October 29, 2025 • 10 mins
More police officers are being tapped to work in Nassau County because Zohran Mamdani may be the next mayor. The economy under Mr. Blakeman is thriving with restaurants, beaches, stores, and more! Making the county safe is a huge priority.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
County and it has the best county executive in America.
There's not even a close second. Bruce Blakeman is the
county executive up for reelection on Tuesday. Make sure you
vote for Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday. And he's with us
right now. Bruce Blakeman, how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mark? Thank you so much. You're very kind, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Do you actually have an opponent? Has anybody had the
nerve to run against you?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, we have an opponent. I don't take anything for granted,
you know, Mark. In Nassau County, we have one hundred
and ten thousand more registered Democrats than Republicans, so we
can't take anything for granted here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh all right, So everybody get out and vote for
Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday. You have early voting out there too,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, do it today. And you have a very good
district attorney. It's to Anne Donnelly, right, We everye should
vote for her too well.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Working with Anne Donnelly and our great police Commissioner Pat Ryder,
and our police department, our Sheriff's department, working very closely
with Ice, we are the safest county in America, which
is saving it's saying a lot since we're on the
border of New York City and our populations larger than
ten states in America.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, so if mom Donnie wins, can we join Nasau
County in New York City become part of Nassau County?
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Our real estate brokers are doing a tremendous business right now.
Our housing prices are going up up, So if you
want to come to Nassau County, now's the time to
buy because it's only going to go higher. People are
very concerned about him becoming mayor. I certainly am planning
with our police department measures that we're going to take
(01:40):
because we have a great relationship with the NYPD right now.
We share intelligence, we share assets, we work very well together.
I'm not sure that's going to be the same if
he's elected.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
How hard is it just to have common sense in politics?
You know, one thing, you come from the private sector too.
Do you think that should be a requirement that you
had to have been in the private sector just to
learn common sense and how to be practical about things.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think it's a great platform to run for office
where you have to meet a payroll where you understand
that everything that every decision that that's made is a
cost benefit analysis. That's what you should do in business.
That's what you should do in government. Unfortunately it's not
done in government. But you know, we do common sense
(02:28):
things out here, like boys play with boys, girls play
with girls. We don't want boys in girls bathrooms and
locker rooms. Just common sense.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, and things at booming and NASA. Right, every time
I'm out there, you got another hotel going up, more
stores are opening. It's the economy is bigger than ever,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Our gross domestic product is larger than one hundred and
twenty six nations in the United Nations. We are an
economic powerhouse. Our restaurants are as good as New York
City are. Shopping is as good as New York City,
may be better. We have beautiful beaches, beautiful parks, great museums.
And by the way, I heard you mentioned the Udell's,
(03:09):
great great entrepreneurs out here in Nassau County. I love
them because they create a lot of sales tax revenue
for us.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hey, Mark, you Della, his wife Candy, that whole family
is just wonderful and that's another example, like he's adding
another Florida to his store. Next store, you got rh
Restoration hardware. They just opened a spectacular store. So they
must think highly of you and Long Island if they're
spending all this money to expand.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, we are the safest county in America. We haven't
raised taxes one penny in four years. So we're doing
the right things out here, and we encourage businesses to
come to Nasau County. I meet with business owners from
all over the world, not just the United States, and
encourage them to do business in Nasau County because it's safe.
(03:58):
We've got beautiful housing stock, as I said, we've got
beautiful beaches, Our schools our top notch. We've got a
lot to offer out here.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, So why does anybody go to the Hamptons. I've
never understood that it takes you nine hours to get there.
Nasau County got better restaurants and better stores, you got
beautiful beaches. But I guess it's good they don't all
come because you can't. You'd have too many people.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We were the Hamptons before there was a Hampton mark.
So we have the Gold Coast, which has amazing homes again,
great restaurants. Then on the south Shore, we've got some
of the most pristine, beautiful beaches in the whole world.
So we've never marketed Nassau County the way that we should.
(04:44):
So the last four years, that's all I've been doing.
As I said, our gross domestic product is incredibly high.
When I came into office, it was eighty five billion
a year. It's now over one hundred and twenty five
billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wow. So everybody vote for Bruce Blakeman Tuesday's election. That
you can do early voting if you're in Nasa County,
make sure you vote for Bruce Blakeman. And you must
have you thought about the next four years what you
want to do. You must have a lot on your
plate there. But what's next for NASA.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Continue to make it safer, continue to make it more affordable,
keep taxes down, and use common sense, as you said,
and American values. We need to get back to American values.
Our kids have been indoctrinated with nonsense in our schools
and universities, and we've got to reteach them about the
(05:33):
things that were taught to us by our parents and grandparents.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, when you get a mom Donnie getting all these votes.
A lot of people think that's the result of universities
becoming crazy left wing and doctrination centers, glamorizing socialism, and
how do you undo that? That could they've raised generations
of these crazy people. How do you undo that?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, we have to re educate Mark. By the way,
communist has been a failure. Socialism has been a failure.
You can't point to one country where it's been a success.
And my friends who are who are you know, immigrants
from socialist countries. They can't understand why we don't teach
more in our public schools and our universities and our
(06:17):
private schools about what socialism and communism are all about.
It's basically being nonproductive, depending on the government to control
every aspect of your life. Anti religion, no spirituality. It's
really a dismal life. I think Winston Churchill said it's
(06:38):
the sharing of misery.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I like that. So Bruce Blakeman is up for re election.
Make sure you vote for him on Tuesday. Best county
executive in America? Have you getten calls from other county executives?
You've worked miracles there? Have they called you for a
guidance advice.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, I talk with political leaders throughout the state. I
speak with county executives all over New York State, and
you know, we've got a good nucleus here in New
York State. And you know, one of the things we've
got to do is focus very very carefully on changing
our state government because they're the biggest problem. With castlest bail,
(07:19):
with all congestion, pricing, all of these types of very
oppressive laws that are anti business, the pro criminal those
are the types of things that we've got to change
in our state government.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, if we have any big politicians listening, give them
some advice on how to be fearless. You've been a
guy who just you know, what's the right thing to do,
what's the smart thing to do, and you do it
and maybe you get a little flack, but you get
through it. You're not under any big attack from anybody
to tell them how doing the right thing is sometimes
in the end will always work out for you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, that's absolutely right, Mark. I think that if you
do the right thing, if you're courageous, if you stand
by your values, imprints bulls, eventually that will reap great benefits.
So I'll give you a for instance, my cooperation with ICE.
We are the most comprehensive county in the United States
in our in our cooperation with ICE, we've removed forty
(08:15):
seven illegal migrants who had criminal records just last months.
Twenty eight of them were gang related. When people when
I told people I was going to enter into a
cooperation agreement with ICE, they were like, Oh, you're going
to lose the Hispanic vote. The Hispanic Americans won't vote
for you. We've pulled it now three times. In the
(08:37):
Hispanic American community, they love it. From sixty two to
sixty six percent of Hispanic Americans want that cooperation with
ICE because they want safe communities for their children. They
don't want their children to being doctrinated into gangs. They
don't want overcrowded schools, they don't want homeless people in
their neighborhoods. So my support in Hispanic American community has
(08:59):
been overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, it's a great example for any other politician. Just
do the right thing. You'll get a little flak here
in there, but in the end everything will be better,
Everything works out, and then you get credit for doing
the right thing. And we want everybody to vote for
Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday, that's election day, but you can
do it now, there's early voting in Nassau County. He's
the best county executive in America by far. And Bruce Blakeman,
(09:22):
good luck, not that you'll need it, but thanks for
being with us to keep up the great work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Mark. You're a good friend. Thank you so much. And
if I had your voice and your intellect, that'd be
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Definitely do well, not yet not Yeah, we need you
in Nasau County then president, but thanks for taking marks,
take care. Yeah, he really has done a phenomenal job
in Nassau County. If we could clone him, that would
be perfect. If we can get somewhere like that is Mayor,
then we wouldn't have to settle for these horrible choices
(09:54):
we got. Hey, we got a lot coming up today.
Buck and Clay at noon, excellent show. Then you the
most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity today Wednesday,
I think Curtis is on with Buck and Clay today.
I think in the one o'clock hour you heard Curtis
on Buck and Clay. Then, Hey, don't forget Jimmy Fayla
Great Show every night nine to midnight here on seven
(10:17):
ten WR
County and it has the best county executive in America.
There's not even a close second. Bruce Blakeman is the
county executive up for reelection on Tuesday. Make sure you
vote for Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday. And he's with us
right now. Bruce Blakeman, how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mark? Thank you so much. You're very kind, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Do you actually have an opponent? Has anybody had the
nerve to run against you?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, we have an opponent. I don't take anything for granted,
you know, Mark. In Nassau County, we have one hundred
and ten thousand more registered Democrats than Republicans, so we
can't take anything for granted here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh all right, So everybody get out and vote for
Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday. You have early voting out there too,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, do it today. And you have a very good
district attorney. It's to Anne Donnelly, right, We everye should
vote for her too well.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Working with Anne Donnelly and our great police Commissioner Pat Ryder,
and our police department, our Sheriff's department, working very closely
with Ice, we are the safest county in America, which
is saving it's saying a lot since we're on the
border of New York City and our populations larger than
ten states in America.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, so if mom Donnie wins, can we join Nasau
County in New York City become part of Nassau County?
Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Our real estate brokers are doing a tremendous business right now.
Our housing prices are going up up, So if you
want to come to Nassau County, now's the time to
buy because it's only going to go higher. People are
very concerned about him becoming mayor. I certainly am planning
with our police department measures that we're going to take
(01:40):
because we have a great relationship with the NYPD right now.
We share intelligence, we share assets, we work very well together.
I'm not sure that's going to be the same if
he's elected.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
How hard is it just to have common sense in politics?
You know, one thing, you come from the private sector too.
Do you think that should be a requirement that you
had to have been in the private sector just to
learn common sense and how to be practical about things.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think it's a great platform to run for office
where you have to meet a payroll where you understand
that everything that every decision that that's made is a
cost benefit analysis. That's what you should do in business.
That's what you should do in government. Unfortunately it's not
done in government. But you know, we do common sense
(02:28):
things out here, like boys play with boys, girls play
with girls. We don't want boys in girls bathrooms and
locker rooms. Just common sense.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, and things at booming and NASA. Right, every time
I'm out there, you got another hotel going up, more
stores are opening. It's the economy is bigger than ever,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Our gross domestic product is larger than one hundred and
twenty six nations in the United Nations. We are an
economic powerhouse. Our restaurants are as good as New York
City are. Shopping is as good as New York City,
may be better. We have beautiful beaches, beautiful parks, great museums.
And by the way, I heard you mentioned the Udell's,
(03:09):
great great entrepreneurs out here in Nassau County. I love
them because they create a lot of sales tax revenue
for us.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hey, Mark, you Della, his wife Candy, that whole family
is just wonderful and that's another example, like he's adding
another Florida to his store. Next store, you got rh
Restoration hardware. They just opened a spectacular store. So they
must think highly of you and Long Island if they're
spending all this money to expand.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, we are the safest county in America. We haven't
raised taxes one penny in four years. So we're doing
the right things out here, and we encourage businesses to
come to Nasau County. I meet with business owners from
all over the world, not just the United States, and
encourage them to do business in Nasau County because it's safe.
(03:58):
We've got beautiful housing stock, as I said, we've got
beautiful beaches, Our schools our top notch. We've got a
lot to offer out here.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, So why does anybody go to the Hamptons. I've
never understood that it takes you nine hours to get there.
Nasau County got better restaurants and better stores, you got
beautiful beaches. But I guess it's good they don't all
come because you can't. You'd have too many people.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We were the Hamptons before there was a Hampton mark.
So we have the Gold Coast, which has amazing homes again,
great restaurants. Then on the south Shore, we've got some
of the most pristine, beautiful beaches in the whole world.
So we've never marketed Nassau County the way that we should.
(04:44):
So the last four years, that's all I've been doing.
As I said, our gross domestic product is incredibly high.
When I came into office, it was eighty five billion
a year. It's now over one hundred and twenty five
billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wow. So everybody vote for Bruce Blakeman Tuesday's election. That
you can do early voting if you're in Nasa County,
make sure you vote for Bruce Blakeman. And you must
have you thought about the next four years what you
want to do. You must have a lot on your
plate there. But what's next for NASA.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Continue to make it safer, continue to make it more affordable,
keep taxes down, and use common sense, as you said,
and American values. We need to get back to American values.
Our kids have been indoctrinated with nonsense in our schools
and universities, and we've got to reteach them about the
(05:33):
things that were taught to us by our parents and grandparents.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, when you get a mom Donnie getting all these votes.
A lot of people think that's the result of universities
becoming crazy left wing and doctrination centers, glamorizing socialism, and
how do you undo that? That could they've raised generations
of these crazy people. How do you undo that?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, we have to re educate Mark. By the way,
communist has been a failure. Socialism has been a failure.
You can't point to one country where it's been a success.
And my friends who are who are you know, immigrants
from socialist countries. They can't understand why we don't teach
more in our public schools and our universities and our
(06:17):
private schools about what socialism and communism are all about.
It's basically being nonproductive, depending on the government to control
every aspect of your life. Anti religion, no spirituality. It's
really a dismal life. I think Winston Churchill said it's
(06:38):
the sharing of misery.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I like that. So Bruce Blakeman is up for re election.
Make sure you vote for him on Tuesday. Best county
executive in America? Have you getten calls from other county executives?
You've worked miracles there? Have they called you for a
guidance advice.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, I talk with political leaders throughout the state. I
speak with county executives all over New York State, and
you know, we've got a good nucleus here in New
York State. And you know, one of the things we've
got to do is focus very very carefully on changing
our state government because they're the biggest problem. With castlest bail,
(07:19):
with all congestion, pricing, all of these types of very
oppressive laws that are anti business, the pro criminal those
are the types of things that we've got to change
in our state government.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, if we have any big politicians listening, give them
some advice on how to be fearless. You've been a
guy who just you know, what's the right thing to do,
what's the smart thing to do, and you do it
and maybe you get a little flack, but you get
through it. You're not under any big attack from anybody
to tell them how doing the right thing is sometimes
in the end will always work out for you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, that's absolutely right, Mark. I think that if you
do the right thing, if you're courageous, if you stand
by your values, imprints bulls, eventually that will reap great benefits.
So I'll give you a for instance, my cooperation with ICE.
We are the most comprehensive county in the United States
in our in our cooperation with ICE, we've removed forty
(08:15):
seven illegal migrants who had criminal records just last months.
Twenty eight of them were gang related. When people when
I told people I was going to enter into a
cooperation agreement with ICE, they were like, Oh, you're going
to lose the Hispanic vote. The Hispanic Americans won't vote
for you. We've pulled it now three times. In the
(08:37):
Hispanic American community, they love it. From sixty two to
sixty six percent of Hispanic Americans want that cooperation with
ICE because they want safe communities for their children. They
don't want their children to being doctrinated into gangs. They
don't want overcrowded schools, they don't want homeless people in
their neighborhoods. So my support in Hispanic American community has
(08:59):
been overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, it's a great example for any other politician. Just
do the right thing. You'll get a little flak here
in there, but in the end everything will be better,
Everything works out, and then you get credit for doing
the right thing. And we want everybody to vote for
Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday, that's election day, but you can
do it now, there's early voting in Nassau County. He's
the best county executive in America by far. And Bruce Blakeman,
(09:22):
good luck, not that you'll need it, but thanks for
being with us to keep up the great work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Mark. You're a good friend. Thank you so much. And
if I had your voice and your intellect, that'd be
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Definitely do well, not yet not Yeah, we need you
in Nasau County then president, but thanks for taking marks,
take care. Yeah, he really has done a phenomenal job
in Nassau County. If we could clone him, that would
be perfect. If we can get somewhere like that is Mayor,
then we wouldn't have to settle for these horrible choices
(09:54):
we got. Hey, we got a lot coming up today.
Buck and Clay at noon, excellent show. Then you the
most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity today Wednesday,
I think Curtis is on with Buck and Clay today.
I think in the one o'clock hour you heard Curtis
on Buck and Clay. Then, Hey, don't forget Jimmy Fayla
Great Show every night nine to midnight here on seven
(10:17):
ten WR
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