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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. We got our
Speaker 2: friend Joe Burrelli on this episode. He is the Sage
Speaker 2: of Staten Island, New York City councilman. Knows what's going
Speaker 2: on all across the five Burroughs, the Big Apple, you
Speaker 2: name it. Joe, Good to see you. NYPD has cleared
Speaker 2: out the encampment at Columbia. My understanding is they're starting
Speaker 2: to rebuild the encampment. What do you think about what's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 3: They're trying to rebuild it.
Speaker 1: We were just in the park right here by City
Speaker 1: Hall is a really nice park right in front of
Speaker 1: the building, and all the Kefia wearing Hamas Nicks are
Speaker 1: all congregating outside, trying to figure out what next to do.
Speaker 1: They were over at one police plaza waiting for their
Speaker 1: hero martyrs to be released from the brief custom They
Speaker 1: got them els and two from last night.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a.
Speaker 1: Long time coming, and I'm glad finally the president of
Speaker 1: the school gave the NYPD authority to do this. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything in New York City this bad.
Speaker 1: I wish I could say, ever, but since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: when the George Floyd riots happened in this city, it's
Speaker 1: never been this anti semitic. I mean, just walking around
Speaker 1: seeing these people with these with these bandanas, these kefas,
Speaker 1: just walking around as though they don't mean animosity to
Speaker 1: our Jewish neighbors. It's just sickening. It's disgusting, and it
Speaker 1: really is just one more thing, one more thing that
Speaker 1: makes me question why I come to work every day
Speaker 1: and live in this city.
Speaker 2: Now. Is there pretty much unanimous support among city officials
Speaker 2: for what the NYPD did, or are some of the
Speaker 2: communists on the city council your colleagues opposed to this
Speaker 2: for some reason, I mean the notion of opposition to
Speaker 2: police and trespassing, burglary, and criminal mischief. I don't understand
Speaker 2: what those who have a problem with it think is
Speaker 2: supposed to happen, right.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, well, I mean they're just they're just lying.
Speaker 1: They're saying there's this false narrative where these people were
Speaker 1: just you know, sitting on the grass beating drums, not
Speaker 1: doing anything harassing or illegal.
Speaker 3: And that's just not the case.
Speaker 1: I mean with this incident, they took over a public
Speaker 1: building where kids are supposed to attend classes, and they
Speaker 1: decided to vandalize it and destroy property and basically, you know,
Speaker 1: culminate almost two weeks of just harassing students who go
Speaker 1: to the school and faculty for being Jewish. So, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: on the City Council, we have a very small minority
Speaker 1: of Republicans, a very small minority. That adds to that
Speaker 1: we with some moderate rational Democrats, and then the rest
Speaker 1: of them are just are either too scared to speak
Speaker 1: up because they're too afraid of the with the radical left,
Speaker 1: or they are the prototype of the radical left movement
Speaker 1: with some of them. And it's it's unfortunately the case
Speaker 1: where some of the most virulent pro Hamas supporters come
Speaker 1: from the New York City Council.
Speaker 2: I did see in the press conference there's a new
Speaker 2: NYPD commissioner. Uh what happened last commissioner.
Speaker 1: Well, we still have Eddie Caban who's been the commissioner
Speaker 1: for about a year.
Speaker 2: Right, that's new to me because I don't live there anymore,
Speaker 2: so I don't really pay that close attention. So I'm
Speaker 2: saying wasn't there a female African American police commissioner before?
Speaker 1: Sewell, I believe, yeah, she did a great job, left
Speaker 1: on relatively good turn.
Speaker 2: She was good, she was good, Okay good.
Speaker 1: There is so many great things to criticize Eric Adams about,
Speaker 1: and that's fine, and we always have these conversations. One
Speaker 1: of those things that you can't criticize him is appointing
Speaker 1: good police commissioners and actually standing by police officers.
Speaker 3: He deserves commendation for that.
Speaker 1: He really does the new commissioners great and we saw
Speaker 1: the deputy commissioner actually was the one who basically pulled
Speaker 1: down the Palestinian flag and replaced it with the American flag.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have a town hall tonight with Eric
Speaker 1: Adams and he's not very popular in my Republican bashion
Speaker 1: of Staten Island. So I joked to him, I said, look,
Speaker 1: if the people get a little angry at you, just
Speaker 1: show the video of Commissioner Daughtry pulling down the Palestinian
Speaker 1: flag and raising the American flag and you'll get a few,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll get a few cheers in case, in case,
Speaker 1: people want to help.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's good to hear I want to get
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Speaker 2: you know, it's funny. Clay asked me what I thought
Speaker 2: about Eric Adams. I said, Look, I wasn't really in
Speaker 2: New York for very long, when he was the when
Speaker 2: he was the mayor, I left of Florida, where we're
Speaker 2: still keeping a seat warm for you, mister Barelli of
Speaker 2: Staten Island in case. This is a man who loves golf,
Speaker 2: warm weather, freedom, and yet he still lives in New York,
Speaker 2: is still a city council.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I.
Speaker 1: Was in Naples all week with at seat to table
Speaker 1: living living.
Speaker 2: See. See this is the this is the city council. Oh,
Speaker 2: he loves Naples. I'm just telling you it could he
Speaker 2: could be the councilman from Naples before long. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: don't want to push him too much. We know it's
Speaker 2: gonna happen at some point. But in the meantime, I mean,
Speaker 2: Clay asked me what I thought about Eric Adams, and
Speaker 2: what I said was from what I can gather both
Speaker 2: from NYPD friends of mine and just reading about his
Speaker 2: different positions, is that he's not Deblasio. Insofar as Deblasio
Speaker 2: I think was as a point of ideology, actively willing
Speaker 2: to tear down the city and make people suffer because
Speaker 2: he's a Marxist, like he thought that shared misery for
Speaker 2: everyone was justice. I get the sense that Eric Adams
Speaker 2: has challenges, sure, and maybe his leadership is not always
Speaker 2: what it should be, although anyone can criticize any leader,
Speaker 2: but that he is not malignant toward the City of
Speaker 2: New York, or rather, he doesn't view his role as
Speaker 2: some kind of a painful transformation. And I want you
Speaker 2: to speak to that, like, how would you judge you're
Speaker 2: seeing the mayor tonight?
Speaker 3: No, I think that's a good assessment.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at his biggest failure is taking a
Speaker 1: risk on this migrant crisis where he thought, like the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party talking points were actually going to pan out
Speaker 1: the way he thought they would, where the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: nationally would support him in this endeavor, and all we
Speaker 1: got is a three to four billion dollars per year
Speaker 1: boondoggle that now he's trying to back his way out
Speaker 1: of and he can't. I mean, he is hampered by
Speaker 1: state law in many respects to what he now wants
Speaker 1: to do. It's a little too late for most people,
Speaker 1: me included. But absent the migrant crisis, things aren't terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean in the sense of how he's doing with
Speaker 1: policing and public safety. He's definitely putting more cops in
Speaker 1: the subways, things like that.
Speaker 2: But it's do stantn Island cops like him? Do Staten
Speaker 2: Island cops like him? That's what I know? Do the
Speaker 2: do the cops support him? Pretty much? The rank and file.
Speaker 1: I would say it's fifty to fifty, but it was
Speaker 1: you know, ninety nine to one for Bill de Blasio, right,
Speaker 1: So you got to put every content all.
Speaker 2: Right, No, that's fair that that tracks with what I
Speaker 2: would have thought, by the way, certainly a lot better
Speaker 2: than it was with the block, but maybe still has
Speaker 2: some some room to go on the positive side of things.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you this too, speaking of New York.
Speaker 2: You know Mark Simone, right, I would assume w R
Speaker 2: Mark Simons. Of course, Mark's a friend of mine, great
Speaker 2: radio host. He came on our show, so I'm not
Speaker 2: you know, he said this on five hundred radio stations,
Speaker 2: including w R NYC. He came on and he said
Speaker 2: he thinks that it is. He didn't say that it's possible.
Speaker 2: He said Trump is going to win New York. I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you what he said. I don't think Trump
Speaker 2: is going to win New York. But how crazy is
Speaker 2: it to say Trump is going to win New York
Speaker 2: really given the trends right now, and I mean, or
Speaker 2: do you think it's crazy at all, given that he's
Speaker 2: only behind I think six or seven points according to
Speaker 2: most of the polling.
Speaker 1: Look, I mean he went I think November sixth, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, at nine o'clock at night, we will
Speaker 1: know he didn't win New York.
Speaker 3: And that's fine.
Speaker 1: But I think he competes in New York in a
Speaker 1: way that we've never seen a Republican candidate compete in
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 3: Two things to that.
Speaker 1: I know that the broader RNC and broader Republican Party
Speaker 1: nationally was looking for a more marquee candidate to go
Speaker 1: against Kirston Jilibrand, not because they thought they were going
Speaker 1: to beat Kirston Jillibrand, even though she is a zilt
Speaker 1: in a way that Chuck Schumer isn't even Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: for Rollins, pulls, shows up and goes to work and
Speaker 1: gets involved in a Brooklyn bless we can fight nationally.
Speaker 1: But he's very, very in depth is knowledge of local issues.
Speaker 1: Jilli Brand I've never been in the same roomment with
Speaker 1: her ever in my life. I mean, I've been in
Speaker 1: office ten years. I've never actually seen her physically in person.
Speaker 1: The GOP wanted a stronger candidate against her, not on
Speaker 1: the prospect that they could beat her, but because they
Speaker 1: think Trump is going to do so well in New
Speaker 1: York that they can force some Senate spending in New York,
Speaker 1: where this would have automatically been a wash.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, I think you're get done on
Speaker 3: the flip side.
Speaker 1: Adding to the the in the next thing, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see him do some something in the Bronx in the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. I think you're gonna see him do
Speaker 1: a broader rally in the New York City area in
Speaker 1: the next week or so, two weeks, three weeks, something
Speaker 1: like that, and you're gonna see a record number of
Speaker 1: black and brown New Yorkers. They're not because they're paid
Speaker 1: like these rent the mobs that these liberals get. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see black and brown New Yorkers go out there
Speaker 1: in record number who earnestly and genuinely think Donald Trump
Speaker 1: would do a better job as president. Because he didn't
Speaker 1: do a better job as president than the guy who
Speaker 1: currently occupies the office.
Speaker 3: I think drop see in you know, the most democratic parts.
Speaker 1: Of New York City and not that not the liberal
Speaker 1: parts like the the Upper West Side in the village,
Speaker 1: but like New Yorkers live, like where people going to
Speaker 1: Bodeguas and where people you know, you know, just live
Speaker 1: their normal life and work in buildings and plumbers and electricians.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see those black and brown New Yorkers be
Speaker 1: at these rallies for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: If you can close whatever windows you have open on
Speaker 2: your laptop or something, because you're actually cutting in and
Speaker 2: out a little bit there, mister Barelli of Staten Island.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's just your WiFi.
Speaker 3: What are you in?
Speaker 2: Like city Wi Fi? Is that what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Is it City of New York WiFi? That's why you're
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Speaker 2: to see if we can.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is live direction from city Hall.
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Speaker 3: It's happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a lawsuit Phil Murphy in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and Josh gottheimer To Democrats are happy to have
Speaker 1: their support. They're suing the MTA as well. Their case
Speaker 1: is pretty strong. Our case is pretty strong. And talking
Speaker 1: about strange bedfellows, the Republicans of Staten Island are actually
Speaker 1: plaintiffs in our lawsuit with the United Federation of Teachers.
Speaker 1: Teacher absolutely bamboozlely screwed by congestion pricing, so you will
Speaker 1: now have to pay fifteen dollars a day just to
Speaker 1: drive from one part of your own city, one part
Speaker 1: of your own borrow, to the other part of your
Speaker 1: own city. Undically un American. It's so disingenuous because in
Speaker 1: their own report, in their own environmental impact studies, they're
Speaker 1: saying we're only in a reduced congestion meaning traffic by
Speaker 1: point zero zero one percent by like twenty forty. So
Speaker 1: it's just a money grab. It's another way for New
Speaker 1: York City government to extract money from the taxpayers. In
Speaker 1: London is still one most traffic city in the world.
Speaker 3: It is you go on.
Speaker 1: There's a traffic model app company called Inrix. They model
Speaker 1: traffic around the world. They are the authority on traffic.
Speaker 1: London is the worst, and yet we're modeling what they're
Speaker 1: doing there in New York City just to screw the
Speaker 1: regular workaday New Yorkers. Because if the Brooklyn Bridge is
Speaker 1: right behind me and you can't see it now, but
Speaker 1: if we were to take this camera out there now,
Speaker 1: you would count one hundred Mazdas for every Maserati that
Speaker 1: comes a course, you know, one hundred Toyotas for every
Speaker 1: range Rover. Because most most who communit that need their
Speaker 1: cars are doing so because they live, you know, in
Speaker 1: a more affordable part of the city, would have to
Speaker 1: work in the Manhattan.
Speaker 2: So where are they collect it? Is it just at
Speaker 2: the the usual tolls that they're going to collect the
Speaker 2: fifteen dollars, you know what I'm saying. So when you
Speaker 2: come across the GW Bridge, now there's an extra fifteen
Speaker 2: dollars charge basically, or how does it work.
Speaker 1: It's going to be one hundred and fifty cameras in
Speaker 1: every lane of every bridge and then on all the
Speaker 1: southbound lanes south of sixtieth Street.
Speaker 3: So if you I know where you used to live,
Speaker 3: so if you if you were to go visit your.
Speaker 1: Doctor, just say you at your teen box just for
Speaker 1: the privilege of having a doctor that happened to be
Speaker 1: in the village.
Speaker 3: What did you said, I mean Sloan Ketterery.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, Wait a second. If I were to
Speaker 2: drive from say Columbia University down to NYU in my car,
Speaker 2: you're telling me I would basically get a fifteen dollars
Speaker 2: charge in the mail.
Speaker 1: Yes, because you're evil, you drove a car. You should
Speaker 1: have taken an uber and only got charged two dollars
Speaker 1: on the new congestion charge. Or you should have taken
Speaker 1: public trendsit even though you might get pushed in front
Speaker 1: of a train.
Speaker 3: Or you might not live in the park.
Speaker 1: People who rely on their cartimes living parts of the
Speaker 1: city that the MTA has failed them. They haven't built
Speaker 1: a subway line to massive queens. So have you got
Speaker 1: to go to Sloan Cantering for cancer treatment or just
Speaker 1: you know, to visit your kid at NYU in their dorm.
Speaker 1: You're paying fifteen dollars on top of the tolls, by
Speaker 1: the way, on top of the tolls and all the
Speaker 1: fees and all the stuff we already pay as New Yorkers,
Speaker 1: the highest tax burden in the country.
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Speaker 2: Do you think the protests are basically done now the
Speaker 2: YPD has cleared it out, or are they just gonna
Speaker 2: keep coming?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I think, you know, once you let them smell blood
Speaker 1: in the water, I think it just gets worse and worse.
Speaker 1: Is it's gonna be like the George Floyd rice where
Speaker 1: eventually it just putters out. But right now, with all
Speaker 1: the media coverage and with all the excitement, with all
Speaker 1: the additional protests going on at campuses and where not,
Speaker 1: everyone's acting like University of Florida students or Unit UNC
Speaker 1: frat boys, you're going to see more and more.
Speaker 2: So there's this place, Joe, if things get really hot
Speaker 2: up there. It's called South Florida. Very lovely golf courses here.
Speaker 2: All right, you just you just know, you throw up
Speaker 2: the bat signal and we'll get a whole right wing
Speaker 2: South Florida squad that come. We'll come get you, all right,
Speaker 2: we'll get you. We'll do an ex filtration office State Nan.
Speaker 2: We'll have to bring a lot of our our buddies though.
Speaker 2: Fireman police. You know, we could use more good cops
Speaker 2: than firefighters down here. So I'm just saying you can
Speaker 2: tell them spread the word. I don't know, you guys
Speaker 2: are gonna be You guys a gould be the last
Speaker 2: last ones off the embassy in New York, if you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, the last ones. Joe BURRELLI everybody
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Speaker 2: the city. Please, thanks for talking to us.
Speaker 3: Good, Thank you,