Patriot Confederation with Gonzalo Duran

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Every Patriot has an obligation to question authority. Those who
are honest are not concerned with your watchful vigilance, and
those with integrity are not concerned with your discernment. Every
American is obligated to voice their concerns and stand up
for their freedoms and liberties. One patients on your God,

(00:25):
indivisible with liberty and justice for all, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We are the men in the arena. We are the
Patriot Confederation.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
We will live back down from by. We're unfreed Americans.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Patriot Confederation. For
what is the twenty eighth of October twenty twenty five, Yes,
almost Halloween, and almost a while getting closer to the
end of the year. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host,
Bad Billy out of Twin Falls, Idaho, joined as always
by John Grovenor out of Nashalla, New Hampshire, New England.

(01:21):
How's it going out there on the East Coast, going good, Billy,
going good?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm telling you, man, these holidays are just creeping up
on us quick. I don't know about you, but I'm
just not expected to have Halloween here in a short
period of time.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, I like Halloween, so it's.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know, I love Halloween. I just didn't want the
year to fly by so fast.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I just turned fifty one yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh, a happy belated birthday. I totally missed it on
social media. But then again, I don't do social media
much anymore. You know, all the manipulation of the Bolstein
and you know the nonsense going on with social media.
I just can't stand to be there.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Indeed, of course, joining us this week, we have Gonzalo
Duran right out of the Bronx, and I want to
welcome him to the show. Thank you very much for
joining us. How are you doing today, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm doing good, gentlemen, Thank you for having me. And
happy belated birthday.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much. Indeed, yes, yes,
so we've talked to people, of course out of New
York State in the past, but you're our first guest
that in the history of our show that we've had
out of the New York metropolitan area. And of course
nothing says New York tough like the Bronx. I mean,

(02:36):
that's what I like about just the title alone. The
Bronx just sounds tough to me, and of course it's
your mission. Along with you and a few others that
want to do what you can to I'm gonna I'm
just gonna say it, make New York great again. That

(02:58):
sounds good, But you got a lot of work to do.
And I hate to say this, but you guys are
in trouble, especially in the New York metropolitan area. But
we'll get to that in a little bit. Why don't
you take a few minutes though, tell the listeners a
bit about yourself.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for giving
me this opportunity, and I'm very honored to be one
of the first in the metropolitan area to be on
your show. It's something that I've been trying to work towards.
So my name is Gonzale Durant. I'm running for Public
Advocate for New York City. My background, I'm a former
United States Marine Sergeant IRAQ veteran. I've been a nonprofit

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leader in New York City for over thirteen years now,
so I've dealt and worked with any and every situation
New York City has to offer, while also have an
impact across the country with veteran issues. My personal political background.

(03:59):
I'm the vice for the Bronxe Conservative Party. I am
the district leader for the seven ninth Assembly district. I'm
a chaplain and on my spare time on the weekends,
I volunteer mentoring Atristines with you know, different programs of
job opportunities and one not. On my spare time from that,

(04:22):
I do journalism and my own i'll talk show as
well call political chit chat as well.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, yes, indeed so talking about conservatism within the New
York metropolitan area. And I know it exists. I mean,
I've chatted with the likes of Tina Forte in the past.
I don't know how. She's run at least twice against
AOC and both both times unfortunately fell an ultimate defeat

(04:54):
to that moron who wow, and like I said, uh,
you know, I when I look at Zorin Mom, Donnie
or however you pronounce his name, I'm looking at a
cancer that's looking to spread throughout the country, and I'm

(05:16):
just praying for New York, you know. I mean these
things that I'm reading online that he may you know,
maybe under investigation and deported. You know, I don't know
how much credibility that has. But one thing I do
know is that he has enough support that he can win.
And this is not just a socialist we're talking about.

(05:37):
This guy is a full out communist. I mean he's
coming in with the mask of socialism. He's a full
out communist. On top of that, you know, he he's
talked about how sharial law needs to be implemented within
within New York and that if this isn't uh, you know,

(06:02):
raising wave flags, espect red flags, excuse me, especially since
nine to eleven. I mean, uh, overall, you guys are
in trouble. I really hate to say that, and I
mean no offense, No, I'm.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
None taking And you're right, but it's not just us.
It's the country that's in trouble because the and I'll
keep it with the semantics of what's out there, the
Democrat is Socialists of America. They have been playing a
very detailed, intricate long game in getting their candidates in

(06:38):
position to power, and we on the other side, are
falling through and we're falling behind by letting these individuals
take take positions and high ranking positions as well. It's
it's not just you know, in New York, it's Chicago, La,
all these places where you know, the Democrats have been

(07:00):
in power for decades. You know, they're losing their own
power with the socialists that are coming in the far left.
And the reason why it's so important for I'm going
to speak to you know, individuals like yourself in your
program is so that the the the general population outside
of New York can understand that there are Conservatives Republicans

(07:21):
in New York City. We are fighting, but we're fighting
a losing battle or an uphill battle where we need
the support from the outside to fight here. What happens
in New York happens a ripple just you know, happens
to ripple reflect across the country. So you know, uh,
just to backtrack a little bit, you know, the the

(07:43):
issues with somebody like Zoran, you know there there are
regulations and rules for people to run for office. He
hits the wickets. From my understanding, he's he was citizen.
He's been a citizen for over eight years, I believe,
and he's the age he's lived or lives in the
has an address in the location where he's running for,

(08:05):
which is New York. So he hits all the wickets
that he needs to but once again, although he's not
the the type of individual that I believe that we
need in our office especially, and it's surprising in a
location like New York City, which is the capitalist city

(08:25):
of the country.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You know, yes, yes, exactly, But to do can you
verify one thing from what I understand? You know, he
was doing his usual campaigning, and of course he's got
support out of Queens, he's got support out of Harlem.
But I guess he went into Staten Island and that's
where he met up with some backlash and a lot

(08:49):
of hard working, blue collar New Yorkers there within Staten
Island wanted nothing to do with him and basically forced
him out. I don't know how true this is, but
this is something I heard.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well. I don't know if we got pushed out to ore,
but I know the protest there was strong. Stann Island
is our you know, red red country for us. Out
there that's you know, where majority of the working class
and and more affluent Republicans because there's a lot of
houses out there that's separated from the boroughs, so it's

(09:21):
it's a little it's a little different out there. So
for us, like Long Island, Staten Island. Let's say there
are parts of suburban, urban, suburban parts of Queens and
Brooklyn and the Bronx where you know his ideologies and
his reforms are not going to be welcome. But stan Island,

(09:42):
that's a strong area where you know, we should be
good there. We should be good there. But even you
know that we have our problems there because you know,
they're not as unified as I would like them to
be helping us over in the other boroughs.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh, we've got yeah, we've got our problem, especially like
here in Idaho and and other places, you know, like
the Red States where there's a lot of division within
the party and there, of course the Rhinos aren't helping
with any of that. So I definitely understand what you're
saying there too. And uh, especially with somebody like Mamdanie

(10:21):
who's running from here. And then of course you have
dei hires like what's her name, Karen Fisher out in
Los Angeles. You know, I mean this it's time whatever
squabbles that we have within the Republican Party and all
the Conservatives and that needs to be set aside, squashed whatever,
because this is just the perfect opportunity that Uh, they're

(10:45):
they're using to worm their way into power. Of course,
get the attention and and of course, uh you know,
be the be the influence amongst a lot of young voters.
And uh yeah, this this just sets the whole thing up,

(11:06):
you know, for us to become this communist third world country,
you know, I mean and yeah, this is one small
step that gets the bigger steps.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yes, you know, uh, New York City is a sanctuary city.
So because of that, we have a lot of issues
where let's say, for example, for the voting, you don't
need an ID out here to vote, so we don't
know who's voting. We don't know, you know, when he's
being verified or checked very little out here somebody, you know,

(11:36):
the the voters that we're looking at that are supporting Mandami.
You know, it's it's a it's a great idea to
say something like, you know, freeze rent and you know,
tax the rich, and him specifically saying tax to the
rich way individuals, and then his other platforms were getting

(11:59):
free this, free bus rides for this for that. You know,
these are things where the transplant community individuals that are coming,
you know, for you to vote in an election, all
you needed to do was registered before October twenty fifth
in where you live. That's it. So all these individuals

(12:19):
that they may not be living here and are coming
from schools outside the area, working outside the areas, have
multiple homes they you know, they might have just registered
now just to vote. Then we have the immigrant properlation.
Then we have people expecting free stuff or wanting free stuff,
you know. So once again we have a hard battle

(12:40):
over here in New York where a lot of individuals
aren't looking at the things that we're fighting and how
hard it is out here to fight back. You know,
the all the Democratics, incumbents, you know, they're walking in
with three four million dollars to start off with through

(13:03):
their special interest donors, while we're fighting for ten fifteen
dollars donations over here with our own friends and families
to help us out. So and then the media on
top of that, you know, once again, for me being
on this show, it's very important to me because mainstream
media pretty much cut out all the Bronx and I

(13:25):
would and I would go as far as to say
a majority of the New York City candidates that are
for the Republican, our conservative like for the Democratic Party.
They'll do segments on all the candidates running for Democrats,
even the tertiary level candidates like the ones that don't
have a shot, and how will still get full spreads

(13:47):
mainstream media everything. Whereas the Conservatives, we're focused on pushing
our own media and our own you know, independent media
as well.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
The main stream media is just the Yes, that's the
left ultimate weapon, if you ask me, I mean that.
I mean, I've got a daughter who's twenty three years
old and she's I'll have to get into it a
little bit here because we're at the first quarter. So
we're going to take our first break and we'll be

(14:20):
back in about two minutes and I'll get right back
on that subject. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are
back once again, joined by Gonzalo Duran right out of
the Bronx. Yes, indeed, so subject I want to bring
up course of talking about the mainstream media, and you know,
take your picks MSNBC, CNN, even Fox News, you know

(14:45):
have Fox News has lost a lot of credibility with me,
but none of them really have any credibility with me.
Real real media is people like like us, people like you,
Gonzalo though, the journalists who are out there telling the
truth and often getting silenced for it. But give you

(15:06):
a good example of things I'm talking about, is there
there was one day, well, my family and I we
had to stay at a at a hotel for a
couple of nights because there was we had some renovations
to our apartment and they had Continental breakfasts, so, you know,

(15:27):
we we go out to the lobby, we got our breakfast,
and they got the news going on and basically they
have somebody reporting ever since the turning a Roe v. Wade.
They're saying that women are dying like fly. They're they're
dropping off the planet like flies because they can't get
abortions that they need. And my daughter nudges me and says, now,

(15:52):
don't just support this. Are you listening to this? And
I said, yeah, and I think they're lying. In fact,
I know they're lying too. So you know, the mainstream media,
this is what they have done. And that's just one
very small part of it. How they have just poisoned
a lot of people, not just the young, but so
many people tune in and they have this mindset that

(16:14):
if it was told on the news, it must be true.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yes, yeah. And you know, although I know a lot
of people made dislike the mainstream media, but you know
we need some of it. We need some attention, equal
rights with the attention. And I'll give it an example
this particular year, Like I said, I normally I get
when I run for office, I get some featured articles

(16:39):
or maybe some TV spots to talk about my platforms.
This year I had pretty much nothing, and I was
expecting a debate with the incumnant, Jamani Williams, who is
also a dem Democratic Socialists of America member, like Mandami
and AOC once again there they've been working hard to

(17:02):
get people into office, and they got their pieces in places.
And the the day before the gotamin Is News reported
that he had canceled. Well, New York won didn't get
that information as quick as gothamin Is dead. Now, New

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York one Is is one of the few news stations
that we can get on all the boroughs. Although they're
on cable, they still are one of the few that
that do all of New York City, all the boroughs
for New York City. And you know, they they pushed
forward in getting interviews for the candidates. Now, if a

(17:50):
candidate gets matching funds. They're required by New York City
law to do a debate. Now, if a candidate doesn't
receive matching funds, they're not required to invite them. So
Jermani Williams walks away with three million dollars of taxpayer money, right,
doesn't have to debate. And that's it. There's no repercussions

(18:13):
for it. You know, since I didn't make matching funds
and New York one was was good enough to push forward.
And although I didn't interview or debate the incumbnentt, I
did do speak with the Independent, so it gave a
little broader outlook for the people to know that we're running.

(18:35):
But I go back to the gotamiss they you know,
uh Emmy Award Women Journalists states that we never got
we never gave her any feedback. Well, the truth is
she never contacted is us, so we couldn't make any statements.
And then when they did take a statement from us,
it was like a one sentenced statement. So we're once

(18:56):
again we're fighting to get representation in the Bronx. We
have maybe five mainstream medias, and I'm talking about like
within the Bronx mainstream. Four of them are nonprofits. So
for fair play with the fair play rules is that
each the candidates have to have equal opportunities to speak. Well,

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if the incumbent doesn't speak, then the nonprofits can just say, oh,
well they didn't participate. So no, VIC isn't a participate.
And who pays in these nonprofits or media nonprofits? The
incumbents the Democrats. So once again they have all the

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pieces in play, and it's hard for us to get
any visibility within the communities, and we need that so
that people know that there are candidates running once again
for the primaries. They'll do all the Democrats, even the
tertiary level ones, but when it comes to the Republicans, Conservatives,
crickets across the board.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, yes, indeed, John, I know you're waiting to say something.
You've been so quiet the whole time.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Well, yeah, I was going to bring up that it's
forty seven US Code section three fifteen. You're talking about
equal time rule, and so they skirt that, is what
you're saying.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
They're not.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
They find ways to kind of leverage so they don't
have to abide by.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
That basically, and once again, this is loop post to
a lot of things and that's one way that they
maintained the power. Like last year, it might have been
a year ago. I had written a statement regarding Trump
and how I was out there speaking out a Trump
rally in support of him while I'm running for candidate

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or congress. And one of the journalists writes back how
she tried to vilify me in the media through an
article saying, well, how can this candidate be running and
also promoting a perdential candidate? How can this He's a journalist,
he's doing this, he's working for these people. And I

(21:05):
told her straight up, like I keep all my stuff
separate so it doesn't over overflowing anything that I'm doing.
So she calls she calls up the city press pass department,
she caused the VA, she calls the city workers, you know,
for just to see if she can get me on something.

(21:27):
And she writes it all in this article, And to me,
it makes me look like a great guy, because all
the things that they're doing to try to knock us
off makes her look bad because although she vilified me
in like sixth paragraph, there's one little sentence where she
has to to show face on him by saying, oh,

(21:48):
but but Gonzalo has the point that conservatives and Republicans
don't get that much media. You know, those are the
things that we have to work with over here.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Well, it is true and supposed to give equal time
to opposing candidates. So even if there's an incumbent, you're
still an opposing candidate. So if they give the incumbent time,
they have to give it to you. But if they
don't give the incumbent time, but they give it to
another candidate, they still have to give it to you,
don't they.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
So it's it's a it's a very what's it hard?
I say this, it's a very vague situation. So let's
say you're a part of a civic association and everybody's uh,
I said, they're gonna come right now. If then coming

(22:39):
cancel the last minute, what do you do You have
all the candidates, all the people there, what do you do?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
You know, Well, assume you just carry on.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
If they sometas you will carry on. Sometimes instead of
calling it a debate, then you call it a form
and then you gotta change up the rules. So once
again there's there's ah, there's gray area. So lot of
this stuff going on. There's no absolute.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, sometimes they do that, you know, lawyers speak and
stuff like that, they get around things or for the
lack of enforcement. It's one of the biggest issues in
our country, isn't it New York City or even la
or anywhere in the country. There's so much lack of
enforcement for existing laws.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
But you know, I would like to make sure to
say this statement that I believe every candidate should have
the opportunity to debate the incumbent or all the candidates
in general in New York City, in Staten Island. This
is what for Ston Island is coming from newly elected
city council and Frank Marrero is trying to put legislatives

(23:39):
that all the candidates have to debate, whether it's citywide
or a city council And that's something that I'm in
pushing so that we can have that opportunity. Once I
believe that we are standing next to a Democrat or
a socialists or independent, they can see that the ideas
and ideologies and proposes that we have for are well,

(24:03):
let's say in New York City, then people come and say, well,
I think the same way you do. I didn't. I
didn't realize that I didn't realize that, you guys, you know,
maybe a conservative is Hispanic. You know, you know that's
something that a lot of people wouldn't wouldn't not think.
You know, I grew up my my mother, uh you know,
for transparency in my background. You know, my mother came

(24:23):
here illegally from El Salvador. She became a citizen leader
in life. But I was born and raised in the Bronx.
Like I said, I'm a former United States Marine sergeant,
decorated combat veteran, you know, nonprofit leader for over thirteen years.
I'm the vice chairman for the Conservative Party in the Bronx.
So you know, I've laid out the foundation in the

(24:44):
in the groundwork. And although I'm more of a moderate,
my fiscal responsibilities or my fiscal ideologies puts me more
in a conservative and you know, uh position. So that's
why I'm where I am now.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
I hear the from a lot of people. They yeah,
they're moderate pretty much on policy and stuff until it
comes to physical responsibility. Then they get very conservative, which
which is understandable.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
I mean, look at thirty eight trillion dollars in debt
in our nation, I'm not sure what kind of debt
that New York City holds, but a lot of these
government entities are carrying so much debt it's incredible. Even
for if you're on the left, it's not reasonable or
logical to think that you want to carry this kind
of debt because thirty eight trillion dollars is huge now,

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and history shows that kind of degradation and our responsibilities
wiped out nations, They wiped out their strengths, and Rome
just didn't exist for very too much longer once they
started wiping out their currency.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
And you know, I've been a big supporter of a
lot of Trump's the framework of his plans. I mean,
I like the way he rolls it out, specifically in
New York City. But you know, let's say the immigration,
the lemmit that we faced before they close the border.
You know, for New York, we had a four billion

(26:05):
dollar deficit that we had to recover regarding the immigration
increase that we faced in our last budget, and they
were taking percentages from other agencies to cover offset that
costs for the immigration immigrants that came and to cover
the expenses of it. You know, once again, something like that,

(26:29):
and the way the Democratic Party has put into place
makes this so hard for us to combat all these
things that are going on, because right now we're trying
to figure out how do we keep afloat, and once
again they're just saying, oh, just keep on coming. We
want them. Now they have the negativity to throw out,
you know, against Trump or his policies, and then it

(26:49):
makes it once again harder for us at the moment
to get more registrations, more donations, more candas, because New
York is a you know, as I want to say,
has has been for you know, as long as I'm
known up into Ellis Island having an open invitation to immigrants.

(27:09):
You know, but at a certain point, you know, the
the glass gets full and you don't want to overpour.
You know, you got to say stop at a certain point.
You know. And for me, although I may not be
as far right when it comes to immigration policy, what
I do know is that we need to cut our
our deficit, we need to bring down our budget. We
need to focus on American citizens and the issues that

(27:33):
we have. You know, I'm not running for UH immigration position.
I'm running for UH taxpayers American citizen position, where the
understanding that we have an immigration problem in our City,
So you know the balance that I'm trying to find.
And you know, I'm I look at myself as a

(27:53):
prime example of someone to to speak on these on
the subject.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
So I think I think Billy's looking to get to
a break here. But we come back and talk more
about your position that you're running for because it sounds interesting.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yes, yes, indeed. So with that said, we'll be back
in about three minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we
are back once again. We are joined by Gonzalo Duran
out of New York City, the Bronx in particular. Yes, indeed,

(28:25):
And uh, you know, I just got to say I
was before this interview. I wanted to have a look
at the layout here and uh, I know, how how
many counties does the New York Metropolitan area basically cover?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Uh? Well, we have Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and
Bronx Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Sat. Last is five?

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Is that that? Yeah? That's just five counties right there
and one one quote. Yes, And I definitely have to
ask because you know, I talked to people in upstate
New York, you know, and they they feel that, you know,
since New York is considered a quote unquote blue state.
You know, of course New York City, and then of

(29:17):
course there's Buffalo and there's Albany, which are also uh
blue areas as well. But they often they say, oh,
I just wish New York would secede into its own
state or it's or whatever, you know, And I'm not
sure even that's a good idea. But you know, with something,
when you hear somebody say something like that, what message

(29:40):
would you have to that person there somebody like you
who is actually in the metropolitan area and trying to
do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So you know, I do hear that on occasion, and
you know, privately, when I'm not on camera, I tell them,
then go ahead and leave you. It wouldn't be realistic.
I know, Stanley and is the is the borough that
since it's so red. You know, they talk about succeeding
all the time, but you know they don't have the
infrastructure or the government to to actually, you know, do

(30:12):
it if they wanted to. It's a good idea, and
I understand why they say it. And for New York City,
although New York City is blue, when you start leaving
the boroughs, it starts getting red. So it's because there's
more homes, there's more separation from from everything for New
York to separate from New York State. You know, once again,

(30:35):
the the amenities and the the infrastructure and the funding
that comes from here, that's the tone for a ripple
effect not only from the state level, but across the country.
So it's you know, once again, it's not something that
I don't think could actually happen, but you know, I

(30:56):
entertain it for the people that talk about it, and
you know, I love to to go back and forth
regarding those type of issues.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Now when we talk about changes you think that should
be made, I'm pretty sure that's that's a conversation that
could go on for hours. Of course, however, I'm I'm
thinking if I'm a New Yorker and I'm conservative minded
like I am, the things that I would like to
see changed. Number One, I think there should be a

(31:26):
voter ID required to vote, like you were mentioned earlier.
Another I had mentioned in a private conversation that I
was actually went to New York State with my family
a couple of years ago, and I understand we you
always pay a toll when you go to the when
you're driving the turnpikes and things like that. We were

(31:46):
doing it all the time, going through Indiana, Ohio and
all that, but we didn't pay the toll. At some station.
When we got into New York, we got a bill
in the mail. And my goodness, I mean, I understand,
I I get that the bill, the bill, but that
bill was large just for going for such a short

(32:08):
distance within the state. And I mean it was. It
was over one hundred dollars because we were coming from Eerie,
Pa And just to get to Niagara Falls and to
drive those roads in New York cost us over one
hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
You know, I think it's crazy because since you've been,
since you came, now we have congestion pricing. So even
within the borough, if you go to the lower part
of the borough, you're paying a fee just just to
drive within the same borough. It's crazy, it's mad. I
can't believe that I'm living in a situation like this.
I think it's ridiculous that I have to pay a
toll just to go from another to another county. But

(32:50):
once again, the Democratic Party has you know, you know,
made these contingencies for these the issues. So it's hard
for us to fight back. You know the position that
I'm running for Public Advocate. It's the second highest position
in New York City. It's if something happens to the mayor,
the Public Advocate is next in line after a couple

(33:11):
of weeks, or there's gonna be UH an election to
to pick the UH the the permanent mayor, but UH
the Public Advocate has the ability to over overseas complaints
from the other agencies with the New York City, can

(33:32):
start legislation, can't vote, but can start or sponsor, and
has the abilities to put certain appointment into certain agencies
within the New York New York as well. So it's
it's a very important position. I'm fighting for it because
my resume, you know, as a nonprofit leader that has

(33:54):
dealt with all the services that you can think about
from pay issues to legal issues, don't need when I
was in the nonprofit but also in the military as
an administrator, but also in my political background with being
the vice chairman for a party and district leader for
these are voluntary positions, but these are positions that I've

(34:16):
been elected to through my peers and through the votes.
So you know, this position I think fits me perfectly.
I think that if whether it's the mayor's a Democrat
or Republican, I think I bring a good balance to
to the situation. You know, I'm hoping and I'm pushing
for courtesy, what to run to win mayor, you know,

(34:39):
win the position for mayor. But if I had to
go up against somebody like Mandami, you know, I think,
once again, I don't try to find the confrontationals. I
try to find a balance. But one thing that I
knew for sure is that the right side, the red side,
the Republican conservative voices aren't being heard right now, so

(35:00):
there's no balance where these laws are coming into place.
We have fifty one City Council members that control the
infrastructure of New York City through the districts, and six
are Republicans for with the conservative endorsement. So once again
we're uphill battle on anything that we're doing here. So

(35:22):
for the people out there, you know, I, you know,
I I tell them, Look, we need more media visibility,
we need donations out here, we need support, we need
love from the conservatives outside the tri state area to
push and help us to get you know, into these positions,
because if they don't, if we lose New York, the

(35:45):
ripple effect is going to just keep on getting stronger
and stronger. Right now, they have AOC helping in the
congressional level, they have Mandami coming up for the mayor.
They have Jomani William for a avocate. Most of the
city council members are far left liberal socialist. So once again,

(36:07):
it's not us not wanting to fight back, just we
don't have the tools set up.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yes, you know, and I think of AOC too, and
I often call her the Chihuahua for for this reason
is because my best friend who mind you also served
in the corps. Well growing up, he had three chiuah
wahs and they were three generations of dogs. And of

(36:33):
course the the one of the uh, the second one born,
the one in the middle was was kind of the
dictator over the other dogs in the house. So if
that if that dog ate something and didn't like it,
the other dogs were not allowed to eat it either.
And the way I uh, AOC reminds me so much

(36:57):
of that dog, because is AOC has come out not
liking certain things and if she doesn't like it, nobody
else can have it.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
And you know, one of the things like when when
somebody like her, you want to say her universal health plans,
it's a it's a nice idea to say, oh, we
want to give everybody free health care. And she came
down before the pact that came for the VA where
they were trying to privatize the VA system, the medical system.
You know, she came down to the Bronx and she

(37:30):
was talking to the nurses unions about how she wants
to give free medical care for everyone, just like the
veterans zoo, without understanding that veterans don't get one hundred
percent medical across the board. There are tier levels that
we that we fall under that gives us certain privileges
for medical care. Like a combat veteran who's disabled because

(37:51):
of a service connected disability. Yes that person gets one
hundred percent coverage across the board. But you know there's
once again, there's different tiers. But only her listening to
free medical care, that's all she heard, and that's what
the world with So those you know, if you want
to throw the chihuahua scenario, you know, you show a
dog a piece of meat, It doesn't care how it gets.

(38:12):
It just wants to get it. You know, But those
once again, those are the things that we're fighting against.
If you look at her, her numbers are the high percentage.
When she beat Tina fourte, she didn't beat her by
ten points twenty points. No, she beat her by like
sixty seventy points even more, I think, And that's because

(38:34):
you know, she has the support from her party group,
not only a party, but her organizations that she is
a part of. She's getting backing from funding when she
started out. She may not have gotten the special interest
until she won the primer against Crowley, and Crowley didn't
run a campaign, so that was his four for you know,

(38:55):
dropping the ball thinking that it was gonna happen. They
did it again this time. I'm you know, Cuomo, running
familiar with thirty million dollars in his pocket, didn't run
a full campaign, and you're you're right. There was ranked
choice voting, but that's because it was less than fifty percent.
Cuomo didn't want to challenge him because he knew that

(39:17):
he had a huge percentage of losing, so he backed off.
And now we're fighting an uphill battle where we have
an inexperienced legislator who's never had a job until he
was thirty. Then you have Cuomo, who's facing multiple sexualconduct

(39:38):
issues right now, but and also a disgrace, you know,
resigned governor going against someone like Curtisiwell, who's over thirty
years civic engagement with the community and a pretty good background,
who has who's fighting an uphill battle just to get
media funding and votes.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
And Curtis is a good friend of yours. From what
I understand too, you've been, uh, you've been campaigning side
by side with him, with what I can see on
social media, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Well, I've known about him for you know, since I
was a kid, because you know his background two years ago,
you know, because of my nonprofit work, I have donated
in the past to the Guardian Angels, where he is nonprofit,
he's the CEO. In that process, I became an honorary member.
So this doesn't mean before I met him in my

(40:32):
capacity of doing that. I didn't meet him before us
running for election. I was actually running against him for
mayor on the Conservative side, and they heard me speak,
and the Republicans and the Conservatives asked me to run
for public advocate with Curtis endorsement. That was a sealed
deal across the board, and I've gotten to know him

(40:55):
the last couple of nine months. You know, I've seen
him work tiredly. I've seen the people when they meet him,
how happy, enjoyous, tears coming from people's eyes from finding
meeting their hero. I've seen him speak, I've seen his platforms. Look,
I'm a former United States marine, but this guy, this

(41:15):
guy has done a four hour, four and a half
hour parade with me, came from something before that, and
then left to do another two events. I was dead
after the parade. I was dead, and he kept on going.
And he's been NonStop the whole I want to say,
the last three months he's been NonStop. He's been working

(41:37):
the whole year, but these last three months he's been NonStop,
and I don't know where he gets it. And he's
seventy one years old, so he has the experience, he
has energy. And as a personal note, somebody who's running again,
who was running against him, I am honored to say
that I'm going to be voting for him and he's
been a pleasure being his running mate.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Absolutelysolutely. Well, Uh, we're at the final quarter, so we're
gonna take our final break, and when we come back
I want to touch on your nonprofit organizations and what
you have going for other veterans. So with that said,
we'll be back in just under two minutes. All right,

(42:20):
ladies and gentlemen, we are back in just wrapping things
up here with Gonzalo Duran.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Uh, Gonzalo you of course, Uh, you're running a couple
of nonprofit organizations for veterans, of course. Uh. We've talked
to some interesting people on this show that I'm pretty
sure would love to talk to you about about things
like this too, especially Glenn Baker, who's doing what he

(42:46):
can for a veteran as far as helping him get
an exoskeleton so he can walk again, and make it affordable,
make things approved by the DEA, you know. And Uh,
I have to say I don't. I've said this many times.
It's just the way I see veterans being treated often

(43:07):
in this country. It just makes me sick to my stomach.
But you know, there's thank God, there's people like you
who actually do something for those who actually served this
country and and and want to keep things going for them,
especially like I was reading on your website, to helping

(43:28):
transform from soldier to civilian basically just tell take a
few minutes talk about this.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yes, thank you for bringing it up. I thank you
for the comerence I appreciate. So the reason i'm, you know,
here speaking to you in the capacity that I am
one of the biggest what started the whole chain of events.
When I came back home, I I was homeless. And
it wasn't because I didn't have money. It wasn't because
of the resources that weren't there. It was because there

(43:57):
are cracks in the system. And once I became situated,
I looked, you know, I saw what was the problem.
I made a plan, made proposals, and then I started
advocating for them, particularly for the situation with a GI

(44:17):
bill and individuals veterans trying to come back home and
use it as income so they can get apartments. Now
I didn't think because I only suffered maybe three months,
I didn't think it was that big of a deal.
But when I was going to Fordham University, I started
once again planning on how I can help veterans transition

(44:41):
more easy to coming back home. So the devil Dog
idea started building up. And while I was at school,
I started doing events and having meetups, and this one
veteran kept on having to leave at a certain time.
So now that I was working through at the labor
department in Via Hospital as a case manager, and I

(45:02):
saw some signs, so I said, you know what was
going on? Found out that he was homeless, and he
was homeless for almost a year, you know, struggling. So
I stopped everything I was doing and I helped him
get an apartment over the weekend. And that should set
off the chamber of the events in my life. I
wanted to be a doctor, but once I found that
out and I helped him out, I changed my whole life.

(45:27):
There are right now or seeing me Back then, Landers
could choose not to use your GI bill even though
we were getting roughly over four thousand a month or
the nine months that we were going to school, which
more than covers for rent for an apartment. And what
I did is I started writing articles. I started talking

(45:49):
to the media. I made some proposed who had events,
town hall meetings, and for four or five years I
gathered up as much information, not just from New York,
go from across the country for veterans that were facing
the same problem. Twenty sixteen, another organization wrote up a
bill and in twenty seventeen, the incuvenant who's currently the

(46:12):
public Advocate, wrote the legislation part and in local Law
one to nineteen for the Human Rights Act. In twenty
seventeen was changed that veterans gibill was saw as income.
So from there on out, little things. You know. Now
I have two offices where I help veterans have businesses

(46:34):
or do work in the community. We have in the past,
We've had gouba, diving, camping, fishing programs, anything you can
think about, we've done over the years trying to show that,
you know, the communities are happy and want veterans to
come back, but you know, we need, you know, the

(46:57):
middleman to show that to the community. So that's that's
been a a big part of my life right there.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
That's awesome. That that is awesome, dude. I'm glad. I'm
glad you're doing it. You know, we need more programs
like this. We need more veterans like you were stepping up,
not just running for office, you know, Like I just
got to ask you too, does you know since being
being being in the military, you have you have this

(47:24):
call of duty and do you think running for city
advocate that's your next call of duty. Is that part
of the reason why you think you're doing it?

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Well? I think it fits me perfectly, and it's the
next step of the evolution for me. When I came
before going into the military, I was just an overachieving
kid from the Bronx with no resources or money or
worldly experience. The Marine Corps showed me how to be structured,
how to take all that energy and then and develop

(47:56):
those knowledge into action, and you know, I'm glad for it.
I came back, started a business based off the model
of being a marine, and then now I've been infiltrated
that into the political aspect, so like, not only have
I helped myself make it to the second highest level

(48:16):
of position as the only veteran running in a citywide race,
but I've helped other veterans in the same capacity in
the business world and politics. And you know, I think
what we're doing right now, and what I'm doing right
now not only to help the veteran community, but help
the general population as well.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Awesome, awesome, all right, So we still have a couple
of minutes left. John, You've been so quiet, and I'm
terribly sorry about that. Do you have anything else to
add to the show.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Actually, I was kind of curious because you were talking
about slave Wall as your running man. Do you run
like president and vice president sort of thing as mayor
and public advocate candidates?

Speaker 3 (49:05):
No, those So in the citywide races, it's the mayor,
public advocate, and controller. Those are all separate positions, each
completely different and supposed to be bipartisan. But if something
happens to the mayor, public Avacus takes charge. Something happens
to the public advocate, the controller takes charge.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
So it's possible. Right now, now I can't say his name.
Mamande is leading the charge and the mayor race, and
he's up by maybe ten points over Cuomo. Slive Wall's
kind of running a little behind, about nineteen percent, so
he got about forty four to forty three with a
thirty four to twenty eight percent and slave Wall about

(49:49):
nineteen percent. So if you were to win this race,
you would technically be up against somebody who might be
considered communist or maybe even with Cuomo being more social democratic.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
How do you think that would fit?

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Do you think that would be beneficial to the people
of New York City?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
So, first of all, I don't really take account to
too much of those Poeans because if you looked at
the Polons for Mandami, he was dead last and now
he's the front runner. That's one you know, would Zorohan
or Cuomo be a good fit for the familiar to No,
I do not. That's why I'm fighting so hard. But

(50:27):
once again, if they did win, the public advocate and
all these positions should be bipartisans. It's not just one sided.
It should be the voices and what benefits the people.
Their ideologies may be different in trying to get these
laws passed, but once again, for me, it wouldn't be
too difficult for me because as even though I'm the second,

(50:51):
one of the second or most visible conservatives in all
of New York City, I work with Republicans, Democrats and
dependents and crats, you know, in my nonprofit capacity, I've
done a lot of work with Democrats over the years.
They know who I am, they see in my face.
Now are they going to elevate me to the position

(51:11):
where they are. No, because then it gives me more
of the ability to go against them. And that's why
I'm not in the mainstream with them. But you know,
I've cultivated and I have card out so that people
can see that conservatives have a voice. Republicans Conservatives have
a voice, and that we are you know, we're for
the people. Like when I'm speaking to the people and

(51:33):
I'm trying to get people to register and listen to
me saying, look, I understand there needs to be in
a capitalist society, there needs to be safeguards for those
that don't have the same revenue as those that are
more affluent. But my job isn't to put people in

(51:56):
public assistance. My job is to give them a safety
that that public assistant is there, but also move them
out of it as soon as I can, which something
like Trump saying is new policies with the step benefits.
You know, I don't look at him as trying to
take away It's not benefits or public assistance from the
people or welfare from the people. He's just trying to

(52:17):
make sure that those that don't qualify aren't getting it
and we don't have multi generation of individuals on it
that don't shouldn't be on it. Yes, now, if I
just said, you know, immigrants shouldn't be on public assistance, period,
then I lose a lot of anybody listening to me

(52:37):
or taking me serious.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
But that's the point, right, You create balance because you
said yourself you're more moderate, You're for fairness, is how
you describe yourself at the beginning of this. So you
would be creating balance if they kind of lean to
hard won direction or afflicting people with their policies.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Yes, and I think right now we have gone way
too left and I want to bring up balance, you know,
more to the right. And I don't think it's crazy
to see that I'm looking for family values, patriotic love
in my country, trying to get people off of public assistance.
I don't see that as being a negative or a
bad thing.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Well it's a hands up, not a handsout approach.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah. Well, unfortunately we are out of show real quick, Gonzalo.
If somebody wants to follow up with you, of course,
it's going in the ticker below. But you have two websites,
one for your campaign, one for your nonprofit organization. You
want to go ahead and give those before we close.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Out, Yes, but those are listening. If you are interested
in supporting my campaign and you'd like more information, feel
free to check out my website at www dot Gonzalo
Duran dot NYC to check me out and get to
know me better. Check out all my social media at
Gonzalo Duran NYC and to find out the more work

(54:01):
that I'm doing with the veterans in the community in
my nonprofit work. Feel free to check out www dot
double Dog USA, i NC dot org and social media
to double Dog us a i NC dot org. Don't
worry the double dog. It just means for a veteran nicknames,
that's all it is.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yes, indeed, so on tap for next week, John, we
got We're gonna have an interesting one. Uh, we're gonna
be speaking with Ryan Bundy. Oh yeah, that's gonna be good. Yes, indeed,
thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Gentlemen, I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
God bless you and good luck in the election for sure.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Go bless America.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Yes indeed, and ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much
for tuning in to Patriot Confederation. God save the Republic
of the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
We will back down from buying.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
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