Larry interviews City Councilman Robert Holden(D) on the recent arrested of the New York City Comptroller

Robert F. Holden was born in 1951 and raised in Maspeth.  He and his wife of 45 years, Amy, have lived in Middle Village for decades and have three children and four grandchildren. Holden worked as a graphic designer and served as a professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) in the Department of Communication Design.  For 25 years, he held the office of president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, which represents the neighborhoods of Middle Village and Maspeth.  During that time he also served as Managing Editor and Art Director of the Juniper Berry Magazine, the JPCA’s 96-page color magazine.  First published in 1940, the Juniper Berry is considered one of the finest all-volunteer civic magazines in the nation.  In 1991 Mr. Holden co-founded COP104, a coalition of civic groups within the Community Board 5 area that sponsored monthly police and community forums for more than 20 years.  Robert Holden was a member of Community Board 5 Queens for 30 years, served as First Chair for seven years, and has been chairman of the board’s Public Safety Committee for 13 years.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from w o R. Here's Larry
Minty with more of the w o R Saturday Morning Show.
Welcome Back. This week, Brad Lander made national news by
trying to stop ICE officers from doing their job, and
Democrats praised him for his efforts, but not all Democrats.

(00:20):
City council member Robert Holden wasn't impressed in the least.
So you're not buying that he was just out there
for the common good.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's this is uh, this is par for the cost
for Brad Lander. We call him brad Pander because that's
what he does. I'm telling you. You know, what they
don't realize is that many there are many Democrats like
me who support Donald Trump's President Trump's deportation of criminal
illegal immigrants. So uh, there's there's many of us. And

(00:51):
this is like was grand standing and it's funny. He
fools a lot of the media so many times with this,
with these antics. But he's you know, again, he was
up there to provoke ICE agents. Of course, he's got
cameras all around him on purpose his own many times,
and he's doing this and it's a it's a publicity stunt,

(01:12):
that's all it is. And it's again, it's like out
of some playbooks by some of these democratic elected officials
like Mayor Ross Baraka of Newark, who got arrested, you know,
trying to to block Ice. Who else, Senator Al Yeah,

(01:32):
there's a whole bunch of them. This has been done
many times, and I hope they keep getting arrested. I
just let's really charge them with something. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, it is. I heard a great term. It's performative chaos.
And I will push back when one thing you said,
you said he fools the media. He's not fooling anybody.
They support him. The media is just as bad the media.
If they've done polls on this, eighty eight percent of
the media are Democrats and liberals, and so when he

(02:03):
does something like this, they are fully supportive. It's not
fooling them. The media is supporting this.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah. But you know again, you got it was a
three ring, three ring circus outside the courthouse because you
had Kathy Hulkel. That was pathetic. First of all, that
she was there and she comes marching out of the
you know, in a photo op, out of the Ice
detention area. She comes walking out. That was with Brad Lander.
That was really uncalled for, and I think she looked

(02:34):
very bad also announcing she's fifty million dollars for undocumented
immigrant defense. I mean, it was a circus out there,
and again it was all planned, all planned by Brad Lander.
And that guy doesn't even do his job as control.
He doesn't do it, you know, he's everywhere else. So

(02:55):
why doesn't he just focus on his job he's running
for It's bad enough he's running for mayor while he's working.
But then he's got to put this, you know, get
in and get in the way of Ice. Certainly officials
that that is like against the law. First of all,
what is he doing there? Uh, he's walking every migrant

(03:17):
up upstairs and trying to block Ice come.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
On and hoping to get arrested. What what is wrong
with your party, councilman holding up?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Don't ask me, I'm the wrong guy. I just can't
figure it out. There used to be moderate Democrats, but
now even you know, Kathy Hogel was a moderate when
she first was running and first got in. Now she's
a woke ster, just like you know many of them.
They went far left and that's where they lost me. Uh.
And there's so many running for mayor. Now, it's just

(03:49):
you can't even keep track. But what you know what
is what do we do with with the Democrats that
are really for law and order? And even you know,
former Governor Cuomo got you know, on on on X
and was saying, you know that Ice are thugs again.
You know, he said that years ago and he's now
he's saying the same thing. They're all demonizing Ice. These

(04:13):
are law enforcement enforcement officials that are there to protect us,
and you got the governor speaking out against them. You
know what's going on with this? It's because of Donald Trump.
It was you know again when Barack Obama did this
and deported individuals who were here illegally. You didn't hear
a peep out of them.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Noah, You're absolutely right. Robert Holt and New York City
Council member, co chair of the New York City Council
Common Sense Caucus. Everybody's going to be following you now
on X. Thanks so much. That was a great that.
It was a great post. This has been a podcast
from wo R