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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I wanted to start things off Betsy with I received
(00:02):
an email from a gentleman who is very supportive of
your campaign. For some reason, we just wanted to pass
it on to you. He said, I really feel like
somebody has to go after the state teachers' unions. I
wondered what your take was on this. He said that
the Dems and the unions their grip on local education
(00:22):
and thereby on all local government finances filthy rotten, and
the media cover they get, you know, freeze them up
to do even more. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Let me say I agree. I agree, and the real
shakedown here is that members of the teachers' union literally
have a lock on local school board elections. They should
be prohibited from running for the school board or having
anyone in their family run for the school board, because otherwise,
(00:54):
at the negotiating table, they're on both sides of the table.
There's no representative for taxpayers are parents, because they have
total control of the system. I have a lot of
respect for teachers. I taught for many years myself in
high school, and then after I got my PhD, I
taught at Columbia for many years. The fact is the
teaching is a noble profession, but the Teachers' Union is
(01:18):
a racket.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It is. But now I have to ask that I've
got to acknowledge the elephant in the room. I've been
doing this long enough. This is my thirtieth year in
broadcast here in Connecticut, and I've watched all sorts of
different races play out, you know, from mayoral to gubernatorial,
et cetera, et cetera. That's a coveted endorsement, though the
(01:40):
Teachers' union endorsement usually silences candidates. What would you do
if you found yourself at that crossroads, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I don't think I will. I think it's more
likely that they will launch me in a rocket ship
to the moon than offer me the Teachers' union endorsement.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Benney really with the rocketship to the moon. But that's
how they silenced the candidate. You know, I watched one
race here. It was a mayoral race, and they got
the firefight. They got the fire department to endorse them,
and I had an inn with the fire department. They
did not like the candidate, but it was a game.
(02:19):
It was a racket. They're like, this is what we
were promised if we gave this, we give this now.
At the time, I was a little bit younger, a
little bit more naive, and I just thought, well, endorsements
don't sway me as a voter. I don't care who's
endorsed you. But there are many out there who do.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's true. But I'm not the establishment candidate. If you
want an establishment candidates, there are some outs there. But
I view myself as a disruptor. I'm going to Hartford
the clean House to represent homeowners, taskpayers, parents, not the establishment.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, and you're viewed that way too. The Hartford Current headline,
she's late, but Betsy McCoy could upend the governor race.
What do you think of that headline? And I found
it interesting that the Hartford Current very subtle. You know,
I got my degree in journalism. I got my first
byline in nineteen eighty nine. Betsy. Not that I'm trying
(03:17):
to compete you. Your successes have been extraordinary, but I have.
And it's I find it shady that the picture they
use for that is you with Juliani and Trump from
how long ago?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Trump looks like Is that funny?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Trump looks like he's about twenty four in that photo,
Why do you why use that funny?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sure? Like, I'm sure he liked that photo as much
as I did. We were all lined up, Rudy Trump
and I in front of a building with jackhammers. We
were kind of announcing a new building that was being built.
I assume it was a Trump building. And I was
lieutenant governor at the time. So I've worked with the
(04:01):
president for a very long time, and I know that
as governor I will be able to work with the
president and bring resources to this state.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, that's that's great. So so you didn't when you
looked at that photo, you didn't think and I see
what you're trying to do here using that voter You
just thought it was I was flattered. I think it great.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
They should be standing next to the president of the
United States. What about you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, well, I know that here in Connecticut in particular,
the left likes to use it against you. Then they
just say maga and that's all they they that's a
match that they did it to Leora Levy and the
affiliation with Trump. Vote for hers, vote for Trump. And
you might even say too, And it's fine by me
as well. Uh, but there are some out there that
(04:45):
that will make them scatter, and I don't let you know.
And that's not the role of the local media. That's
not the role of the certainly the oldest newspaper in
the country, the Hartford Current. They shouldn't be playing those games.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, keep in mind that the occasion for that article
and for my press conference in Hartford in the capital,
was to announce that I'm going to eliminate the state's
income tax. And that's really powerful for everyone listening because
right now Connecticut ranks forty eighth out of fiftieth in
(05:22):
economic growth, near a rock bottom. Now Lefty Lamont, money
bags Lamont. He's not going to answer for that. Whenever
I raise that issue, he sends out a press release
from the Democratic Governors Association. He will not even engage.
And yet this is the key issue for so many
people in Connecticut. Jobs are fleeing. Connecticut is losing the
(05:47):
competition for economic growth because other states are lowering taxes,
eliminating income taxes and saying come on in, bring your
company in. And mobility, corporate mobility has never been stronger
than it is now. These companies are looking for the
best place to locate. It's not about the weather. It's
(06:07):
how much you get to keep.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well Saturday and again ron with Betsy McCoy right now.
And it says too in the article. During the first
three minutes alone of this news conference, you did refer
to him as moneybags LaMotte, which I'm a big fan
of the nickname stuff, and that is actually absolutely fitting.
Kathy Hochl, the spineless governor of New York State. Another zinger.
(06:31):
I don't know what you said about Mom, Donnie, but
he started off the wheel. I mean to make these
kids to not give a snow day yesterday. I thought
was a bizarre move by Mom Donnie.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It was. But what was much worse than much worse
is Mondannie insists that these homeless encampments, yeah, be spread
all over the city, Unlike every other mayor in America.
Now he's allowing these homeless kimp So, I will tell
you that it's a Monday morning, eight dead, Vinnie, eight
(07:06):
dead of the cold.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's not only cruel to everyone else in New York City,
it's so cool to the vagrants themselves there. They're alcohol adults,
they're drug addicted, they can't make good decisions for themselves.
And he's letting them freeze to death in the cold.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Wow, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The side of mom, Donnie. You may not have seen before.
There's no compassion in that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah. Oh, and that's happening here in New Haven too.
I don't know your neck of the woods in Connecticut.
It's certainly a prevalent in Hartford New Haven. There are
encampments all over the city. They get moved around, some
of them get tucked away. They'll get nice little hotel
digs on our dime for a few, you know, a
few days here and there. It's certainly a very real problem,
(07:52):
the homeless encampment encampments. My nineteen year old son told
me the other day that something he had to do
downtown New Haven he was going to pass on doing
because it would necessitate him. And he's, you know, he's nineteen, Betsy,
So he's going through the liberal phase, the glorious liberal
phase of your last year of being a teenager. And
(08:15):
even he said, he goes, I hate walking across that green. Now,
this was the green of my youth. I have so
many memories on the new Aving Green. It's just not
the same green. He said that the homeless people are
aggressive for money, that they get, you know, physical when
they ask for money. There's people laying in the grass.
They look dead. I hate crossing the green and that
(08:36):
was a heartbreaking thing for me to hear because like
I was trapesing across that green at twelve in New Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's right, Yeah, homeless encampments are very dangerous. They spread disease.
I was just writing this morning about a disease called leptosporosis,
a bacterial infection that is racing through homeless encampments in California.
And you will see it once the weather gets a
little warmer. It's carried in rats, rat urine, but also
(09:06):
in just a puddle on the street. You're you're not
gonna be able to let your kids jump in a
puddle if they're walking on a city street anymore because
of the risk of leptost borosis, and homeless encampments really
allowed us to spread. And you you mentioned crime before, Vinnie,
the crime Look at Los Angeles. The homeless makeup one
(09:28):
percent of the population, fifteen percent of the violent crime suspect.
Tells you everything you need to know. It's dangerous to
walk by a homeless encampment.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh yeah, you know, absolutely, And like I said about
that that sound of mine. You know, when his time
downtown new Haven began about a year and a half ago,
he would tell me these stories. Ah, you know, I
threw a dollar to the and I'm like, oh, such
a generous sweek. It It took a year and a
half for him to realize that's just asking for trouble.
(09:58):
That's just it is.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He'll get months the other fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He's now terrified to go downtown new Haven and that
breaks my heart. I was like, you know, a city kid,
you know, I was born and raised. I would take
the bus downtown New Haven and go to the when
we had a mall down there. It's a city being
run into the ground. It's a state being run into
the ground. Betsy McCoy is here to save the day.
Let me ask you this. I'm remembering an email I
might have gotten about a speaking engagement of yours coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think in my woods, well, there are many on
the calendar. I'm going to be in all one hundred
and sixty nine towns, not once, but several times. Finny,
I'm in my band.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh ah, stay long now, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
If you see that Jefvy Tahoe, going by with a
Betsy sign in it. That's mine.
I wanted to start things off Betsy with I received
(00:02):
an email from a gentleman who is very supportive of
your campaign. For some reason, we just wanted to pass
it on to you. He said, I really feel like
somebody has to go after the state teachers' unions. I
wondered what your take was on this. He said that
the Dems and the unions their grip on local education
(00:22):
and thereby on all local government finances filthy rotten, and
the media cover they get, you know, freeze them up
to do even more. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Let me say I agree. I agree, and the real
shakedown here is that members of the teachers' union literally
have a lock on local school board elections. They should
be prohibited from running for the school board or having
anyone in their family run for the school board, because otherwise,
(00:54):
at the negotiating table, they're on both sides of the table.
There's no representative for taxpayers are parents, because they have
total control of the system. I have a lot of
respect for teachers. I taught for many years myself in
high school, and then after I got my PhD, I
taught at Columbia for many years. The fact is the
teaching is a noble profession, but the Teachers' Union is
(01:18):
a racket.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It is. But now I have to ask that I've
got to acknowledge the elephant in the room. I've been
doing this long enough. This is my thirtieth year in
broadcast here in Connecticut, and I've watched all sorts of
different races play out, you know, from mayoral to gubernatorial,
et cetera, et cetera. That's a coveted endorsement, though the
(01:40):
Teachers' union endorsement usually silences candidates. What would you do
if you found yourself at that crossroads, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I don't think I will. I think it's more
likely that they will launch me in a rocket ship
to the moon than offer me the Teachers' union endorsement.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Benney really with the rocketship to the moon. But that's
how they silenced the candidate. You know, I watched one
race here. It was a mayoral race, and they got
the firefight. They got the fire department to endorse them,
and I had an inn with the fire department. They
did not like the candidate, but it was a game.
(02:19):
It was a racket. They're like, this is what we
were promised if we gave this, we give this now.
At the time, I was a little bit younger, a
little bit more naive, and I just thought, well, endorsements
don't sway me as a voter. I don't care who's
endorsed you. But there are many out there who do.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's true. But I'm not the establishment candidate. If you
want an establishment candidates, there are some outs there. But
I view myself as a disruptor. I'm going to Hartford
the clean House to represent homeowners, taskpayers, parents, not the establishment.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, and you're viewed that way too. The Hartford Current headline,
she's late, but Betsy McCoy could upend the governor race.
What do you think of that headline? And I found
it interesting that the Hartford Current very subtle. You know,
I got my degree in journalism. I got my first
byline in nineteen eighty nine. Betsy. Not that I'm trying
(03:17):
to compete you. Your successes have been extraordinary, but I have.
And it's I find it shady that the picture they
use for that is you with Juliani and Trump from
how long ago?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Trump looks like Is that funny?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Trump looks like he's about twenty four in that photo,
Why do you why use that funny?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sure? Like, I'm sure he liked that photo as much
as I did. We were all lined up, Rudy Trump
and I in front of a building with jackhammers. We
were kind of announcing a new building that was being built.
I assume it was a Trump building. And I was
lieutenant governor at the time. So I've worked with the
(04:01):
president for a very long time, and I know that
as governor I will be able to work with the
president and bring resources to this state.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, that's that's great. So so you didn't when you
looked at that photo, you didn't think and I see
what you're trying to do here using that voter You
just thought it was I was flattered. I think it great.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
They should be standing next to the president of the
United States. What about you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, well, I know that here in Connecticut in particular,
the left likes to use it against you. Then they
just say maga and that's all they they that's a
match that they did it to Leora Levy and the
affiliation with Trump. Vote for hers, vote for Trump. And
you might even say too, And it's fine by me
as well. Uh, but there are some out there that
(04:45):
that will make them scatter, and I don't let you know.
And that's not the role of the local media. That's
not the role of the certainly the oldest newspaper in
the country, the Hartford Current. They shouldn't be playing those games.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, keep in mind that the occasion for that article
and for my press conference in Hartford in the capital,
was to announce that I'm going to eliminate the state's
income tax. And that's really powerful for everyone listening because
right now Connecticut ranks forty eighth out of fiftieth in
(05:22):
economic growth, near a rock bottom. Now Lefty Lamont, money
bags Lamont. He's not going to answer for that. Whenever
I raise that issue, he sends out a press release
from the Democratic Governors Association. He will not even engage.
And yet this is the key issue for so many
people in Connecticut. Jobs are fleeing. Connecticut is losing the
(05:47):
competition for economic growth because other states are lowering taxes,
eliminating income taxes and saying come on in, bring your
company in. And mobility, corporate mobility has never been stronger
than it is now. These companies are looking for the
best place to locate. It's not about the weather. It's
(06:07):
how much you get to keep.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well Saturday and again ron with Betsy McCoy right now.
And it says too in the article. During the first
three minutes alone of this news conference, you did refer
to him as moneybags LaMotte, which I'm a big fan
of the nickname stuff, and that is actually absolutely fitting.
Kathy Hochl, the spineless governor of New York State. Another zinger.
(06:31):
I don't know what you said about Mom, Donnie, but
he started off the wheel. I mean to make these
kids to not give a snow day yesterday. I thought
was a bizarre move by Mom Donnie.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It was. But what was much worse than much worse
is Mondannie insists that these homeless encampments, yeah, be spread
all over the city, Unlike every other mayor in America.
Now he's allowing these homeless kimp So, I will tell
you that it's a Monday morning, eight dead, Vinnie, eight
(07:06):
dead of the cold.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's not only cruel to everyone else in New York City,
it's so cool to the vagrants themselves there. They're alcohol adults,
they're drug addicted, they can't make good decisions for themselves.
And he's letting them freeze to death in the cold.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Wow, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The side of mom, Donnie. You may not have seen before.
There's no compassion in that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah. Oh, and that's happening here in New Haven too.
I don't know your neck of the woods in Connecticut.
It's certainly a prevalent in Hartford New Haven. There are
encampments all over the city. They get moved around, some
of them get tucked away. They'll get nice little hotel
digs on our dime for a few, you know, a
few days here and there. It's certainly a very real problem,
(07:52):
the homeless encampment encampments. My nineteen year old son told
me the other day that something he had to do
downtown New Haven he was going to pass on doing
because it would necessitate him. And he's, you know, he's nineteen, Betsy,
So he's going through the liberal phase, the glorious liberal
phase of your last year of being a teenager. And
(08:15):
even he said, he goes, I hate walking across that green. Now,
this was the green of my youth. I have so
many memories on the new Aving Green. It's just not
the same green. He said that the homeless people are
aggressive for money, that they get, you know, physical when
they ask for money. There's people laying in the grass.
They look dead. I hate crossing the green and that
(08:36):
was a heartbreaking thing for me to hear because like
I was trapesing across that green at twelve in New Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's right, Yeah, homeless encampments are very dangerous. They spread disease.
I was just writing this morning about a disease called leptosporosis,
a bacterial infection that is racing through homeless encampments in California.
And you will see it once the weather gets a
little warmer. It's carried in rats, rat urine, but also
(09:06):
in just a puddle on the street. You're you're not
gonna be able to let your kids jump in a
puddle if they're walking on a city street anymore because
of the risk of leptost borosis, and homeless encampments really
allowed us to spread. And you you mentioned crime before, Vinnie,
the crime Look at Los Angeles. The homeless makeup one
(09:28):
percent of the population, fifteen percent of the violent crime suspect.
Tells you everything you need to know. It's dangerous to
walk by a homeless encampment.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh yeah, you know, absolutely, And like I said about
that that sound of mine. You know, when his time
downtown new Haven began about a year and a half ago,
he would tell me these stories. Ah, you know, I
threw a dollar to the and I'm like, oh, such
a generous sweek. It It took a year and a
half for him to realize that's just asking for trouble.
(09:58):
That's just it is.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He'll get months the other fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He's now terrified to go downtown new Haven and that
breaks my heart. I was like, you know, a city kid,
you know, I was born and raised. I would take
the bus downtown New Haven and go to the when
we had a mall down there. It's a city being
run into the ground. It's a state being run into
the ground. Betsy McCoy is here to save the day.
Let me ask you this. I'm remembering an email I
might have gotten about a speaking engagement of yours coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think in my woods, well, there are many on
the calendar. I'm going to be in all one hundred
and sixty nine towns, not once, but several times. Finny,
I'm in my band.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh ah, stay long now, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
If you see that Jefvy Tahoe, going by with a
Betsy sign in it. That's mine.
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