FULL SHOW: Election polls so far; SNAP benefits are in jeopardy.

Massive flooding hit New York and New Jersey over the last 24 hours due to a major storm. Hurricane Melissa caused severe damage to Jamaica, leaving the country in shambles. Ken interviews NJ State Senator Mike Testa. The government shutdown is the Democrats' fault since they don't believe in scrapping the filibuster. Millions of Americans will lose SNAP benefits tomorrow if a solution isn't worked out today. Mike thinks it's time for NJ to have a Republican governor. New Jersey's gubernatorial race is neck and neck as we approach election day on November 4th. Republican Jack Ciatarelli is allegedly 1 point behind Democrat Mikie Sherill. Zohran Mamdani is up by double digits in NYC's race as we head into the weekend. Ken interviews Minority Leader of the NYC Council, Joann Ariola. Zohran Mamdani is telling voters what they want to hear, which is attracting the young vote. 69% of NYC residents 50 and under support Mamdani.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woof Jillian
from Mark, Here's.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ken Rosotto and a very happy Halloween to you.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
The end of the week is here marks off on
a long weekend. Former New York City TV news anchor
Camerasata inn And I was the morning in Midday TV
news anchor for twenty years. Hey on Channel seven. I
did the same thing over in Channel five before that.
These days, I host a daily show. It's a New
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(00:30):
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(00:53):
got lots to talk about today to wrap up the
busy newsweek, but we want to hear from you. The
phone lines are open one eight hundred three two one
zero seven to ten. Massive flooding in New York and
the tri State yesterday. Did you get caught in any
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Man, oh man, the.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Wind, the storm, it was like a nor' easter, but
it wasn't. I guess officially it wasn't a nor' easter,
but nonetheless a huge front. We had one to three
inches of rain, depending on where you were. But some
of the low lying areas, like we know southern Brooklyn,
the coastal areas, they were under feet of standing water
and people in basement apartments.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Got really flooded.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
At least two people have died that we know of,
so our prayers for them. Just awful, awful rain. And
speaking of awful rain, awful news. In Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa
causing at least fifty nine deaths that we know of
so far, because it's possible that as they get through
all the destruction, the devastation, they may find more people.

(01:52):
Just widespread destruction. A mother talks about how she's helping
her children through the disaster.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I tried to be strong with them, and but deep inside,
I'm crying.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm really really crying.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
What yours like?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Hid it?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
We will survive, we will survive, we will survey.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Amen to you, and I mean amen to that. Just
an awful storm that was a Cat five Category five
hitting Jamaica at one hundred and eighty five miles an hour.
I think it's it's ranked the worst, if not one
of the worst storms to hit Landfall in terms of
power in the Atlantic.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's just amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Back at home, the mayor's race continues to tighten. But
is it too little too late? Here were the three
candidates at a recent debate.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare as a progressive Muslim
immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.

Speaker 8 (02:50):
Oh, if you believe andrewl Como, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him
him and dammy, I'm going to stand up to him.
You stand up to President Trump will go shows all
the money.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Guess what we the citizens lose now.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Andrew Cuomo was on with Larry Menti on Menti in
the Morning today. He recently received an infusion of some
cash one and a half million dollars from former mayor
and billionaire Michael Bloomberg through a political action committee. The question, again,
is is it too little, too late? Now, three polls
were released this week and they show the Cuomo has
improved his chances, but that was only four days to go,

(03:26):
so it looks like it's going to take a miracle
at this point. The closest poll is I guess the
Quinnipiac University poll, and that one is showing Cuomo within
ten points of Mamdanni. And while lots of nice improvement,
you remember, it only takes one vote, that's it. If
ma'm donnie has one more vote than the next person,
that's it. There's an Emerson College poll that has mam

(03:46):
Donni twenty five points ahead of Cuomo, and the Marist
poll has Mamdanni sixteen points ahead. So I don't mean
to be the negative Nelly here, but I don't see
how it gets pulled off. Nonetheless, you never know, because
not every body goes voting for mayor. You have a
lot of people who sit it out, go and vote.
You may surprise yourself and everybody and change things. So

(04:07):
we'll see where it goes. By the way, recent survey
shows that that get this, sixty nine percent of anyone
under the age of fifty in New York supports mam Donnie.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, let me let me.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Repeat that, sixty nine percent, so nearly seven and ten
of all New Yorkers under the age fifty and under.
Now it's not twenty and under or thirty and under
fifty an under, as I like to say, they should
know better by then they support Mam Donnie. So at
this point, all you on the right, I say we

(04:42):
should sit back, get a bag of popcorn, and watch
as New York implodes with liberalism and socialism because it
doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
It has failed everywhere.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's been tried. Everything that Mam Donnie wants to give
you free, free, free, free has to get paid for
by someone from so somewhere, and that money doesn't exist.
And you can't have rent control you know where he
comes in, it takes over and freezes rent. That is
done by the rent Control Board. That's state law. You
can't just come in and say, well I'll sign a

(05:13):
mayoral proclamation. Well good luck with that. It's not enforceable.
So this is going to be interesting to see. And
by the way, everybody was like, yeah, we should freeze
the rent. Yeah, I wish we could. The problem is
the city keeps imposing all these rules on landlords, so
they have to maintain their buildings, which is fine and
they should, but that costs money. It costs millions of dollars.

(05:34):
People have this misconception that every landlord is a billionaire
sitting back counting their money, and that's not always the case.
In many cases, it's people who inherit a building from
a relative or whatever, and now they have to maintain
it or they have to distress sell it. In the meantime,
the city comes in, it says you owe taxes, you
have to keep it heated. If there's anything that breaks down,
you got to fix it immediately. There are all these

(05:55):
rules and rags. So yeah, while there are some landlords
who are very wealthy, many are not. So don't don't
paint with such a broad brushes what I'm saying. Seven
ten wore the Voice of New York. It's Ken Rozottowin
from Mark HALLOWEENI Friday. What are you dressing up as today?
Phone lines are open eight hundred and three to two,
one zero seven to ten. There's a New Manhattan Institute

(06:18):
poll that shows it if Congresswoman Elise Stephanic from upstate
New York. If Elise were to run against Kathy Hochel
for Governor of New York, Stephanic would beat her right
now by one point. New York City may be blue,
but the state is definitely purple. So while poles are
just a momentary snapshot of opinion, it does show you

(06:38):
that New York State is very much up for grabs
and the citizens are just fed up with the status quo.
Flip over to the garden state, New Jersey. It's a
whole different story. Two poles two days apart have Mikey,
Cheryl and Jack Chiarelli a point apart, well within the
margin of error. This was him last night, by the way,

(06:58):
during a town hall that Sean Hannity had with Fox
News Channel.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Listen. As he entered the room, let's go.

Speaker 9 (07:17):
Hometown crowd, hometown crowd, it just became a it just
became a Trump rally.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
To that, Chitterrelly responded, No, it's a Chitterrelly rally, which
I thought was kind of interesting. Guy that left a
little silence in the room. Jackson, nice man. I've interviewed
him myself on my show several times and here actually
had him on here once while I filled in for
I guess no, while yeah, I filled in for Larry
that day. Hard to keep track, but he's a great guy.

(07:46):
We've invited Mikey Cheryl on this show when I'm in
filling in. We've invited her on the show I do
in New Jersey probably fifty times. You actually get, let's
just say, a negative response. They want nothing to do
with with having her talk to media of any kind
except for MSNBC, where they feel they'll have a friendly audience.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
So we'll see what happens. You know, you have till Tuesday.
Early voting in New Jersey is through this Sunday, so
you can go and early vote till Sunday. Otherwise Monday
there is no voting Tuesday. You vote in person and
that's that. Then we'll I think Tuesday night's going to
be a very very late night. When asked about the polls,
Jack Chitdarelli had this to say, especially the early returns our.

Speaker 9 (08:29):
Internal polling in twenty one, said that we had a
real shot this time. The internal polling says a whole
lot better. But listen, all I could tell is wherever
I go around the state, the energy is electric. The
reception of minority communities has been overwhelming positive and when
Democratic mayors across the state are endorsing the Republican nominee.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
It tells you we're on the summer.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
So there are four people in New Jersey who either
are still Democrat and endorsed him, or are These are
council members and mayors or actually left a Democrat party
altogether wined the Republican Party and endorsed and support him
right now. So all the police unions are all behind
in the fire departments, they're all in support of Jack Cheddarelli.

(09:10):
When I said the early early polling or early results,
what I meant was the early voting that occurred. Jack
talked about the early ballots.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
We've seen the greatest number of Republicans return vote by
mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. They went
out in last third week of September, and we're matching
them voter for voter here in the six days or
five days of early.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Voting that we've had thus far.

Speaker 9 (09:32):
That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
day within a certain number of points, we're going to
win this thing.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
And now, just because a larger number of Republicans return ballots,
that doesn't mean every single Republican is going to support
the Republican candidate.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I mean, chances are they will, but.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know, you never know. So same thing for the Democrat.
Just because they were talking about, oh, Mikey Cheryl is
edging out Cheddarelli in terms of a return of the ballots,
we got more Cheryl or more Democrat ballots coming in. Again,
that doesn't mean that they're all voting for Mikey Cheryl.
If they're all Democrats sending their ballots in, it could
go the other way. But overall, generally speaking, probably ninety

(10:13):
five percent or more will support their respective candidates and
their respective parties. Now, one thing I find that's interesting
if you go back four years this week exactly one
week actually before election day, four years ago, so a
little under four years ago, there was a Monmouth University
poll that had Governor Murphy eleven points ahead of Jack Chittarelli.

(10:34):
As is typical, all the polls tend to skew to
the left and they always give a better showing for
whoever the Democrat is. But so even though the polls
showed Murphy was eleven points ahead just days before the election,
he only won by three points. So the polls were
off by eight. Well, if that holds true today, if
Chittarelli is behind or ahead, say just by a point,

(10:58):
or they're tied as the polls are showing right now,
generally has a real shot. He may even win by three,
four five points. You never know, but.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
You have to have to have to vote.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
If your parents are elderly and have difficulty getting to
the polls, make sure they have a ride.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, if you.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Drive and your friends don't, make sure they have a ride.
Make sure, no matter what, try to early vote if
you can. And if you want to go on election day,
then make sure you get there. I tend to say,
you never know. You could get stuck at work late.
You never know, you may wake up late. I would
try to early vote if you can between now and Sunday.
Don't take the chance. But make sure, no matter what,

(11:39):
whether it's New York City now or New Jersey, get
out and vote. And then the other thing I want
to ask all you folks in Jersey, don't just vote
for governor and call it a day. You have every
Assembly seat up for grabs, and there's one Senate seat
down south. It's to fill a vacancy. Make sure, you
vote down the ballot, and if you want to send

(12:00):
a message and you are voting for the Republican candidate
for governor, vote A lot of people say, yeah, I
vote for Republicans for president and governor, and then I
vote Democrat for the local offices. Not a good idea.
Not a good idea because you end up causing gridlock.
You've had listen in New Jersey right now. The governor's
a Democrat, State Assembly, state Senate, the Supreme Court all

(12:22):
Democrat control, all of them. You have the top fifteen
cities in New Jersey run by Democrat mayor's Democrat administrations.
The top fifteen all right in New Jersey goes only
about nine and a half million people. You have both
US Senate seats occupied by Democrats, and you have nine
of the twelve Congress seats US Congress seats that are

(12:43):
occupied by Democrats. So you've already given Democrats a shot.
And New Jersey has the highest energy builds in the nation,
some of the highest taxes, the highest cost for pupil
with not always the greatest return depending on what district
we're talking about. So if you are tired of the
expenses and the regulation and allowing adult men in girls'

(13:06):
bathrooms because they wake up thinking they're women.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Enough.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
If you're tired of the sanctuary state and sanctuary city
status of New Jersey, stop voting Democrat. It's as simple
as that. It's like the definition of insanity. You keep
doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a
different outcome. Not get off, try something different for once.
I was reading some of the blogs last night. It's
amazing how many people who were complaining about the cost

(13:31):
of energy and the cost of taxes and homes and
everything else, and they were saying, but vote blue. What
are you expecting to change? What do you think is
suddenly Mikey Cheryl is just a different person, And all
the people running for Assembly on the left are different,
They're all the same. Mikey Cheryl supported everything. Joe Biden
put up everything. So don't expect the difference if you

(13:51):
keep voting Democrat.

Speaker 10 (13:54):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
The Democrat shutdown is on day thirty one. Senate Majority
Leader John Thune says the Democrats seemingly never wanted to end.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
It was also a disturbing signal the Democrats are ready
to continue this shut down.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I guess forever.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, there may be a solution. President Trump is suggesting.
The Senate used the so called nuclear option. So right now,
when you have a spending plan that goes from the
House to the Senate, and it has to go in
that direction, it starts in the House, then a spending
plan goes to the Senate. The Senate must pass any
spending plan with sixty votes, okay, otherwise you could have
a filibuster.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
So you need at least sixty votes.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Republicans only have fifty three members of the Senate, so
you need those Democrats to help.

Speaker 11 (14:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Right now, a couple of Democrats have come across, but
there are still five short, so they need five more
Democrats to make this happen. All we're talking about is
a continuing resolution, not a spending plan. The continuing resolution
would simply continue the spending plan passed last year. That
was Biden's spending plan passed by Democrats. And all the

(14:56):
Republicans are asking is you continue it for four more weeks,
But the Democrats don't want to do it. Chuck Schuma
got to put my glasses at the tip of my
nose when I say his name to get in the mood.
Chuck Schuma is saying that no, we will not budge. Okay,
Now tomorrow you will have forty two million Americans not
receiving snap benefits, so no food stamps. People are going

(15:16):
to rely on soup kitchens and whatnot, thanks to the Democrats.
Because every Republican, I think one, only one Republican in
the Senate is not voting for this. Everyone else has
voted for this. So it's the Democrats. This is the
Democrat government shutdown, the Schumer shutdown. Don't let them tell
you otherwise, because every Republican is trying to reopen the
government right now. Even CNN is showing that Americans believe

(15:40):
this is the fault of the Democrats. President Trump's approval
writing has actually gone up a point since the government
shutdown has taken place. Seven ten wo R the Voice
of New York. Mark has the day off. Kendras outa
filling in. We'll take your calls next one to eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten partly sunny today,
hihs mid fifty, just windy, make sure you bundle up

(16:02):
tonight for the trigger treating and just a bit we'll
speak with New Jersey Republican State Senator Michael testa about
the federal Schumer Democrat government shutdown on the fact that's
starting tomorrow, we'll have eight hundred thousand New Jersey Snap
recipients not getting their SNAP benefits. So that is a
horrible thing. We hope this can get resolve soon the
time now ten twenty two, will be right back.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten
WI Ken Today, Here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
And good to be with you. And go to the
phones right now, Jay, good morning, you're on the air.

Speaker 12 (16:35):
Good morning, Ken, How are you?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm good? Thank you good.

Speaker 12 (16:38):
I just are illustrious Governor Murphy's press police regarding.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
You know what, are you gonna repeat yourself because my
headphones have a short. Please say that one more time, Jay,
Now I got them.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Midge.

Speaker 12 (16:53):
I just wonder please that New Jersey's Governor Murphy put
out regarding the Snap benefits.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yes, you know what I didn't see. Did you just
put out a new press release?

Speaker 12 (17:02):
Now ate, yes, look at that Trump administration's failure to
on Snap.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh, of course it's the Trump administration. So you have
like three hundred and fifty four hundred Republicans supporting a
continuing resolution. A Democrat spending plan that was passed a
year ago, that was under the Biden administration. That was
perfectly fine for them then, but now we will want
to extend it four weeks. That's it, so that we

(17:29):
can keep the government open, give people the snap benefits,
and then work on a new spending plan for the
next year. They won't give us five more votes. And
yet somehow it's Trump's failure. Yeah, that's right, Well it
makes total sense. You know what, the American people are
calling it bs a merchant and nobody has just heard
you say that he's the least effective governor I think

(17:51):
we've ever had in New Jersey. It's a joke and
glad to see him go audio. So you notice you
notice that Mikey Cheryl thinks so little of him that
he's not caming painting with her. Jay, thank you so much,
appreciate the call. We go to Steve in Manhattan. Good morning.

Speaker 13 (18:08):
Ste right there, Ked and you are we belong on
the airwaves. And remember this year, this year we have
two halloweens. We have one today and we also have
one on November fourth. I just want to remind people
Ken this is important that we have to get out
because there's other people on the ballot and the ballot

(18:30):
initiatives in New York City one through six, ballance two
three and four. Folks, everyone's putting a big no there
that takes away your power in your neighborhood, your community,
to stop developers from going in there and doing.

Speaker 14 (18:44):
Whatever they want. All the power will go to the mayor.
Pitch a man, Danny. With this power, he'll put homeless
shelters in your neighborhood. He'll put housing projects. And if
you don't own a home or a condo, it still
affects you. You're renting. You might have a nice neighborhood
in the South Shore State and I go to the
housing project next door to you. No on two, three
and four proposals, folks, Let's not get caught up and

(19:06):
all the things, because we have there's seven council members
or Republicans. A couple of those late races were real close. Yes,
so I'm throwing my cards run at the table.

Speaker 15 (19:17):
Steve.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
I know you're right, and I'm with you because and look,
I love Curtis. I pray every day for the miracle.
I can't vote in New York. I live in New Jersey,
but I pray for him. You know it's the truth.
Too many people just vote for the top office and
walk out. You gotta go down the ballot and take
a minute and study the baut You can go online
and get the ballots. They sent you sample ballots in
the mail. Sit down, read the ballots over the weekend.

(19:38):
Make sure you know exactly what you're gonna do when
you get in the voting booth. Don't look at the
at the proposals. First thing. When you walk in the booth,
know in advance what you're going to be voting for.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
We go to Jerry and New Jersey. Good morning to you,
Good morning Ken.

Speaker 16 (19:53):
I believe the Democrats purposely keeping the government clothes until
after the election. I agree, so they can get some
I asked into the New Jersey election, Virginia.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
And New York.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I think you're one hundred percent right. I guarantee you're right.
If I'm sorry to step on you, Jerry, I bet
you by Thursday you'll see that they'll somehow come up
with the extra votes in the Senate. And that's why
the idea. I know President Trump is saying go nuclear.
I don't know about that, because once you go nuclear,
that's it. Once you've let the cat out of the bag,
that's it exactly.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
And then if you remember, if we becoming the minority
in the Senate, then we have no say against the Democrats.
So I don't know that that's such a great idea,
but I'm with you very much, Jerry. I appreciate it.
Have a great day and happy Halloween. And we go
to Vincent and Brooklyn.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
My friend, how are you, good morning?

Speaker 15 (20:38):
Ken? I'm fine. Ken. You're right on the money when
you talk about all the rules and regulations that homeowners
have to comply with in the state of New York
and in the City of New York. Can any rent increase?
I gave my tenants because every year my taxes on
my houses keep going up. This year was offset by

(21:02):
a new one. Now the city council made a law.
I have to have an EPA certified lead inspector come
in each apartment to inspect it for lead fumes that
maybe leftover from one hundred years ago. First off, nobody

(21:24):
uses lead based paint anymore. The only place where and
I used to work at a steel factory almost sixty
years ago. We used to I used to fabricate fuel
tanks for buildings, gas stations and for home heating oil.
And the red paint on there is what's called red oxide.

(21:46):
That's the only place it was used. And then you
would paint over it. So now, despite the fact that
the lead paint becomes innocuous when you paint over it,
in the past, I could self certify, especially in the
case of my homes, all the walls were ripped out,

(22:06):
the houses were renovated many times in the last hundred years,
and in the past I could certify that there were
no children under six years old in the apartment, that
there's no kids eating led paintships, where are the mother
or father looking at these kids in the ghetto?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
And that just wait until you have a communist mayor
in this I'm sorry, democratic socialist mayor in this city.
You'll have if you think the regulations are bad, Now
forget about it.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's got crazy.

Speaker 15 (22:37):
And on Mark Simone's advice, my girlfriend and I are
already looking at a second home in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Hey, listen, come over to Jersey. If we get Chitarelli
in come and live with us in Jersey. It's a
good place.

Speaker 15 (22:51):
Okay, I'm gonna teach you some Italian. It's not Chitarelli.
It's chatty.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
This discussion.

Speaker 15 (23:01):
Yes, it calls sauce gravy.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, think about it in terms of sugo. That's what
it is. Sugo.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
All right, Vincent, I love you, brother, God bless you.
I have a good Halloween, good weekend. Seven ten wr
the time ten thirty four, and a little later we'll
speak with New Jersey Republican state Senator Michael Testa about
the Schumer Democrat government shutdown and starting tomorrow, eight hundred
thousand New Jersey residents who depend on Snap to eat
will not be getting their funds.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now more of the Marximone show on seven ten wor
filling in for Mark.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
And it is a Friday morning. It is Halloween.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Are you dressing up? Are you going out?

Speaker 10 (23:40):
At?

Speaker 4 (23:40):
What age?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Is it too old to go out?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
You know that Halloween actually has its date going back
to the eighth century, and it was adults who dressed
up for Halloween. It was a religious holiday. Just give
me a little son you could chat about. No, it
was not a pagan holiday. It was similar to Sowen
but it's not a pagan holiday. It's actually a Christian holiday.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Mark is off today, Ken Rozotto in New Jersey, Republican
state Senator Michael Testa is here to talk about the
federal Schumer Democrat government shut down on the fact that's
starting tomorrow's SNAP benefits will not go out to eight
hundred thousand New Jersey residents. We say good morning to Senator.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Good morning. It's good to be back with you. And look,
I think for Halloween, I heard what you were saying earlier.
When I grew up. You know, I was a child
of the eighties. When you were about twelve thirteen, you
were supposed to stop trick or treating, that's for sure.
And I can tell you at my house, I see
some kids who are you know, probably able to drink
alcoholic beverages legally, who are still, you know, walking around

(24:42):
my neighborhood asking for candy. I don't necessarily love that idea.
I'm happy that they get in the spirit, and I'm
glad that you pointed out that All Hallows Eve is
not a pagan holiday, right, believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I mean, the term hollows refers to the Saints because
tomorrow is All Saints' Day, so All Hollows Eve is
the eve before All Hollows which was All Saints Day.
That's where it started eighth century and it was a
way of honoring the saints in the church. But a
lot of people today it's been co opted and people, oh,
it's a pagan holiday.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
No, it wasn't. So that's why we dressed up.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
It was you dressed up like a saint, or you're
dressed up like a skeleton to remind you of your mortality.
But anyway, I digress. We should talk about the Let's
talk about the Snap situation. Eight hundred thousand New Jersey
residents who depend on Snap to eat. As of tomorrow,
the benefits are cut off. And that's all because five
Democrats in the US Senate will not shift ranks and

(25:34):
vote with Republicans.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
This is awful.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Look, they're using needy people as pawns. And let's also
take note of the fact that we have air traffic
controllers right now at large airports like Newark Airport who
are not being paid, working multiple shifts. From what I'm told,
they're getting paychecks that literally say zero on them given them,

(26:00):
but they say zero. I don't know if that's one
hundred percent true or not, but that's the rumor that
I've heard. This shutdown is one hundred percent due to
the Democrats. It has nothing to do with President Trump.
And it amazes me how supposed legitimate news sources are
trying to put the blame on the Republicans, trying to

(26:22):
put the blame on President Trump. And they use the line, well,
you have control of the White House, the Senate, and
the Congress. And I say, you know what's really sad
about that? You folks don't even have the intellectual honesty
to say that it takes sixty votes in the Senate
to overcome the filibuster, which the Democrats have rejected thirteen times.

(26:46):
They have voted no thirteen times. And make no mistake,
Andy Kim and Corey Booker, the US senators from the
state of New Jersey, have voted no each and every time.
If people are missing out on benefits, blame them.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Just to remind everyone, we're listening to New Jersey Republican
state Senator Michael Testa. This is Ken Rosotto in for
Mark Simone today on your Friday Halloween, and this is
what is sad we don't know if they're truly stupid,
and I think in many cases they just ignorant. Some
of the younger reporters don't get it, they really don't,
or if they're just being disingenuous.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
They know.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
But it doesn't fit the narrative to say that it's
the fault of five Democrats. Listen, whenever we had, and
we had many times in history, Democrats in charge and
there was a handful of Republicans holding things up, all
of the Democrats and mainstream media blamed the Republicans. It
was the Republican shutdown, the Republican shutdown, and we took
a hit for it on the Republican side. You can't

(27:41):
have it the opposite way. You can't say, now that
the Democrats are in the minority and the Republicans have
the majority, that the five votes we need in the Senate,
that it's still the Republican's fault. How could it be
the Republican's fault both ways?

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Well, that just goes to show you how biased the
media has been. And thank God for people like you
who are actually intellectually honest and not intellectually disingenuous as
so many members of the media have been, including where
we saw it probably at its worst during the COVID shutdowns.
But we don't need to get to that. Look, I
released a statement that really put the blame where it

(28:18):
belongs in the lapse of the Democrats in Washington. I
called on Governor Murphy and I'm glad that he I
don't know if he directly responded to my release, but
I'm really happy to see Governor Murphy and the majority
Senate President's Katarian Assembly Speaker Coughlan announce an accelerated delivery
of forty two point five million dollars in food and
hunger grants. Because I can tell you I represent Cumberland

(28:40):
County and Cumberland County is one of the two poorest
counties in the state of New Jersey, with families that
desperately need food, they desperately need distance, and this will
go a long way to do that. So this is
one area where I will say that Governor Murphy, Senate
President's Katari, and Assembly Speaker Coughland have acted. Of course,

(29:01):
what did they do though? They blamed the Republicans in
Washington as well, instead of just accepting it and saying,
you know what, what's going on? In Washington is ridiculous.
They could have kept it neutral, but no, what did
they do. They blamed the Republicans in Washington. So yet
more of the spin that is just completely false.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, the biggest, the biggest joke, Senator, is that this
is not a budget plan. This is only a continuation
of last year's budget plan, which all the Democrats voted
for to approve. So it was good enough a year
ago when Biden was president, but it's suddenly not good
enough for one more month so that they could get
back open the government again and vote on a new
spending plan. It's obvious they know that they're not going

(29:41):
to get anything that they want for the new spending plan.
So they're just trying to play like a bunch of kids,
you know, on the playground, taking their ball and their
bat and going home. And they're just being childish and
in the meantime they're making people suffer.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
They absolutely are, and very similar to rama manual, Rama manual,
sort of the mass ted if we remember, for Democrat philosophy,
never allow a crisis to go to waste. And the
Democrats in Washington, including United States Senators Corey Booker and
Andy Kim, are not allowing this manufactured crisis to go

(30:18):
to waste.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, according to CNN, right now, the American people are
blaming the Democrats for it. In fact, President Trump's approval
rating has gone up a point since the government shut down.
So and in spite of that fact, President Trump's saying
we have to end it.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
He could.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
The way it's going, he could keep the shutdown going
two more months. His approval rating will keep going up.
He's saying, no, end it now, just go nuclear, get
fifty one votes instead of sixty, change the rules of
the Senate and make it happen. The problem is once
you go nuclear, once, that's that, and we don't want
to We don't want to ruin that rule, all right.
State Senator New Jersey Michael Testa, always a pleasure talking

(30:53):
to you. Fingers crossed at this stops because real people
are really going to suffer, and we hope the Democrats
come around. We appreciate you coming on today.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Thank you so much for.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Having me, you bet, thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Mostly Sunday a little drier today, his it's going to
be probably mid fifties but very windy, so make sure
you bundle the kids up. It's Ken Roseotto win from
Mark on your Halloween Friday seven ten wo R. We're
coming right back.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten
wor filling in for Mark.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 17 (31:27):
Good to be here on your Friday Halloween seven ten
wor is the voice of New York Film Lines Opened
one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten We
go to Jan in Asbury Park.

Speaker 18 (31:38):
Good morning, Hi, Ken, Thanks for pointing out about how
Halloween is a religious holiday and I like that you
pointed out how it shows good and evil, and I
was thinking of the opposites of good and evil that
happened that we should look at. That was an interesting point.
I don't think a lot of people knew what you shared.

(31:58):
That people us up like saints and then people dressed
up like skeletons that showed the good and evil. Yep,
that's exactly, And how the opposite of the good and
evil are that would represent what you're talking about, Like
Jesus gave his life his blood for us, and then
vampires sucked the blood.

Speaker 16 (32:16):
Out of us.

Speaker 18 (32:17):
Yeah, and Jesus died for us so that we could
live forever in eternity. In the best way. And then
people go around like zombies and vampires, walking like the
walking dead instead of the walking that lived. And just
another thing I thought about is that you know, children
go around and they get candy and they get get

(32:39):
and that's okay, you give because people are still giving.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
But all right, Jen, I don't mean to cut you
off with at the top of the hoar with news,
but all good messages and we appreciate the call. Partly
sunny today heismid fifties. Ken Risotto went from Mark Halloween Friday.
Coming up later in the show, we talked with Republican
New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola seven wo.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Right now, Mark Simone show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Here's Ken Rosatto, Billy.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Really nice to be here Halloween. Happy Halloween to you.

Speaker 14 (33:10):
Mark.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Is a nice long weekend. You may remember me from
all the years I've been on New York City TV
and was the morning news anchor morning and midday in
fact for a bunch of those years at Channel seven,
I was there twenty years. I was also the morning
anchor for a year at the Channel five.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I was there at good Day.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I did that back in two thousand and two to
two thousand and three, if I recall, and these days,
I host a daily show on a New Jersey based
news channel. It's called on New Jersey. You could stream
it live or watch it rerun at o NNJ dot com.
And a food site for you foodies. It's the Food Dude.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's free.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
It has lots of recipes on there if you want
to think of something to cook on the weekend or
on a weeknight. Thefood Dude dot us. The food Dude
dot us. Good to be here. We got so much happening,
busy busy. Phone lines are open at eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten, eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten. Well, we just heard during the

(34:09):
news a massive flooding. Did you see that weather yesterday?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Man?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I mean we heard about it. We got the heads
up that it was coming. But man, until it comes,
you don't think it's going to be as bad as
it was. The high winds in that heavy rain one
to three inches of rain in New York left some
parts of the low lying areas Brooklyn, especially under a
feet of water. And as we heard so far that
we know of, we have two people who died unfortunately

(34:35):
in that flash flooding.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Just awful, awful.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Just remember, especially if you live in a basement apartment,
whenever you have a big storm headed our way, please
stay upstairs. If you live upstairs and there's a basement apartment,
invite your neighbors to come up and spend the afternoon
or whatever with you, or the evening if there's a
big storm. And of course, don't drive into or onto
a street if you don't know how deep the water is.

(35:00):
They say, turnaround, don't drown. All you need is like
six inches or four inches of water whatever. You could
lose control of your car, So don't take that risk.
And then of course there's that awful news that happened
down in the islands in Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa. So far
we know fifty nine debts. It was just disgusting, how
horrible those poor people struggling. And there was one mother

(35:21):
who was talking about how she tried to comfort her kids.
Listen up, who's the candidate on Let's see where did
I I just did something to that sound bite. I'm sorry,
but this mother talked about how she's trying to comfort
her child or her children. But it's hard to do that,
as she says it, with all the debt destruction around her,

(35:44):
having lost friends and friends having lost homes as well,
And imagine then having to be the tough person and
be strong for your child. But with fifty nine people
that we know have so far lost in Jamaica, that
number is going to go up, I think, sad as
they find more bodies in remote areas. It is now
coming up on ten minutes after eleven o'clock on your

(36:06):
Friday Halloween. The mayor's race continues to tighten. But is
it too little, too late? Well, here were the three
candidates at the recent debate.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Who's the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him?

Speaker 12 (36:20):
Because I don't see anybody with a national presidence that
can pull that off.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Where are you on that?

Speaker 11 (36:25):
I see somebody right here in my zoom camera, and
by the way, only for you zoom. I hate zoom,
but for you. But where's the stephen A. Smith presidential bubble?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I'd have to give too much money. Bill, I'd have
to give up too much money.

Speaker 11 (36:40):
The Democrats definitely need an outside here.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, that was obviously stephen A.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Smith and Bill Maher talking about the candidates, and here
were the candidates of the debate.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare, as a progressive Muslim
immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.

Speaker 8 (37:02):
Oh, if you believe Andrew Cuomo, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him, Damie,
I'm going to stand up to him. He stand up
to President Trump, who controls all the money. Guess what
we the citizens lose.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well, this morning we had Andrew Cuomo in. He was
on MENTI in the morning and we was talking about,
among other things, the infusion of cash that former mayor
Michael Bloomberg had donated through a political action committee.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
But it looks like it might be just too little,
too late, because we've got three polls.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
If you saw these polls that came out in the
last week, and the closest pole has Cuomo. Though he improved,
he's still ten points behind Zoron Mamdani. The amazing thing
is people are buying Mamdanni's lines. Will they revolt in
six months or a year when they find out that
everything he promised literally down to the item is impossible.

(37:55):
He can't do He doesn't have the authority as mayor
to do any of the things he's talking about. He
can't free the rent, he can't give you free food,
he can't all the things he's talking about. Sound like
a wonderful communist fantasy, but it can't happen. It doesn't
happen that way. In fact, the one experiment where there
was a community supermarket in Kansas City failed miserably. In

(38:19):
spite of the millions upon millions of dollars infused by
the state, it failed miserably. They had to shut it down.
It was a disgrace. It became basically a den of crime.
People went there to shoot up drugs. They stole items.
Because you're supposed to sign out items and be a
looted a certain amount. They weren't following the rules. It
was a disgusting breakdown of humanity. And if you think

(38:40):
it's going to be better here, I'm scratching my head
to wonder where you're coming from. Switching over to New Jersey.
New Jersey is interesting right now. And I should remind
everybody you're listening to seven to ten woar the voice
of New York, it's Ken Rosatto win from Mark on
Halloween Friday, and those phone lines are open three to two,
one zero, seven to ten. In New Jersey it's Chitdarelli

(39:04):
and Mikey Cheryl and right now all the new polls,
and they were two done two days apart, so I
guess one was done on Tuesday and I believe one
was done on Thursday. In both cases they have Mikey
Cheryl one point ahead of Jack Cheddarelli, but the margin
vera is three points, so that means that Jack Chitdarelli

(39:27):
could be two points up at this point, depending on
how you look at it. The bottom line is the
energy this man has right now and the support behind
him I'm seeing. I live in New Jersey. I see
Chittarelli signs everywhere. I'd say for every ten Chittarelli signs,
I'm seeing one Mikey Cheryl sign. And last night Chittarelli
was on. There was a town hall that Fox News
had with Sean Hannity. Listen to the response he got

(39:51):
from the crowd as he walked in.

Speaker 19 (39:53):
Let's go maybe hometown crowd, hometown crowd.

Speaker 11 (40:11):
It it just became a Trump.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Rally, or, as Jack Chitdarelli followed up with, it became
a Chitarelli rally, because that's what Chitdarelli is finding everywhere
he goes throughout the state. It starts out with a
few hundred people, it quickly grows to a few thousand people,
people cheering him on, people coming up to him. He
has four Democrats in the state who have either endorsed
him or have shifted parties to the Republican Party and

(40:33):
endorsed him, So this is something the opposite can't be
said for Mikey Cheryl right now. And the fact is
that New Jersey has eight hundred and sixty thousand more
registered Democrats than it does Republicans. So Mikey Cheryl should
be ahead by twenty points right now, fifteen to twenty points,
and she's not. Most of her support is from women

(40:56):
and from younger people. Younger people tend not to vote,
especially in off year elections, by anywhere near the numbers
of as older people, and the older people are supporting
Jack Chitarelli, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
I recently had a polster on my show that I
do on New Jersey O n NJ dot com and
I do that every day in New Jersey. And the

(41:17):
pollster was saying, how when they survey different people and
they say that they are likely voters and then you
it turns out that half of them who say one
thing obviously doesn't come to pass. And he said that
that means that either they're not being honest or when
they say they're going to be a likely voter, that
they don't realize something's going to come up. So when

(41:38):
you see a poll of likely voters, as much as
it's probably more accurate than someone than a poll of
just registered voters, you know, that doesn't mean they've signed
a contract saying I will vote and this is how
I'm gone to vote, you know, So just just remember that,
keep that in mind. Jack Chitdarelli was talking about the
recent polls.

Speaker 9 (41:56):
Our internal poll in twenty one said that we had
a real shot this time. The internal polling says a
whole lot better. But listen, all I could tell is
wherever I go around the state, the energy is electric.
The reception of minority communities has been overwhelming positive. And
when Democratic mayors across the state are endorsing the Republican nominee.
It tells you we're on the side.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Apparently some of the ballots are a number of the
ballots that have been returned early. All we know is
when we get ballots returned from Democrats or Republicans, we
don't know how the people voted. So for all we know,
people could have registered Republican but voted Democrat. So you
never know when you get the returned polls, the early ballots,
I should say, But nonetheless, here's Jack talking about the

(42:39):
early ballots.

Speaker 9 (42:40):
We've seen the greatest number of Republicans returned vote by
mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. They went
out and last third week of September, and we're matching
them voter for voter here in the six days or
five days of early.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Voting that we've had thus far.

Speaker 9 (42:52):
That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
day within a certain number of points, we're going to
win this thing.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
And I think he's right.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
The fact is that Republicans tend to wait till election day,
Democrats tend to early vote. That's been the pattern for
the last ten to fifteen twenty years. Wherever early voting
has occurred. I remember as a kid, early voting only
existed like one day before election day, and it was
meant for people who had physical challenges or the elderly,
and then that became two or three days. Then it

(43:21):
became anyone who wants to vote early. Then the pandemic
happened and everybody got ballots in the mail, and it
kept changing, so no longer do we have an election day.
The problem with that is you could vote a month early,
a month before election day for somebody, and then between
when you early vote at election day you find out
that the person is a mass murderer, you know, and
then what your vote is cast, and once it's cast,

(43:43):
that's it. You can't go and change it. So this
is the problem I have. I'm sure you probably have
with early voting. But while it exists, take advantage of it.
The Democrats do. Republicans should take advantage of it as well.
Make sure your vote gets in because come election day
anything could happened. Bad weather, you get sick, yeah, I
have to work late, you never know, get that vote

(44:03):
in asap. In New Jersey you can early vote until
Sunday and then if you don't vote by Sunday, you
have to wait because Monday there.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Is no voting.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Then Tuesday you have to vote in person, and that
is election Day. Seven ten WR the Voice of New York.
It is Halloween Friday, and this is Ken Rosotto in
on the Mark Simone Show. Give us a call eight
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. You
ever get kind of really tired with all the household drudgery,
all the chores around the house. Apparently a company in

(44:33):
California has come up with a robot. Now you're going
to say, Ken, there've been robots. No, they literally are
mass manufacturing a robot that is five foot six right now.
It's a humanoid robot, so it's one of those walking things.
It can talk, it can communicate with you, just like
you know the robots in the movies from years ago.

(44:55):
And this thing is going to cost twenty thousand dollars.
When I first read this, I think either A it's
not going to be out for fifty years, or B
it's going to cost one hundred thousand or more. Now
twenty thousand dollars. And in fact, if you want to
rent it, they have a let.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Me see, let me get the details for you.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Here it says here, if you want to test it
out first, you can use a per month subscription plant.
That's what they're calling it, and that is apparently like
four ninety nine or something like that. So it's almost
like renting a car, testing out a car or something.
And this thing could be trained to do just about anything.
Water plants do the laundry, eventually, probably cook your meal,

(45:34):
clean floors, do whatever, sweep. So how nice would that
be to do all your household chores, especially if you
are physically challenged, or if you're a single person and
you have no one to help you, or if you're
an elderly person and you want some company. Granted, it's
not a human, but nonetheless it is a character walking
around that may make you feel almost like having a pet,

(45:56):
that may make you feel like somebody is with you
to keep your company. Seven to ten Water The Voice
of New York. There was a New Manhattan Institute poll
out that shows that if Congresswoman Elise Stephonic were to
run against Governor.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Coffee Hokel, who talks with the big.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Porcelain veneers, Oh, I said, I would never say that again.
I'm sorry, Kathy Hokel, that if Elise Stephanic were to
run against Kathy Hochl for governor of New York, Stephanic
would beat her by one point. That is significant. New
York City may be blue, the state, though, is not.
The state is purple. You get out of the tri State,

(46:31):
you get up like north of Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, you
see things turn red rather quickly. Poles are just, of course,
a momentary snapshot of opinion, but it shows you that
New York State is very much up for grabs outside
of New York City, and the citizens are fed up
with the status quo. So we'll see what happens with that.
But she's not officially announced that she would run for governor,

(46:53):
but I think at this point if she did announce,
you would see a Republican victory first time in many,
many years in New York. Seven ten wor the Voice
of New York. Mark is off. This is ken rostto
filling in again, taking your calls. Next one eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten. One eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten Partly Sonny, a little

(47:15):
Wendy today for your Halloween mid fifties and just a
bit we'll speak with Republican New York City councilwoman Joanne
Ariola about the race for mayor and what she thinks
it possible Mamdani marrialty would mean for New York City.
The Times, eleven twenty seven ten War will be right
back now more.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR Filling
in for Mark.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
A very good to be.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
With you on Halloween Friday. Let's go right to our
busy phones. Carlo in Queen's here on the air.

Speaker 10 (47:45):
Good morning to you, Yes, sir, good morning. As for
this socialist Mondamie character who's running for maya, I might
point out that in the nineteen twenties into the early thirties,
Hitler described himself as a Democrat socialist candidate to run Germany.

Speaker 13 (48:02):
And.

Speaker 10 (48:04):
After World War Two the city of Berlin broke up
into two parts. East Berlin described itself as a socialist state,
a democratic socialist state supported by the Russians of course,
and their economy by nineteen fifty crash, losing a third
of its value. What are we to expect from Mandanami?

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Well, you know, it just comes down to everything that
he is promising is not possible. It's just not possible.
But here's the frightening thing. Carlo and I talked about
this earlier. A recent poll showed sixty nine percent of
all adults of all people in New York City age

(48:45):
fifty and under, you hear me fifth, not twenty and under,
not twenty five and under fifty and under, nearly seven
and ten support Mandani.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Do you hear that number?

Speaker 5 (48:56):
So?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Where the hell are forty nine year olds who are
so ignorant that they think socialism will work here and
that it as if it worked anywhere else on the planet.
Who are these people and where are they from? And
what kind of education did they have? That's what really
gets me.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
What are we paying for?

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Are we paying to literally have socialists in teaching positions,
in doctrinating kids in the city, because that's what it
sure as hell looks like.

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Joe McCarthy in the fifties wasn't wrong when he said
that the socialist communists are trying to take over America.
It's still going on.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
That sure is, as it has been proven, and you
look at every major city in America. You know, you
talk about, God forbid, if there was ever another civil
war like we had in eighteen sixty. God forbid that
ever should happen. But this time out, if it did
ever happen, it wouldn't be North versus South. It looks
like it would be the urban centers, the cities versus

(49:51):
everything outside of the cities, because if you look, all
the cities seem to be of the same mindset, very far.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
To the left.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
But it's getting even more more extreme than ever before.
I've never seen this kind of disparity between left and right.
It's if the person comes from a larger city, they
are of one political ILK, and if they come from
suburbia or real rural areas, they're a totally different political ILK.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
It's just amazing.

Speaker 10 (50:14):
Thank God for Trump. That's all I could say.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
All Right, Carlo from Queens, I appreciate the call. You
have a wonderful day. Let's say, John in New Jersey, good.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Morning, Good morning, Ken, how are you good sir?

Speaker 20 (50:25):
Either way, the city, the residents of New York City
are going to be screwed. It's either it's Cuomo or
or Modamie. They're doom because he's not He was never
a good governor. And of course we know Modami is
nothing more than a pure communist. Yeah, he'll say anything
and everything to get to get elected. He'll promise you utopia,

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and what's going to turn out is going to be disaster.
The people of New York have got to wake up
and pay attention. They don't.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Well, you know, I blame my fellow members of the media,
the people here in media whom I used to work with.
The TV stations. They just don't ask him the tough questions.
He's their little pet. They won't, No, they won't, they won't,
And this is where they fail. And this, by the way,
is why they're dying on the vine. Ratings wise, they're dead.
The broadcast TV stations literally have thirty percent of the

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audience that they had seven years ago. They're gone. No
one's watching broadcast TV anymore. And if you look at
all the surveys, with one exception, since President Trump was elected,
Republicans now slightly more trust national news than they did
a year ago because all you heard was phoniness and negativity,
fake news, et cetera. But the problem is, as long

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as you keep taking sides local media, this is gonna happen.
You're gonna lose your audience. And this is why they
are down so sharply in ratings, and they're they're closing
up shop. You have, you have news. I know a
couple of news outfits in the city that will not
survive the next three years. You'll watch, you'll see consolidation
of newscaps.

Speaker 15 (51:53):
Totally agree.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
All right, John from New Jersey. I appreciate it. Get it,
get out here and vote for Jack. Absolutely all right,
my friend, have a good day. Happy Halloween. Seven ten
wo r the Voice of New York. It's Ken Rosatto
in for Mark and it is Friday, Halloween and just
a few we're going to speak with Republican New York
City Councilwoman Joeanne Ariola about the race for mayor and

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what she thinks, if possible, Mam Donnie Marylty will mean
for New York City.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
On sevent ten WI Ken from Mark Today.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
She is a Republican New York City councilwoman representing District
thirty two, which includes Glendale, Wood Haven, OZP Howard Beach,
broad Channel in parts of Rockaway Peninsula Queen's Previously, she
was the chairwoman of the Queen's Republican Party and she's
here to talk about the mayor's race and what a
possible Mamdannie mayoral t would mean to New York City.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
We say, good.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the Mark Simone Show.

Speaker 16 (52:52):
Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Good to have you on.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
You know, whenever I have the rare Republican Council member out,
I always say, I ask, does do you need like
a giant bottle like the thousand bottle of Toms to
be on your desk to get through your day?

Speaker 16 (53:09):
Not at all. I'm used to fighting the good fight,
and I'm the minority leader at the New York City
Council and I work very well with my more moderate
colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and we
have been able to get things done. So, yes, we
have days they are more challenging than others, but most
days we get things done.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
But you know, you look at you look at a
Mayor Adams. And as much as Mayor Adams is a
Democrat for sure, but Mayor Adams there because he was
a police captain. There is an adult side of Mayor
Adams who when he did things you kind of trusted
him he was a mayor. When you have a guy
like Zoron Mamdani potentially coming in as mayor, what goes

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through your mind as a Republican on the City Council.

Speaker 16 (53:53):
Well, I think you make a good comparison. You say
that Mayor Adams, who had government experience, who was a
police officer and came in and is you know, is
quite possibly going to go down as the worst mayor
and with the most corruption in his administration of any
mayor in the history of New York City. And then

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you have Zoram Mamdani, who you know, has even less experience.
He's a member of the DSA. He is not a Democrat,
and and it's sorry to say that the Democratic Party
has been devoured by the Democratic Socialists of America. So
I always make the analogy of Mayor Adams is walking
out of City Hall and lighting the match, and if

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orm Mamdani should God forbid, win, that New York City
will fall to ashes.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Well, of the promises that Mamdani has made, you know
how many of them could actually be done by the mayor.
I mean, for instance, a rent freeze. He can't freeze
the rent, right, do you have a rank control board
in New York City.

Speaker 16 (54:56):
This is all speaking to a demographic that wants everything
for free. So he's telling people what they want to hear.
He doesn't realize. Well he does realize, I'm sure he does.
But people want to say, oh, yes, we can freeze
the rent. No he can't free the rent. We can
give you a free tuition. No he can't give you
free tuition, free, free, free, free, free. And you know,
most younger voters would say, hey, if it's free, it's

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for me. But you know, he can't do that. That
has to come from a state, in a federal level.
There's very little that he can do on any of
his policies as a mayor. And that's why I believe
that he just doesn't have the competency to do it.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Yeah, you know, every time you say free, I think
people don't understand that nothing is free. That the reality
is somebody somewhere, somehow has to pay for it, because
in society, somebody has to do the work to produce
the product that you are talking about giving away free,
whether it be freezing the rent. Now we talked about
this earlier. You know, the fact is the city and

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the state imposed so many regulations on landlords. You have
to maintain an active heating system, air condition in some cases,
paint has to be done, You get inspected all the time.
You have to have the exterminator in, You have to
have windows replaced. Then you have the case of kids
or some vandal type people in a lot of the

(56:13):
lower income housing that destroy things. You could have an
elevator replaced. I remember when I was a Channel seven
there was one building I went to and the people
were complaining the elevator's broken. And I went there and
there were other residents who came up to me and said, yeah,
the landlord has the elevator fixed every Tuesday, and by Wednesday.
There is such and such who lives in apartments such
and such who intentionally breaks it. So this is the problem.

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You can't now tell a landlord, well you got to
freeze the rent, but you still have to come up
with the money for all of this stuff.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
Well that's true.

Speaker 16 (56:43):
What he's doing is he's giving some type of fantasy.
That's what he's doing, like straight out of Central Casting
and none of the camping done. But no one's thinking
about who are you said it right, Ken, Who are
the economic engines here, your small landlords, your business owners,
your tax payers, your city workers, your people who go
to work in our hospitals, the people who go and

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grind it out every day and pay their taxes and
keep this city going. And that's exactly who will leave
if there is a mayor Mom Donnie. And he doesn't
care about that. That's not what his focus is. His
focus is to destroy, destroy the city. He will not
change the bail reform laws, he will not lower the
age will he will not change the discovery laws. And

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even Janel Lieber from the MTA said he will not
be able to give free fairs. So even people who
may agree with him on some level of ideology are saying, no,
you can't do that. That's not within your purview. He
should be talking about raising the age so that young
criminals are held accountable. He should be talking about bail

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reforms so people can go and have consequences for the
crimes they commit. He should be talking about about bringing
police on instead, he's just dancing around it with his
public safety ambassadors. I don't want a public safety ambassador.
I want a police officer on the street. And we're

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not going to get police officers to take the test
and become officers if the reforms that were made stay
in place, and with Mamdani, you will advocate for even
more dismantling of our public safety system.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Seven wo r The Voice of New York. This is
the Marx Simon Show. Ken razattowin from Mark on Halloween Friday,
and with us right now is New York City Republican Councilwoman,
the minority leader of the City Council, Joanne Ariola, who's
from Queens. It's good to have you here again. Let's
talk about one statistic that really frightened me, and that
is that sixty nine percent of all New York City

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residents age fifty and under support Mamdanie.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
How the hell do we arrive at that?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
What is going on in our education system in this city.
That's sixty nine percent of people not under the age
of twenty, not under the age of thirty. Councilwoman, under
the age of fifty. You would think that by the
time you hit forty forty five you were mature enough
to understand things are not free.

Speaker 16 (59:16):
You would think so. But you're going to schools, they're
going to colleges, they're going to universities where the instructors,
the professors, the people who are there, the mentors they're indoctrinating,
are young and telling them that you're room. You shouldn't
have to pay your taxes, you shouldn't have to pay
your tuition, you shouldn't have to pay your loan, you
shouldn't have to pay for anything. You shouldn't have to

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pay to ride the bus. And I don't know why
because and this is something that was taught to to
mom Donnie from a little child. Both his parents, who
are mega wealthy, you know, reach the free ideology and
this is what he was raised on and that he
can if you can tell me can anywhere that socialism

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or communism works that I say, great, But it has
never worked. It's always fallen. And we are America and
we are a capitalist country, and we thrive on entrepreneurship
and people going to school and getting their degrees and
paying their taxes. And yes, loans can become very difficult

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to pay if you become a doctor or a lawyer
or a teacher, but that is something that you've chosen
to do and there are ways to help you pay that.
But free, that's an impossibility. That is that's just a fantasy,
and to be able to keep this city going when
we can't support our subway system as it is, and

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people are jumping the fairs all the time anyway, and
we're not enforcing that. So you know, in a way,
we do have free transit system, but what did that
get us? Congestion pricing to make up the difference, and
we still.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Haven't made it up.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
We're billions in the hole in spite of that. If
you take a look, and I don't mean to step
on your counsel woman, if you look at all the
free that the fair jumpers, the people who walked on
And when I was a Channel seven we had bus drivers.
There were two who used to call and say, yeah,
the mayor will not allow us to do what we
used to do. If somebody walked on the bus and
didn't pay their fare, bus driver would pull aside and
say I'm not moving until you get off, or I'm

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going to call a cop today, or at that point
then the mayor, I guess it was Mayor de Blasier
at the time. Mayor de Blasio said, can't do that.
Let them on for free, and so nobody was paying
for the bus. So you're right, that was happening. They
lost about four hundred million a year in fairs. Well,
if you can't keep doing that, what happens after four
or five years, you're two billion dollars in the hole,

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which is exactly what they were.

Speaker 16 (01:01:36):
That's exactly right. And even in today's administration, police officers
that are in the subway are asked to hands out
literature to educate people that they should be paying when
they go onto the bush or in the subway. And
I really it blows my mind because I think that
first our police officers have a lot of better things
to do than handout literature. And secondly, everybody knows you

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have to pay a fare when you go into this
or you take a bus, but there's no consequences. And
that's what brings me back to mom. Donnie and c
Cuomo started this. He started this bell reform, he started
no cash list bails, he started raising age. He gave
people license to commit crimes without impunity and without consequence.

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And that's why you can and I have to ring
a bell and have a woman come or a man
come with a key to give us the dorance. It's
just not right. But who's looking for all the shoplifting
that's going on. You and I are because we're standing
on the line and paying sixty and eighty dollars at
the cashier while people who are coming in and a
lot of them are our used because there are no

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consequences filling up a knapsack and running out the door.
It's just a vicious cycle that will turn into an
absolute chaos if Mom Donnie wins. And that's why I
so strongly support Curtis Leewall. He's the only one saying
the things that we're talking about at our kitchen tables
and what we're afraid of that's going to happen to

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this city, and what would make us move if the
city continues in this particular progress. It just can't go
on like this. People are moving that I never thought
wouldn like.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
And even getting back to the CVSS and the Walgreens
and whatnot, when you know, I've heard people say on
the left, well insurance pace for that, no insurance pace
for it, once or twice, and then they cancel. People
don't realize that they can cancel the individual stores and
they have dropped stores and then CBS Walgreens their self
insured at that point, which means it comes out of
their pocket. You know where they get it from, you

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and me. Prices go up, so we all pay for
it one way or the other. Ah, we could talk
about it forever. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Everybody, get
out and vote.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
That's the important thing.

Speaker 16 (01:03:51):
And out and vote. And if you want to still
have a voice with your representatives in city Hall, vote
no on the propositions.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
New York City Republican Councilwoman Joe Ane Ariola, it's such
a pleasure to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Thanks for coming on this morning, thame here, pleasure to
be here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Likewise, good to have you and this iskenra'z outawin from
Mark on your Friday. When we come back, we'll take
more of your calls. One eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR
from Mark today.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Here's Ken Rosato.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Very good to be here on your Friday. Heppy Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
I hope you have a good one. Just remember it's
going to be very windy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Even though it's not gonna be too too cold, it'll
be very very windy and so it'll feel colder than
it is so if you're going out with the little ones,
make sure they have that extra coat, the windbreaker, not
to cover the costume.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I hate that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
I know you want to show off the costume, but
you also don't want them to feeze on the route. Hey,
just talking about Councilwoman Ariola that we had on just
a few minutes ago. One of the things we talked
about was that statistic, that poll, actually the survey that
showed sixty nine percent of all New York City residents
age fifty under we're supporting mom, Donnie. One thing you

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have to think about too, is you could put this
right at the blame of former President Biden. By allowing
millions upon millions of illegal migrants into this city or
into this country and ultimately settling into the city. You
had a lot of people who are here. We don't
know how many people you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
An, no one's voting. No one's voting if they're not
a citizen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Right, But remember what happened in terms of ensuring that
the city and the state has extra Congress seats and
we don't lose them, etc. That was all because we
had this influx of illegal migrants of impacting our census count.
As a result in New York City will stay a
very blue city for many years. To come, get out
and vote. That's the important thing. No matter what, Hey

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