September 9, 2026 • 28 mins
Bob talks to the Republican nominee for Governor Bruce Blakeman about a internal poll that only has him down 4 to Kathy Hochul, Bob takes calls, gives some 9/11 stats, and talks about Flight 93.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Degrees i'm delaskey news radio wham 1180 next news at
9 30 breaking news when it happens anytime another hour
with bob lonsbury starting now on news radio wham 1180
thanks doug appreciate it good morning americans and hello my
friend like always it is a delight to be with
you it's a pleasure to welcome our guest the republican
candidate for governor of the great state of new york
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the honorable bruce blakeman sir welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning always good to be with you i.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Appreciate your time sir A new poll out yesterday has
some surprising news.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, it's not surprising to us. We've been tracking the
polling for nine months now, and it's been a constant
upward polling that shows that we have closed the gap.
We're in a virtual dead heat with Kathy Hochul now.
The one thing that hasn't changed since we started polling
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is is Kathy Hochul's unfavorables, which range from 55% to 60%.
So people are very unhappy with her. I said all
along when people get to know about my record of
not raising taxes, of getting seven bond upgrades, of being
named the safest county in America, the lowest poverty rate
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in New York State, and a county with job creation. Basically,
I knew at that point that when they compared my
record with hers, that people would vote for me, they
would support me, and that we will be victorious on
November 3rd. And January 1st, I fully expect to be
sworn in as the next governor to save our state.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The poll done by the Blakeman campaign has, or for
the Blakeman campaign, has Hochul at 49.6 and Mr. Blakeman
at 45.7, close to five points there. Seems like it
started out 20, went to 10, went to 5. Are
you trending in seemingly a pretty favorable fashion, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we've got to be accurate. So it's actually 3.9%.
I like that number better. Yes, we're trending in the
right way. We have a tremendous amount of momentum. People
believe in our campaign now. Every day, Democrats walk up
to me and say, I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never
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voted Republican in my life. I'm voting for you this year.
I'm voting Republican this year. My party has gone insane.
They don't reflect my values anymore. So it's Democrat.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It's independence.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And, of course, we have to depend on our rock-solid
Republicans all to come out. No excuses for staying on
the couch on Election Day. You've got early voting. You've
got 10 days to vote. There's no excuses not to vote.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Upstate, speaking to Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor. Upstate
voters could certainly play a significant part in this election, sir.
You lead there. Anything particularly you would say to voters
in upstate New York?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Help is on the way. For too long, upstate has
been completely ignored. We've watched a deterioration of once great
cities like Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Rome, Binghamton, Albany, just
to name a few, and every town and village in between.
As I ride around this state, it's absolutely depressing how
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our state government has let these communities deteriorate. The upstate
voters have been completely ignored. That will not happen, even
though I'm from Long Island. My running mate Todd Hood
is from Madison County. He's the sheriff there. We talk
about statewide issues all the time. We talk about how
important agriculture is. We talk about how important it is
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not to take up our rich farmland with these stupid
solar farms that produce very little energy and are on
the snow three months out of the year. We talk
about how we can rebuild the beautiful communities of upstate
New York that have been completely decimated by policies in
New York State that haven't helped anybody achieve the prosperity
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and the economic greatness that we are capable of. So
as governor... I will be an all-state governor, someone who
is going to make sure that every community, every neighborhood prospers,
save communities, lower taxes, cut your electric bills in half.
Those are all things that I can achieve once elected
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governor and that I will achieve. And I'm very, very
excited about my next swing upstate, which will be in
a couple of days. And I always enjoy going upstate
because I get to meet so many Common sense people
with good judgment. Just remember one thing. Kathy Hochul said
that upstaters don't have the sophistication to make important choices.
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She is somebody that lacks good judgment and common sense,
and that's something that upstate people have. I would rely
on their advice and their judgment way before I would
Kathy Hochul because she forgot her roots in western New York.
She's now Hollywood Hochul, hijab Hochul. She's somebody who has
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completely lost her sense of where she came from.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
This is Bruce Blakeman. He's the Nassau County Executive, Republican
candidate for governor. You mentioned Kathy Hochul and Common Sense
and such. I think of a couple weekends back where
the video comes out. She's visiting these Muslim gentlemen at
an Islamic center, and she's wearing a hijab. A lot
of people have reacted to that one way or another.
What are your thoughts on that, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I have worked very hard to build bridges with the
Muslim community. I appointed the first Muslim police chaplain to
our police department. I held the first feast following the
Ramadan fast. I have visited many mosques. Here's what I
don't like about it. I don't like the fact that
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she did it on the week before 9-11. which was
an attack on America, on New York. I lost my
nephew that day. He was murdered that day at the
World Trade Center. He was a New York State court
officer giving first aid to a severely burned woman in
Tower 2 when it collapsed on him. That's his final
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resting place. We didn't find any DNA. We just found
his gun and his badge. And for her to do
it that week, on the same week that Zoran Mondami
signed a 9-11 proclamation against and handed the pen that
he signed it to to the lawyers for the al-Qaeda
terrorists that perpetrated the attack on New York and America,
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to me, was disgusting.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is Bruce Blakeman. He's, again, candidate for governor for
the Republican Party. He leads Nassau County, well-admired for that.
If elected governor, sir, you'd have Democrat control of the
Assembly and the Senate, How would you handle that, sir?
What could we expect, please?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, first of all, I'm not going to concede the Senate.
I think we have a real opportunity to get the
majority in the Senate. I think we've got a real
opportunity to break the veto-proof majority of the Democrats in
the Assembly. So I don't want to have a lonely victory, Bob.
I want Republicans to win in the Senate. I want
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Republicans to win in the in the congressional races, and
even the local races, it's very important that I get
the support of others to accomplish the things I need
to do to get done. But if I have to
deal with the Democrats, I will deal with them out
of a position of strength, out of a position of leverage.
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And I may not get everything I want, but I
am sure and I am confident that I will get
enough to turn this state around bring jobs back to
this state, cut taxes, cut our electric bills, create economic
prosperity and make for safer communities by backing the blue.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Bruce Blakeman's Nassau County Executive Republican, a candidate for governor.
He'd certainly appreciate your support in regard to that. We Republicans, sir,
are a minority in this state. A lot of wonderful
people vote different way than you and I typically do.
How would you serve them and why should they vote
for you, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I didn't get that, Bob. I didn't hear that last one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How would you serve folks who are independents or Democrats?
How would you serve them, and why should they vote
for you, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, everybody wants the same thing, Bob. I haven't met
a Democrat or an independent yet that doesn't want the
same thing from their governor. They want lower taxes. Everybody
wants lower taxes. I spoke to a man in the
South Bronx the other day, a nice Hispanic young man,
and he He was very upset. He got his first paycheck.
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And he said, I thought I was getting $ 600 every
two weeks. Now I got $ 375. What happened? Well, they
took taxes out. Everybody wants lower taxes. Everybody wants lower
energy costs. And everybody wants safer communities. So what I
would say to independents and Democrats and Republicans is that
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that is my complete focus. is to create jobs, create prosperity,
cut taxes, cut utility bills, and make safer communities, just
like I did in my own county, which is larger
than eight states. And, Bob, I got reelected in a
landslide last year, and I have a Democratic county. There's
110,000 more Democrats in my county because I deliver the
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things that people want, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity. party, lifestyle,
or ability. Everybody wants to live in a safe community
where they can prosper. where they have opportunity and where
they're not killed every month when they open up their
mail and their tax bill comes in and the utility
bill comes in. And it's just killing the it's killing
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the people of this state who are really, really hurting.
They're miserable under Kathy Hochul. They want a governor that
will make them happy again. They want a governor that
will put New Yorkers first. They don't want a governor
who will spend $ 8 billion of their money on illegal
migrants with free housing, free food, free transportation, and a
free cell phone. They get this just for landing in
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New York. They get more than New Yorkers get, and
we're paying for it with our tax dollars. It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Bruce Blakeman is the Republican candidate for governor. He's the
executive of Nassau County. If you were governor today, sir...
and we're coming up to this 25th anniversary, and you
were to speak at the ceremony. I know this is
completely off the cuff and without advance warning, but what
would you want to communicate? What would you say to
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the people of New York and America, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, first of all, I would memorialize my nephew Tommy,
Sergeant Tommy Juergens, who was murdered as a hero that day,
friends of mine like Neil Levin, colleagues like Fred Marone,
who was superintendent of the Port Authority Police Department, people
I knew who worked there that were murdered on that day,
firefighters that went running in there when other people were
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running out, like Thomas Hetzel, who lives in the community
next to mine on Long Island. I would memorialize them
for their bravery. I would memorialize them for the fact
that all of them were murdered on a day when
This thing didn't have to happen but for Islamic extremists
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who hate America and attack America. And my message would
be one of strength so that we make sure that
we defend ourselves and that we put forth a strong
effort to keep our community safe from people who would
do harm to America. I support our military. I support
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our men and women of law enforcement, our first responders.
I support the people who keep us safe every day.
And I would remind people that we are blessed to
have people who have the courage and the patriotism to
stand up and defend our country. And I would encourage
people to realize that there are people out there who
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want to do harm, some of them domestic, some of
them foreign. And we must fight every day to protect
this beautiful state, this beautiful city, and this beautiful country
that God has blessed us with, the shining city on
the hill, as Ronald Reagan put it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The great Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor. Last question,
if I could, sir. Last week we see that New
York has the highest insurance premiums, health insurance premiums in
the country for those who get it through their workplace,
and then word subsequently that we could have a 20%
increase next year. If you're elected, sir, anything you can
do about that?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, we're going to make that a priority. There's reasons
why our health care priorities are out of whack. Number one,
we have failing hospitals who continually need money. And in
the meantime, Kathy Hochul is diverting billions and billions and
billions of dollars, as I said, to illegal migrants, to
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a bailout of New York City, where New York City's
budget is already larger than the whole state of Florida.
She gave them $ 5 billion of our money to bail
out Zoran Mondami. We have to redirect this money to
rebuilding our infrastructure. We've got to eliminate fraud, waste, and
abuse in our health care system. And we have to
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have a modern health care system, especially in the rural
communities of upstate New York, where they're not getting the
quality care that other parts of the state are getting.
So we have to reprioritize what we're doing. We've got
to make sure we get our costs under control by
eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. And we have to invest
in our health care facilities and modernize them, which will
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make it more cost efficient and make people healthier.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Blakeman4NewYork. com is the website. This is Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate
for governor. Sir, as always, we appreciate your time and
the service you render. As we run out the door,
anything I forgot to ask you you want people to know?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
No, just go to BlakemanForNewYork.com if you want to save
our state. And I just want to say to you, Bob,
and everybody, especially on this week of 9-11, may God
bless you all and may God bless America.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Amen to that. Thank you so much, sir. That's Bruce Blakeman,
and this is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. The New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
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Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know what? Your house, your bathroom, your kitchen ought
to be your bathroom and your kitchen.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
When Ms.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
McGillicuddy put the thing back in back in 72, she
made it just right for her family and her tastes
and the technology back then. But things might have changed
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Speaker 3 (16:03):
Allen's Creek, Rochester.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's a name for that feeling that you can only
find at home.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hey, Bob, I'm going to dedicate this to you, our
greatly needed... Bruce Blakeman and our armed forces, our first responders.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Unbelievable. Here it goes, Bob. Or the land of the free.
and the home of the brave.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right. We should probably ban people named Chuck from
calling the program. I'm just thinking off the top of
my head there. Carl, appreciate you calling and holding on, sir.
Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Hello, Carl?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Welcome, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, how you doing, man? It's been a long time
since I spoke to you, but... You know, I wanted
to speak about that when the World Trade Center had
got hit back in 2001, I was in a camp,
and a lot of us wasn't taking it serious. They
wasn't taking it serious at the time, and so when
we seen it come up on the TV and we
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was looking at it, you know what I mean? A
lot of guys, yeah, yeah. A lot of guys had...
You know, I mean, we listen to Biggie Smalls here
on World Trade Center going to get it. So when
we was hearing it and it just so happens that
it was a couple of guys that was from New
York and some of these guys, a lot of us
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was from New Jersey. So when it happened, you know,
I mean, we was looking at the TV like, wow,
this is really happening. Like, wow, it's burning like the
World Trade is coming down. But we wasn't really taking
it seriously. until, you know what I mean, a couple
guys is like, yo, man, my family work in this
building like my family work in the World Trade Center.
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So that's when it was like, yo, man, that's the
world trade. Like, you don't work in there. Like, you're
in a camp right now. Like, he was very locked.
We were in a camp, and it was like, he
was like, yo, that's my family. So he was kind
of worried. And then, you know what I mean, a
fight broke out with guys who didn't kick. We couldn't
sell them. Like, what was going on? So they started saying, like,
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you know what I mean, people jumping out the windows
and Like, you know, the wall trades from the time
of Dale, and that's when, like, people, like, really started
opening their eyes. Like, wow.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Our connection's not very good, Carl. I apologize. My camp,
I don't know if that meant a correctional facility or what,
but a lot of folks looked and saw a lot
of heartbreak there. The total people killed in New York
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City were 2,753. Firefighters and paramedics for the city of
New York, 343 killed. Police officers, the city of New York,
23 killed. Police officers of the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey, 37 killed. That employer who lost
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the most workers was the financial services business Cantor Fitzgerald,
which was in Tower One and whose offices were above
the point of impact. All their people were trapped. Almost
all of them perished. There were four flights that were hijacked.
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American 11 flying from Boston to Los Angeles. United 175
flying from Boston to Los Angeles. American 77 flying from
Dulles to Los Angeles, and United 93 from Newark to
San Francisco. All of these planes were transcontinental flights, and
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they were purposefully selected by the Muslim terrorists because they would,
at takeoff, be laden with fuel and turned to their
purpose as missiles. That fuel would, of course, enhance horrifically
the damage done Flight 11, American 11 heading for Los
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Angeles took off from Boston at 7.59 a.m. At 8.14,
it was hijacked. And at 8.46, it slammed into the
North Tower, Tower 1, Address 1 World Trade Center. There
were five hijackers on that flight. There were 76 passengers,
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11 crew members. And, you know, that was that attack.
United 175 took off from Boston, headed again for Los
Angeles at 8.14 a.m. It was hijacked at 8.42 a.m.
And at 9.03 a.m., it was flown into Tower 2,
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the South Tower. Five hijackers, 56 passengers, nine crew members.
There were 1,402 employees of the North Tower who were killed.
There were 614 employees of the South Tower who were killed.
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American 77, which was flying from Dulles to Los Angeles International,
took off at 8.20. It was hijacked at 8.54, and
it struck the Pentagon at 9.37. Five hijackers, 58 passengers,
six crew. and 115 people killed on the ground. United
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Flight 93 took off from Newark, was headed to San Francisco.
At 8.42, it was hijacked. It took off, rather. At 9.28,
it was hijacked. And at 10.03 a.m., it crashed upside down,
diving into a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Four hijackers, 37
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passengers killed. seven crew members. We'll talk more about that
flight and those passengers in just a moment on NewsRadio
WHAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
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Speaker 1 (22:45):
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Speaker 2 (22:47):
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Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know if they're talking boobs or teeth or
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And some of these places where they're offering dental implants,
just my opinion, I think some of them look pretty
fly by night. That's your call, not mine. One place
where I have confidence, where I know they're professionals, where
I know that they lead not just our region but
our country and the technology they use and the happy
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Dental Group. Elmwood Dental Group, a longstanding local dental practice.
taking care of about every dental need you can think of.
Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group is that portion
of their practice which deals with dental implants. Dental implants
are what people do now instead of dentures or a
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partial plate or whatever else like that. If you lost
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Speaker 2 (24:15):
Roof, roof.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Time for a new roof.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
American Flight 11 flew into the North Tower at the
World Trade Center. United Flight 175 flew into the South Tower.
American 77 was flown into the Pentagon. and United 93
was apparently destined to fly into the Capitol building of
the United States. That was deduced by military people in
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the United States. It was deduced by passengers aboard Flight 93,
and both American military commanders and the passengers on board
Flight 93 decided that that would not be allowed to happen. First,
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the military. At the old or former Griffith Air Force
Base in Rome, there was something called the Northeast Air
Defense Sector. It was a command center responsible for surveilling
the airspace and providing air defense capabilities for the northeastern
United States and for eastern Canada. It is a joint
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command and there are Canadian military officers who were there
on 2001 and who are there still today. The situation
with the hijacked planes and the planes into the World
Trade Center was tracked and picked up by this northeast
air defense sector and fairly early on on that Tuesday morning, uh,
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two on duty, uh, pilots at the 174th fighter wing, uh,
of the New York Army National, check that, of the
New York Air National Guard at Hancock Field in Syracuse, uh,
two F-16s were, uh, uh, put into the air. These, um,
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jets were not unarmed, but all they had was, um,
training ammunition for the Gatling guns on the F-16s, which
will make a hole, but not much of a hole,
and there's no explosive component to the rounds. This is
kind of a tangent, but those aircraft flown by then
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Air Force Majors Tom Owens and Greg Semel, two men
who still live in the Syracuse area, they were sent
after Flight 93. What they were to do once they
got there has not been publicly said, though Dick Cheney
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in an interview once said that President Bush had ordered
that the airplane be shot down if it posed a
threat to the Capitol or the White House. At any rate,
they chased the aircraft and, you know, they passed. probably
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lacked the munitions to shoot it down. I interviewed one
of the pilots once. I unfortunately never got around to
asking him the important question, which really was, in the
event of contact, would you have taken that jetliner down
by flying into it? Would you have sacrificed yourself to
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follow that order? At any rate, that's a tangent because
that's what didn't happen what did happen on Flight 93.
We'll discuss briefly a lot of things in the news,
and the anniversary is not until Friday. But there's, of course,
a Rochester connection to what happened on Flight 93. We'll
review that right after Mr. Lasky's newscast, which is next.
He's the voice of the Finger Lakes, and this is
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with bob lonsbury starting now on news radio wham 1180
thanks doug appreciate it good morning americans and hello my
friend like always it is a delight to be with
you it's a pleasure to welcome our guest the republican
candidate for governor of the great state of new york
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the honorable bruce blakeman sir welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning always good to be with you i.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Appreciate your time sir A new poll out yesterday has
some surprising news.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, it's not surprising to us. We've been tracking the
polling for nine months now, and it's been a constant
upward polling that shows that we have closed the gap.
We're in a virtual dead heat with Kathy Hochul now.
The one thing that hasn't changed since we started polling
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is is Kathy Hochul's unfavorables, which range from 55% to 60%.
So people are very unhappy with her. I said all
along when people get to know about my record of
not raising taxes, of getting seven bond upgrades, of being
named the safest county in America, the lowest poverty rate
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in New York State, and a county with job creation. Basically,
I knew at that point that when they compared my
record with hers, that people would vote for me, they
would support me, and that we will be victorious on
November 3rd. And January 1st, I fully expect to be
sworn in as the next governor to save our state.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
The poll done by the Blakeman campaign has, or for
the Blakeman campaign, has Hochul at 49.6 and Mr. Blakeman
at 45.7, close to five points there. Seems like it
started out 20, went to 10, went to 5. Are
you trending in seemingly a pretty favorable fashion, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we've got to be accurate. So it's actually 3.9%.
I like that number better. Yes, we're trending in the
right way. We have a tremendous amount of momentum. People
believe in our campaign now. Every day, Democrats walk up
to me and say, I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never
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voted Republican in my life. I'm voting for you this year.
I'm voting Republican this year. My party has gone insane.
They don't reflect my values anymore. So it's Democrat.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It's independence.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And, of course, we have to depend on our rock-solid
Republicans all to come out. No excuses for staying on
the couch on Election Day. You've got early voting. You've
got 10 days to vote. There's no excuses not to vote.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Upstate, speaking to Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor. Upstate
voters could certainly play a significant part in this election, sir.
You lead there. Anything particularly you would say to voters
in upstate New York?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Help is on the way. For too long, upstate has
been completely ignored. We've watched a deterioration of once great
cities like Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Rome, Binghamton, Albany, just
to name a few, and every town and village in between.
As I ride around this state, it's absolutely depressing how
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our state government has let these communities deteriorate. The upstate
voters have been completely ignored. That will not happen, even
though I'm from Long Island. My running mate Todd Hood
is from Madison County. He's the sheriff there. We talk
about statewide issues all the time. We talk about how
important agriculture is. We talk about how important it is
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not to take up our rich farmland with these stupid
solar farms that produce very little energy and are on
the snow three months out of the year. We talk
about how we can rebuild the beautiful communities of upstate
New York that have been completely decimated by policies in
New York State that haven't helped anybody achieve the prosperity
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and the economic greatness that we are capable of. So
as governor... I will be an all-state governor, someone who
is going to make sure that every community, every neighborhood prospers,
save communities, lower taxes, cut your electric bills in half.
Those are all things that I can achieve once elected
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governor and that I will achieve. And I'm very, very
excited about my next swing upstate, which will be in
a couple of days. And I always enjoy going upstate
because I get to meet so many Common sense people
with good judgment. Just remember one thing. Kathy Hochul said
that upstaters don't have the sophistication to make important choices.
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She is somebody that lacks good judgment and common sense,
and that's something that upstate people have. I would rely
on their advice and their judgment way before I would
Kathy Hochul because she forgot her roots in western New York.
She's now Hollywood Hochul, hijab Hochul. She's somebody who has
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completely lost her sense of where she came from.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
This is Bruce Blakeman. He's the Nassau County Executive, Republican
candidate for governor. You mentioned Kathy Hochul and Common Sense
and such. I think of a couple weekends back where
the video comes out. She's visiting these Muslim gentlemen at
an Islamic center, and she's wearing a hijab. A lot
of people have reacted to that one way or another.
What are your thoughts on that, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I have worked very hard to build bridges with the
Muslim community. I appointed the first Muslim police chaplain to
our police department. I held the first feast following the
Ramadan fast. I have visited many mosques. Here's what I
don't like about it. I don't like the fact that
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she did it on the week before 9-11. which was
an attack on America, on New York. I lost my
nephew that day. He was murdered that day at the
World Trade Center. He was a New York State court
officer giving first aid to a severely burned woman in
Tower 2 when it collapsed on him. That's his final
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resting place. We didn't find any DNA. We just found
his gun and his badge. And for her to do
it that week, on the same week that Zoran Mondami
signed a 9-11 proclamation against and handed the pen that
he signed it to to the lawyers for the al-Qaeda
terrorists that perpetrated the attack on New York and America,
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to me, was disgusting.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is Bruce Blakeman. He's, again, candidate for governor for
the Republican Party. He leads Nassau County, well-admired for that.
If elected governor, sir, you'd have Democrat control of the
Assembly and the Senate, How would you handle that, sir?
What could we expect, please?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, first of all, I'm not going to concede the Senate.
I think we have a real opportunity to get the
majority in the Senate. I think we've got a real
opportunity to break the veto-proof majority of the Democrats in
the Assembly. So I don't want to have a lonely victory, Bob.
I want Republicans to win in the Senate. I want
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Republicans to win in the in the congressional races, and
even the local races, it's very important that I get
the support of others to accomplish the things I need
to do to get done. But if I have to
deal with the Democrats, I will deal with them out
of a position of strength, out of a position of leverage.
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And I may not get everything I want, but I
am sure and I am confident that I will get
enough to turn this state around bring jobs back to
this state, cut taxes, cut our electric bills, create economic
prosperity and make for safer communities by backing the blue.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Bruce Blakeman's Nassau County Executive Republican, a candidate for governor.
He'd certainly appreciate your support in regard to that. We Republicans, sir,
are a minority in this state. A lot of wonderful
people vote different way than you and I typically do.
How would you serve them and why should they vote
for you, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I didn't get that, Bob. I didn't hear that last one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How would you serve folks who are independents or Democrats?
How would you serve them, and why should they vote
for you, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, everybody wants the same thing, Bob. I haven't met
a Democrat or an independent yet that doesn't want the
same thing from their governor. They want lower taxes. Everybody
wants lower taxes. I spoke to a man in the
South Bronx the other day, a nice Hispanic young man,
and he He was very upset. He got his first paycheck.
(09:03):
And he said, I thought I was getting $ 600 every
two weeks. Now I got $ 375. What happened? Well, they
took taxes out. Everybody wants lower taxes. Everybody wants lower
energy costs. And everybody wants safer communities. So what I
would say to independents and Democrats and Republicans is that
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that is my complete focus. is to create jobs, create prosperity,
cut taxes, cut utility bills, and make safer communities, just
like I did in my own county, which is larger
than eight states. And, Bob, I got reelected in a
landslide last year, and I have a Democratic county. There's
110,000 more Democrats in my county because I deliver the
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things that people want, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity. party, lifestyle,
or ability. Everybody wants to live in a safe community
where they can prosper. where they have opportunity and where
they're not killed every month when they open up their
mail and their tax bill comes in and the utility
bill comes in. And it's just killing the it's killing
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the people of this state who are really, really hurting.
They're miserable under Kathy Hochul. They want a governor that
will make them happy again. They want a governor that
will put New Yorkers first. They don't want a governor
who will spend $ 8 billion of their money on illegal
migrants with free housing, free food, free transportation, and a
free cell phone. They get this just for landing in
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New York. They get more than New Yorkers get, and
we're paying for it with our tax dollars. It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Bruce Blakeman is the Republican candidate for governor. He's the
executive of Nassau County. If you were governor today, sir...
and we're coming up to this 25th anniversary, and you
were to speak at the ceremony. I know this is
completely off the cuff and without advance warning, but what
would you want to communicate? What would you say to
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the people of New York and America, please, sir?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, first of all, I would memorialize my nephew Tommy,
Sergeant Tommy Juergens, who was murdered as a hero that day,
friends of mine like Neil Levin, colleagues like Fred Marone,
who was superintendent of the Port Authority Police Department, people
I knew who worked there that were murdered on that day,
firefighters that went running in there when other people were
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running out, like Thomas Hetzel, who lives in the community
next to mine on Long Island. I would memorialize them
for their bravery. I would memorialize them for the fact
that all of them were murdered on a day when
This thing didn't have to happen but for Islamic extremists
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who hate America and attack America. And my message would
be one of strength so that we make sure that
we defend ourselves and that we put forth a strong
effort to keep our community safe from people who would
do harm to America. I support our military. I support
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our men and women of law enforcement, our first responders.
I support the people who keep us safe every day.
And I would remind people that we are blessed to
have people who have the courage and the patriotism to
stand up and defend our country. And I would encourage
people to realize that there are people out there who
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want to do harm, some of them domestic, some of
them foreign. And we must fight every day to protect
this beautiful state, this beautiful city, and this beautiful country
that God has blessed us with, the shining city on
the hill, as Ronald Reagan put it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The great Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor. Last question,
if I could, sir. Last week we see that New
York has the highest insurance premiums, health insurance premiums in
the country for those who get it through their workplace,
and then word subsequently that we could have a 20%
increase next year. If you're elected, sir, anything you can
do about that?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, we're going to make that a priority. There's reasons
why our health care priorities are out of whack. Number one,
we have failing hospitals who continually need money. And in
the meantime, Kathy Hochul is diverting billions and billions and
billions of dollars, as I said, to illegal migrants, to
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a bailout of New York City, where New York City's
budget is already larger than the whole state of Florida.
She gave them $ 5 billion of our money to bail
out Zoran Mondami. We have to redirect this money to
rebuilding our infrastructure. We've got to eliminate fraud, waste, and
abuse in our health care system. And we have to
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have a modern health care system, especially in the rural
communities of upstate New York, where they're not getting the
quality care that other parts of the state are getting.
So we have to reprioritize what we're doing. We've got
to make sure we get our costs under control by
eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. And we have to invest
in our health care facilities and modernize them, which will
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make it more cost efficient and make people healthier.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Blakeman4NewYork. com is the website. This is Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate
for governor. Sir, as always, we appreciate your time and
the service you render. As we run out the door,
anything I forgot to ask you you want people to know?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
No, just go to BlakemanForNewYork.com if you want to save
our state. And I just want to say to you, Bob,
and everybody, especially on this week of 9-11, may God
bless you all and may God bless America.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Amen to that. Thank you so much, sir. That's Bruce Blakeman,
and this is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. The New England Patriots.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The Seattle Seahawks. Tonight at 7 on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know what? Your house, your bathroom, your kitchen ought
to be your bathroom and your kitchen.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
When Ms.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
McGillicuddy put the thing back in back in 72, she
made it just right for her family and her tastes
and the technology back then. But things might have changed
since McGillicuddy's moved out and since 1972. Your kitchen should
be your kitchen. At Rochester Bath and Kitchen, they can
make sure that it is reflecting your tastes, your needs,
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and the technologies available to you and your family today.
That's just as true for the bathroom. If you're having
renovation done, if you're thinking about changing over your bathroom
or your kitchen, large job or small job, there is
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Speaker 3 (16:03):
Allen's Creek, Rochester.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
There's a name for that feeling that you can only
find at home.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hey, Bob, I'm going to dedicate this to you, our
greatly needed... Bruce Blakeman and our armed forces, our first responders.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Unbelievable. Here it goes, Bob. Or the land of the free.
and the home of the brave.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right. We should probably ban people named Chuck from
calling the program. I'm just thinking off the top of
my head there. Carl, appreciate you calling and holding on, sir.
Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Hello, Carl?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Welcome, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, how you doing, man? It's been a long time
since I spoke to you, but... You know, I wanted
to speak about that when the World Trade Center had
got hit back in 2001, I was in a camp,
and a lot of us wasn't taking it serious. They
wasn't taking it serious at the time, and so when
we seen it come up on the TV and we
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was looking at it, you know what I mean? A
lot of guys, yeah, yeah. A lot of guys had...
You know, I mean, we listen to Biggie Smalls here
on World Trade Center going to get it. So when
we was hearing it and it just so happens that
it was a couple of guys that was from New
York and some of these guys, a lot of us
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was from New Jersey. So when it happened, you know,
I mean, we was looking at the TV like, wow,
this is really happening. Like, wow, it's burning like the
World Trade is coming down. But we wasn't really taking
it seriously. until, you know what I mean, a couple
guys is like, yo, man, my family work in this
building like my family work in the World Trade Center.
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So that's when it was like, yo, man, that's the
world trade. Like, you don't work in there. Like, you're
in a camp right now. Like, he was very locked.
We were in a camp, and it was like, he
was like, yo, that's my family. So he was kind
of worried. And then, you know what I mean, a
fight broke out with guys who didn't kick. We couldn't
sell them. Like, what was going on? So they started saying, like,
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you know what I mean, people jumping out the windows
and Like, you know, the wall trades from the time
of Dale, and that's when, like, people, like, really started
opening their eyes. Like, wow.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Our connection's not very good, Carl. I apologize. My camp,
I don't know if that meant a correctional facility or what,
but a lot of folks looked and saw a lot
of heartbreak there. The total people killed in New York
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City were 2,753. Firefighters and paramedics for the city of
New York, 343 killed. Police officers, the city of New York,
23 killed. Police officers of the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey, 37 killed. That employer who lost
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the most workers was the financial services business Cantor Fitzgerald,
which was in Tower One and whose offices were above
the point of impact. All their people were trapped. Almost
all of them perished. There were four flights that were hijacked.
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American 11 flying from Boston to Los Angeles. United 175
flying from Boston to Los Angeles. American 77 flying from
Dulles to Los Angeles, and United 93 from Newark to
San Francisco. All of these planes were transcontinental flights, and
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they were purposefully selected by the Muslim terrorists because they would,
at takeoff, be laden with fuel and turned to their
purpose as missiles. That fuel would, of course, enhance horrifically
the damage done Flight 11, American 11 heading for Los
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Angeles took off from Boston at 7.59 a.m. At 8.14,
it was hijacked. And at 8.46, it slammed into the
North Tower, Tower 1, Address 1 World Trade Center. There
were five hijackers on that flight. There were 76 passengers,
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11 crew members. And, you know, that was that attack.
United 175 took off from Boston, headed again for Los
Angeles at 8.14 a.m. It was hijacked at 8.42 a.m.
And at 9.03 a.m., it was flown into Tower 2,
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the South Tower. Five hijackers, 56 passengers, nine crew members.
There were 1,402 employees of the North Tower who were killed.
There were 614 employees of the South Tower who were killed.
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American 77, which was flying from Dulles to Los Angeles International,
took off at 8.20. It was hijacked at 8.54, and
it struck the Pentagon at 9.37. Five hijackers, 58 passengers,
six crew. and 115 people killed on the ground. United
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Flight 93 took off from Newark, was headed to San Francisco.
At 8.42, it was hijacked. It took off, rather. At 9.28,
it was hijacked. And at 10.03 a.m., it crashed upside down,
diving into a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Four hijackers, 37
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passengers killed. seven crew members. We'll talk more about that
flight and those passengers in just a moment on NewsRadio
WHAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I drive by some of.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
These strip malls and I see like a big sign
out front that says.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Implants, you know, Bill's House of Implants or something like that.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know if they're talking boobs or teeth or
what the heck's going on in there. I have no idea.
And some of these places where they're offering dental implants,
just my opinion, I think some of them look pretty
fly by night. That's your call, not mine. One place
where I have confidence, where I know they're professionals, where
I know that they lead not just our region but
our country and the technology they use and the happy
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outcomes they receive is Rochester High Bridge at the Elmwood
Dental Group. Elmwood Dental Group, a longstanding local dental practice.
taking care of about every dental need you can think of.
Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group is that portion
of their practice which deals with dental implants. Dental implants
are what people do now instead of dentures or a
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partial plate or whatever else like that. If you lost
some teeth or lost all your teeth, Rochester Highbridge is
an outstanding way to get them back at the hands
of this wonderful, well-established, I believe Gold Standard Dental Practice,
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It's Rochester High Bridge at the Elmwood Dental Group.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Roof, roof.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Time for a new roof.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
American Flight 11 flew into the North Tower at the
World Trade Center. United Flight 175 flew into the South Tower.
American 77 was flown into the Pentagon. and United 93
was apparently destined to fly into the Capitol building of
the United States. That was deduced by military people in
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the United States. It was deduced by passengers aboard Flight 93,
and both American military commanders and the passengers on board
Flight 93 decided that that would not be allowed to happen. First,
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the military. At the old or former Griffith Air Force
Base in Rome, there was something called the Northeast Air
Defense Sector. It was a command center responsible for surveilling
the airspace and providing air defense capabilities for the northeastern
United States and for eastern Canada. It is a joint
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command and there are Canadian military officers who were there
on 2001 and who are there still today. The situation
with the hijacked planes and the planes into the World
Trade Center was tracked and picked up by this northeast
air defense sector and fairly early on on that Tuesday morning, uh,
(25:54):
two on duty, uh, pilots at the 174th fighter wing, uh,
of the New York Army National, check that, of the
New York Air National Guard at Hancock Field in Syracuse, uh,
two F-16s were, uh, uh, put into the air. These, um,
(26:14):
jets were not unarmed, but all they had was, um,
training ammunition for the Gatling guns on the F-16s, which
will make a hole, but not much of a hole,
and there's no explosive component to the rounds. This is
kind of a tangent, but those aircraft flown by then
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Air Force Majors Tom Owens and Greg Semel, two men
who still live in the Syracuse area, they were sent
after Flight 93. What they were to do once they
got there has not been publicly said, though Dick Cheney
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in an interview once said that President Bush had ordered
that the airplane be shot down if it posed a
threat to the Capitol or the White House. At any rate,
they chased the aircraft and, you know, they passed. probably
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lacked the munitions to shoot it down. I interviewed one
of the pilots once. I unfortunately never got around to
asking him the important question, which really was, in the
event of contact, would you have taken that jetliner down
by flying into it? Would you have sacrificed yourself to
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follow that order? At any rate, that's a tangent because
that's what didn't happen what did happen on Flight 93.
We'll discuss briefly a lot of things in the news,
and the anniversary is not until Friday. But there's, of course,
a Rochester connection to what happened on Flight 93. We'll
review that right after Mr. Lasky's newscast, which is next.
He's the voice of the Finger Lakes, and this is
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