October 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. 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. Mark takes your calls! 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.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten. Woof jell
me in from Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Ken Rosottom. Very happy Halloween to you. The end
of the week is here. Mark's off on a long weekend.
Former New York City TV news anchor came Rosata 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 Jersey based
(00:28):
news channel that I'm on. It's called on New Jersey
Appropriate right. You could stream it live, or you could
watch the rerun of our shows at ONNJ dot com
on New Jersey ONNJ dot com. I also run a
food website for all new foodies. It's called the Food Dude.
Links to hundreds of thousands of recipes all over the world.
It's free and it is at Thefooddude dot us. Good
(00:52):
to be here with you. We got a lot 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 two one zero seven to ten.
Massive flooding in New York and the tri State yesterday
did you get caught in any of that. Man, oh man,
the wind, the storm, it was like a nor' easter,
but it wasn't. I guess officially it wasn't a nor' easter,
(01:15):
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 got really flooded. At least
two people have died that we know of, so our
prayers for them. Just awful, awful rain. And speaking of
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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. Just widespread destruction.
A mother talks about how she's helping her children through
the disaster. I tried to be strong with them, and
(02:00):
but deep inside, I'm crying. I'm really really crying. What
your is like?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Hid it?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We will survive, we will survive, we will survey. 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. It's just amazing. Back at home,
(02:29):
the mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too little,
too late? Here were the three candidates at a recent debate.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.
Speaker 5 (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 4 (02:50):
Oh, if you believe Andrew Como, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him.
John Dammy, I'm going to stand up to him. You
stand up to President Trump, will go. He shows all
the money. Guess what we the citizens lose now.
Speaker 2 (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,
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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
Mum Donnie has one more vote than the next person,
that's it. There's an Emerson College poll that has mam
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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
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we'll see where it goes. By the way, recent survey
shows that get this, sixty nine percent of anyone under
the age of fifty in New York supports Mam Donnie. Yeah,
let me let me repeat that, sixty nine percent, so
nearly seven and ten of all New Yorkers under the
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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 should sit back, get a bag of popcorn,
and watch as New York implodes with liberalism and socialism
because it doesn't work. It has failed everywhere, it's been tried.
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Everything that Mam Donni wants to give you free, free, free,
free has to get paid for by someone from some 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 mayoral proclamation. Well good luck with that.
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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. People have this misconception that every
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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 rules and rags. So yeah,
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while there are some landlords who are very wealthy, many
or 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 Halloueni Friday. What
are you dressing up as today? Phone lines are open
eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
There's a New Manhattan Institute poll that shows it if
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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 that New York State is very
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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, during a town hall that Sean Hannity
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had with Fox News Channel. Listen. As he entered the room,
let's go hometown crowd, hometown crowd, it just became a
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it just became a Trump rally. 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,
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but he's a great guy. 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 half her talk to
media of any kind except for MSNBC, where they feel
they'll have a friendly audience. That's it. So we'll see
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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
Chidarelli had this to say, especially the early returns.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
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 summer.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah. 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 the Democrat
Party altogether 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 6 (09:20):
We've seen the greatest number of Republicans returned vote by
mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. And 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 voting that we've had thus far.
That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
day within a certain number of points, we're gonna win
this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And now, just because a larger number of Republicans returned ballots,
that doesn't mean every single Republican is going to support
the Republican candidate. I mean, chances are they will, but
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 ballot,
(10:00):
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
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
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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.
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
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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,
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 you have to
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have to have to vote. If your parents are elderly
and have difficulty getting to the polls, make sure they
have a ride. Okay, if you 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
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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, 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,
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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 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
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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 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, New
Jersey goes only about nine and a half million people.
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You have both US Senate seats occupied by Democrats, and
you have nine of the twelve Congress seats US Congress
seats that are 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
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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' bathrooms because they wake up thinking
they're women enough. 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.
(13:19):
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 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
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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
keep voting Democrat. Now. The Democrat shutdown is on day
thirty one. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the Democrats
seemingly never won it to end. It was also a
disturbing signal the Democrats are ready to continue this shut down.
(14:06):
I guess forever. 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 can have a filibuster. So you need at least
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sixty votes. Republicans only have fifty three members of the Senate,
so you need those Democrats to help. Now. 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
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the spending plan passed last year. That was Biden's spending
plan passed by Democrats. And all the Republicans are asking
is you continue it for four more weeks, But the
Democrats don't want to do it. Chuck Schumer 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,
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Now tomorrow you will have forty two million Americans not
receiving Snap benefits, so no food stamps. People are going
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
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you otherwise, because every Republican is trying to reopen the
government right now. Even CNN is showing that Americans believe
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 WR the Voice of
New York. Mark has the day off. Kendra's out of
filling in. We'll take your calls next one to eight
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hundred three two one zero seven ten. Partly sunny today,
highsmid fifties, windy. Make sure you bundle up tonight for
the trick retreating, 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
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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
wr Ken Fro Today.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We go to the phones right now. Jay, Good morning,
you're on the air.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Good morning, Ken, How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm good? Thank you good.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I just are illustrious Governor Murphy's press police regarding.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know what are you're going to repeat yourself because
my headphones have a short. Please say that one more time, Jay,
Now I got them. Midge.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I just wonder please that New Jersey's Governor Murphy put
out regarding the SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, you know what I didn't see? Did you just
put out a new press release?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now, ate, yes, look at that Trump administration's failure to snap.
Speaker 2 (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
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can keep the government open, give people the Schnap 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 Mergan. Nobody has just heard you
say that he's the least effective governor I think we've
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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 camped painting with her. Jay, thank you so much,
appreciate the call. We go to Steve in Manhattan. Good morning.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Right there, kend 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 in
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 initiatives in
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New York City one through six, ballance two three and four.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
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 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 thousing projects. And if you don't own a
home or a condo, it still affects you. You're renting.
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You might have a nice neighborhood in the South sho State,
and I bitle the housing project next door to you.
No on two, three and four proposals, folks, let's not
get caught up and all the things, because we have
there's seven council members who are Republicans. A couple of
those late races were real close. Yes, So I'm pulling
my cards right at the table.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Steve.
Speaker 2 (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.
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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.
I'm with you. We go to Jerry and New Jersey.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Good morning Ken.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I believe the Democrats purposely keeping the government clothes until
after the election.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I agree, so they can get some ask into.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
The New Jersey election, Virginia and New York.
Speaker 2 (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. I'm with you. And then if you remember,
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if we becoming the minority in the Senate, then we
have no say against the Democrats. 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. My friend, how
are you.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Good morning, 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
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was offset by 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 fume that maybe leftover from one hundred years ago.
(21:22):
First off, nobody 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
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what's called red oxide. 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
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were ripped out, 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 of paintships,
where are the mother or father looking at these kids
the ghetto?
Speaker 2 (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. It's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
And on Mark Simone's advice, my girlfriend and I are
already looking at a second home in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hey, yeah, listen, come over to Jersey. If we get
Chitarelli in come and live with us in Jersey. It's
a good place.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Okay, I'm gonna teach you some Italian. It's not Hitarelli.
It's chatting.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
This discussion.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Now, yes, it calls sauce gravy.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well think about it in terms of sugo. That's what
it is. Sugo. 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 2 (23:34):
Here again is Ken Rosado. And it is a Friday morning.
It is Halloween. Are you dressing up? Are you going out?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
At?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What age? Is it too old to go out? 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. Anyway.
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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 9 (24:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's good to be back with you.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
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 my neighborhood asking for candy. I don't necessarily
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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.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Right, believe it or not. I mean, the term hollows
refers to the Saints because tomorrow is All Saints' Day.
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. No,
it wasn't. So that's why we dressed up. It was
you dressed up like a saint, or you're dressed up
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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 vote with Republicans.
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This is awful.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
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.
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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 2 (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. They know. But it
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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 have it
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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 9 (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 announced an accelerated delivery
of forty two point five million dollars in food and
hunger grants. Because I can tell you I represent Cumberland
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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,
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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 2 (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
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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 9 (29:54):
They absolutely are, and very similar to rama manual, Rama manual,
sort of the mass head 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
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to waste.
Speaker 2 (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's shut down.
So and in spite of that fact, President Trump saying
we have to end it. He could. 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
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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 to you. Fingers cross
at this stops because real people are really going to suffer,
and we hope the Democrats come around. We appreciate you
coming on today. Happy Halloween, Bete, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Having me, you, bet thank you. Mostly sunny, 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 now.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
More of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wor.
Filling in for Mark.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Here again is Ken Rosatto. Good to be here on
your Friday Halloween seven ten wor is the voice of
New York Phone Lines opened one eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. We go to Jan in Asbury Park.
Speaker 10 (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.
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That people step like saints and then people dressed up
like skeletons that showed the good and evil.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yep, that's exactly thinking how.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
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
out of us. 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
(32:28):
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 and that's okay, you give because people are still giving.
Speaker 2 (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 Ariona seven ten wo
r
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten. Woof jell
me in from Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Ken Rosottom. Very happy Halloween to you. The end
of the week is here. Mark's off on a long weekend.
Former New York City TV news anchor came Rosata 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 Jersey based
(00:28):
news channel that I'm on. It's called on New Jersey
Appropriate right. You could stream it live, or you could
watch the rerun of our shows at ONNJ dot com
on New Jersey ONNJ dot com. I also run a
food website for all new foodies. It's called the Food Dude.
Links to hundreds of thousands of recipes all over the world.
It's free and it is at Thefooddude dot us. Good
(00:52):
to be here with you. We got a lot 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 two one zero seven to ten.
Massive flooding in New York and the tri State yesterday
did you get caught in any of that. Man, oh man,
the wind, the storm, it was like a nor' easter,
but it wasn't. I guess officially it wasn't a nor' easter,
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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 got really flooded. At least
two people have died that we know of, so our
prayers for them. Just awful, awful rain. And speaking of
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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. Just widespread destruction.
A mother talks about how she's helping her children through
the disaster. I tried to be strong with them, and
(02:00):
but deep inside, I'm crying. I'm really really crying. What
your is like?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Hid it?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We will survive, we will survive, we will survey. 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. It's just amazing. Back at home,
(02:29):
the mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too little,
too late? Here were the three candidates at a recent debate.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.
Speaker 5 (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 4 (02:50):
Oh, if you believe Andrew Como, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him.
John Dammy, I'm going to stand up to him. You
stand up to President Trump, will go. He shows all
the money. Guess what we the citizens lose now.
Speaker 2 (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
Mum Donnie has one more vote than the next person,
that's it. There's an Emerson College poll that has mam
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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 get this, sixty nine percent of anyone under
the age of fifty in New York supports Mam Donnie. Yeah,
let me let me repeat that, sixty nine percent, so
nearly seven and ten of all New Yorkers under the
(04:29):
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 should sit back, get a bag of popcorn,
and watch as New York implodes with liberalism and socialism
because it doesn't work. It has failed everywhere, it's been tried.
(04:53):
Everything that Mam Donni wants to give you free, free, free,
free has to get paid for by someone from some 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 mayoral proclamation. Well good luck with that.
(05:15):
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. People have this misconception that every
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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 rules and rags. So yeah,
(05:57):
while there are some landlords who are very wealthy, many
or 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 Halloueni Friday. What
are you dressing up as today? Phone lines are open
eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
There's a New Manhattan Institute poll that shows it if
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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 that New York State is very
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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, during a town hall that Sean Hannity
(07:01):
had with Fox News Channel. Listen. As he entered the room,
let's go hometown crowd, hometown crowd, it just became a
(07:23):
it just became a Trump rally. 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,
(07:44):
but he's a great guy. 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 half her talk to
media of any kind except for MSNBC, where they feel
they'll have a friendly audience. That's it. So we'll see
(08:06):
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
Chidarelli had this to say, especially the early returns.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
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 summer.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah. 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 the Democrat
Party altogether 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 6 (09:20):
We've seen the greatest number of Republicans returned vote by
mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. And 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 voting that we've had thus far.
That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
day within a certain number of points, we're gonna win
this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And now, just because a larger number of Republicans returned ballots,
that doesn't mean every single Republican is going to support
the Republican candidate. I mean, chances are they will, but
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 ballot,
(10:00):
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
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
(10:22):
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.
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
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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,
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 you have to
(11:06):
have to have to vote. If your parents are elderly
and have difficulty getting to the polls, make sure they
have a ride. Okay, if you 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
(11:28):
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, 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,
(11:51):
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 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
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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 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, New
Jersey goes only about nine and a half million people.
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You have both US Senate seats occupied by Democrats, and
you have nine of the twelve Congress seats US Congress
seats that are 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
(12:56):
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' bathrooms because they wake up thinking
they're women enough. 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.
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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 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
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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
keep voting Democrat. Now. The Democrat shutdown is on day
thirty one. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the Democrats
seemingly never won it to end. It was also a
disturbing signal the Democrats are ready to continue this shut down.
(14:06):
I guess forever. 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 can have a filibuster. So you need at least
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sixty votes. Republicans only have fifty three members of the Senate,
so you need those Democrats to help. Now. 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
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the spending plan passed last year. That was Biden's spending
plan passed by Democrats. And all the Republicans are asking
is you continue it for four more weeks, But the
Democrats don't want to do it. Chuck Schumer 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,
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Now tomorrow you will have forty two million Americans not
receiving Snap benefits, so no food stamps. People are going
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
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you otherwise, because every Republican is trying to reopen the
government right now. Even CNN is showing that Americans believe
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 WR the Voice of
New York. Mark has the day off. Kendra's out of
filling in. We'll take your calls next one to eight
(15:55):
hundred three two one zero seven ten. Partly sunny today,
highsmid fifties, windy. Make sure you bundle up tonight for
the trick retreating, 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
(16:15):
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
wr Ken Fro Today.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
We go to the phones right now. Jay, Good morning,
you're on the air.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Good morning, Ken, How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm good? Thank you good.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I just are illustrious Governor Murphy's press police regarding.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know what are you're going to repeat yourself because
my headphones have a short. Please say that one more time, Jay,
Now I got them. Midge.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I just wonder please that New Jersey's Governor Murphy put
out regarding the SNAP benefits.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, you know what I didn't see? Did you just
put out a new press release?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now, ate, yes, look at that Trump administration's failure to snap.
Speaker 2 (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 Schnap 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 Mergan. Nobody has just heard you
say that he's the least effective governor I think we've
(17:51):
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 camped painting with her. Jay, thank you so much,
appreciate the call. We go to Steve in Manhattan. Good morning.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Right there, kend 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 in
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 initiatives in
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New York City one through six, ballance two three and four.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
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 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 thousing projects. And if you don't own a
home or a condo, it still affects you. You're renting.
(18:56):
You might have a nice neighborhood in the South sho State,
and I bitle the housing project next door to you.
No on two, three and four proposals, folks, let's not
get caught up and all the things, because we have
there's seven council members who are Republicans. A couple of
those late races were real close. Yes, So I'm pulling
my cards right at the table.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Steve.
Speaker 2 (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.
I'm with you. We go to Jerry and New Jersey.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Good morning Ken.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I believe the Democrats purposely keeping the government clothes until
after the election.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I agree, so they can get some ask into.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
The New Jersey election, Virginia and New York.
Speaker 2 (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. I'm with you. And then if you remember,
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if we becoming the minority in the Senate, then we
have no say against the Democrats. 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. My friend, how
are you.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Good morning, 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
(21:01):
was offset by 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 fume that maybe leftover from one hundred years ago.
(21:22):
First off, nobody 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
(21:43):
what's called red oxide. 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
(22:05):
were ripped out, 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 of paintships,
where are the mother or father looking at these kids
the ghetto?
Speaker 2 (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. It's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
And on Mark Simone's advice, my girlfriend and I are
already looking at a second home in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Hey, yeah, listen, come over to Jersey. If we get
Chitarelli in come and live with us in Jersey. It's
a good place.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Okay, I'm gonna teach you some Italian. It's not Hitarelli.
It's chatting.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
This discussion.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Now, yes, it calls sauce gravy.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well think about it in terms of sugo. That's what
it is. Sugo. 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 2 (23:34):
Here again is Ken Rosado. And it is a Friday morning.
It is Halloween. Are you dressing up? Are you going out?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
At?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What age? Is it too old to go out? 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. Anyway.
(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 9 (24:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's good to be back with you.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
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 my neighborhood asking for candy. I don't necessarily
(24:45):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Right, believe it or not. I mean, the term hollows
refers to the Saints because tomorrow is All Saints' Day.
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. No,
it wasn't. So that's why we dressed up. It was
you dressed up like a saint, or you're dressed up
(25:15):
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 vote with Republicans.
(25:35):
This is awful.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
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 2 (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. They know. But it
(27:21):
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 have it
(27:41):
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 9 (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 announced 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 2 (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 9 (29:54):
They absolutely are, and very similar to rama manual, Rama manual,
sort of the mass head 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
(30:17):
to waste.
Speaker 2 (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's shut down.
So and in spite of that fact, President Trump saying
we have to end it. He could. 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
(30:40):
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 to you. Fingers cross
at this stops because real people are really going to suffer,
and we hope the Democrats come around. We appreciate you
coming on today. Happy Halloween, Bete, Happy Halloween.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Having me, you, bet thank you. Mostly sunny, 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 now.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
More of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wor.
Filling in for Mark.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Here again is Ken Rosatto. Good to be here on
your Friday Halloween seven ten wor is the voice of
New York Phone Lines opened one eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. We go to Jan in Asbury Park.
Speaker 10 (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 step like saints and then people dressed up
like skeletons that showed the good and evil.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yep, that's exactly thinking how.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
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
out of us. 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
(32:28):
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 and that's okay, you give because people are still giving.
Speaker 2 (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 Ariona seven ten wo
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