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"Folks, I'm happy to call Friends. As well from working together to talk about Hispanic heritage months. So without further ado, I'd like to welcome Michael Leon Rivera, create a strategy consultant and Adweek mentee and sandy archila head of social media and digital marketing at legendary entertainment and amenity as well.
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"To the women of New York, this once for you. Hope will became the first woman to win a major party's nomination for New York governor. She easily warded off challenges from New York City public advocate jumaane Williams and congressman Tom swazi. The governor relentlessly fundraised for her campaign amassing more than $30 million. And she campaigned on the record she's put up during her ten months in office, touting a series of measures on gun control and abortion rights. She signed into law this month. Hockey used her speech to speak out against the Supreme Court's recent decisions on those issues, and she signaled she intends to make them a big part of her general election campaign. On one side declares war, the other side has a choice. Are we going to surrender? Are we going to fight back? I know what I'm going to do. I'm fighting back. The governor will now face Republican congressman Lee zeldin in November. She'll be on a ticket with lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado, who easily defeated progressive activists Anna Maria archila and former New York City council member Diana Reina on Tuesday. John Campbell, WNYC news. R&B singer R. Kelly this morning goes to Brooklyn federal court for sentencing prosecutors is seeking a minimum 25 year term in the sex trafficking case. The defense is aiming for ten years or less last year jury convicted Kelly of racketeering and other charges in a trial seen as a signature moment in the me too movement Kelly is also facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago and goes on trial in August. R and W trains are delayed this morning delays also an NJ transit montclair Putin and Morris and Essex lines. Your forecast now. Sunny and warmer today at 84 cool tonight down to the 60s once again and then
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"New York, this once for you. Hope will became the first woman to win a major party's nomination for New York governor. She easily warded off challenges from New York City public advocate jumaane Williams and congressman Tom swazi. The governor relentlessly fundraised for her campaign, amassing more than $30 million. And she campaigned on the record she's put up during her ten months in office, touting a series of measures on gun control and abortion rights she signed into law this month. Hoku used her speech to speak out against the Supreme Court's recent decisions on those issues, and she signaled she intends to make them a big part of her general election campaign. On one side declares war, the other side has a choice. Are we going to surrender? Are we going to fight back? I know what I'm going to do. I'm fighting back. The governor will now face Republican congressman Lee zeldin in November. She'll be on a ticket with lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado, who easily defeated progressive activists Anna Maria archila and former New York City council member Diana Reina on Tuesday. John Campbell, WNYC news. The New York City parks department is set to plan 80,000 trees over the next four years. It's the biggest investment in tree planning in half a decade, but local news outlet city limits reports local lawmakers are criticizing the plan, council members argue the trades aren't enough to close the large gaps in the city's Canopy, those breaks tend to occur in low income neighborhoods with more residents of color, shade from trees would help protect those areas against extreme heat caused by the climate crisis, more trees are also needed to replace those lost during increasingly frequent storms. Another effect of the climate crisis. 67 were clouds now warmer today up to 84 with lots of sunshine and 68 tonight, so cool once again and then tomorrow sunny and even warmer at 88. It's 5 34. Support
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"The incumbent Tom swazi, a Long Island congressman, and jumani Williams, the city's public advocate. Now, for Republicans, it's a four way race between rob estreno, the former Westchester county executive, Andrew Giuliani, some son of former mayor Rudy Giuliani, and a former adviser to president Trump. Harry Wilson, a business turnaround expert, and Lee zeldin, a congressman from Long Island. Now, down below voters choose candidates for lieutenant governor, competitive for both parties? No, Michael, it's actually just a race for Democrats this time. The three lieutenant governor candidates are Antonio Delgado, who is the very recent incumbent running with governor hochul, Diana reyna, who's running with swazi and Anna Maria archila who's running with Williams. Now, even though I noted the candidates have running mates in this primary, they're not actually on the same ticket that means voters need to pick a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor in the democratic primary, and that also means they, at the end, we could end up with a winner at the top of the ticket who did not campaign with the winning lieutenant governor nominee. That is certainly a storyline. We'll be keeping an eye on tonight. On the Republican side, there's no lieutenant governor contest, Allison esposito is running on a posed currently campaigning with Lee zeldin, but she too could end up as someone else's running mate if he does not win the nomination. How many other contests will vote is fine on this ballot? Well, that depends a little bit on your party and where you live. This is also the primary for state assembly races. There may also be judicial contests and party positions happening within your district that includes
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"Employment. It's morning edition on WNYC, Michael hill. Today is primary day in New York and polls are open right now until 9 o'clock tonight. Registered Democrats and registered Republicans can pick their nominees for governor and others offices. Joining us now with what you need to know before you head out is WNYC's senior political correspondent, Bridget Bergen, Bridget good morning. Good morning, happy primary day. Yes, it is. A long one, right? Oh yeah. Let's start. Let's start with the quick recap here. We mentioned the governor's race, who is on the ballot today. So, Michael on the democratic side, voters can choose between Kathy hochul the incumbent, Tom swazi, a Long Island congressman in jumani Williams, the city's public advocate. For Republicans, it's a four way race between rob esterina, rob astorino, former Westchester county executive. Andrew Giuliani, some of the former mayor Rudy Giuliani and a former adviser to president Trump. Harry Wilson, a businessman, and Lee zeldin, a another congressman from Long Island. Now down ballot voters choose candidates for lieutenant governor, competitive for both parties? No, it's just a race for Democrats this time, Michael. The three lieutenant governor candidates are Antonio Delgado, who's the very recent incumbent running with governor hochul, Diana reyna, who's running along with swazi and Anna Maria archila who's running with Williams. Now, even though I noted the candidates have running mates in this primary, they're not actually on the same ticket, voters have to choose a gubernatorial candidate and a lieutenant governor candidate, but what that means is we could end up with a winner at the top of the ticket who did not actually campaign with the winning lieutenant governor nominee. That's certainly one of the storylines we're going to be keeping an eye on tonight. And as I mentioned, there's no Republican lieutenant governor contest. Alison esposito is running unopposed currently campaigning with congressman zeldin, but she too could end up as someone else's running mate if he doesn't win the nomination. How many other contests will voters find on their ballots? So that depends a bit on which part of your registered in and where you live. This is also the primary day for state assembly races. There may be judicial contests and party positioning positions happening in your district. Those are positions like state committee and county committee in district leader. You can confirm both your primary day poll site and see your sample ballot by visiting the website, find my pool site dot vote dot NYC. Early voting wrapped up on Sunday as we reported here, what do we know about turnout so far in these races? Well, Michael, there are way more eligible voters than people who have gone to the polls so far. Now, according to data from the New York State board of elections because of course this is a statewide primary. 178,221 people voted early. Statewide. And that includes nearly 86,900 voters here in the city. Now that is out of. Nearly 8 and a half million eligible voters statewide. So we are talking about roughly 2% voter turnout for early voting when you combine eligible active Democrats and Republicans. But of course, this is only early voting. Still, though, that sounds low. Yeah, it is certainly not good. A few caveats, this is the first time we've had a primary for governor in June and the first time we've had early voting for it. In 2018, the gubernatorial primary was in September when we used to have statewide primaries, and early voting had not taken effect yet. So we don't really have a great apples to apples comparison for these elections. Now on top of that in recent years, we haven't had the primaries where state assembly and state Senate races were on different dates. Remember, we've got that second summer primary coming up in August thanks to the whole redistricting mess, right? So that being said, the turnout for the democratic gubernatorial primary in 2018 was more than 25%, so we have a lot of ground to make up today to get near that number. Now, we mentioned that there are assembly primaries on the ballot today. Where has the turnout been highest in those races? So Michael, this is really, this is kind of cool. I requested some data from the New York City board of elections to understand what turnout has been like by assembly district. Now, according to that data, a couple of things to note first, the top 5 assembly districts with the highest overall turnout, four of those districts actually don't have an assembly primary at all. So we're talking about Daniel O'Donnell's district on the upper west side in Manhattan valley, Joanne simons district in Brooklyn heights to park slope, Linda Rosenthal's district on the upper west side, and Bobby Carroll's district in prospect heights and park slope. These are areas where voters tend to turn out in higher numbers to begin with. We've seen in previous elections. Early voting shows they're doing it again. Now, district where there is actually an assembly primary turnout has been the highest. This is also very interesting in Manhattan. It's the 76th assembly district. That's the upper east side of Manhattan at Pitts incumbent Rebecca seawright against Patrick bobbling. In Brooklyn, the busiest assembly district with a primary is the 57th in fort Greene and Clinton hill and a few other neighborhoods. That's the race between incumbent Ferris du front forest and olancha lobby, another race that will be interesting to watch in The Bronx, it's the 82nd district, which includes parts of throgs necks and city island in east Bronx, and that is a three way matchup between longtime incumbent Michael Benedetto, AOC backed Jonathan Soto and algernon quail bomb. That's where the highest turnout has been in the district for a early voting primary so far. In Queens, it's in the 32nd district in southeast queens where long serving member of Vivian cook is facing a challenge from Anthony Andrews junior and of course in Staten Island. It's a Republican assembly primary. That's in district 63 between Sam, and Paul certina junior. Now I should note the incumbent in that race, Democrat Michael Cusick does not face a primary challenge. Also, there are lots of other races to watch, but these just happen to be the districts where turnout so far has been the highest during early voting alone. Bridget about a minute left, we know the voters often face issues at poll sites on election day. What should they do if they encounter an issue? Well, first Michael, I want to remind our listeners. This is a big change in the law. If you
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"Anna Maria Archie was at the state capitol on the last day of May to rally for an affordable housing Bill But she and a handful of activists carved out a few minutes to walk down to lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado's office Delgado wasn't there that day So instead our Sheila made her case to the person working the front desk Well my name is Anna Maria I'm a candidate for lieutenant governor And I came here Archie is a longtime activist from Brooklyn She cofounded make the road New York and influential immigrant rights organization And now she's making her first run for office pitting her in a three way race with Delgado and Diana Reina a former New York City council member Reina is a moderate running to Delgado's right while Archie is running on his left The lieutenant governor should be a champion of people not just someone who goes around the state cutting ribbons and representing the governor and saying yes and staying quiet but someone who is the lieutenant governor's primary doesn't usually generate much buzz in New York It's not a particularly glamorous role with no real constitutional responsibilities aside from being next in line to the governor's office But this year's race is different It was completely upended just two months ago As states lieutenant governor has just resigned Brian Benjamin turned himself over to federal authorities Prosecutors say it was a scheme to obtain thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions Benjamin was governor Kathy hochul's pick for lieutenant governor after she took office in August But he spent just 6 months in the role before a bribery scandal did him in Hoku picked Delgado to replace him in May He represented part of the Hudson valley in Congress but he's not well known across the state and he doesn't have much time before the primary Delgado touted his credentials during a debate on spectrum news this week I bring to bear a certain level of experience a certain record And what I come into this position the expectation is that I'm an active partner Electing a lieutenant governor isn't like the federal system where the presidential nominees pick their own running mate New York world separate primaries for governor and lieutenant governor then the winners from each party are paired together as a single ticket in November The arrangement goes back decades and it's led to some awkward situations in 1982 governor Mario Cuomo found himself paired up with Al del Bello who would endorse Cuomo's rival Ed Koch It didn't last long Del Bello quit two years into Cuomo's first term This year hoku is running with Delgado and archila is running with jumani Williams the New York City public advocate Diana reyna is paired up with Long Island congressman Tom swazi and raina says she and swazi are committed to the same vision We want to change the direction of our state We want to provide leadership We want to demonstrate what is our proven record We want to be able to bridge build State senator Michael gianaris is a Democrat from queens who co chairs our chiles campaign He says separate primaries give voters more choice And if the voters choose candidates from rival campaigns so be it A lot of people have made noise about how the government should have a partner I think the governor should have someone who pushes her to be better Robert Duffy doesn't see it that way He served a term as Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant governor and he says the job would have been miserable if he didn't have a good relationship with the governor If you are somebody who is a lieutenant governor who is not wanted by the governor you may want to be the quote unquote activist LG having press conferences and seeing what you want to say but after about four weeks nobody would probably listen any longer The primary is set for June 28th Republicans have already settled on their candidate NYPD veteran Allison esposito was the only one to enter the GOP race John Campbell WNYC news Marketplace morning reporters coming up next and then in ten minutes at 9 o'clock it's the BBC NewsHour 93.9 FM Let's check him in London to see what they're working on London good morning Good morning WNYC I'm Tim Franks on today's NewsHour will Ukraine formally move closer today to joining the European Union and if so so what That's BBC NewsHour coming up at 9 or 93.9 FM WNYC WNYC is supported by Walt and local meet committed to a more sustainable food system by offering home delivery of grass fed and pasture raised beef chicken pork and wild caught Atlantic seafood all from local partner farmers more at Walden local meat.
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"Maria Archie was at the state capitol on the last day of May to rally for an affordable housing Bill But she and a handful of activists carved out a few minutes to walk down to lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado's office Delgado wasn't there that day So instead our Chile made her case to the person working the front desk Well my name is Anna Maria I'm a candidate for lieutenant governor And I came here our Chile is a longtime activist from Brooklyn She cofounded make the road New York and influential immigrant rights organization And now she's making her first run for office pitting her in a three way race with Delgado and Diana Reina a former New York City council member Raina is a moderate running to Delgado's right while Archie is running on his left The lieutenant governor should be a champion of people not just someone who goes around the state cutting ribbons and representing the governor and saying yes and staying quiet but someone who is the lieutenant governor's primary doesn't usually generate much buzz in New York It's not a particularly glamorous role with no real constitutional responsibilities aside from being next in line to the governor's office But this year's race is different It was completely upended just two months ago The state's lieutenant governor has just resigned Brian Benjamin turned himself over to federal authorities prosecutors say it was a scheme to obtain thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions Benjamin was governor Kathy hochul's pick for lieutenant governor after she took office in August But he spent just 6 months in the role before a bribery scandal did him in Hoku picked Delgado to replace him in May He represented part of the Hudson valley in Congress but he's not well known across the state and he doesn't have much time before the primary Delgado touted his credentials during a debate on spectrum news this week I bring the bear a certain level of experience a certain record And what I come into this position the expectation is that I'm an active partner Electing a lieutenant governor isn't like the federal system where the presidential nominees pick their own running mate New York holds separate primaries for governor and lieutenant governor then the winners from each party are paired together as a single ticket in November The arrangement goes back decades and it's led to some awkward situations in 1982 governor Mario Cuomo found himself paired up with Al del Bello who had endorsed Cuomo's rival Ed Koch It didn't last long Del Bello quit two years into Cuomo's first term This year hoku is running with Delgado and archila is running with jumani Williams the New York City public advocate Diana reyna is paired up with Long Island congressman Tom swazi and raina says she and swazi are committed to the same vision We want to change the direction of our state We want to provide leadership We want to demonstrate what is our proven record We want to be able to bridge build State senator Michael gianaris is a Democrat from queens who co chairs our Chile's campaign He says separate primaries give voters more choice And if the voters choose candidates from rival campaigns so be it A lot of people have made noise about how the government should have a partner I think the governor should have someone who pushes her to be better Robert Duffy doesn't see it that way He served a term as Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant governor and he says the job would have been miserable if he didn't have a good relationship with the governor If you are somebody who is a lieutenant governor who's not wanted by the governor you may want to be you know that quote unquote activist LG having press conferences and seeing what you want to say but after about four weeks nobody would probably listening longer The primary is set for June 28th Republicans have already settled on their candidate NYPD veteran Allison esposito was the only one to enter the GOP race John Campbell WNYC news Marketplace morning report is coming up next and later on morning edition poet Amanda Gorman talks about the meaning of Juneteenth Woman reflects on the upcoming holiday and reads her poem faith and fury coming up at about 15 minutes 71 and overcast now partly sunny and.
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"Groups before giving them more money What A looming vote on a potential rent increase has tenant groups rallying in The Bronx the rent guidelines board might raise rents two to 4% on one year leases in four to 6% for two year leases Tenant advocate Christina garmins says that would devastate those already struggling to make ends meet This is bringing average people with average income down to poverty and below because now with the paycheck I can not even buy food to eat I'm trying to make the rent work And it's not Landlords at the meeting said they need rent increases to cover surging maintenance costs The three democratic candidates for lieutenant governor debated last night for 90 minutes on New York one spectrum news Diana Reina former New York City council member said even if she and the next governor disagree on a policy issue any class would be kept under wraps I would never want to participate in such rivalry and it is not healthy for the state of New York nor New Yorkers Two other candidates Anna Maria archila and current lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado are also seeking the nomination the primary is set for June 28th early voting starts this Saturday The storms have started out there 68 now and under those dark clouds were seeing some raindrops here and there potentially thunderstorms as well a good chance of that into the afternoon today and mostly cloudy in 72 expect the same overnight into tomorrow morning and gusty 86 tomorrow so it will be hot at 7 O 7 Support for NPR comes from LifeLock by Norton reminding consumers that sensitive info sent online can lead to identity theft Learn more at LifeLock dot com slash NPR The House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. capitol has begun a series of public hearings They say their goal is to investigate what led to the riot whether the attackers were coordinated and why law enforcement failed to stop the breach of the capitol Keep listening we'll bring you live coverage with expert analysis of each of the January 6th committees public hearings from NPR news Listen today at one on WNYC.
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"Let's start with that city budget deal that came out on Friday It wasn't technically due until the end of this month So why so early in any key takeaways That's right Michael According to mayor Adams it's a city of yes And so at least that's how he characterized this ahead of schedule announcement He talked about working with city council speaker Adrian Adams in finance committee chair Justin brannon to reach this $101 billion budget agreement I think in terms of the politics there's two things going on here for one this is a largely new council along with the new administration so really there are fewer burned bridges at this point so to speak Also because of city council redistricting that's happening now the members are all up for reelection next year while the mayor won't be so there's a real incentive for everyone to show that they can actually get something done Now in terms of what this budget contains there's lots to unpack here of course My colleagues Liz Kim began breaking it down on Friday of note The city is expanding the summer youth jobs program and instituting dyslexia screenings in correctional facilities and public schools but schools themselves are actually taking a hit Mayor Adams tried to push back on that characterization said they were just adjusting budgets based on drops and student enrollment but there was an immediate response from city controller Brad lander and others warning that this was the wrong approach We should also note that mayor Adams didn't get everything he wanted including nearly 600 new corrections officers He wanted to hire them Of course more details on all of this still to come but things are on the fast track The council is actually scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. tonight to officially vote on the package Last week Bridget we previewed the democratic gubernatorial debate tonight the Republicans running for governor get their chance What can you tell us about that debate Well once again it's going to be on WCBS channel two news radio 8 80 at 7 p.m. There will be three candidates in studio Only one permitted to participate virtually as you guys as you've been talking about this morning Long Island Congress member Lee zeldin who is the backing of the state party former Westchester county executive rob astorino and businessman Harry Wilson are all supposed to be there in person but Andrew Giuliani son of former mayor and former adviser to president Trump is only allowed to attend virtually because of his vaccination status So COVID vaccinations and mandates are inevitably going to get some discussion assuming the event goes forward Former president Trump who has been doling out endorsements in other midterm primaries across the country the country is also likely to loom large He hasn't endorsed in this race It's unclear if he will and given how poorly Trump has performed statewide in the last two elections it's unclear how much these candidates are seeking his support will get a better sense of that tonight Also since we're in a wait and see mode on those two major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the future of abortion access and the right to carry concealed weapons the candidates are likely to be asked to weigh in on those issues too And there is also a democratic debate for lieutenant governor this week not now even though these LG candidates are running mates with a gubernatorial candidate they run separately in the primary That's correct right That's right That's right While the winners of the primary will officially be on a ticket together after the primary for now the Democrats need to choose their own LG candidate which means you could potentially end up with a candidate at the top of the ticket and an LG candidate who were not running together before the primary are Albany reporter John Campbell's going to unpack this some more this week but for now the choice will be between Anna Maria archila a progressive activist who is running with New York City advocate Excuse me New York City public advocate shimane Williams Diana arena a former deputy borough president Eric Adams and former city council member She's the running mate of congressman Tom swazi from Long Island and finally there's Antonio Delgado the state's new lieutenant governor who is tapped after Hogan's first pick Brian Benjamin resigned facing a corruption scandal and their only debate will be on spectrum news New York one on Wednesday night The assembly primaries will also be on that June primary ballot Those districts were also subject to redistricting and another court just weighed in late last week with some future implications for those races What happened there So a judge ruled that those lines were also unconstitutional Michael But he said it was too late to redraw them for this year's election So the assembly lines will stand but a judge will have to redraw them ahead of the next election in 2024 And last week you mentioned that there were changes to the state's absentee ballot laws since today is the deadline for the board of elections to receive an.
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"I was <Speech_Male> surprised. I don't know if <Speech_Male> this is on your list, but I was <Speech_Male> a little surprised, again, <Speech_Male> going back to this <Speech_Male> leverage and negotiation <Speech_Male> question that <Speech_Male> a version of <Speech_Male> the clean slate act <Speech_Male> was not in the budget <Speech_Male> deal, especially as <Speech_Male> some of the <Speech_Male> changes were <Speech_Male> made to the bail law. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> Any particular things that <Speech_Male> you're most focused on <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> trying to get done in this <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> legislative session? <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> Yeah, I'm <Speech_Male> definitely all in on <Speech_Male> senator Salazar's bill <Speech_Male> for good cause <Speech_Male> eviction. <Speech_Male> And <Speech_Male> I'm also pushing a bill <Speech_Male> to divest <Speech_Male> the state teachers fund <Speech_Male> from fossil fuels. <Speech_Male> Okay. Senator <Speech_Female> sausa, a <SpeakerChange> couple priorities. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> Yeah, <Speech_Female> certainly <Speech_Female> good cause eviction Bill <Speech_Female> is my top <Speech_Female> priority. <Speech_Female> For <Speech_Female> post budget, <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> clean slate, <Speech_Female> we came <Speech_Female> really close to passing <Speech_Female> clean slate <Speech_Female> last year. <Speech_Female> And it's <Speech_Female> extremely popular. <Speech_Female> I really want to <Speech_Female> see it become law <Speech_Female> parole <Speech_Female> justice <Speech_Female> as well, <Speech_Female> trying to <Speech_Female> the elder parole <Speech_Female> Bill, <Speech_Music_Female> fair and timely parole. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> That's really important to <Speech_Female> me. <Speech_Female> And additionally, <Speech_Female> on the note of <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> an <Speech_Female> issue where <Speech_Female> we saw <Speech_Female> very strong support in the <Speech_Female> Senate and <Speech_Female> a <Speech_Female> little bit less <Speech_Female> from the governor <Speech_Female> and the assembly and <Speech_Female> the budget that I <Speech_Female> still think is <Speech_Female> really critical for <Speech_Female> us to act on is <Speech_Female> the all electric buildings <Speech_Female> act essentially <Speech_Female> a gas <Speech_Female> ban on <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> new buildings. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> Our <Speech_Female> buildings are <Speech_Female> one of the <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> biggest generators <Speech_Female> of <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> fossil fuel <Speech_Female> pollution <Speech_Female> of <Speech_Female> CO2 of greenhouse <Speech_Female> gases. <Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> so I think it's really <Speech_Female> important that we <Silence> pass the whole <SpeakerChange> electric buildings <Speech_Male> act. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> And we don't have <Speech_Male> time to discuss <Speech_Male> queen slater good <Speech_Male> cause, but people can look <Speech_Male> those up and there's obviously <Speech_Male> lots of coverage out there. <Speech_Male> Those lastly, <Speech_Male> now that we're at a <Speech_Male> budget season now that <Speech_Male> the lieutenant governor <Speech_Male> has sadly <Speech_Male> resigned from office <Speech_Male> and may or may <Speech_Male> not wind up still <Speech_Male> being on the ballot. <Speech_Male> Should we be <Speech_Male> expecting both of you <Speech_Male> soon to be jumping <Speech_Male> into the fray <Speech_Male> for the <Speech_Male> jumani Williams <Speech_Male> Anna Maria <Speech_Male> archila <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> candidates for governor <Speech_Male> and lieutenant <Silence> <Advertisement> governor. <Silence> <Advertisement> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> I'm going to take that one. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> Anything can <Speech_Male> happen then. 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I think <Speech_Female> it's important <Speech_Female> for <Speech_Female> us to <Speech_Female> demonstrate <Speech_Female> our <Speech_Female> values <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> where we're aligned <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> support a strong candidate <Speech_Female> for <Speech_Female> lieutenant governor, <Silence> <SpeakerChange> particular. <Silence> <Speech_Male> Anything <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> you want to add to that senator <Silence> <Advertisement> Bridgeport before we say <Silence> <Advertisement> goodbye? <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> I mean, I don't think I plan to <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> get involved in the governor's race. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> Or the <Silence> <Advertisement> lieutenant governor's race? <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> I <Speech_Male> put a period on what I just said. <Speech_Male> Okay. <Speech_Male> All right, state senators, <Speech_Male> jabari brisport, <Speech_Male> and <Speech_Male> Julia Salazar, <Speech_Male> thank you very much for the <Speech_Male> time, be <Speech_Male> safe, be well, <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> appreciate the <Silence> conversation. 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"archila" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"To be more visible, who want them in New York, they have been ignored. The communities that have not been part of the mainstream, I would say. Exactly. The main political narrative of New York, probably in the last 40, 50 years. I mean, there's no other way to put it. Exactly. I don't think people realize, you know, outside of, you know, everyone focuses on New York City is like, oh, you know, this is what I always say. It's like, where did all the Puerto Ricans go, right? They went to other parts of New York. Where did the dominicans go? Where did the immigrant communities, it's a natural progression, right? You think about places like Long Island or even Westchester, which are changing every day. I mean, my mom lives in Westchester and has been there for 20 years. And I noticed that every time I go down there, it's like, there's parts of this sort of affluent part of New York State that I was like, wow, I'm getting great Peruvian food in Rochelle. I'm getting the best tacos in New Rochelle that I've had in New York. Yeah. Like, yeah. You see those changes. So that, to me, that is the unto, right? That's the untapped political power of New York State. Absolutely. That is exactly the end of political power. And that's the power that actually has allowed really important victories to happen at the state level. In 2018, at the same time that Germany was running for lieutenant governor and Sinclair Nixon was running for governor against Cuomo. There was a whole crop of insurgent people of color primarily candidates for the state Senate who won races against conservative Democrats. So these were primary elections. And so you saw people like Jessica Ramos get elected in Jackson heights, you saw a whole bunch of people take progressive, dynamic, exciting people with a vision for really prioritizing the interest of working class families, get into office and with them, then change the balance of power inside the state Senate. And that allowed incredibly important victories to happen. Driver's licenses, dream act, and increase the minimum wage, stronger rent protection. So there is. And that's in 2020 in New York. I mean, the fact that we're talking about the dream act in New York in 2020, 2019, 2020 that it's absurd. I mean, you have to think about it. But listen, just so when you're out there, I mean, obviously, have you gone out? I mean, obviously, I haven't been following your campaign as much as I should be. I mean, I'm in a closet in Austin, Texas right now. But I just, we just don't worry, we just launched two weeks ago. You haven't been. Yes, I've been out today after last week on international women's day. I was so excited to march alongside this amazing immigrant women who are fighting to make sure that immigrant workers are included in the budget. I was in Albany last week talking to rallying alongside tenants who are fighting to make sure that we have protections from evictions and the law because right now tenants are extremely exposed to very arbitrary evictions and today I'll go back to joining immigrant workers who are demanding to be excluded no more from healthcare and from unemployment insurance. So I've been out very much celebrating the brilliance and the courage of people, which I think actually is what defines these times of crisis. We have these very compounding crisis of COVID of climate of political system that is very polarized of democracy under attack and again and again what I see all the time is the brilliance of people and the courage of people who show up for one another who take to the streets to demand an end to systemic racism who in the middle of the pandemic to what it takes to make sure that their neighbors are okay to bring food to families who are home bound and this is the courage that I think is necessary to seize the moment of opportunity that COVID sort of gives us, which is, you know, look at how our society is constructed, look at what needs to change and then pursue that change with courage. And people have shown that, I think we need that level of courage inside government. We need that level of commitment to not going back to the same old, but actually holding on to the lessons from these very painful pandemic and moving in the direction that allows people to breathe a little bit easier to live a little bit more with a little bit more joy and to have the opportunity to live with dignity. And when you're on the campaign, are they recognizing you as the woman that confronted Jeff flake during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in the elevator? I mean, that's what made you. I mean, let me just say this. I don't want to say that that's what made you, because I know the work that you've done and I've seen it. But that got you the national recognition or the national tension, right? Do they recognize you? Yes, yes. People do. Some people volunteer because they want to meet the woman that confronted Jeff flake in the elevator. But because that moment was sort of a moment that reminded us that people that we don't have to just simply accept what our elected officials decided to do, that we can actually express with urgency what we can try to guide them with our words with our actions with our protests with our stories. And I think that moment inspired people, but what I want people to know what I really want people to know is that what moves me are the stories of workers who again and again walk past their fear to demand justice and dignity in the workplace. What inspires me are the stories of young immigrants who transform the immigrant narrative around immigration by their fear to say I am undocumented and afraid and here to stay. It is the courage of people who walk past their fear or their shame to do something courageous, that's what moves me and that I think what has me running every day. All right, so you're a natural politician because that wasn't a brief answer. No, no. You know what the problem is? Julita, I'm Colombian. I know. I know. And the other thing is I'll leave you with this given what just happened in Colombia where you being Colombian and seeing that people never thought that even in Colombia, the left would be back, but it's the same issues, including, you know, with COVID and everything and everyone thought, oh, here it comes. And here you are. So you're just representing the next generation of Colombian politics, which happens to be also in New York. That's right. Candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, thank you so much.
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"Everything is going to be fine. It's not going to be fine. Right. Don't you think that that's, I think, part of I didn't want to turn this interview into just be like, hey, here's a political candidate. But I think you hit something from a political participation angle that as to like, why are you running? And I think one of the points is that if we haven't learned anything from the last two years as human beings, put politics aside as human beings, then what are we doing? And so when that sense, how do you elevate that in what is going to be obviously considering what happened in the gubernatorial race and New York's going to have attention and progressives, I don't want to say the word progressive is a dirty word again in New York politics, but there seems to be a backlash a little bit. So how do you how do you compete now? Well, I think the labels are sort of a distraction. They're not helpful because I think what is helpful is to say, do you want a politician who do you want someone to have governing power over the state? Whose priorities are the same priorities as the real estate moguls? Or do you want someone whose priorities are the priorities of a working mom? And those are two different priorities. I am a working mom. You know what I want? I want child care that is affordable that is reliable that is accessible. I think every single person who went through the pandemic trying to work and do homeschooling without any system of support, understands how crushing that was. And how impossible actually it is to ask people to try to survive in a place where rents are so incredibly high. And where jobs are actually not keeping up with the cost of living, the wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. And without the systems of support that are so basic, and you know what? Julio, New York has the money to do all the things that work in families need. In York has a surprise $10 billion surplus. Oh really? It was yes. York is replaced and the reason why this happened is because during the pandemic, the people who make money by having money in stocks actually made a killing, the pandemic was really good for rich people. For millionaires and billionaires. So people made a lot of money and last year communities organized communities in New York, organized to force the government to raise taxes on the wealthy. And when they did that, they ended up with more taxes than the state budget had predicted. So we have a $10 billion surplus that should be used to put in place a permanent good wages for home care workers. It should be used to put in place and expansion of child care systems that gets us as close as possible to universal child care. It should be used in place to make sure that immigrants also have access to healthcare. It should be used to make sure that people who are who owe rent have some support to pay that rent back and people who need subsidies to pay rent have those subsidies. So we could do all these things and the fact is if you actually roll back the clock and look at New York in the 70s, New York used to require rich, the richest view, the 1%, top 5%, actually, to pay more taxes. And with those stacks as we build an excellent Sunni and cuny systems of higher education system, we build Mitchell Lama housing so really excellent housing. We build public parks. And then we went through the 80s and 90s where under both Republicans and Democrats who were very close to the real estate and very much carrying their water. They lower and lower and lower taxes or corporations and the 1% and now we have gone through almost two decades of austerity in a state where actually we could have the money to just not have austerity but actually move people into a situation of permanent dignity. So that's why I decided to throw my head in the ring because I've been doing this for 20 years and I have seen how the governor's office has been an obstacle to progress all along the way. And it doesn't have to be that way. And in what is quote unquote considered a blue state. Right. I mean, I think when you talk about New York politics and I have a history with New York politics. Having come from Puerto Rico and my mom's family is from New York and as a political family. So I've said that, but at the same time, do you think the population in New York is ready to understand that narrative because it is a very local New York politics has been very dominant. Obviously you have Eric Adams now who's the mayor who's definitely sort of the backlash against de Blasio. Obviously you have Cuomo resigning and there's a lot of power going on right now, especially when you have sort of the tension between Albany and New York City. That's always been there, right? Going in with your eyes open. I mean, understanding that this is going to be, this is going to be difficult to be lieutenant governor. It's going to it's very difficult. I mean, this is an uphill battle to win these races very much an uphill battle. But the thing that I think is really actually quite exciting and beautiful about running a statewide campaign is that we can actually make more visible sort of shine a light on the mosaic of the state of New York. The diverse people. Well, let's stay. Let's stay on that point because that's the one thing I think is missing. That people don't understand about New York. I mean, I think about neighborhoods. I think about towns, for example, like poor Chester, which is in Westchester, which is one of the most vibrant immigrant communities I know, right? Or if you think of places in upstate where immigrants and first generation Latinos and latinas were second generation are actually the communities that are revitalizing upstate, like think of Rochester, think of places like Syracuse, right? Is that your strategy? Yes. My strategy is to connect the communities that are invisible by the way that congressional districts and Senate and assembly districts get drawn, really shine a light on the communities that are immigrant communities, the refugee communities, the progressive communities, all that exist all across the state. One thing that you might know is that four years ago, my running mate, jumani Williams, who was running for governor, ran for lieutenant governor, and he got 47% of the vote. He had 47% of the vote. This is when Cuomo was running for governor. So Cynthia Nixon was running against Cuomo, Germany Williams was running against Kathy hochul, who was the lieutenant governor, candidate, and he got extremely close. With very little money, precisely by knitting together the communities that are pockets of incredible vibrant alcohol and progress, and for now, but like the pockets of people who want them in New York.
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"Photomedia and PRX it's Latino rebels radio Julio Ricardo varela here on the road in Austin, Texas. That's right. I am recording inside this closet in Austin, Texas. It's actually like a laundry room closet, it's a nice closet. Technically, it's bigger than the media studio in Harlem. And I don't have my regular mic today. I'm recording through my phone with this wonderful windscreen. So I'm just giving you all those travel disclaimers. As we dive into today's show and today's show, I have a fabulous guest from New York City who has thrown the hat into the political ring and so it's a candidate. So fabulous guests, candidate from New York City introduce yourself. Hi, this is Anna Maria chila and I am running for lieutenant governor of the state of New York and I am so excited to be talking to you Julio not from a closet, although I have been in the closet before. Not anymore. Right. There you go. Very nice. I like that transition. So political candidate. Yeah. Wow. Okay, you know, when we got an email, I think it was a couple of weeks ago. I've lost track, I thought of that time. Do you remember the time we met the first time in D.C.? Yeah. When there was a big immigration gathering, I think it was during the Obama administration. It was during the Obama administration saying, you know, where is immigration reform? And I remember that I was covering it for food little media, and we walked. I interviewed you, and we walked down the street in Washington, D.C., and I was like, oh wow, you know, and I'm like, what a smart individual. And now you're running for lieutenant governor of New York. I mean, why'd you jump in? Why? This is like, wow. I have someone I interviewed who's running for a very high profile position. In politics. Yeah, so you know I've been a community organizer for 20 years, very much inside the immigrant rights movement. I came to the U.S. when I was 17, but it wasn't until I found the immigrant rights movement that I understood how to make this country my home, that I could make it my home by fighting for our communities to have opportunity for our communities to have dignity, and I have dedicated the last 20 years of my life to that effort by building community organizations where our people can be powerful together, where we can get the respect that we deserve in our democracy and where we can use these collective power to change the laws that shape our lives, to improve the lives of workers, to make sure that tenants can stay in that everybody has a home and affordable home to fight to make sure that young people have excellent education and an opportunity to pursue their dreams. And being inside communities is what has lifted me, what has held me in difficult moments and, you know, after doing this for 20 years and especially after seeing what the pandemic sort of revealed, which is that the inequality baked in our systems make our people so vulnerable to the ravages of a virus but also the ravages of an economy where our people are seen as disposable. And I could not sit still while watching the elections in New York be elections of business as usual, where the governor is just sort of allowing the interest of real estate and of Wall Street be very centered and be the center of her agenda while immigrant workers who were celebrated as essential are left out of the budget while the mothers who really struggle to balance work and care have no systems of support that are reliable on child care while people who are now suffering with long COVID and other chronic illnesses have to struggle so much to get home care while home care workers are paid nothing for the work that is so essential. So I said, you know what? Let me bring these experience what I know and especially let me do what I can to lift the dreams and the struggles of my people and bring that into the center of the agenda in New York. Well, listen to so many things he touched upon that really struck me a little bit. And but the one that I really just kind of want to talk a little bit more about. I don't know if you saw I shared a tweet out of Massachusetts, The Boston Globe was doing this analysis. I think it came from Boston University about who really got impacted by COVID. And it was so clear on Maria, it was the Latino, Latino community, the black community, had deaths that in some cases doubled more the white population, younger people dying, essential workers. And I feels like that narrative has been completely missed. And I'm sure and I know it's been missed in New York as well. So tell me why. I mean, as someone who's now running for office, what is it, what else are you running against? Because it does feel like this narrative of COVID, everyone thinks COVID's over, but there's been a decimation in these communities. And tell me more about what happened in where you are in Queens and in other places. Because I think that I think that story has been completely missed and ignored. Yeah. Yeah. You know in the early days of the pandemic, I was very so, you know, march 17th, or 13th, I can remember exactly when everything shut down. Right. This is a year where this week is the year. This is the two year anniversary of the shutdown. I was, you know, our offices shut down the offices, the whole city, I was in New York City, the whole city shut down, all you could hear were the sounds of birds and ambulances. And I was on the phone a lot every day with people from make the road New York, the organization that the immigrant rights organization that I helped build. And every single day, Julio, we were hearing about another member of make the road who had died. Within the first three months of the pandemic. 80 people from one organization, 80 members. Died. And you know, the virus was spreading in many places, but the way that illness and death visited our communities was just so profoundly painful. It was so intense and at the same time that people we knew were dying alone in hospitals without being able to say goodbye to their families without being able to have sort of a dignified end of their lives, their loved ones had empty fridges. And nothing to eat. And the constant fear of being kicked out of their homes. And I don't think that we can just simply say, let's go back to let's roll back the clock to march 1st, 2020. And.
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"295819. So good luck and Lauren. I don't think we're eligible. But you could call your friends and have them texted. And if they win, you could, you know, get a finder's fee. There you go. I mean, that's how she got the way to make us. You got any inside hustle. Everyone needs a side hustle, John. I just finished. I mentioned a book yesterday. Are you familiar with the Bob Cooley is awas. Is everything well. He was a cop who became a lawyer or crooked lawyer bribed. Ah, lot of people got close to the outfit and gambit which stood for gambling attorney That was what the FBI the feds named this particular investigation. It happened during the Eighties. And then I think to the early nineties gambit, and he brought down a lot of people, judges and outfit guys as well, Fred wrote. He was part of this. The former first Ford all of them, but He always talked about anybody gets a finder's fee. Everybody gets a taste in Chicago. That's the Chicago way. So if you still want to get your taste to 25,000 go to double deal, Sam, calm all the details are there. Sheila Weinberg is a C P A. Also or she is a C P I should say Founder and CEO of Truth in accounting and a returning expert here on doubled, Elsa saw her via Ben Bradlee's report on Channel nine. Sheila, Welcome back to the Big 89. How are you? Thanks, John. Have you thought of running for office in Illinois? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. The game. No, no, I'm not gonna run for office some way too far down the line for that, Um, thanks to a little known pension perk. Former Illinois lawmakers, and not an insignificant number of them are earning more than return home or in retirement. Then they did while in office, apparently about 40 politicians are benefiting from a bump in that group does include former House Speaker Michael Manning. And so this perk Sheila passed back in 1989 apparently allowed Madigan and others to bank 3% pension payment increases for every year they spent in office after they were there for 20 years or age. 55 do you know? And I don't mean to sandbag you with this question, because I want to talk about the impact of this and how we get rid of it if possible, but Why did they put this in place? Back in 89? I guess the pension was in much better shape in 89. But how did this come to fruition? Initially? Do you know Well, the elected officials were like, Well, I could retire earlier than I am. So should I be punished for not retiring early on and still getting paid. I lose this cost of living adjustments. So it's unfair for me to lose this cost of living adjustment Just because I choose to Not retire earlier than I would normally So Madigan. Let's take him as an example. His starting pension is 85,000. But next year because this bum kicks in his benefit will increase 75%. 2 $148,000 his last year in office. He was paid $97,000 so the starting pension 85, but this bomb kicks in which benefits him about 39. Others. Because of this, and I don't know how long it was in place. Apparently, this is repealed at some point, but he goes up to $148,000. Now it's a tea spoon out of the pension. Problem. Let's be honest doesn't really affect us in dollars and cents that greatly, But it certainly is bad from a Optical standpoint, don't you think? Yeah, and you know he would have made if you know if it was only based on what he originally was going to get it. You would have made like a million if he lives until 90. Now he's gonna make more than $2 million. It highlights Illinois's constitutional quote guarantee. That you can't change any benefits once they've been promised, and you can't tell me the Legislature knows how much these things cost when they pass this legislation, But once the legislation passes, the governor signs it. You can't take it back from any current elected, elected or official or other Engineer in the state. I heard Barbara Flynn Curry. I think on Ben Bradlee's Channel nine piece on this, and it was a long, expensive pieces worth washing. And she was one of the few former legislators that we're willing to speak to bed. And she said, Look, we put this in place in 89, because the pension program was in much better shape. And as you already described, they had a reason to do so. I guess the perk was repealed. In 2000 and three. Do we know why they decided to forego this in 2003? Sheila? I don't know The answer to that. Sorry, John Sheila Lawrence Archila. Weinberg is here. She's the founder and CEO of Truth in accounting. I also know this is one down state former legislator John Moffitt. He's a Republican room. Gail's Berg, he's still receives it. What is embarrassed about it, and he sends that portion of his pension to philanthropic nonprofits in his county, as opposed to trying to send it back to Springfield, because I don't know if you saw this, he said. It's almost impossible to get the state to take the money back. They don't have a methodology for that. Yeah, they don't have it. You know you can't give them you know them. I guess he could pay you just write a check to to the state treasure and maybe they'll cash that, but Yeah, There's just no easy as again. You have that constitutional guarantee. Um, which just doesn't allow you to make these changes. Um, and no matter how much even if the governor signs of piece of legislation and the next day they're like Route that the accountants of the actuaries figure out how much it cost. Um and it's It's too expensive. The way the state Constitution is written. They can't take it back. It's like once it's in place. You can't return it. You can't return back to, um, the way the way it is the way it was. We have unfunded liabilities of more than 140 billion here, ino know eventually it will be the straw that breaks our back. Outside of changing the state constitution. What can we do What we heard charges legislators to do to try to dig us out of this hole? In your opinion? Well, one. Let's be honest with the public and go ahead and put a stop pretending that you're balancing the budget when you're not Stop saying that! Oh, we're fully funding the pensions when you're shorting them by 4 to $10 billion every year. That would be a big help yelling. You've made these promises to state workers to state teachers. Um, but you you don't have enough money to cover them. I think that's immoral to make a promise that you don't have enough money. To keep that promise. So let's you know, let's at least start honestly balancing the budget by honestly. Funding the pensions, you know, speaking of not being ethical or moral You know, people have my listeners will call and they'll complain about the people receiving the pensions. Whether teachers or public sector union members. Who would have you, you know former state employees. But really, who was it? That stopped funding? You know, they funded their pensions. The employees funded their pensions. The members funded their pensions. It was our leadership here are elected leaderships. Leadership that did not fund our portion of the pensions and that's what got us over our skis. As far as these unfunded liabilities that's not under governor. Edgar do you know? Yeah, No, it started under Governor Edgar and you know, and they still they have under Governor Edgar. They created something called the Edgar ramp, which had no we're gonna fund is over the you know, over 50 years, but what they did is, they said while I'm in office, I don't want to put money into the pensions. It's not politically popular thing so well found a little bit now, but we'll do a balloon payment at the end. Um and this this scheme was so unethical that the SEC charged the state with securities..