October 31, 2025 • 33 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. 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. Mark takes your calls! 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 woor filling
in for Mark, Here's Ken Rosato Billy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Really nice to be here Halloween. Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is a nice long weekend. You may remember me from
all the years I've been on New York City TV.
I was the morning news anchor, morning and midday. In fact,
for a bunch of those years at Channel seven. I
was at twenty years. I was also the morning anchor
for a year at the Channel five, I was there
at good Day. I did that back in two thousand
and two to two thousand and three, if I recall,
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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
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be here. We got so much happening. Busy, busy week
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 news a
massive flooding. Did you see that weather yesterday? Man, I
mean we heard about it. We got the heads up
that it was coming. But man, until it comes, you
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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 in that flash flooding.
Just awful, awful. Just remember, especially if you live in
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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. They say, turn around, don't drown.
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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 who was talking about how she
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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, having lost friends
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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, sadly, as they find more
bodies in remote areas. It is now coming up on
ten minutes after eleven o'clock on your Friday Halloween. The
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mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too little
too late? Well, here were the three candidates at the
recent debate.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Who's the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him,
because I don't see anybody with a national presidence that
can pull that off.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Where are you on that? 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 3 (03:38):
I'd have to give too much money, Bill, I'd have
to give up too much money.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The Democrats definitely need an outsider. Yeah, that was obviously
stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher talking about the candidates,
and here were the candidates of the debate.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare, as a progress Muslim
immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh, if you believe Andrew Cuomo, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him, Zadannie,
I'm going to stand up to him.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
He stand up to President Trump, who controls all the money.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Guess what we the citizens lose. 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. But it looks like it
might be just too little, too late, because we've got
three poles. If you saw these polls that came out
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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,
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is impossible. 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 freeze the rent, he can't give you free food,
he can't all the things he's talking about. Sounded like
a wonderful, you know, communist fantasy, but it can't happen.
It doesn't happen that way. In fact, the one experiment
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where there was a community supermarket in Kansas City failed miserably.
In 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
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the rules. It was a disgusting breakdown of humanity. And
if you think 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 wo R the Voice of New York. It's Ken
Rosotto win from Mark on Halloween Friday, and those phone
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lines are are open eight hundred and three to two
one zero, seven to ten. In New Jersey it's Chitdarelli
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
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of vera is three points, so that means that Jack
Chitarelli 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 Chittarelly signs everywhere. I'd say for every ten Chittarelli signs,
I'm seeing one Mikey Cheryl sign. And last night Chittarelli
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was on there was a town hall that Fox News
had with Sean Hannity. Listen to the response he got
from the crowd as he walked in, Let's.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Go over.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hometown crowd, hometown crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It it just became a Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Rally, or as Jack Chitarelli followed up, where 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
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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
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and from younger people. Younger people not to vote, especially
in off year elections, by anywhere near the numbers of
as older people and the older people are supporting Jack Cheddarelli,
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 pollster was saying,
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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 you see a
poll of likely voters, as much as it's probably more
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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 going to vote,
you know, so just just remember that, keep that in mind.
Jack Chitarelli was talking about the recent polls.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
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 you
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.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Sunlit Now, 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,
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the early ballots, I should say. But nonetheless, here's Jack
talking about the early ballots.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
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 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 going to
win this thing.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Their own.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I think he's right. 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
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or three days. Then it 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
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vote is cast, and once it's cast, 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, you have to work late,
you never know. Get that vote in asap. In New
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Jersey you can early vote until Sunday, and then if
you don't vote by Sunday, you have to wait because
Monday there is no voting. 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,
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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 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,
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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. And this thing
is going to cost twenty thousand dollars. When I read this,
I thought, 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,
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if you want to rent it, they have a let
me see, let me get the details for you. 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
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thing could be trained to do just about anything. Water
plants do the laundry, eventually, probably cook your meal, 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,
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but nonetheless it is a character walking around that may
make you feel almost like having a pet, that may
make you feel like somebody is with you too, to
keep your company. Seven to ten WLA The Voice of
New York. There was a New Manhattan Institute poll out
that shows that if Congresswoman Elise Stephanic were to run
against Governor Coffee Hochel, who talks with the big porcelain veneers. Oh,
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I said, I would never say that again. I'm sorry,
Kathy Hochel, that if Elise Stephanic were to run against
Kathy Hokel 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 and
you get up like north of Westchester, Putnam Rockland, you
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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.
But I think at this point if she did announce,
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you would see a Republican victory first time in many,
many years in New York. Seven ten WR, the Voice
of New York. Mark is off. This is Ken Rosotto
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
Wendy today for your Halloween mid fifties. In just a bit,
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we'll speak with Republican New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola
about the race for mayor and what she thinks is
possible Mamdani mayalty would mean for New York City. The
Times eleven twenty seven ten WR will be right back.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Filling in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosatto. Every
good to be with you on Halloween Friday. Let's go
right to our busy phones. Carlo in Queen's here on
the air. Good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
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, and after
World War Two the city of Berlin broke up into
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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 do we to expect from Mondami?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
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
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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. Do you hear that number? So?
Where the hell are forty nine ten year olds who
are so ignorant that they think socialism will work here
and that it as if it worked anywhere else on
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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. What are we paying for? Are we
paying to literally have socialists in teaching positions, in doctrinating
kids in the city, because that's what it's sure as
hell looks like.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Jill 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 2 (16:32):
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
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everything outside of the cities, because if you look, all
the cities seem to be of the same mindset, very
far to the left. But its getting even 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
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a totally different political ILK. It's just amazing.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Thank God for Trump. That's all I could say.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
All Right, Carlo from Queens, I appreciate the call. You
have a wonderful day. Let's say John in New Jersey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Good morning Ken, How are you good sir? Either way,
the city, the residents of New York City are going
to be screwed. It's either it's Cuomo or or Modami.
THEYD 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 and what's
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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 2 (17:52):
Well, you know, I blame my fellow members of the media,
the people here in media whom I used to work with,
the TVs. 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 the newscaps.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Totally agree.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
All right, John from New Jersey, I appreciate it. Get it,
Get out there and vote for jackolute 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 what she
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thinks a possible mam Donnie Marylty will mean for New
York City.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
On sevent ten, Wi Ben from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
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.
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We say good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the
Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
the rare Republican Council members, 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 3 (20:10):
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 2 (20:29):
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 through
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your mind as a Republican on the City Council.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, I think you make a good comparison. You say
that Mayor Adams, who had government's 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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Zoram Mamdani should God forbid win, that New York City
will fall to ashes. Well.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
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 rant control board
in New York City?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is all speaking to a Democrat 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 and 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 2 (22:31):
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 heat eating system, air conditioning 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 lower income housing that destroy things. You
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could have an elevator replaced. I remember when I was
at 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. You can't now
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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 3 (23:43):
Well that's true. 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, you're
business owners, taxpayers, 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,
he will not change the discovery laws. And even Janel
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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
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 2 (25:27):
Seven wo R the Voice of New York. This is
the Mark Simon Show. Ken razattowin for 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 Mamdani, How the hell
do we arrive at that? 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
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forty five, you were mature enough to understand things are
not free.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
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 worked 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.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And we still haven't made it up. 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
job is the people who walked on buses 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 gonna
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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, which is exactly
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what they were.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
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 need 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
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you have to pay a fair when you go into
the subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences,
and that's what brings you back to Mom Donnie and
Cuomo started this. He started this bill reform, he started
no cash list bail, 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 thing 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 used because there are no consequences
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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 Lee. Well, 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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the 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
would like.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And even getting back to the cvs is 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
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you 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, that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
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 (31:00):
And New York City Republican Councilwoman Joe Anne Ariola, it's
such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for coming
on this morning.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Thank here, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Likewise, good to have you and this is Ken Razotto
win from Mark on your Friday. When we come back,
we'll take more of your calls. One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten for wo R.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
This is the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wring
from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Very good to be here on your Friday. Heppy Halloween.
I hope you have a good one. Just remember it's
going to be very windy. Even though it's not going
to 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.
I hate that. I know you want to show off
the costume, but you also don't want them to feeze
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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 and under, we're supporting Mamdanie.
One thing you have to think about, too, is you
could put this right at the blame of former President
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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 gus an. No
one's voting. No one's voting if they're not a citizen. Right,
But remember what happened in terms of ensuring that the
city and the state has extra Congress seats and we
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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
don't forget to tune into the TCS New York City
Marathon Sunday, eight am to noon right here in w
(32:51):
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wr Buck and Clay after the news. Happy Halloween and
have a great day and a great weekend.
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark, Here's Ken Rosato Billy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Really nice to be here Halloween. Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is a nice long weekend. You may remember me from
all the years I've been on New York City TV.
I was the morning news anchor, morning and midday. In fact,
for a bunch of those years at Channel seven. I
was at twenty years. I was also the morning anchor
for a year at the Channel five, I was there
at good Day. I did that back in two thousand
and two to two thousand and three, if I recall,
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And these days, I host a daily show on a
New Jersey based news channel. It's called on New Jersey.
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be here. We got so much happening. Busy, busy week
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 news a
massive flooding. Did you see that weather yesterday? Man, I
mean we heard about it. We got the heads up
that it was coming. But man, until it comes, you
(01:20):
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 in that flash flooding.
Just awful, awful. Just remember, especially if you live in
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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. They say, turn around, don't drown.
(02:03):
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 who was talking about how she
(02:24):
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, having lost friends
(02:47):
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, sadly, as they find more
bodies in remote areas. It is now coming up on
ten minutes after eleven o'clock on your Friday Halloween. The
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mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too little
too late? Well, here were the three candidates at the
recent debate.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Who's the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him,
because I don't see anybody with a national presidence that
can pull that off.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Where are you on that? 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 3 (03:38):
I'd have to give too much money, Bill, I'd have
to give up too much money.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The Democrats definitely need an outsider. Yeah, that was obviously
stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher talking about the candidates,
and here were the candidates of the debate.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare, as a progress Muslim
immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh, if you believe Andrew Cuomo, who's calling up Trump
all the time, I'm going to stand up to him, Zadannie,
I'm going to stand up to him.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
He stand up to President Trump, who controls all the money.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Guess what we the citizens lose. 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. But it looks like it
might be just too little, too late, because we've got
three poles. If you saw these polls that came out
(04:33):
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,
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is impossible. 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 freeze the rent, he can't give you free food,
he can't all the things he's talking about. Sounded like
a wonderful, you know, communist fantasy, but it can't happen.
It doesn't happen that way. In fact, the one experiment
(05:15):
where there was a community supermarket in Kansas City failed miserably.
In 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
(05:37):
the rules. It was a disgusting breakdown of humanity. And
if you think 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 wo R the Voice of New York. It's Ken
Rosotto win from Mark on Halloween Friday, and those phone
(05:59):
lines are are open eight hundred and three to two
one zero, seven to ten. In New Jersey it's Chitdarelli
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
(06:25):
of vera is three points, so that means that Jack
Chitarelli 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 Chittarelly signs everywhere. I'd say for every ten Chittarelli signs,
I'm seeing one Mikey Cheryl sign. And last night Chittarelli
(06:46):
was on there was a town hall that Fox News
had with Sean Hannity. Listen to the response he got
from the crowd as he walked in, Let's.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Go over.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hometown crowd, hometown crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It it just became a Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Rally, or as Jack Chitarelli followed up, where 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
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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
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and from younger people. Younger people not to vote, especially
in off year elections, by anywhere near the numbers of
as older people and the older people are supporting Jack Cheddarelli,
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 pollster was saying,
(08:20):
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 you see a
poll of likely voters, as much as it's probably more
(08:43):
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 going to vote,
you know, so just just remember that, keep that in mind.
Jack Chitarelli was talking about the recent polls.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
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 you
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.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Sunlit Now, 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,
(09:35):
the early ballots, I should say. But nonetheless, here's Jack
talking about the early ballots.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
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 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 going to
win this thing.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Their own.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And I think he's right. 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
(10:21):
or three days. Then it 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
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vote is cast, and once it's cast, 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, you have to work late,
you never know. Get that vote in asap. In New
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Jersey you can early vote until Sunday, and then if
you don't vote by Sunday, you have to wait because
Monday there is no voting. 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,
(11:25):
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 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,
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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. And this thing
is going to cost twenty thousand dollars. When I read this,
I thought, 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,
(12:09):
if you want to rent it, they have a let
me see, let me get the details for you. 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
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thing could be trained to do just about anything. Water
plants do the laundry, eventually, probably cook your meal, 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,
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but nonetheless it is a character walking around that may
make you feel almost like having a pet, that may
make you feel like somebody is with you too, to
keep your company. Seven to ten WLA The Voice of
New York. There was a New Manhattan Institute poll out
that shows that if Congresswoman Elise Stephanic were to run
against Governor Coffee Hochel, who talks with the big porcelain veneers. Oh,
(13:14):
I said, I would never say that again. I'm sorry,
Kathy Hochel, that if Elise Stephanic were to run against
Kathy Hokel 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 and
you get up like north of Westchester, Putnam Rockland, you
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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.
But I think at this point if she did announce,
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you would see a Republican victory first time in many,
many years in New York. Seven ten WR, the Voice
of New York. Mark is off. This is Ken Rosotto
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
Wendy today for your Halloween mid fifties. In just a bit,
(14:19):
we'll speak with Republican New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola
about the race for mayor and what she thinks is
possible Mamdani mayalty would mean for New York City. The
Times eleven twenty seven ten WR will be right back.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Filling in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosatto. Every
good to be with you on Halloween Friday. Let's go
right to our busy phones. Carlo in Queen's here on
the air. Good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
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, and after
World War Two the city of Berlin broke up into
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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 do we to expect from Mondami?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
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
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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. Do you hear that number? So?
Where the hell are forty nine ten year olds who
are so ignorant that they think socialism will work here
and that it as if it worked anywhere else on
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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. What are we paying for? Are we
paying to literally have socialists in teaching positions, in doctrinating
kids in the city, because that's what it's sure as
hell looks like.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Jill 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 2 (16:32):
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
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everything outside of the cities, because if you look, all
the cities seem to be of the same mindset, very
far to the left. But its getting even 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
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a totally different political ILK. It's just amazing.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Thank God for Trump. That's all I could say.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
All Right, Carlo from Queens, I appreciate the call. You
have a wonderful day. Let's say John in New Jersey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Good morning Ken, How are you good sir? Either way,
the city, the residents of New York City are going
to be screwed. It's either it's Cuomo or or Modami.
THEYD 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 and what's
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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 2 (17:52):
Well, you know, I blame my fellow members of the media,
the people here in media whom I used to work with,
the TVs. 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 the newscaps.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Totally agree.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
All right, John from New Jersey, I appreciate it. Get it,
Get out there and vote for jackolute 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 what she
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thinks a possible mam Donnie Marylty will mean for New
York City.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
On sevent ten, Wi Ben from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
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.
(19:49):
We say good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the
Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
the rare Republican Council members, 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 3 (20:10):
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 2 (20:29):
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 through
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your mind as a Republican on the City Council.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, I think you make a good comparison. You say
that Mayor Adams, who had government's 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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Zoram Mamdani should God forbid win, that New York City
will fall to ashes. Well.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
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 rant control board
in New York City?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is all speaking to a Democrat 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 and 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 2 (22:31):
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 heat eating system, air conditioning 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 lower income housing that destroy things. You
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could have an elevator replaced. I remember when I was
at 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. You can't now
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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 3 (23:43):
Well that's true. 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, you're
business owners, taxpayers, 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,
he will not change the discovery laws. And even Janel
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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
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 2 (25:27):
Seven wo R the Voice of New York. This is
the Mark Simon Show. Ken razattowin for 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 Mamdani, How the hell
do we arrive at that? 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
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forty five, you were mature enough to understand things are
not free.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
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 worked 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.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And we still haven't made it up. 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
job is the people who walked on buses 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 gonna
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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, which is exactly
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what they were.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
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 need 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
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you have to pay a fair when you go into
the subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences,
and that's what brings you back to Mom Donnie and
Cuomo started this. He started this bill reform, he started
no cash list bail, 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 thing 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 used because there are no consequences
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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 Lee. Well, 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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the 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
would like.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And even getting back to the cvs is 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
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you 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, that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
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 (31:00):
And New York City Republican Councilwoman Joe Anne Ariola, it's
such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for coming
on this morning.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Thank here, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Likewise, good to have you and this is Ken Razotto
win from Mark on your Friday. When we come back,
we'll take more of your calls. One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten for wo R.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
This is the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wring
from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Very good to be here on your Friday. Heppy Halloween.
I hope you have a good one. Just remember it's
going to be very windy. Even though it's not going
to 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.
I hate that. I know you want to show off
the costume, but you also don't want them to feeze
(31:46):
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 and under, we're supporting Mamdanie.
One thing you have to think about, too, is you
could put this right at the blame of former President
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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 gus an. No
one's voting. No one's voting if they're not a citizen. Right,
But remember what happened in terms of ensuring that the
city and the state has extra Congress seats and we
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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
don't forget to tune into the TCS New York City
Marathon Sunday, eight am to noon right here in w
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R Larry Minty and Tim mclouhon will anchor. Natalie Migliori
and I are going to be along the route. I'll
bee at mile mark or twenty in the Bronx. Then
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Jimmy Feller, who is hilarious. He's on at nine again.
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have a great day and a great weekend.
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