October 31, 2025 • 11 mins
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):
On sevent ten, WOI inn from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
She is a Republican New York City council woman representing
District thirty two, which includes Glendale, Wood Haven, OZP, Howard Beach,
Broad Channel in parts of Rockaway Peninsula, Queens. Previously, she
was the chairwoman of the Queen's Republican Party, and she's
(00:23):
here to talk about the mayor's race and what a
possible Mamdani mayoralty would mean to New York City. We say,
good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
the rare Republican council member out, I always say 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 2 (00:50):
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
colleague 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 1 (01:09):
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
Zornmumdani potentially coming in as mayor, what goes through your
(01:31):
mind as a Republican on the city Council.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
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
(01:55):
you have Zora Mumdani, 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
(02:19):
Zoram Mamdani should God forbid, when that New York City
will fall to ashes. Well.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
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 you have a rent control board in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
This is all speaking to a demographic that wants everything
for free. So he's telling people what they want to hear.
He doesn't realize. Well he does realize, I'm sure he does.
But people want to say, oh, yes, we can free
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
(02:58):
for me. But you know, he can't do that. That
has to come from a state, in a federal level.
There's very little that he can do on any of
his policies as a mayor. And that's why I believe
that he just doesn't have the competency to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The fact is the city and the state imposed so
many regulations on landlords. You have to maintain an active
heating 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 or some
vandal type people in a lot of the lower income
(03:56):
housing that destroy things. You could have an elevator replaced.
Remember when I was a Channel seven, there was one
building I went to and the people were complaining the
elevator's broken. And I went there and there were other
residents who came up to me and said, yeah, the
landlord has the elevator fixed every Tuesday and by Wednesday.
There is such and such who lives in an apartments, such
and such who intentionally breaks it. So this is the problem.
(04:17):
You can't now tell a landlord, well you got to
freeze the rent, but you still have to come up
with the money for all of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
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, your
business owners, your tax payers, your city workers, your people
who go to work in our hospitals, the people who
(04:45):
go and 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 or this city. He will
not change the bail reform laws, he will not lower
the age, he will he will not change the discovery laws.
(05:09):
And even Janel Lieber from the MTA said he will
not be able to give free fairs. So even people
who may agree with him on some level of ideology
are saying, no, you can't do that, that's not within
your purview. He should be talking about raising the age
so that young criminals are held accountable. He should be
(05:31):
talking about bail reforms so people can go and have
consequences for the crimes they commit. He should be talking
about about bringing police on instead, he's just dancing around
it with his public safety ambassadors. I don't want a
public safety ambassador. I want a police officer on the street.
(05:52):
And we're 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 1 (06:07):
Seven ten wo R The Voice of New York. This
is the Mark Simon Show. Ken rozottowin from Mark on
Halloween Friday, and with us right now is New York
City Republican councilwoman, the minority leader of the City Council,
Joanne Ariola, who's from Queens. It's good to have you
here again. Let's talk about one statistic that really frightened me,
and that is that sixty nine percent of all New
(06:29):
York City 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
(06:50):
of fifty. You would think that by the time you
hit forty forty five you were mature enough to understand
things are not free.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You would think that, 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
are 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 loans,
you shouldn't have to pay for anything. You shouldn't have
(07:18):
to pay to ride the bus. And I don't know
why because and this is something that was talked to
to Mamdani from a little child. Both his parents, who
are megal 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
(07:39):
or communism works, that I say, great, but it has
never worked. It's always fallen. And we are America and
we're 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 different cult
(08:00):
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
(08:21):
people are jumping the fairs all the time anyway, and
we're not enforcing that. So so you know, in a way,
we do have free transit system, but what did that
get us? Congestion pricing to make up the difference, and
we still.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
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 councilwoman, if you look
at all the free that the fair jumpers, 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
(08:53):
you get off, or I'm going to call a cop today,
or at that point then the mayor, I guess it
was Mayor to Blasier at the time. Marriedor 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
(09:15):
in the hole, which is exactly what they were.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's exactly right. And even in today's administration, police officers
that are in the subway are asked to hands out
literature to educate people that they should be paying when
they go onto the bus or in the subway. And
I really it blows my mind because I think that,
first our police officers have a lot of better things
to do than handout literature. And secondly, everybody knows you
(09:39):
have to pay a fare when you go into the
subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences
and that's what brings me back to Mom Donnie and Cuomo.
Cuomo started this. He started this bail reform, he started
no castles bail, he started raising age. He gave people
license to permit crimes without impunity and without consequence. And
(10:03):
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 thinking 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 our used because there are no consequences filling
(10:26):
up a knapsack and running out the door. It's just
a vicious cycle that will turn into an absolute chaos
if Mom Donny 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 the
(10:47):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Nah and like 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. You. People don't realize that they can cancel
the individual stores and that 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
(11:21):
they get it from. 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 2 (11:32):
And out and vote, and if you want to still
have a voice with your representatives in city Hall, vote
no on the propositions.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Amen. New York City Republican Councilwoman joe Ane Ariola, It
is such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks you
for coming on this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Same here, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Likewise, good to have you. And this is Candra's outawin
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
On sevent ten, WOI inn from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato.
Very good to be with you on your Halloween Friday.
She is a Republican New York City council woman representing
District thirty two, which includes Glendale, Wood Haven, OZP, Howard Beach,
Broad Channel in parts of Rockaway Peninsula, Queens. Previously, she
was the chairwoman of the Queen's Republican Party, and she's
(00:23):
here to talk about the mayor's race and what a
possible Mamdani mayoralty would mean to New York City. We say,
good morning, Joe Anne Ariola, welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning and thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good to have you on. You know, whenever I have
the rare Republican council member out, I always say 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 2 (00:50):
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
colleague 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 1 (01:09):
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
Zornmumdani potentially coming in as mayor, what goes through your
(01:31):
mind as a Republican on the city Council.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
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
(01:55):
you have Zora Mumdani, 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
(02:19):
Zoram Mamdani should God forbid, when that New York City
will fall to ashes. Well.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
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 you have a rent control board in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
This is all speaking to a demographic that wants everything
for free. So he's telling people what they want to hear.
He doesn't realize. Well he does realize, I'm sure he does.
But people want to say, oh, yes, we can free
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
(02:58):
for me. But you know, he can't do that. That
has to come from a state, in a federal level.
There's very little that he can do on any of
his policies as a mayor. And that's why I believe
that he just doesn't have the competency to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The fact is the city and the state imposed so
many regulations on landlords. You have to maintain an active
heating 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 or some
vandal type people in a lot of the lower income
(03:56):
housing that destroy things. You could have an elevator replaced.
Remember when I was a Channel seven, there was one
building I went to and the people were complaining the
elevator's broken. And I went there and there were other
residents who came up to me and said, yeah, the
landlord has the elevator fixed every Tuesday and by Wednesday.
There is such and such who lives in an apartments, such
and such who intentionally breaks it. So this is the problem.
(04:17):
You can't now tell a landlord, well you got to
freeze the rent, but you still have to come up
with the money for all of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
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, your
business owners, your tax payers, your city workers, your people
who go to work in our hospitals, the people who
(04:45):
go and 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 or this city. He will
not change the bail reform laws, he will not lower
the age, he will he will not change the discovery laws.
(05:09):
And even Janel Lieber from the MTA said he will
not be able to give free fairs. So even people
who may agree with him on some level of ideology
are saying, no, you can't do that, that's not within
your purview. He should be talking about raising the age
so that young criminals are held accountable. He should be
(05:31):
talking about bail reforms so people can go and have
consequences for the crimes they commit. He should be talking
about about bringing police on instead, he's just dancing around
it with his public safety ambassadors. I don't want a
public safety ambassador. I want a police officer on the street.
(05:52):
And we're 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 1 (06:07):
Seven ten wo R The Voice of New York. This
is the Mark Simon Show. Ken rozottowin from Mark on
Halloween Friday, and with us right now is New York
City Republican councilwoman, the minority leader of the City Council,
Joanne Ariola, who's from Queens. It's good to have you
here again. Let's talk about one statistic that really frightened me,
and that is that sixty nine percent of all New
(06:29):
York City 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
(06:50):
of fifty. You would think that by the time you
hit forty forty five you were mature enough to understand
things are not free.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You would think that, 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
are 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 loans,
you shouldn't have to pay for anything. You shouldn't have
(07:18):
to pay to ride the bus. And I don't know
why because and this is something that was talked to
to Mamdani from a little child. Both his parents, who
are megal 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
(07:39):
or communism works, that I say, great, but it has
never worked. It's always fallen. And we are America and
we're 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 different cult
(08:00):
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
(08:21):
people are jumping the fairs all the time anyway, and
we're not enforcing that. So so you know, in a way,
we do have free transit system, but what did that
get us? Congestion pricing to make up the difference, and
we still.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
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 councilwoman, if you look
at all the free that the fair jumpers, 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
(08:53):
you get off, or I'm going to call a cop today,
or at that point then the mayor, I guess it
was Mayor to Blasier at the time. Marriedor 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
(09:15):
in the hole, which is exactly what they were.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's exactly right. And even in today's administration, police officers
that are in the subway are asked to hands out
literature to educate people that they should be paying when
they go onto the bus or in the subway. And
I really it blows my mind because I think that,
first our police officers have a lot of better things
to do than handout literature. And secondly, everybody knows you
(09:39):
have to pay a fare when you go into the
subway or you take a bus, but there's no consequences
and that's what brings me back to Mom Donnie and Cuomo.
Cuomo started this. He started this bail reform, he started
no castles bail, he started raising age. He gave people
license to permit crimes without impunity and without consequence. And
(10:03):
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 thinking 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 our used because there are no consequences filling
(10:26):
up a knapsack and running out the door. It's just
a vicious cycle that will turn into an absolute chaos
if Mom Donny 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 the
(10:47):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Nah and like 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. You. People don't realize that they can cancel
the individual stores and that 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
(11:21):
they get it from. 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 2 (11:32):
And out and vote, and if you want to still
have a voice with your representatives in city Hall, vote
no on the propositions.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Amen. New York City Republican Councilwoman joe Ane Ariola, It
is such a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks you
for coming on this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Same here, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Likewise, good to have you. And this is Candra's outawin
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
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