oh my god, what a way to start this conversation. when you look at george santos, it s clearly a joke, he s clearly a fraud. but despite all, that so fascinating is that can mccarthy, and the republican leadership wants him to stay, because they know that they will lose that seat, in a special election. so here you have this whole grand event, where he steps down from the committees, surely that s not a decision that he made in isolation, and they re trying to get this out of the news, because they need him to be there. the republican party, how crazy is, this needs george santos right now. extremist elements of the republican party right now. let s talk about the state we live, in people think of new yorkers a deep blue state, you are a centrist democrat,
this case, and the reforms and, putting together the reforms and putting together packages of 55 reforms. many of those reforms have taken. place we have definitely reduced the police shootings, and the number of police stop situations, pursuits, and internal affairs. that has taken place. other departments have done the same thing. i had another case where people were jaywalking. well, we were able to stop that from happening. in that city that was in sacramento. so, dogfight cases as well. it has happened. and plus the state of california some laws have been passed to make it easier and more difficult for the police to get away with these conduct. you have had many more criminal cases in prosecution. so, in local communities, there are places going, it can always happen if the police chief and the political people are on board. if they are not on board and no hold officers accountable, then of course you cannot have reforms. once you keep in mind the culture of a department can b
parties come together for years on something we desperately need, immigration reform. right now new york has faced a massive influx of migrants, as have many, many cities. how are we handling it here? what you see is mayor eric adams standing up and saying that we need federal support. and he is right. this is a national issue. at times it s a global and international issue. and it is one that no city no municipality, no state can handle alone. and in this instance, this is a weakness of the biden administration, that they are unwilling to stand up and lead around this issue. rather, it s clear that they would rather ignore the issue than focus on other political issues. and that is unfortunate, because it is a problem, it doesn t mean that we can deal with it in a humane matter. we have to. this is the united states of
grand event, where he steps down from the committees, surely that s not a decision that he made in isolation, and they re trying to get this out of the news, because they need him to be there. the republican party, how crazy is, this needs george santos right now. that s the state of our politics and that s potentially the state of some of the extremist elements of the republican party right now. let s talk about the state we live, in people think of new yorkers a deep blue state, and you are a centrist democrat representing staten island. we know the democrats lost some crucial seats, in these midterms, i. e. george santos won. how do you see new york now? how should we see it? it s crazy. you can put my seat aside for a moment or my former seat which is a republican seat, where there are five seats right now in new york state, that biden won, resoundingly. that the republicans won. that is larger than the margins of the republican party has nationwide. what does that tell y
decided in fact our current secretary of state i served in the state assembly, she pushed forward prep 16 that said let s put affirmative action back int place and again the voters deep blue state california has said absolutely not. and for good reason because people should be judged on merits and when they re judged by that, they should be rewarde for that merit. and i think when you look at this is kind of like they yell at harvard law schools they sto cooperating with the us news an u.s. news & world report rankings because they do very well they wanted to accept students who had lower test scores because in the name of equity. you know what happens is they re actually doing new students a disservice because they re allowing them to be placed in a school they may not be able to meet the academic standards of that school and said they end up not graduating and what is that due to their self-esteem? the goal is to get an education best for them.