
best because the studies show that when you take people
who are currently homeless and just place them in an
apartment without all of those services. I just suggested all

(09:43):
of those treatments and guidance and help to regain life
in a normal way. What happens. The homeless person assaults
their neighbors, They start fires in the building, there are
floods in the building. They invite drug dealers into the building.
This is going to go on next door to you
in your town.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
I heard from somebody during my time off from Woodbridge saying,
this is actually I didn't realize. You know, you always
feel like there's some theatric people are being theatrical. It's
not going to be every town. Yes it is. It
was like the guy was coming to the realization. He's like,
I live at Woodbridge. He goes, you know how much
it cost me to move here? But I wanted to

(10:23):
xmount of get raise my kids here. Woodbridge is one
of Connecticut's beautiful towns. There are a lot of them.
And this is mandated every town from Woodbridge to Basra.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And you are so right, You are so right. Every
single town will have to provide housing for a specific
number dictated by the state, a specific number of people
who are very very poor, and then another number who
are very poor, and then another number who are poor. Now,
we all want to help the poor. Hey been there, right,

(10:56):
we want to help the poor.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I am poor.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
We're talking drug addicts, right, We're talking homeless people who
need help, mental health treatments, work training. It's not just
a question of taking a person who is dysfunctional and
possibly dangerous, plucking them, putting them down in an apartment
in your town, and saying good luck everybody, good luck

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to all the neighbors. That's what they're doing here now.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
LaMonte wants this to be his legacy, and in a
lot of ways, I want it to be the final
nail in his coffin. As far as governor of the state,
I have heard from a lot of you know, the
small town from first selectmen who are like, I don't
want this, even some Democrats. It seems like the real

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support that he has is the mayor of New Haven,
of Waterberry, of of course Bridgeport, cities that are already
plagued with this problem, like they're already there so they
don't mind. But a small town, even the Democrat leaders
in small town Connecticut, they don't really want this. So

(12:06):
how did it happen?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
You know who wants it the most? Inny Up in
the up in the Capitol, roaming those hallways, the homeless
advocacy industrial complex. There are so many people making a
lot of money for themselves running these homeless quote not
for profits. They're funded by the government and a lot

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of lefties, and they are making a bundle with these
homeless services, with these buildings. They are making the money,
and they're driving this train, you know, and a naive
Ridgeport Lamont. He thinks he's just doing good. He's doing bad.

(12:50):
He is really ruining our towns.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
So why don't you go for it, Betsy, Why don't
you just run and rid us of this? Can sir?
That is ned Lamont.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I am eyeing this battle, Vinny, I am gearing up.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I saw you. I saw somebody ask you that question, responded,
So I wondered if you you might break some news
right here on the show.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Sure, we've got to marshal our resources. We've got to
get the troops ready, and when we do, they're not
going to know what hit them, because rich boyd Lamont
is not ready for this.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I want to ask you too before we let
you go. As somebody who was the lieutenant governor in
New York from ninety five to ninety eight. Those are
great years and those are some of my Some of
my favorite memories in New York were from ninety seven
to two thousand. I would say, just just to give
you specific years, I've been going into New York on

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my own, you know, with girls, what have you with
buddies of mine since the mid eighties. The eighties were dicey,
the early nineties were, late nineties were beautiful. I just
read it for years. I just read it. I just
read an article about what's going on in Central Park
and how New York lifers are saying, like one woman
was sexually assaulted walking through Central Park with her husband.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, well that's because now we've got a socialist mayor
elect and uh a big movement to defund the police.
I stand with the Blue and let me tell you,
in Connecticut, the cops are going to be very busy.
They're going to need our support because this law, this

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economic diversity law, is bringing crime to every town in
this That's it.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's it. You know, your description of what people can expect.
I you know, I feel like that that it happened
in Central part I mean people live there now, I
mean it's their that's their home.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
And that's just But we've got a.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Governor who's so naive, who've never seen it up close,
who hasn't bought these problems, and he's just being rolled
by the homeless advocacy and industrial complex, and he's moving
far left to get re elected.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Betsy McCoy, let's come and get him. I appreciate you
coming on, and let's stay in touch.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
And your show is a public service.