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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR. Back now to the

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Speaker 1: WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI. Well, the Mamdani

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Speaker 1: administration didn't have a great first week. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that with political analysts J C. Polonko jac It's been

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Speaker 1: a while. I'm glad I got to talk to you again.

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Speaker 1: I see on TV all the time and I wave,

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Speaker 1: but you never wave back.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy New Year to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the beginning of the Zorin Mamdani administration

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Speaker 1: hasn't gone well so far. It's just been controversy after controversy.

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to have a lot of controversy.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that the mayor recognizes that about fifty

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Speaker 2: percent of the city voted against him, and about fifty

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Speaker 2: percent voted not only against him, but actively votedly against

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Speaker 2: voted against him because of his positions. And when you

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Speaker 2: take a look at Andrew Cuomo, Andrew CMO got about

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Speaker 2: forty two on an obscure line in the second row,

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Speaker 2: somewhere far to the right, that tells you that your

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Speaker 2: job is to unite the city, that your strategy was

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Speaker 2: not exactly one that got you a mandate, and you

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Speaker 2: should be focusing about coming to the middle. But as

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Speaker 2: you heard on the inauguration, he wanted a socialist. He's

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Speaker 2: going to govern as a socialist, and the people that

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Speaker 2: he's appointing are of that ilk. So you know, when

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Speaker 2: I was in college, you had a friend who said

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Speaker 2: to me, jac you can't stare at the backside of

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Speaker 2: a cow and be surprised when manure comes out of it.

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Speaker 2: And I've never forgotten that because for the last year,

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Speaker 2: all we've heard about is the wonders of communism, Marxism,

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Speaker 2: and socialism, from the seizing the means of production to

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Speaker 2: the warmth of collectivism. That's all we've heard. So why

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Speaker 2: are we surprised when so many of the appointments that

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Speaker 2: he's making to high profile positions think that way. I'm

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Speaker 2: not surprised. I'm surprised that people are surprised, Larry. I'm

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Speaker 2: surprised that you're getting people that are shocked at what's happening.

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Speaker 2: I think this is only the beginning. He has to

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Speaker 2: give patronage and positions of power to the people that

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Speaker 2: got him to work. He is, and this is someone

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Speaker 2: who got to the top by talking about seasoned the

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Speaker 2: means of production, by talking about collectivism, by talking about

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Speaker 2: how much he hates the police, by talking about some

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Speaker 2: of the wildest, craziest things we've ever heard. And he

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Speaker 2: got there with the support of other people that think

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Speaker 2: that way. So why be surprised. This is just the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the surprise is and how far and

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Speaker 1: how fast this is coming. I think that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people believe that he would have to moderate a

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Speaker 1: little bit, that he couldn't do all these things he

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Speaker 1: talked about, And even as he was running in his campaign,

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Speaker 1: he started to moderate his views just a little bit

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Speaker 1: to be more mainstream and be more acceptable as a candidate.

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Speaker 1: And now he's gone full on. You know, We've had

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Speaker 1: several people to call that used to live in the

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Speaker 1: Soviet Union and they say, we had this collectivism there

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Speaker 1: and it's awful, and this collective owning of property is

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Speaker 1: the worst thing that can happen. And so I think

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Speaker 1: that we were hopeful, let's put it that way, and

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Speaker 1: that led to our surprise. Maybe we were naives.

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Speaker 2: I think we were naive. You know, he got to

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Speaker 2: the top by that way. He moderated for a couple

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Speaker 2: of months, so that the business community isn't totally scared

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Speaker 2: because he knew full well that the election wasn't a

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Speaker 2: sure thing. And it's very hard for a Democrats to

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Speaker 2: lose the mayorality in New York City, very very hard.

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Speaker 2: You know, the last time it happened, Demands spend hundreds

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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars right and happened to be an

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Speaker 2: independent incumbent. So the idea was that if I moderated

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Speaker 2: nuts scared business officials, perhaps I can still win. And

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Speaker 2: he only got fifty percent of the vote. So my

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Speaker 2: point is this, My point is he got to the

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Speaker 2: very top by talking about collectivism. He got to the

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Speaker 2: very top by talking about taxing the ridge. Even though Larry,

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Speaker 2: this is what's so important, forty six percent of our

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Speaker 2: city budget is covered by the top one percent. It

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Speaker 2: seems as if his supporters don't quite understand mass. Where

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Speaker 2: are people moving out of People are moving out of

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Speaker 2: New York City. People are moving out of New York

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Speaker 2: excuse me. People are moving out of California and they're

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Speaker 2: going to red states where they get tax less. This

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Speaker 2: is what's so fascinating about it. So when you save

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Speaker 2: the rich, you're going to tax and you recognize that

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Speaker 2: the top one percent of the city is paying for

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Speaker 2: forty six percent of the budget, and then when you

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Speaker 2: take a look at the top three percent, it's almost

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Speaker 2: as seventy five percent of the budget. Why would you

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Speaker 2: continue to say that you're going to tax these businesses

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Speaker 2: and these people out of the city. Who's going to

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Speaker 2: be left with the bill? It's going to be regular folks.

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Speaker 2: It's basic math that I think that his followers don't

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Speaker 2: quite understand, from taxation to rent freezes to how that

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Speaker 2: increases shortages. I just don't understand what is so difficult

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Speaker 2: about understanding that you cannot offend and overtax the people

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Speaker 2: that are covering the bill because they are most likely

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Speaker 2: to leave. And if he were to get his way, Larry,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, if you were to get his way of

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Speaker 2: increasing the taxes on corporations and make them equal to

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Speaker 2: New Jersey without considering that corporations in New York City

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Speaker 2: are paying an additional tons of money and in other fees,

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Speaker 2: those businesses are just going to pick up and go

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Speaker 2: to Florida, and then their jobs are going to go.

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Speaker 2: People are going to go, and New York is going

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Speaker 2: to be less powerful nationally as we continue to lose

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Speaker 2: yet another congressional district. I don't understand what these people do.

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Speaker 2: Not quite understand J C.

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Speaker 1: Polonco, political analyst and University of Mount Saint Vincent Assistant

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Speaker 1: professor and attorney. This has been a podcast from w

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